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Greetings Call of Duty: Mobile Community!! It seems like the 1 Year Anniversary of CODM was just yesterday but we are already here with a brand-new release - Season 12: Going Dark! We said we would be back with an entirely different and more military focused season, and here we are with Captain Price and Ghost leading us through the dark. Get a glimpse of it all in the newest trailer:
https://reddit.com/link/jrwyme/video/xhtojthn0iy51/player
We are here with new modes all focused around night-time variations of TDM or Attack of the Undead, a new operator skill, new BR class, new seasonal challenges, two new functional weapons, and much more releasing throughout the season. We’ll have breakdowns all of that throughout this update.
Just a reminder, while this release does come with some bug fixes and changes there is still a great deal more being worked on as we detailed last week. Please refer to our last community update for more information on what we are currently investigating or already planning fixes for. For now, let’s jump in and go over everything releasing today or throughout this brand-new season.
Here is a quick look at all of the new events starting today and a few other new ones already running:
- 11/11 – 11/22 ~ Going Dark TDM (MP)
- 11/11 – 11/22 ~ Hardcore Collection (MP)
- 11/11 – 11/17 ~ King + Pine 24/7 (MP)
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11/11 – 11/19 ~ Brought Nods
- Event focused around Night Mode
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11/11 – 11/29 ~ Surviving Alcatraz (BR)
- Event focused around Alcatraz
- 11/13 – 11/19 ~ Best of Black Ops (MP)
- 11/11 ~ New Set of Seasonal Challenges
- 11/11 ~ Credit Store Update
*All Dates UTC
Before we dive into those new events or new modes, let’s take a glance at the carefully crafted Season 12 roadmap that gives you a glimpse at a variety of events, items, an more releasing today or throughout the whole season.
As you can see, while we do have a lot coming out today, there is still plenty coming out later in the season as well. Still on the way are more seasonal challenges, Attack of the Undead - Night, a new secondary weapon, a new BR class, and the featured event - Knights Divided. Most of that will be highlighted later in subsequent community updates.
Season 12 – Battle Pass
This brand-new Battle Pass is packed full of modern military weapons, operators, customization options, and much more. As per usual, there are two multiple ways to approach the Battle Pass (free or paid). Here is a brief look at some of the items you can snag this time around.
Free Battle Pass
- AK47 – Stalwart (tier 4)
- ORV – Hard Water (tier 8)
- New Operator Skill – Ballistic Shield (tier 14)
- New Weapon – AGR 556 (tier 21)
- Locus – Stalwart (tier 31)
- Charm – Bullet (tier 38)
- Calling Card – Green Team (tier 46)
- ICR-1 - Stalwart (tier 50)
https://reddit.com/link/jrwyme/video/4d64uy881iy51/player
Paid Battle Pass
- Ghost - Jawbone (tier 1)
- HBRa3 – Black Gold (tier 1)
- Charm – I See All (tier 1)
- Type 25 – Infiltrate (tier 10)
- Urban Tracker – By Night (tier 12)
- QQ9 – Black Gold (tier 20)
- Price – Dead of Night (tier 30)
- HG-40 – Forward Motion (tier 35)
- KN-44 – Black Gold (tier 40)
- Velikan – Megalith (tier 50)
- AGR 556 – Byakko (tier 50)
- Legendary Calling Card – Discord (tier 50)
You can find that all live in-game now and be sure to grab this epic combination of Price, Ghost, Urban Tracker, and Velikan.
Hackney Yard
If you missed it over the weekend through social media or in-game, we revealed this brand-new midsize Multiplayer map based out of London – Hackney Yard! This relatively new but popular map hailing from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) has a three-lane setup that provides multiple avenues of attack regardless of what type of mode you are tackling. Get a glimpse of it in our new map overview.
https://reddit.com/link/jrwyme/video/mvnamg002iy51/player
Just like Summit and Crash, you’ll be able to experience both day and night versions of Hackney Yard. You’ll be able to try out this map first in the Going Dark TDM playlist, while later in the season you’ll find it in other playlists or modes, like a Hackney Yard 24/7 playlist releasing on 11/25 (UTC).
Night Mode
Throughout the season we’ll have Night Mode featured in two different well-known modes, TDM and Attack of the Undead. First up, you’ll be able to check it out in TDM, which is live now in Going Dark TDM Playlist. Most of the same rules as normal TDM apply, but you’ll have to adopt some new tactics when fighting in the dark and relying on laser sights to highlight (or give away) your targets.
Attack of the Undead will be releasing later in the season and makes fighting off your former allies (now turned undead) extra terrifying due to encroaching dark of the night. New tactics will be formed, new challenges will be faced, and new experiences will be had in this once familiar mode.
Lastly, there will be several events highlighting these new modes this season and the first of which is Brought NODs. This one is pure and simple, play the new Going Dark TDM Playlist, get kills, and win matches. You can earn only a few rewards for this one, but one is the rare character Kamarov!
Seasonal Challenges
Another new season means more new seasonal challenges with great rewards to snag! All of these seasonal challenges prevent an extra way to earn BP XP, credits, items, new perks, new weapons, blueprints, and more. Each season we mix that up a bit, but you can always expect a wide variety of rewards to grind for and consistent flow of new challenges each week. Here are the first two.
