The Call of Duty Warzone Season 01 update introduces a limited-time mode designed to fundamentally change how survivability works in Battle Royale. Amped Battle Royale removes traditional armor reliance, dramatically increases base health and regeneration, and reshapes engagements around sustained combat, positioning, and decision making rather than plate management.
Alongside the new mode, Season 01 delivers targeted perk adjustments, select weapon tuning aligned with Black Ops 7 Multiplayer changes, and a broad set of bug fixes. Several attachments across assault rifles, SMGs, sniper rifles, and melee weapons have been rebalanced, while core gameplay issues related to challenges, progression, and map exploits have been resolved.
Patch Notes
Modes
Amped Battle Royale Weekend Only LTM
- Increased base health to 450, up from 150
- Increased base health regeneration multiplier to 3, up from 1
- Removed armor spawning at match start
- Removed Armor Plates from ground loot
- Reduced Armor Plates dropped on death to 0, down from 1
- Enabled health bars above opponents
- Increased ammo found via ground loot
- Removed Stim Shots from loot pool
- Enabled Self Revives as ground loot
- Increased gas damage multiplier to 3, up from 1
Playlist
- Upcoming playlist updates are communicated through the Call of Duty Warzone Trello Board
Perks
Ghost
- No longer hides players from Advanced UAVs
Reactive Armor
- Reduced armor plate regeneration time from 20 seconds to 12 seconds
Weapons
Assault Rifles
DS20 Mirage
- Increased View Kick on MFS Semi Auto Fast Mag with smoother climb and reset behavior
Maddox RFB
- Reduced View Kick on the 13 inch Echo Fire Barrel
MXR 17
- Increased View Kick on MFS Semi Auto Fast Mag with smoother climb and reset behavior
SMGs
Kogot 7
- Increased Hip Spread improvement on Hawker Ported Comp from 25 percent to 30 percent
- Reduced Akimbo Hip Spread penalty from 40 percent to 30 percent
- Increased Vertical and Horizontal Recoil penalty on Akimbo from 15 percent to 30 percent
Shotguns
Akita
- Reduced shots to overheat from 15 to 13 on Akita ScorchLink Akimbo
Marksman Rifles
M34 Novaline
- Increased received flinch from 0.5N to 0.55N
- Slightly increased View Kick
Sniper Rifles
Shadow SK
- Reduced Hip Spread improvement on EMT3 Ported 70 from 25 percent to 15 percent
- Reduced Flinch Resistance on EMT3 Vanquish Riser from 35 percent to 17 percent
- Reduced Flinch Resistance on Friction Stock from 45 percent to 30 percent
- Reduced Flinch Resistance on Flourish Full Stock from 25 percent to 15 percent
- Reduced Hip Spread improvement on MFS Convergence Box Laser from 25 percent to 16 percent
- Increased Hip to ADS spread transition on 5mw Lockstep Laser to 90 percent of ADS time
VS Recon
- Reduced Flinch Resistance on MFS R Stop Handguard from 35 percent to 20 percent
- Reduced Flinch Resistance on Stabil Heavy Pad from 65 percent to 45 percent
- Reduced Flinch Resistance on Outpost Raider Pad from 30 percent to 17 percent
- Increased Hip to ADS spread transition on 5mw Lockstep Laser to 90 percent of ADS time
- Increased Light Bolt Fire Rate improvement from 7 percent to 29 percent
XR 3 Ion
- Reduced idle sway
- Improved stability while jumping and landing
Launchers
A.R.C. M1
- Doubled projectile speed
- No longer intercepted by Trophy System
Melee
Ballistic Knife
- Removed pre fire delay
- Increased projectile speed
- Reduced projectile vertical arc
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where some weapons bypassed armor and dealt damage directly to health
- Fixed an exploit allowing players to fall through map geometry in isolated locations
- Fixed an issue preventing COD Points purchases from the Store
- Fixed Warzone Daily Challenges not matching intended completion requirements
- Fixed Prestige Mastery Calling Cards unlocking before progress completion
- Fixed incorrect ownership messaging on dropped cash
- Fixed Warzone Prestige Challenges not tracking correctly
- Fixed Weekly Top 10 placement Challenge tracking
- Fixed Pinpoint Grenade Challenge Come Closer tracking only fist kills
Call of Duty Warzone is a free-to-play first-person shooter featuring large-scale Battle Royale and Resurgence modes. It was released on November 16, 2022, and is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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