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Trick or treat Call of Duty: Mobile community, it is time for one more update just after Halloween and full of information and news related to the next week! This year we were able to go all-in by theming the whole season to the colors, silliness, horror, and nuances of that beloved and spooky holiday. To celebrate that, we were able to make a half a dozen videos last week to help celebrate the season, the holiday, and more! It may be two days late, but Happy Halloween everyone:
Happy Halloween CODM Community
Today’s update is focused around new releases, like Hovec Sawmill, on top of reiterating some important information (like the basics for Stage 5 of the World Championships) while sharing plenty of notes about feedback, bugs, and other recent topics in the community. Right off the bat, we would just like to say thank you all deeply for the excitement, support, and delightful responses to all things Season 9: Nightmare!
Whether it was about Gunzo being a wonderful insane clown, people sending their friends far too many Tricks in the Trick or Treat Event, or appreciation of the general aesthetic of the season (in all things) – we’ve loved all of it and just wanted to share our appreciation for this excellent community!
With that said, you may be asking why is this coming out on a Tuesday of all days? Well, that’s because the most unique part of this community update is that it also contains new Public Test Build!! We’ll keep this intro section very short in order to make way for that information, which you can find below just after the event calendar and is a mixture of content for Season 10 and Season 11.
Here is a quick look at all of the newest events and others launching throughout the week:
- 10/22 – 11/04 ~ Trick or Treat Event
- 11/29 ~ New Seasonal Challenge (Thumper)
- 10/29 – 11/04 ~ Halloween Standoff
- 10/29 – 11/04 ~ Bump in the Night Event
- 10/29 – 11/04 ~ Pumpkin Confirmed
- 10/29 – 11/18 ~ Unhinged Jokester Draw
- 11/01 – 11/04 ~ Payout S&D
- 11/01 – 11/08 ~ Fan’s Favorite Map
- 11/02 – 11/15 ~ Ancestral Remembrance Draw
- 11/03 ~ Two New Seasonal Challenges
- 11/05 – 11/11 ~ Hovec Sawmill
*All Dates UTC
Last chance on all of those Halloween related modes and events! Make sure to jump on them now (about 5 hours to go) and keep an eye out for more content to release soon, like the new Battle Royale Class – Pumped and another BR limited time mode brought over to Blackout!
Public Test BuildIt is here and ready to go! Here are all of the public test build details below:
- Begins today on November 2nd
- Test end date TBD
- Available for Android and iOS devices
- Android 64 Bit - (closed, full capacity)
- Android 32 Bit - (closed, full capacity)
- TestFlight iOS - (closed, full capacity)
- Download Size: Less than 1 gigabyte, Wifi connection is highly recommended
- Player Registration Limit: 25,000 (Android) and 15,000 (iOS)
- Content suited for ages 16+
- All information and player data collected during this test will be deleted
As per usual, everything you see in the build may not be final, may be buggy, may have placeholder art or text, or may be different from what eventually releases. The content you see is either going to be from the next season or the following (S10 or S11), but in some cases we might be testing features for an even later release. With all of that said, first here are a few known issues with this build:
- Munitions Box is locked behind a "Stay Tuned" message.
- Undead Siege content is currently blocked (we may enable this later in the test)
- BR Sniper Challenge mode is currently locked (we may enable this later in the test)
- Issue with the M4 being locked in the FTUE, this can be bypassed by pressing back in the menu.
- Issues related to the delete resources option
Secondly, here is a quick list of new pieces of content you can look forward to trying out in this build:
- New Equipment
- New Scorestreak
- New MP Modes
- BR Optimizations (numerous)
- Weapon optimizations
- Application improvements and features
Ancestral Remembrance Draw
While many countries celebrate Halloween in a similar way, Mexico has its cultural holiday going on at the same time called Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). This holiday takes place the same time as Halloween, but it is far different with a significant focus on honoring ancestors and the dead in a celebratory way full of food, parades, poems, masks, and more.
The designs for the Ancestral Remembrance Draw are meant to honor and celebrate the rich vibrancy of that holiday. You can see those distinct designs through Soap – Esqueleto, the legendary Swordfish – Calaca, Parachute - Viaje de la Muerte, and all of the items in the draw. Get a glimpse of it all below and check it out in-game now!
Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship – Stage 5 Finals
A while ago we announced that the Stage 5 Finals of the Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship, presented by Sony, will be held as an online event. We have seen a healthy amount of discussion since then and with plenty of questions about how that event will work, but at the moment we don’t have any additional information beyond what we shared then.
However, the main place we’ll be sharing new information is directly to the participating teams or on the Call of Duty: Mobile Esports website. For now, we just wanted to re-share that information and in particular the dates below! We’ll be back with more news closer to the finals.
