Infinity Ward has laid out some adjustments which have been made to Name of Obligation Trendy Warfare 2 in response to suggestions from the sport’s beta forward of its launch later this week.
In a submit on the studio’s web site, the staff broke down a number of change classes, together with audio, UI, and motion. Most of those adjustments got here from suggestions on the multiplayer, however can even be relevant to the story marketing campaign, as nicely.
The total record of adjustments reads as follows:
Enemy Visibility
- We’ve got added diamond icons above the heads of enemies. This could make it simpler for gamers to obviously determine opponents within the recreation.
- Moreover, we’ve continued to tweak lighting and distinction for improved enemy visibility.
Audio
- We’ve shortened the general vary of footstep audio which is able to enable enemy gamers to get nearer to targets earlier than they can detect footsteps. We’ve got additionally continued to tweak teammate footstep audio, which is able to now be quieter following suggestions from the Beta.
- The in-world activation sound impact quantity vary for the Useless Silence discipline improve has been drastically decreased.
Third Particular person
- Following suggestions from Beta, aiming down sights will now keep in third particular person POV for low-zoom optics. Solely high-zoom optics (starting with the ACOG and better) and particular optics akin to Hybrids and Thermals will revert to first particular person POV. We imagine this may improve the third particular person expertise whereas preserving the gameplay balanced. The suggestions on this mode has been very constructive, and we are going to proceed to discover its use as a modifier.
Weapons
- We’ve got continued to tweak weapons throughout the sport following each suggestions from Beta gamers and recreation information. Gamers can count on extra specifics on weapon tuning as we proceed to help post-launch.
UI
- We’ve got been working exhausting on quite a few updates to our UI that make accessing and customizing your loadout extra seamless. We’ve made enhancements to navigation of menus and can proceed to optimize our UX.
Motion
- Slide, ledge hold, and dive have been additional refined. We’ve additionally addressed some motion exploits following Beta.
Matchmaking
- We’ve got applied some adjustments that goal to cut back foyer disbandment between matches. We look ahead to testing this at a big scale and getting suggestions.
Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 2 is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X|S on Friday, October 28, although the marketing campaign has been playable for many who pre-ordered the sport digitally since October 20. For extra on that, take a look at IGN’s assessment of the marketing campaign (or take a look at the video model under), wherein it was described as “underwhelming and overly acquainted.”
Kenneth Shepard is a author overlaying video games, leisure, and queerness throughout the web. Discover him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and take heed to his biweekly online game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is at present overlaying Cyberpunk 2077.
