While the Black Ops 7 beta is off to a strong start, with players loving the advanced omnimovement and map layout, players haven’t been as impressed with weapon progression speed, time-to-kill, and the automatic doors. The devs have assured players they’re aware and revealed how they plan to address them.
Treyarch have detailed upcoming changes to the maps’ doors, progression, and TTK, as well as new content they’ve added and bug fixes they’ve already made.
BO7 beta day 2 patch notes
Here’s what Treyarch added and fixed in the October 3 update:
Content
- Maps
- Multiplayer
- NEW: Imprint
- Cortex
- Exposure
- The Forge
- Zombies
- NEW: Vandorn Farm (Survival)
- Multiplayer
- Modes
- Multiplayer
- NEW: Overload
- Team Deathmatch
- Hardcore Team Deathmatch
- Domination
- Hardcore Domination
- Hardpoint
- Kill Confirmed
- Training Course
- Zombies
- NEW: Survival
- NEW: Training Course
- Multiplayer
UI
- Addressed an issue on Steam where social menus would close when the player was set as away.
- Addressed an error that could occur when navigating between menu tabs.
- Addressed an issue that could delay login.
Stability
- Addressed various server stability issues related to player loadouts, the Tracker Perk, Drone Pod, Pinpoint Grenade, and Skewer Scorestreak.
Upcoming beta changes
Treyarch also detailed changes you can expect to see in the coming days:
- Weapon balance pass to “adjust TTK and ensure all weapons available in the Beta are competitive within both their class and their intended role”
- Automatic door changes:
- Forcing specific automatic doors to remain open from the start of the match.
- Increasing how long automatic doors remain open before they close.
- Increasing the distance a player needs to be from the door before it will automatically open.
- Players can still shoot automatic doors to open them.
- Weapon XP, Spawns & bug fixes (October 4):
- Forcing specific automatic doors to remain open from the start of the match.
- Increasing how long automatic doors remain open before they close.
- Increasing the distance a player needs to be from the door before it will automatically open.
- Players can still shoot automatic doors to open them.
Doors have been a particularly sore spot for the player base, and some want to see them removed from the maps entirely. Treyarch are considering this, potentially reducing the number of doors and adding the option to disable them in competitive.
You can also check out our dedicated Black Ops 7 wiki, which breaks down the best guns, PC, controller settings, and more.
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