Stage 5: Western Finals: Dec 4 – Dec 5
- Regions: North America, LATAM & EU
- Teams: 4 LATAM Stage 4 Qualified Teams, 3 NA Stage 4 Qualified Teams, 1 NA CODM Masters Qualified Team, 3 EU Stage 4 Qualified Teams & 1 EU CODM Masters Qualified Team
Stage 5: Eastern Finals: Dec 11 – Dec 12
- Regions: SAME, Japan, Garena & China
- Teams: 4 SAME Stage 4 Qualified Teams, 2 Japan Stage 4 Qualified Teams, 3 Garena Qualified Teams, 3 China Qualified Teams
New Functional Weapon – Thumper
The first grenade launcher for Call of Duty: Mobile! This secondary isn’t so much about hitting enemies with one shot kills but using explosive grenades that hit multiple enemies at once. We’ve seen plenty of feedback about this one already in the community, especially about possibly being too weak to be viable, but be rest assured that our team is always keen to turn that feedback into changes if they agree that it isn’t at the right place balance wise.
For now, you can acquire this new weapon in two different places! One way you can snag it is through the Outta The Way Seasonal Challenge, which will get you the base version of the weapon. However, if you are feeling that Halloween theme and want something that downs your enemies in style and in confetti, then you can snag the legendary Thumper – Surprise Party in the Unhinged Jokester Draw. If you are looking to see the Thumper in action then look no further than our latest Season 9 weapon highlight video:
Outta The Way!
This seven-part seasonal challenge tasks you with using shotguns, perks, and more specifically in Multiplayer! These challenges are all a bit general and meant to push you to mix-up your loadout a bit. Completing all of these tasks will earn you up to 16,000 Battle Pass XP and the following rewards:
- (Uncommon) J358 – Shocking
- (Rare) Spray – Urban Undead
- (Rare) Frame – Chipset Frame
- (Rare) SKS – Voltaic Garden
- New Functional Weapon – Thumper
The Unhinged Jokester
When we started to approach this fun season of horror we knew we had a legendary operator coming up and we couldn’t think of someone better fitted to this season than the nightmarish clown himself – Gunzo! He’s back and refitted with the kind of quality, unique cosmetics, and weaponry appropriately attuned to his madness.
In particular, he has a kill counter attached to his arm on top of a saw blade that can be used in melee attacks. Like all legendary operators he comes with those unique unlocks, tied to the operator unlock, but is part of a bigger draw full of other items, like the first blueprint for the Thumper! The Thumper – Surprise party is decked out and designed to be an insane clown’s best friend, with an explosive death effect that turns your enemies into confetti.
Lastly, we like to take a moment to go behind the scenes on all of this and talk about all of the videos we got to make this season to help introduce Gunzo – Devil Jester. When we first started working on these promotional videos we wanted to make sure that Gunzo’s insanity, violence, and humor were all on display. We tackled this challenge by using the talented voice work of voice actor Jason Spisak (Gunzo’s voice actor) to help give these videos all a little “extra”. We love how they turned out and how Jason’s voice brings the operator to life. Here is the last in that series of videos:
https://reddit.com/link/qlc1ji/video/eczgqad4f8x71/player
Hovec Sawmill
It is almost time explore this mid-size village originally from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)! In the original version, it was daytime but we decided to refit it for this spooktacular season and made it nighttime. This map essentially still obeys the laws of Call of Duty Multiplayer with 3 primary lanes to push, but the buildings, obstacles, and open outdoor areas make it a challenging and unique map to fight across.
Hovec Sawmill is suited well to all types of play with its close quarter’s indoor areas, chokepoints, long outdoor lanes (suited for snipers), and various buildings that you can use to your advantage. The Sawmill itself is rather damaged and beat up but can still provide a great view of the middle lane of the map. Get a look at the map through this map flythrough video:
Hovec Sawmill will be releasing later this week 11/05 UTC and will be releasing alongside a featured event called Hovec Havoc. This is one of those events that is extremely straight forward and all about giving you some extra rewards for checking out the new map! In particular, you can snag the following through this event:
- (Uncommon) AK117 – Bloody
- (Uncommon) J358 – Bloody
- (Rare) UL736 – Rose Cinder
- (Rare) Sticker – Crossbones
Call of Duty: Vanguard
For our last section today, we’d just like to note (as you may have seen our Twitter) that Call of Duty: Vanguard’s release is coming up on November 5th (PT)! That is the latest Call of Duty experience for you console and PC players out there. As you may remember, for the Vanguard beta we gave out Arthur Kingsley for any CODM player that participated in the beta. For launch, we have something else up our sleeve! No hints other than the image below and see you on Friday for that news 😉.
