If you’ve poked your nose into the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare subreddit of late, you’ll have noticed almost non-stop complaints about the game’s multiplayer – mostly centred on map design and overpowered weapons. Thankfully, Infinity Ward is releasing a patch today which should tackle some of these problems: and finally calm down my Reddit feed.
The big addition in this patch are the two new maps, Krovnik Farmland and Shoot House, which have been added to Ground War and Multiplayer respectively. Both maps are free, and you can get a small glimpse at the thumbnail for each on the official Call of Duty Twitter. Hardpoint mode – which requires players to take control of changing hardpoint locations – has also been added to rotation.
If you do fancy splashing your cash, however, we now have a date for the Modern Warfare battle pass, which is coming out in December.
“We feel it’s the right thing to do for the game and how it’s designed, and more importantly we think it’s the right thing to do for our players,” Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in an earnings call last night. “That launch is still ahead of us, but we’ve been really encouraged by the early response from the community to the change that we’re making there.” So far, so good – and hopefully Activision will stick to its promise of monetising through the battle pass and in-game store rather than loot boxes.