Yesterday, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 experienced its latest update, which you may have missed if you didn’t receive the message “The Game Settings Have Changed”.
However, the man himself, David Vonderhaar, took to Reddit to discuss the hotfix and its impact upon issues with several weapons and scorestreaks.
The modifications are occurring prior to next week’s Call of Duty World League qualifiers, in which teams can fight for a spot to join the pro teams already qualified for the Call of Duty: Pro Division. Qualifying matches will take place on PlayStation 4 beginning on Monday, Dec. 14 and lasting until Friday, Dec. 18.
In the Reddit announcement, Vonderhaar spoke of the larger upcoming update stating, “The update we are working on, TU4, is a big one with a lot of great stuff in it. We hope to have that to you soon.”
Listed below are the major changes from the hotfix which are affecting weapons and scorestreaks of the current version of Black Ops 3. It’s likely won't see the major update until sometime after the CWL qualifiers.
Weapons:
Submachine Guns
Kuda
- Increased ability to control recoil.
VMP
- Time increased when aiming down sights.
- Hip fire spread increased.
Weevil
- Increased ability to control recoil.
Vesper
- Reduced lethal range.
Razorback
- Increased ability to control recoil.
- Increased lethal range.
Assault Rifles
KN-44
- Increased ability to control recoil.
XR-2
- Movement speed reduced.
HVK-30
- Increased ability to control recoil.
ICR-1
- Increased ability to control recoil.
- Hip fire spread reduced.
- Fixed an issue with the reload animation when a certain magazine was equipped.
Man-O-War * Increased ability to control recoil.
M8A7
- Fire rate reduced.
Shotguns
KRM-262
- Removed 3-hit kill. Now guaranteed at 2-hits.
205 Brecci
- Increased lethal range.
Haymaker 12
- Increased lethal range.
Light Machine Guns
Dingo
- Movement speed increased.
- Increased ability to control recoil.
48 Dredge
- Fire rate reduced.
Pistols
MR6
- Movement speed increased.
RK5
- Movement speed increased.
- Reduced lethal range.
L-CAR 9
- Movement speed increased.
- Reduced damage.
- Reduced lethal range.
- Hip fire spread increased.
Scorestreaks:
HC-XD
- Explosive damage increased
Dart
- Explosive damage increased for collision explosions
- Handling tuning
- Minimum speed slightly reduced
- Fixed an issue where the Dart was not locking onto enemy players
Talon
- AI controlled damage slightly increased
Mothership
- Increased number of missiles required to destroy by 2
- Owner turret explosive bullet damage increased
- Owner rocket turret projectile speed increased
Hellstorm
- Cluster bomb explosive damage increased
Rolling Thunder
- Explosive radius per drone increased
- Explosive damage per drone increased
- Added 4 pairs of drones
- Health per drone increased
Cerberus
- Increased missiles required to destroy by 1
- Increased EMP Grenades required to destroy by 1
G.I. Unit
- Increased number of War Machine hits required to destroy
- Slightly increased duration
- Slightly decreased time stunned when hit by EMP Grenade
UAV
- Increased base health
CUAV
- Increased base health
Wraith
- Increased base health
- Fixed an issue where the Flak Drone would not intercept incoming missiles
R.A.P.S
- Increased number or missiles required to destroy Deploy Ship by 1
- Increased health per drone
- Explosive damage per drone increased
Lightning Strike
- Reduced the time between target selection and payload delivery
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