Call of Duty: Vanguard Operators
Feedback
Since the launch of S9 we’ve seen quite a bit of feedback about some bigger topics, like Undead Siege or weapon meta, and while we don’t have a direct response to those now that doesn’t mean we don’t see those discussions. We actually don’t have any to specifically bring up outside of bugs or what was already mentioned in the rest of the update (like the Stage 5 finals).
However, a quick reminder for Undead Siege – the mode returned this season but not with any significant updates. Most of the updates and improvements were meant to be smaller quality of life ones or additional pieces of content, but the major updates are planning for a future update. We’ll call that all out in advance through a future community update and social media posts.
Bug Reports
We’ve been looking into a variety of different issues over the past two weeks since launch (somehow it has been two weeks already!) and here is a quick list of some of what we already working on or currently investigating. First, a huge thanks to everyone who taken any amount of time to try to report issues through our support teams or via the community! Always is and always will be appreciated.
- Thumper Exploit – We are looking into an issue with a possible exploit related to the Thumper. Yes, we are purposefully keeping this devoid of details in order to not spread the exploit.
- Outta The Way! Task Issue – This seasonal challenge seemingly has a task, the last one, that is refusing to complete for some folks. Thankfully there is a workaround of not using charms or stickers on the equipped shotgun, but it is being worked on.
- Flash Drone Effect Stuck – We’ve seen some reports of the Flash Drone’s effect not going away after a short period of time, like it should, but unfortunately we haven’t been able to reproduce this issue. If anyone is still experiencing this please reach out to our support teams or to our community teams!
- Nikto – Dark Side Issues – We heard about various issues related to this, like some of the red effects no longer displaying or issues with his eyes, and we believe some of these have been fixed already. However, some more issues are still being worked on related to this.
- Aether Camos Progression – We are just confirming for this one that we fixed the issue preventing progression shortly after S9 release.
- Floating Butcher in Undead Siege – Cool effect or bug? Probably a bug and one we are looking into but haven’t been able to reproduce. If you are seeing this regularly please reach out to our teams through in-game support or the community.
- Can’t Rename Clan – This is not intended and we are investigating this issue.
- Lag/Desync – Just your casual monthly acknowledge that lag and desync is a thing and varies greatly depending on your region, provider, and most importantly how close you are to a server. Throughout the length of CODM we’ve done quite a bit to improve servers or add new ones to help on our end, but this is an ongoing effort and there are still plans for more improvements!
That’s it for now, but as per usual feel free to ping us about bugs you are seeing and we’ll do our best to look into it! There has been plenty of new content launched this week so we’ll be placing some extra attention on all of that to make sure you all could experience that without any roadblocks.
Support Options
As per usual we are out there every day on the look-out for bugs to investigate and fix, whether it is through community channels or our in-game support options. So, if you see anything please jump into the community or into the support chat to help us investigate it! Here are the two main support options below:
- In-game support chat
- Player Support Website: Contact Us
For the end of this community update we’d like to go back to our old ways of highlight community content! This time around we came across some fan art that is great for a few reasons. First, it is always great to see new creators sharing and with so much support, love, and kindness from the rest of the community.
Secondly, we all (mainly you all 😉) always joke about our love of Modern Warfare 2019 content and to reinforce that quite accurate joke we selected some fan art that is from that title! Take a look at FlintBlaze’s Kreuger – Taiga, a winter themed operator from that game.
We hope FlintBlaze (aka Flint) sticks around in the community, makes some more art, and continues to share their love for all things Call of Duty! Well done Flint and feel free to head to the original post to share your thoughts. as per usual we’ll keep an eye out for more memes, interesting posts, art, and community content to share next time.
We’ll see you next time for another community update focused on Season 9, but we aren’t sure exactly when that will release at the moment due to the extremely unusual timing of this update. However, in the meantime we’ll be out responding to posts, checking for bugs and feedback, and already working on new content to share with you all for Season 10. Enjoy the rest of Season 9: Nightmare and take care!
-The Call of Duty: Mobile Team
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. Appreciate the congrats and appreciation for the team! We'll check on those two for Tengu and Otter, so thanks for calling them out. From a quick glance those don't seem to be on our list of issues under investigation. 
)! For Iskra she doesn't look to have a unique voice, but are you saying her default female operator voice over isn't playing at all in anyway? Or only in specific situations like for Domino and Richtofen? 
. Anyways, the beta is full of content from upcoming seasons, which could be anything from something very obvious like a new mode or map (no new map in this one) or more subtle things like UI changes, optimizations, settings updates, or in-game functionality (like weapon inspect).
