Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Open Beta Gets Significant Changes for Weekend 2
Developer Treyarch has made some significant changes to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 as the open beta heads into its second weekend.
Black Ops 6, out October 25, 2024, has a new Body Shield feature, a new Omnimovement feature, and various features returning from Treyarch's 2020 game, Black Ops Cold War.
The Black Ops 6 open beta restarts at 10am PT today, September 6, and with it comes tweaks to weapons, spawns, and various other gameplay elements that affect Multiplayer.
“Many of the changes below are based on data and feedback from Weekend 1,” Treyarch explained in a blog post, “but rest assured we are also taking this into account as we look ahead to launch. We’ll be sharing more about what’s to come in the weeks after Weekend 2 concludes.”
Highlights include an overall increase to weapon swap speeds, small adjustments to baseline movement speeds on all weapon classes, various weapon balance changes, and adjusted spawn logic across several maps with the goal of reducing a high frequency of spawn flipping.
We’ve seen the feedback about weapon swap speeds, and we agree. We’ll be reducing weapon drop times across the board for an overall increase to swap speeds. Players looking for an even quicker swap speed can try out the Fast Hands Strategist Perk in Week 2 of the Beta.
We are making small adjustments to baseline movement speeds on all weapon classes to make sure they are sitting in a good spot relative to one another. We have mostly focused on Move Speeds and ADS Move Speeds, which come into play during combat engagements.
Overall we are happy with the weapon class usage and performance we’ve seen in Beta Weekend 1, as well as the upper end of movement pacing offered by SMGs, so these adjustments keep SMGs the same and generally improve other classes. We are mindful of speeding the game up too much and will continue to monitor and assess game data and your feedback.
The other notable change here is to Melee Sprint Speeds. We want players to feel incentivized to pull out
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