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Good to hear! Thanks sm for everything you guys do.

Just wanted to come back and drop the first blog of a few that is coming out over the next few days in the leadup to launch.

https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2023/11/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-III-zombies-operation-deadbolt-launch-content

How did the zombie content creators react to this first decision?

And to what extent are the zombie content creators are participating in the dev. creation / making of the zombie mode in general?

Hello!

Play sessions were fun, and from what I watched, there was a lot of excitement and coordination. The feedback we received was positive and open to the open-world concept of Modern Warfare Zombies. Many felt like it was the step up from Outbreak that was wanted some time ago. Overall, it was a positive experience, and we did receive constructive feedback about the mode.

Content creators are not employees, so they aren't directly working on or developing the mode. They did have the opportunity to send feedback our way, which makes its way to our developers through various channels.

Have a nice week too!

We have some blogs in the works that will do just this. Current timing is TBD.

The open-world portion of Modern Warfare Zombies is always online, but you can queue into a match as a squad of one. Squads that embark on special story missions will infil into a private experience.

Just dropping in to confirm that camo grind includes the MW2 carry forward weapons.

https://twitter.com/Treyarch/status/1709994517628408268

CodeNamePizza did say you can extend it another hour by doing an "endgame contract".

Players who embark on a special private story mission will have an hour to complete it. So, this effectively allows a player to "extend" a play session beyond an hour which I think may be creating some of the conversation I've seen here. Players will also need to extract at the end of a story mission.

Regarding extending the amount of time: I don't have anything to share at this moment, but we're tracking conversations (which is why I showed up here :D) and looking forward to players experiencing the mode on November 10th.

For anyone that may have missed CODNext, here's a link to ...

I very much appreciate the clarifications! Though it's still unclear how the Aether Storm works.

You mentioned 45 minutes before it expands, then 15 minutes to exfil, but what if you do not exfil? Do you instantly die or do you just stay stuck there, unable to exfil, until you inevitably get overwhelmed?

If you do not exfil, you will die.
Players slowly take damage inside the Aether Storm regardless of its expansion. If you're running from the storm and get caught inside, you can exit to regenerate health and then extract out. You'll want to move quickly, as the Aether Storm will buff enemies inside its perimeter.

Hello!

Just want to clarify a few things here!

The 1 hour time limit IS NOT A TIME LIMIT FOR GAME OVER! It is the time before the Aether Storm engulfs the entire map, however, the storm does not kill you, it applies debuffs to you if you lack a gas mask but you won't take damage, and the zombies will be stronger inside of it.

Players have 45 minutes until the Aether Storm begins to expand. Once the storm starts expanding, you have 15 minutes to exfil. Once the Aether Storm has engulfed an exfil location, you can no longer extract there. Plan accordingly to make it out of the match with your loot!

He was also told that assimilation has no cap to it, you start with a 6 player squad maximum, however, you can assimilate other squads with no limit, theoretically, one could put together an entire 24 player squad.

Players can enter a match as a squad size of three, two, or one and then choose...

Good job!

Hey there! We can certainly note the feedback, but we don't have any timelines to share as to when to expect the next map pool update. The most recent change came from several reports collected over the past few months regarding requests for the most recent update. Sharing map pool requests is totally okay, but a single Reddit petition didn't cause the change. So while we expect that understanding is already known, we wanted to share it with all passersby.

Make sure you're staying within this subreddit's guidelines regarding frequency and such. :)

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Armada Strike and Satellite are back. We have technical limitations as to how many maps we can have in a playlist at a time so we've removed Deprogram and Amerika as they were least played. This is also why Armada Strike and Satellite were removed from 6v6 the first time. The conspiracy theories people come up with... 😅

We appreciate your dedication to fair gameplay, but Reddit is not the place to report or debate with peers regarding cheating accusations. Please report in-game and our teams will investigate.

Hey OP! It's been about 9H since you created your post. Have you been able to jump back in?

Watching it back a few times and I have to agree with our peers here that you're rushing quite often. It may be a result of you knowing that you're fighting bots, but I'd like to see you clear rooms while being mindful of the fatal funnel. You can absolutely rush in BOCW, we love movement, but being mindful of those sightlines will help.

I also see the Discord overlay. Embrace KBM if you can!

Hello!

Correct that there are no tangible updates. Players should not expect any tunings or gameplay changes.

Have fun! Drink water and capture B flag!

If you previously played Ranked Play during the Season Five ladders, which we call the Season Five competitive season, and earned rewards by playing, you can obtain those now. This process is similar to how previous seasons operated also.

Your questions lead me to believe that you don't typically play Ranked Play which is okay.

When you originally would have obtained this MOTD the competitive season would have still been active, but ending soon. Now that you have logged on, after Nov 16, you have been served the most recent MOTDs including this one. We shared in previous MOTDs, blogs, and tweets, on Nov 2, that the competitive season was ending at a later date which we have now crossed.

I see this was your last post on this thread. Did you happen to get back up and running?

If you updated on Monday only to encounter black screens or crashes directly after launching, we investigated the issue with our partners and rolled out some solutions. The shortest explanation I can provide is that a recent update to Battle.net resulted in a case that would cause any updated Call of Duty encounter to experience these issues. A fix was rolled out by our Battle.net partners late on Tuesday, which should allow players to Scan/Repair to get back in-game.

This Trello card should help provide additional context too: ...

Thanks for taking the time to try to find a fix for you and your peers. An issue with the Battle.net launcher was discovered and a fix for it was released. That fix allows players to Scan/Repair to get back in if they haven't reinstalled.

We also recommend that you make a backup of your My Documents Black Ops Cold War folder in the future before removing it just in case you need to revert to it or check your old player data folder for configuration settings.

Update: September 28th, 2022 @ 9:40 am/PT

An update to Battle.net has been released, which should help resolve this issue. Players are encouraged to update their Battle.net application and perform a Scan and Repair on their installation of #BlackOpsColdWar to get back into action.

Here's a link to the Repairing Battle.net Games help article.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/7655