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Happy New Years Call of Duty: Mobile community! We are back with our first community update of the year and with a rather unusual one to start it off with. When we last chatted we were just finishing up a long line of public test builds and had released Season 13: Winter War. That season is still going strong with the main featured event, Counter Intelligence, launching yesterday alongside Grind Mode, a new credit store update, and more!
Other than those new pieces of content launching today we also have a brand-new public test build coming soon that isn’t the normal kind focused on testing modes, weapons, maps, and normal seasonal content. You can find all of your usual information about the new content out today, the schedule, some feedback, and some bugs right below but keep an eye out for that test build post coming next week.
Here is a quick look at all of the new events starting recently and a few other new ones already running:
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01/06 – 01/10 ~ Secondary School Playlist (MP)
- 01/06 – 01/12 ~ Winter in Summit Playlist (MP)
- 01/06 – 01/12 ~ Best of Black Ops Playlist (MP)
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01/06 ~ New Seasonal Challenge – Restock
- Earn a brand-new Perk, Restock, that helps replenish your grenades
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01/08 – 01/17 ~ New Mode Live - Grind (MP)
- Check out the Dog Tag Duty event to earn some items while playing Grind Mode
- 01/08 – 01/17 ~ Counter Intelligence – Season Event
- 01/08 ~ Credit Store Update
- 01/11 – 01/17 ~ Fight Against the Clock Playlist (MP)
*All Dates UTC
Grind Mode
This new mode is part of the batch of new content releasing with Season 13 and it is all about mixing together Hardpoint with Kill Confirmed. You’ll see familiar mechanics with collecting dogs, like in Kill Confirmed, but you’ll have to drop them off at deposit points around the map.
It gets a little more complicated than that since the more dogs tags you hold onto before depositing the better, but the more you hoard them the better chances your enemies will take you out and capitalize on all of those dog tags. This comes with an event, Dog Tag Duty, to provide some extra rewards just for trying out the new mode.
The requirements for this one are exactly what you might think based on that name 😉: collect dog tags of various amounts and play & win matches of Grind. If you do that you can snag Nomad – Snowblind, Calling Card – Main Stage, Antelope A20 – Snowblind, and some Weapon XP. Easy right? Jump in and try it out the new mode now!
Counter Intelligence
The featured event for Season 13: Winter War has you heading to Europe to pit spies vs spies in a game of espionage that stretches across many countries in Western and Eastern Europe. Once you’ve infiltrated a sometimes-specific city, country, or region, you’ll earn some Winter-themed rewards associated with the difficulty of that region.
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However, before you do that you’ll have to build up some spies that will be used to infiltrate each region. You can do that by playing Multiplayer or Battle Royale, like normal, and each area you infiltrate will have a different difficulty associated with it. For instance, one of the first regions many players will likely tackle first is West Germany (due to its low difficulty) and that will just earn you some credits, but if your ultimate goal is Moscow, which will earn you the Outlaw – Artic Threat.
There are of course a wide variety of other rewards to earn too, like Terrance Brooks – Deep Snow if you manage to infiltrate all regions and cities on the map. Lastly, certain weapon sets will provide some bonuses to the earn rate of spies during this event, so keep an eye out for any set bonuses. This is all live now, so jump in, take a look, let us know if you have any questions or feedback, and best of luck to all future spies out there!
Mythic - Behind the Scenes
Something that we don’t get to show off is behind the scenes content. We of course would like to and many of our developers or designers are interested in sharing information or material, but rarely is it content that is clear and easy to understand without significant changes to make it readable to everyday players. However, with the recent Mythic, the Peacekeeper MK2 - Artifact, we’ve been able to snag some concept designs to share with you all 😊.
As you may know from our previous posts, the Peacekeeper MK2 – Artifact is a weapon born of meteorite fallen from space, captured on earth, and transformed into a design that has morphed the Peacekeeper MK2 into something both alien & familiar. Here is a look at how the team approached that!
That design morphed a bit as the team looked to see how to incorporate that meteorite core into the overall structure of the weapon. The weapon attachments also started as typical types you would see on any other weapon, but through this next concept you can see how the design team started tinkering with these different attachment styles through Gunsmith. In particular, they wanted to make sure you could modify this weapon to be fitting for short, medium, and long-range engagements depending on your setup and customizations.
The final look you can see in-game now is a mixture of all of these designs. It is normal to explore a variety of different concepts at these stages and to then deliberate the best way to approach bringing those designs to life based on the actual developer tools. Here is one last look at the more alien approach of one of those concepts.
Clearly, the final design ended up being a bit less extraterrestrial, but still focused on that idea of combining the geodes of an artic landscape with the power and otherworldly manipulations brought on by this meteorite fallen to Earth. Let us know what you think of all of this and you’d like to see anything similar in the future and shout-out to the designers for putting these concept images together to share with the community!
