Warzone 2, Modern Warfare 2 Season 1 Reloaded Patch Notes: All Weapon Buffs and Nerfs

At long last, the Season 1 Reloaded midseason update for Call of Duty: Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 has officially arrived, and so have the patch notes.

From weapon balancing changes to bug fixes, quality-of-life additions and more, here's a breakdown of the Season 1 Reloaded patch notes for Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2.

Season 01 Reloaded patch notes are here: https://t.co/8o9j7aOP7D
— Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) December 14, 2022

Warzone 2, Modern Warfare 2 Season 1 Reloaded Patch Notes: Full List

Here are the official adjustments Infinity Ward and Raven Software have made in this patch:

Warzone 2 Map

General improvements to lighting and shadows across several major Points of Interest on Al Mazrah.

Warzone 2 Battle Royale Gameplay

Strongholds and Black Sites

Increased number of active Strongholds to 5, up from 3.
Black Site AI combatants now have additional Armor.
Black Sites reward an upgraded version of the Stronghold UAV which will sweep twice as far and about 30% faster.

AI Combatants

Damage per bullet reduced by 26%.
Number of units per site reduced by 50% (Further reductions based on Squad sizes).
Doubled time between reinforcement waves.
Number of units per reinforcement wave reduced by 30%.

Warzone 2 DMZ Gameplay

Cash Values

General changes to valuable items.
Changes to cash rewards for Contracts.

Container Spawn Rates

Increased Self Revives, Gas Masks, and Field Upgrades in First Aid Kits.
Increased Plate Carriers, Backpacks, and Field Upgrades in Weapon Stashes.
Decreased electronic components in Computer Towers.
Decreased Toothpaste in Medical Cabinets.
Decreased number of items found in Black Markets.

Plea for Help

Eliminated Players are now able to request help from enemy Players, resulting in them joining the enemy Squad as a new member.

XP Tokens

Can now be activated in the main lobby menu

Random Perks

Successfully extracting multiple times in a row will provide Players with random Perks for their next Infil.

Medium & Large Backpacks

These now allow for a third Weapon slot.

Faction Missions

Made improvements to descriptions for better clarity.

MW2 Multiplayer Game Modes

Tier 1

Fixed an issue where the minimap was not always appearing, or staying up, when calling in a UAV or Advanced UAV.

Invasion

Friendly AI will no longer set off Suppression Mines from the same team.

MW2 Multiplayer Map Updates

Battle Maps

Fixed player collision issues in Santa Sena.
Fixed for various tactical camera exploits.
Fixed bullet collision exploits.

Core Maps

Fixed various tactical camera exploits.
Fixed for bullet penetration issues across some of the core maps.
Fixed a few exploits where players could get to unintended areas.
Fixed issues relating to lethal and tactical collision on the environment.
Shoot House can once again be played in Private Matches.

MW2 Special Ops

Added a popup hint for players attempting to reuse an armor box they’ve already used
Fixed issue that caused ammo discrepancies when firing/reloading
Fixed last stand zoom camera to no longer clip through ceilings
Fixed “drop ammo” not functioning for equipped weapon when viewing backpack

High Ground

Game will end if player leaves before picking a role if timeout to select a role has occurred.
Fix to prevent player from leaving chopper gunner physics.

Defender Mt. Zaya

Fix for players accessing hidden intel without a key.
Fixed rare loss of functionality issue that could occur if a player joined on an already matchmaking player.

Low Profile

Fix for "run over 10 enemies" daily challenge not tracking properly.

General Weapon Balance

Akimbo P890, X12, Basilisk and .50 GS have received a damage reduction against armored opponents.
Fixed an issue causing shotguns to inconsistently display the broken armor hitmarker.
Shotguns can no longer kill fully armored players in one shot.

Assault Rifles

MX9

Increased movement speed, ADS speed, and sprint to fire speed on the 32 round magazine.

M13B

Blocking underbarrel launcher and shotgun on 7" Bruen B-M20 barrel.

Kastov-74u

Small reduction to close damage; three hits to kill requires at least one chest hit.

