Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War released a new update yesterday, on March 18, including a playlist update, adjustments to League Play, and weapon tuning. Especially, the E-Tool, the melee shovel, benefits from a hefty buff. MeinMMO shows you the details.
What’s going on? Black Ops Cold War received a new update on its servers and brought a few minor changes to the game:
- Buff for the killer shovel “E-Tool”
- New maps for modes in League Play
- Fresh playlists for multiplayer and zombies
The most exciting part of the current update is the buff of the E-Tool. The weapon is now, broadly speaking, twice as strong and knocks out enemies with just one hit. Here on MeinMMO, you can find the complete patch notes in English.
CoD Cold War: Update March 18 with a big E-Tool buff
What’s up with the E-Tool? The melee weapon was recently added to the game and can be unlocked through a challenging challenge. In the blog post with the patch notes on treyarch.com, the developers write that they have seen a lot of love from players for the death shovel in zombie mode, but also requests to make the melee weapon stronger in multiplayer. The requests have been heard – the E-Tool has been significantly buffed:
- The shovel is now a one-hit melee kill (previously 2 hits)
- Reduced swing time when striking
- Slightly increased movement speed
This melee weapon is now significantly more attractive in multiplayer and should find even more fans. Plus, the weapon fits better with the heavy unlock challenge.
What else did the update bring? The significant change to the E-Tool is the highlight of the update. Besides, there were adjustments to the maps in two of the game modes of the ranked mode League Play and new playlists:
- League Play
- CDL position: Crossroads Strike has been removed, and Apocalypse has been added
- CDL Search & Destroy: Garrison has been removed, and Express has been added
- Multiplayer playlist
- Depot
- Knife Fight 3vs3
- History Moshpit
- Gun Game
- Nuketown 24/7
- Gunfight
- Showdown
- Zombie playlist
- Outbreak
- Firebase Z
- The Machine
- Dead Ops Arcade Ego Perspective
- Dead Ops Arcade
On PlayStation, there are also the exclusive Rush modes – in the normal version with map rotation, and two separate Rush modes that only run on Nuketown or Apocalypse.
Cold War Season 2 – What else is in the pipeline?
What can we expect in Season 2? In Season 1, three major updates brought new content to the game, and content is also known for the current season that should come before the end of Season 2 on April 22:
- 2 new weapons are already known: The crossbow “Shadowhunter” and the sniper “ZRG 20mm”
- The large multi-team map “Golova,” which is already included in the Outbreak mode
- A map for the small Gunfight mode – “Mansion”
The current roadmap for Season 2:
It is quite possible that the announced content will not be the only additions. Especially regarding the supply of 6vs6 maps, many players wish for a faster pace. So far, only “Apocalypse” has been released as a map for the “normal” multiplayer modes. Here, Cold War continues to fall short of expectations.
If you consider the new content from Cold War and the battle royale Warzone in Season 2, one could certainly call it a zombie season. However, this does not sit well with fans of the standard PvP modes. Because soldiers who can’t find anything appealing in the zombie mode of Cold War have only been offered little new content in Season 2 so far. However, the chances are good that the developers will make another push – as they did in the previous Season 1.
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