The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta is approaching the end of its first, PlayStation exclusive weekend, but it will not be concluding that first week without some major changes and fixes. Today, a patch was released for Black Ops Cold War that fixes a broken attachment and makes a major adjustment to the popular Team Deathmatch mode.
While the update only addresses a few major points, it does make one of the 11 changes requested by CoD champion ACHES. The change in question is one regarding the most overpowered attachment in the beta: the duster stock. The attachment previously allowed for absurd dropshotting as well as another major issue that can only be described as a super slide.
While players have been able to chain slides together to move quickly in other CoD games, the slide exploit in Black Ops Cold War has been much more ridiculous with its boost to player movement. While nerfing the duster stock is unlikely to eliminate slide-chaining altogether, it should “prevent faster sliding than intended” according to Treyarch. While dropshotting still seems unaffected by the attachment changes, fans will no doubt see this update to the duster stock’s sliding ability as a major step in the right direction.
Like with other major changes, Treyarch listened to community feedback on Black Ops Cold War and adjusted the Team Deathmatch score to 100 with the update as well. As is the case with nearly every other Call of Duty, a 75 score limit is seen as too low by the player base and the developers adjusted it accordingly. While most entries in the CoD series wait until halfway through the game’s life cycle to make the change, though, Treyarch has adjusted the score ahead of release and ensured that Team Deathmatch will have a 100 score limit on launch day.
Another major change prevents players from joining matches that are about to end, something that is sure to make CoD players with bad luck rejoice. Spy Planes will also have a longer cooldown, limiting the massive number of planes in the sky that players need to shoot to down. Lastly, a fix has been made to prevent crashes in Black Ops Cold War’s new VIP Escort game mode. As a whole, the patch makes some big changes to make fans happy and fixes some issues that were causing lots of problems in the beta.
While the patch will likely be well received for the changes it does make, Treyarch unsurprisingly did not mention changes to skill-based matchmaking within the patch notes. The developer seems determined to not give in to fan requests, even if Dr. Disrespect continues to investigate CoD’s SBMM issues.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be available November 13th on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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