Kastov 545

Increase to muzzle velocity
Small decrease to hip spread
Increase close damage
Increase to chest damage multiplier

SMGs

VEL 46

Reduced hip spread.
Increased movement speed.
Increased far damage.

Pistols

Basilisk

Blocking Basilisk compensators and flash hider on the FTAC ARROW barrel.
Adding muzzle attachment usage on the FTAC ARROW barrel: LOCKSHOT KT85, SA LEVELER 55, CRONEN DARK KX30.

.50 GS

Reduced hip spread.
Increased 1 hit headshot range.
Increased damage range.
Increased neck and upper shoulder location damage multipliers.
Increased bullet velocity.
Increased damage range on SA LONGSHOT – 50 and SA TYRANT FIFTY barrel.

Shotguns

Expedite 12

Added guard category: TV CF40 Guard, AZ-40 Shotguard, AZAROV T15.

Melee

Riot Shield

Reduced movement speed.
Reduced melee damage to 3 hit kill.
Shield movement animation improvement.
Longer switch time pulling out throwing knife when riot shield is equipped.

Launchers

JOKR

Missiles no longer land out of bounds when targeting a wall on the edge of a map
Improved the thermal readability when aiming in

Attachment Tuning

Most beneficial Tuning value magnitudes have been increased.
Some harmful Tuning value magnitudes have been decreased.

Optics

Thermal Optics

Increased range of all optics thermal target identification range.
Enemies’ heat signature fades when they are killed.

DRESXOM PRIME-90

Improved quality of thermal image for improved target acquisition (including the Basileus Victus XMR blueprint from the Battlepass).

XTEN ANGEL-40

Fixed rangefinder to fit in lens on the GS .50.

SZ HoloTerm

Increased contrast on optic thermal rendering for improved target acquisitionAdded thermal toggle feature.

THERMO-OPTIC X9

Increased contrast on optic thermal rendering for improved target acquisition.

Vehicle Balance

Reduced collision damage taken by the Heavy Chopper, especially from landing.
Increase health and damage resistance of the UTV.
Increased falling damage to the ATV & UTV.
Added custom turret rotation speed for the APC, Light Tank & Heavy Tank.
Increased damage done by AI to both LTV versions.
Reduced distance that boats can be piloted when completely out of water
Adjusted vehicle exits to limit chances of not being able to exit on steep slopes
Players will no longer get the “out of bounds” countdown when taking a vehicle from an enemy's restricted area in Ground War, and driving out of the zone.
Fixed an issue where the player would continue to see the countdown if they get into a vehicle just outside the zone.
Added dynamic crosshair for Tank.

Ally Visibility

Ally nameplates disappear when an enemy is in the direct path of an ally, to prevent mistaking enemies for allies.
In Tier 1 mode, this change only applies to allies behind geo. Allies with line of sight will always show nameplates to prevent friendly fire.

Killstreaks

General

Players that have been killed in one-life modes with revive capabilities, such as Knock Out, will no longer be marked as an active player when using the Cruise Missile, Chopper Gunner or Gunship.

Care Package

Fixed an issue that allowed players to spawn on a position where a care package is occupying, resulting in an immediate death.

MGB

Fixed an issue that prevented players from calling out the MGB while swimming underwater.

Juggernaut

The Juggernaut should now correctly switch between their minigun and pistol when entering and exiting water.
Explosive weapons that stick to the Juggernaut (such as the Semtex, Drill Charge, etc...) should now inflict more damage against it.
Fixed an issue where Juggernauts sometimes died to a single throwing knife in Tier 1.

SAE

Fixed an issue that prevented explosions from doing damage to neutral and enemy occupied vehicles.

Sentry Gun

Fixed an exploit that allowed Sentry Guns to be placed under the map in certain locations.

Field Upgrades

Portable Radar

Portable Radars can now stick to vehicles.

Equipment

Radiation Blocker

Now prevents the use of this equipment when performing a number of different actions such as slotting in armor.
This should resolve a few issues where players no longer had their weapon, or could not interact with items.
Now prevents the use of the equipment when performing a number of different actions such as slotting in Armor Plates. (DMZ)

Thermite Grenade

Thermites will no longer persist on a player that was stuck, then died and respawned again.