Credit Store Update
Alongside Grind Mode and Counter Intelligence is a simple humble Credit Store update with a whole lot to say with a completely gold weapon, the epic blueprint DR-H - Gold Glitter. However, that isn’t the only thing dropping recently so here is the full list of the new items released onto the Credit Store:
- (Uncommon) Striker – Heliotrope
- (Rare) QQ9 - Dark Light
- (Rare) Chopper - Dark Light
- (Epic) Calling Card - Grim Reaped
- (Epic) DR-H - Gold Glitter
Feedback & Bug Reports
We are hoping to be able to focus more on these sections next week as we dive into various topics, report up more issues to our teams from the community, get more information about feedback being discussed or bugs being reported, and more. Today, we still have a few topics to go over and some updates to give. Let’s jump in!
Activision Account Linking - Ghost Stealth – Over the Holidays our teams have been working on sending these out to players who had previously linked their COD/ATVI account prior to Season 13. Many players have received these as a result, but the process is still ongoing and the team is hard at work manually going through the massive number of COD accounts that are applicable. If you haven’t received it, please hang tight and once we think it has gone to all applicable players we’ll announce that here in case anyone is legitimately still missing it.
Ranked Mode Updates – We’ve seen a wide variety of discussion about Ranked Mode and about several different topics related to it, like new maps put in rotation, modes on those maps, team balance, oddities with points being scored or deducted at the end of a match, and more. While we don’t have answers for these topics now, we are looking into all of it to try to sort out potential bugs from intended changes.
In regard to points or matchmaking, we haven’t changed anything there (not on purpose), so we are looking into those reports to try to figure out what is going and we’ll try to address other topics once we have more information. Thanks to everyone who has reached out about these with reports/feedback in the last couple of weeks.Dead Silence – There has also been many discussions about the balance changes to this perk and while originally they were just normal discussions about how the balance changes affect the actual use of the perk, we’ve seen others recently that claim this perk is no longer having any effect what so ever. We are looking into this and will provide an update when we can.
Black Screen in BR – We are looking into a variety of reports about black screen issues in Battle Royale since Season 13 launched. If you’ve reached out about this through Player Support channels you may see our teams reaching back out to gather additional information, however here on Reddit we’d love to gather some information as well. We’ll start a stickied thread below, so please let us know if you are experiencing this and with your basic info. Thank you all!
General Bug Reports or Fixes
Some other issues we have recently fixed, plan to fix soon, or are still investigating are the following:
- View is obstructed in the KRM 262 when using ADS
- Kilo Lazarus Blueprint unintended buffs
- Peacekeeper MK2 – Artifact issues related to the kill effects
- Missing BR Settings for scopes
- Operators missing unique voice overs
- BK57 – Gimmick not showing a weapon model in-game
- Zombie Mode shards showing back in players inventories (not intended)
- Various crash related issues on Android devices in BR
- General purchasing issues
- General latency related issues
As per usual, please keep on reporting issues and we’ll keep checking them, gathering information, and sharing them up. Not only does our community team do that, but our Player Support teams are frequently doing so as well through a variety of areas that they receive bug reports from.
Speaking of Player Support, if you ever need to reach out to them there are four main options you can use to get in contact. We do frequently check for issues in community and social media areas, but if this is an individual issue that just seems to be happening to you then that’s something that Player Support would be suited to assist you with. Just reach out through any of the following areas:
- In-game support chat
- ATVI Assist Twitter: Activision Support (@ATVIAssist) / Twitter
- ATVI Assist Facebook: Activision Assist - Facebook
- Player Support Website: Contact Us
Over the holidays we had a few people ping us about one of the most magnificent community highlight possibilities we have ever seen. Sure, a lot of you out there have produced great, unique, interesting, and cool creative designs over 2020, but we also are always looking for posts that are supporting the community, driving on some engaging discussions, or just straight up interesting.
We’d like to think this first Community Highlight of 2021 fits all of those requirements, for what is better than a recreation of Nuketown Russia made out of gingerbread and a hell of a lot holiday spirit?
Redditor and YouTuber Archaleus created this design right around December 26th and clearly has shown so much love for Call of Duty through this tasteful masterpiece. If you look closely you can see details such as a marshmallow person dual wielding Fennec (which of course is a community favorite), others camping out next to the cars at the end of the street, and a sniper in overwatch on the second floor. Perfectly Nuketown 😉.
We reached out to Archaleus to understand the inspiration behind this perfectly executed piece of art and they shared a few details about how the whole project was a spur of a moment decision that stemmed from the basic idea of creating a normal gingerbread house (a holiday tradition for many who celebrate Christmas). He saw his family building their own gingerbread houses and it inspired him to reach for something grander – Nuketown! He even created a making of video here on their YouTube, which is perfectly complete with the sacrificial ending of burning down Nuketown.
Well done Archaleus and thank you to the folks in the community who pinged us about this hilarious, amazing, and truly dedicated creation! With that said, we are looking forward to looking out for more community spotlights in 2021 as more communities have heard the calling and setup places to support community created art, designs, and posts. We’ll be keeping an eye out and we’ll see you early next week for the next public test build! Take care everyone.
-The Call of Duty: Mobile Team
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