It's a good time to be a Call of Duty fan, provided you have anything but a PlayStation. Don't get me wrong, there's some good stuff coming to PlayStation gamers as well, but more on that tomorrow. The latest chapter in Activision's famed shooter franchise, Call of Duty: Ghosts, has received a new patch on Xbox One, 360, and PC, and among the numerous balance and gameplay tweaks, the patch also adds a new Chaos Mode to the game's alien blasting Extinction game.
The new Chaos Mode is essentially the same thing as the eponymous mode from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Special Ops mode, but with hordes Extinction's Cryptids replacing the soldiers. Four players can take part on Extinction's "Point of Contact" and "Nightfall" maps, starting with handguns (with additional weapons scattered throughout the maps) and two minutes on the clock. An arcade mode of sorts, players must then mow down an endless barrage of enemies, and earn perks at every tenth multiplier.
The patch also makes some changes in the form of weapon balances, changes to maps, and more. You can check out the complete patch notes below:
Weapon Balance
- MTAR-X: Reduced head-shot damage multiplier.
eSports
- Restrict DLC weapons for clan v clan & esports mode.
Anti-Cheat
- Fixes dock exploit area in Whiteout.
- Fixed map exploit on Freight so deployable boxes no longer stick to the gate.
- Fixed map exploit on Warhawk so deployables no longer stick to the fence.
- Overall anti-cheat improvements.
Additional Fixes
- Adjusted Domination spawn logic to make it less likely for defenders to spawn near a flag if it is being captured.
- Fix for 4096 error.
- Fix for wiretap perk to work properly in Hardcore modes.
- Fixed issue that classified non-sliding kills as sliding kills if the user died mid-slide.
- Fix to default killstreak highlight to last one selected.
- Fixed issue that allowed the user to navigate menus while accepting a clan invite.
- Fixed flare audio after player leaves helo gunner.
- Fixed hardcore audio alias for kill confirmed.
- Added proper friendly alias for blitz friendly scoring.
- Fix to properly show a popup dialog if a user tries to join on someone from the recently met player list that is a blocked user.
- Added killcam for Night Owl deaths.
- Fixed character scene offset causing misalignment of some characters.
New Features
- "Chaos Mode" for Extinction.
Extinction
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Fixed challenges that were providing more than one skill point.
- Casual mode does not write to leaderboards.
- Fixed issue where player models could appear stuck when taking large amounts of damage at once.
- Improvements to drill placement logic.
- Armor is now invulnerable when the Tank Class skill is active.
Nightfall
- Late joining, spectating and players in Last Stand will now be teleported to the final Breeder fight if triggered without them.
- Fixed case where players could prevent the Breeder from spawning on Nightfall.
Mayday
- Improved alien navigation and pathing.
- Improved wall and ceiling navigation for aliens.
- Updated Kraken smash and cool down logic.
- Fixed ingredient issue where some combinations prevented creation.
- Fixed cases where players could not turn a Rhino into a pet when using a Relic.
- Improvements to clipping to prevent players from getting to undesirable locations.
- Improvements to the Tesla Traps behavior.
- Improved clipping to prevent players from placing the drill in undesirable locations.
- MAAWS stability and tracking improvements.
- Drill cannot be removed from the Drillbot after being placed.
- Replaced the Drill waypoint icon after completing the defend from afar sequence.
- Late joining, spectating players and players in Last Stand will now be teleported to the Kraken fight if triggered without them.
- Improvements to pillage locations.
- Deployed items in the lower portion of the ship are removed allowing for new item placement on the top deck of Mayday.
- Friendly Seeder Turrets no longer prevent the gas sequence from triggering.
- Intel audio snippets now play in game after being collected.
- EMP effect from the Kraken no longer impacts skill point menu access.
- Fixed crafting scoring exploit where players would mistakenly receive funds when canceling crafting.
More recently, Xbox players are now also able to download those six new personalization packs we told you about last week, including that Soap MacTavish Legend Pack. A new video is out showing the various packs' camos, reticles, and whatnot. Check out the video below, followed by the official details from developer Infinity Ward.
Deliver chronic lethality when you customize with the new Blunt Force Personalization Pack, complete with all-new themed camo, reticle, patch, playercard, and background.
Retrograde your customization options with the 1987 Personalization Pack. This radical makeover includes a righteous themed camo, reticle, patch, playercard, and background.
Your enemies will stare into the eyes of destruction with the Eyeballs Personalization Pack, containing an unblinking camo, reticle, patch, playercard, and background.
Protect your team with the help of the Heartlands Personalization Pack, providing customization in the form of a patterned camo, reticle, patch, playercard, and background.
Bring an authentic and high tech look to your customization options with the Hex Personalization Pack. Get a camo, as well as themed reticle, patch, playercard, and background.
Turn up the heat in every battle with the Molten Personalization Pack, containing a lava-hot camo and themed reticle, patch, playercard, and background.
Each personalization pack goes for $1.99. In addition to these packs, there's also the Extinction Squad Pack for $2.99, and the Classic Ghost Pack for $1.99. All packs will release on remaining platforms at some point in the future.