Thrill of the Skill
This four-part seasonal challenge is all about using a mixture of Operator Skills to dominate your enemies in Multiplayer matches. Simple, straight-forward, and filled with your usual variety of Battle Pass XP, credits, and items. Here are a few of the main ones you can acquire:
- (Uncommon) Backpack - Alarm
- (Rare) Charm – The One-Four-One
- (Rare) AK117 – Bronze Arrow
Rifle Steamroller
This eight-part seasonal challenge has you tackling a variety of tasks focused around assault rifles and smgs, like the DR-H or the AGR 556. While Thrill of the Skill was simple, Rifle Steamroller is far more challenging experience but of course that increase in challenge comes with more rewards:
- (Uncommon) Smoke Grenade – Alarm
- (Uncommon) DR-H – Alarm
- (Rare) Industry Frame
- (Rare) DR-H – Bronze Arrow
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(Epic) Man-O-War – Dark Flame
We’ll have two more Seasonal Challenges coming next week and more releasing all the way into December. Through those you’ll be able to grab a variety of rewards, but also a new Perk, the Launcher Plus, and a new secondary weapon, the .50 GS.
New Functional Weapons
There are two brand-new weapons available to find, earn, and try this season: the AGR 556 and the .50 GS. You have one primary weapon and one secondary weapon, both complimenting different types of players and offering unique tactical approaches due to the weapon’s strength and weaknesses.
First, the AGR 556. This brand-new SMG doesn’t excel over others in damage, but it is well balanced, allows for quick movement, and is adaptable to many different situations. Additionally, like all weapons it can be further adapted through Gunsmith.
A unique attachment on the AGR 556 is the 5.56 ammo type, which is normally associated with assault rifles, and helps push the weapon beyond the short-range capabilities of most SMGs while also boosting its damage. At launch, this weapon is primarily found through the Battle Pass, the common or blueprint versions, and the common is available to grab now for everyone as long you push your way to Tier 21.
Second, we have the .50 GS. This secondary weapon is a pistol that packs a hell of a punch and can dish out some serious damage to anyone who is unfortunate enough to be hit by your well-placed shot. However, be warned that the rate of fire is slow and as a result if you miss a shot that might be all the time an enemy needs to take you down.
You’ll be able to grab this one later in the season through a Seasonal Challenge launching on November 26th (UTC) called Small Arms. Keep an eye out for more on that one later in a future update. Also, yes the Akimbo perk will be available for this bad boy 😉.
New Operator Skill – Ballistic Shield
Have you ever wanted to turtle up, deny your enemy that kill, and then pop out your own little weapon from the safety of your shield? Now you can! The Ballistic Shield is here to fulfill that desire and to provide a fantastic way to lock down objectives. Check it out in action.
https://reddit.com/link/jrwyme/video/5z8qtouk2iy51/player
This Operator Skill comes to Call of Duty: Mobile from Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and it is now available in the free side of the Battle Pass at Tier 14. That means everyone and anyone can snag it and try it out themselves as long as they make it to that tier while this BP is active. Best of luck!
Credit Store Update
Another credit store update is here to round out the start of this new season. This one isn’t just focused on weapons with a character, perk, and operator skill becoming available. Here are the main items in this update:
- (Uncommon) RUS-79U – Purple Geode
- (Rare) GKS – Bug Spray
- (Rare) Nomad – Bug Spray
- (Common) Perk - Amped
- (Common) Operator Skill - Shadow Blade
Also, thanks to everyone out there who followed through with their vote for the Man-O-War – Cardinal! Unsurprisingly (because thousands of people voted for it), it was one of the most popular items ever on the credit store.
Improvements and Optimizations
If you are familiar with our releases, every other one is generally a large update jam packed with improvements, fixes, and more. Season 12 does not release alongside one of those updates, but there are still a few changes we’d like to call-out.
Multiplayer
- Increased Cordite ADS bullet spread accuracy
- Increased Razorback recoil stability; lowered horizontal recoil; increased medium range damage attenuation distance
- Increased Fennec bullet trajectory stability while continuous firing; lowered horizontal recoil; slightly increased recoil upper limit
- Increased AK117 damage multiplier when hitting body parts above waist, increased medium range combat ability
- Optimized BK57 bullet trajectory and increased stability
- Decreased range and bullet density of KRM 262
- Decreased damage range of BY15
- Decreased damage range of Echo
- Decreased Shadow Blade duration and increased points required to activate
- Decreased Transform Shield duration and increased points required to activate
- Explosives deal much more damage to Transform shield, and only one EMP is required to destroy a Transform Shield.
- Slightly decreased duration of Concussion Grenade effect
- Increased Razorback recoil stability; lowered horizontal recoil; increased medium range damage attenuation distance
- Increased Fennec bullet trajectory stability while continuous firing; lowered horizontal recoil; slightly increased recoil upper limit
- Increased AK117 damage multiplier when hitting body parts above waist, increased medium range combat ability
- Optimized BK57 bullet trajectory and increased stability
Support Options
Lastly, we’ve mentioned multiple times how important it is to report any bugs or issues you are seeing with new updates so please make sure to reach out through any of support channels. As much as we spend time gathering reports from community areas, it is also vitally important that reports come through our Player Support channels.
- In-game support chat
- ATVI Assist Twitter: Activision Support (@ATVIAssist) / Twitter
- ATVI Assist Facebook: Activision Assist - Facebook
- Player Support Website: Contact Us
Final Notes
Congrats! You made it to the end of this new community update and as a reward we have nothing for you other than to remind you that many different communities (most likely including the one you are in right now while reading this) are running giveaways to celebrate the launch of the new season! Also, to the lucky folks who won the HBRa3 – Red Shock we are still gathering information and hope to send that out this week.
Giveaways are just one of the many ways we like to celebrate the launch of these seasons and as a way to give back to the community that always does so much to share in the excitement of a release with us. For all of you that joined us over the weekend to help announce the season name (through various ways) thank you for all of the positive comments, interaction, discussions, and well-meaning responses.
Enjoy the new season and make sure to snag the long-sought after Captain Price and Ghost! They are here, they are ready to join the fight, and they are Going Dark. Until next time everyone!
- The Call of Duty: Mobile Team
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