Call of Duty: MW3 and Zombies Season 1 – December 14 Patch Notes

Call of Duty: MW3 and Zombies have been updated on December 14 to prevent a large amount of UIX issues and bugs for players.

Here are all the changes in the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Zombies Season 1 update for December 14. This does not include the Call of Duty: Warzone updates, but you can view them here.

Global

Stability and Performance

• Addressed an issue experienced by some players that caused items previously unlocked to become unavailable to equip.

Weapons and Attachments

Assault Rifles

• RAM-7 (MWIII)
  • Speedway v5 Short Barrel Attachment is now available to equip in the Gunsmith.

Equipment

EQUIPMENT

• Breacher Drone
  • Improved impact detection to prevent inflicting more explosive damage to players than intended.

Customization

• Crimson Fate and Carbon Fate Laser Attachment Skins will no longer appear as default Skins when equipped to Shotguns.
• Players who purchased the GG EZ Weapon Vault Bundle will now be able to use customizations on the Houndeye Integrated Optic Attachment.
• Animated Emblems are now properly rewarded upon reaching Prestige Levels 1-5.
  • Note: In the coming days, we’ll retroactively grant these items to players who met the requirements prior to today’s fix.
• The Stormender’s Priceless and Interstellar reward Emblems will now display the correct Emblem art.

Call of Duty: MW3 Multiplayer

UIX

• Bug Fixes
  • Kills column on the Scoreboard will now track properly in War Mode.
  • Conversion Kits Attachment slot for certain Weapons will no longer appear locked despite requirements being met.
  • Exiting a Blueprint Preview will no longer kick the player back to the Multiplayer menu.
  • When using a Controller, hovering the Santa’s Slayground Battle Pass sector will no longer kick the player back to the Multiplayer menu.
  • Clicking the ‘View Bundle’ button on a Battle Pass Bundle in the Operators tab will no longer kick players back to the Multiplayer menu.

Progression

• Challenges that require enemy Equipment to be destroyed will now progress upon the destruction of the following Field Upgrades:
  • A.C.S.
  • Comms Scrambler
  • Deployable Cover
  • Med Box
  • Munitions Box
  • Portable Radar
  • Suppression Mine
  • Tactical Camera
  • Tactical Insertion
  • Trophy System
• Fixed several challenges where progression wasn’t tracking.

Weapons and Attachments

• Ray Gun
  • Implemented measures to prevent illicit usage outside of support Modes.

Maps

• Operation Spearhead (War)
  • Eliminated an out of map exploit in which players were able to access an unintended rooftop near the Launch Site.
  • Eliminated an out of map exploit in which players were able to get underneath the map near the Garage.

Modes

• Gunfight
  • In Private Match, split-screen play will no longer cause DEV ERROR 12744.
• Search and Destroy
  • Addressed an issue causing unintended XP rates for various match events.
• Playlists
  • Increased Team Deathmatch and Kill Confirmed score limits in certain limited-time Playlists.
    • 12v12: 150
    • 10v10: 125
    • Small Maps: 125
• Private Match
  • With CDL Rules enabled, restrictions are now accurate to the Competitive Settings v1.0 specification.
  • Training Course has returned, allowing players to learn basic movements and combat skills.

Perks

• Ghost T/V Camo (Gear)
  • Players can now be stationary for 2 seconds before anti-radar effects are disabled.

Based on feedback, we’ve added a grace period to the movement requirement of Ghost T/V Camo. With this change, players remain detectable by radar while not moving, but momentary pauses will no longer cause their position to be revealed.

Zombies

Missions

Act 4: Dead Signal

• Adjustments to the Escape: Defeat Gorm’gant step of the Dead Signal mission.
  • Light Armored Zombies enemy types have been added during this step to provide a source of Armor for players.

Gameplay

Contracts

• Aether Extraction
  • Addressed an issue that would eliminate players who attempted to overload an ‘Aether Extractor’ as the contract’s time runs out.

Enemies

Zombies

• Aether Worm: Greylorm
  • Addressed an issue that allowed Greylorm to instantly die when spawned.
  • Addressed an issue where getting eaten by Greylorm and grabbed by a Mimic at the same time could cause players to get pushed under the map.

UIX

Weapons

• Addressed an issue that displayed incorrect Bruen MK9 attachment unlock descriptions in the After Action Report.

Stability

• Resolved a PC specific crash players encountered at the start of Season 1.
  • This fix was released on Monday, December 11.
• Added various crash and stability fixes.

That’s everything you need to know about the December 14 changes in Season 1 of Call of Duty: MW3 and Zombies. Make sure you check out our Game Hub for more articles on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.