Bomb Drone

Players with 3 Armor Plates on the outer radius of an explosion will survive but receive critical damage.

Perks

Perk Packages

Default Loadouts have been updated.

Quality of Life

The XP tokens menu has been changed to display how much time is left on your XP tokens in the lobby screen.
XP Tokens can now be equipped in the pause menu while in-game.
XP Tokens can no longer be accidentally activated during Double XP events.
Players who join a game in progress will no longer get a loss if their team loses the match.
Attachments now have a tuning icon on them in preview, indicating which ones can be tuned and which ones cannot.
Finishing Moves now count towards the 30 kills in third person Daily Challenge in Special Ops.
"Stickerbook Challenges” in the After Action Report screen now say “Calling Card Challenge” instead.
Operator bios are no longer cut off part of the way through.
Acquiring a new blueprint will now display a pulsing dot next to the associated weapon in Gunsmith.
Players will no longer seeing a black screen on some platforms when trying to purchase CP.
Various issues with weapon and attachment unlocks and progression have been addressed, including stats display.
Added Toggle vs. Hold for Ping Wheel.

Social

Merged Hub & Friends tabs together.
Switched to smaller Player Card widgets for Friends.
Added support for batch/bulk sending of friend requests.
Fixed various bugs impacting the join and/or invite to party features.
Transition to Grid view when scrolling in Friends list.

Showcases

Camera positions on Operators have been adjusted for better positioning with the UI
Adjustments to Filter/Sort
Fixed the Player Browser so it no longer scrolls when it isn’t full.
Fixed an issue with Calling Cards not showing up in a players Showcase after they have set them.
Fixed an issue where players weren’t properly sorting by progression in the Player Browser.
Hides the empty attachments nodes on Weapon Inspection when there are no attachments slotted.

Channels

Adjusted member list states (muted, talking, connected, etc.) to be more clear
Adjusted text message states in game channel to be more clear who they were sent to
Players in member list will now be divided by team in lobbies
Fixed an issue where lobby players were still able to be heard when connected to a custom channel
Added the ability to text chat with "Group" members

Groups

Find or create communities with this new social feature.

Out of Bounds

Time allowed outside of the playable area has been increased to 10 seconds.

Ammunition

When Players drop a Weapon, the respective Ammunition will also drop to the ground. Moving forward, this Ammunition will be automatically looted should other Players with a partial stack of the same Ammunition type walk over it.

Ground Loot

We’ve made improvements to ground loot priority so that interacting with desired items is easier.

Buy Stations

Items purchased via Buy Stations will spawn spread out rather than stacked for easier interaction.

Gulag Elimination Alert

A sound will play to notify the Squad when a member in the Gulag has eliminated an opponent or been eliminated.

Weapon Customization UI/UX

Graphs

Default weapon attachments graph contribution no longer shows up as modification on stat graphs.
Prevents seeing red or green on a default weapon’s stat graph.
Fixes miscalculations shown in attachment tuning spider graph. Issue was prominent in sniper weapon optic’s category, Chimera’s barrel category, Bryson 800 stock category, SP-R 208 stock category, SO-14 stock category and LA-B 330 stock category.

Operators

CDL (LA Thieves)

Added accent colors to goggles and straps for enhanced visibility.

CDL (New York Subliners)

Adjusted accent colors for NYSL branding.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue causing the game client to freeze upon unlocking Sector A15 in the Battle Pass.
Fixed an issue causing reward previews to not appear as intended while navigating the Battle Pass.
Fixed audio cutting off when skidding.
Fixed attacking with fists causing players to lean out of vehicles.

Store

Added 3D models for Operators and Blueprints when previewing Store Bundles.

Audio

Fixed Dolby Atmos data issue where some sounds were not panning to ceiling speakers.
Audio occlusion remains disabled in multiplayer as we investigate continuity issues impacting some players.

PC Specific

Fixed an issue related to the menus causing FPS drops in the Firing Range.
Fixed an issue that would make controllers vibrate even when the game wasn't the main window (tab/minimized).
Fixed Night Vision Goggles prompt in the HUD.

For the full list of Warzone 2 and DMZ bug fixes, feel free to check out the official Season 1 Reloaded patch notes page.

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