Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1.04 Update Patch Notes

GENERAL FIXES

Spawning in Core Multiplayer:

• Fixed edge case scenarios with spawning on enemies
• Adjusted spawn logic to improve spawn quality. We’ve also added more spawns to increase your options. We will continue to improve this map by map post-launch

Ground War:

• Added more fallback spawns to FOBs if the flag has too many enemies
• Improved safety checking for spawning on Squadmates (is still dangerous, but the UI will notify you of this!)
• Added spawning on Squadmates while in vehicles
• Neutral tanks and helicopters now show up in the Spawn Selection screen
• Helicopters now have flares to help manage incoming missiles
• If all flags are captured by one team, you’ll go into Defcon to win so protect those flags!
• Fix for an exploit that was allowing players (and therefore teammates) to spawn under the map

Lighting:

• Brightened characters in dark areas across many maps

Low Health Visuals:

• Now brightens up in the middle of the screen instead of darkening

Weapon Balance:

• In general, weapons received a lot of love since the Beta. Most notably shotguns and pistols.

Equipment:

• Enemy claymores now have larger, visible lasers
• Reviving a teammate near a friendly claymore could cause the claymore to explode, resulting in a suicide

Mini-Map:

• Now on by default across core multiplayer and Ground War. Enemy firing does not show up on the mini-map unless a team UAV is active
• Map zoom is pulled out a bit to help with player awareness

Killstreaks:

• VTOL Jet adjusted to not target players though rooftopsFix for the Juggernaut Suit not spawning out of a crate. Another fix was deployed to prevent the mask from staying on the player after you have died as the Juggernaut and respawned
• After using the Cruise Missile, player character models were sometimes stuck in a lean after using the streak

Munitions Box:

• Activated by using a prompt instead of proximity
• Reduced the explosion radius of the box

Trophy System:

• Applied the Snapshot effect to the owner of any Snapshot grenades

Recon Drone:

• All players in vehicles are now markable
• Screen tearing on character and weapon models on Xbox
• Impact damage of lethals/tacticals and the ammo box were causing instant kills
• Adjustments to the descriptions in Gunsmith
• Fix for a bug where the wrong input would be shown for players in a party
• Fix for a bug where a door could open in the opposite direction of the player’s movement
• Footsteps – Footstep tuning of volume fall off distance, mixing volume and occlusion settings
• Placing Deployable Cover on stairs could prevent teammates from being able to mantle or crouch under, blocking paths
• Various audio tuning and fixes for executions and weapons
• Players were able to spam the crouch button while moving creating a ‘snaking’ effect.

PC SPECIFIC

• Crouch and prone transition animations have been smoothed out for high FPSADS Sensitivity options can now be saved when using KBM
• Double-tapping the sticks now always triggers the Tactical Sprint when using a gamepad on PC
• Fixed blurriness in various situations
• Ping widget is now showing the correct latency value
• Added depth of field option in the Graphics options
• Added HDR support
• Added NVIDIA Highlight support in MP
• Global performance improvements and stability fixes
• ADS transition animations have been smoothed out for high FPS
• Adjusted stand-to-prone timing for KBM versus gamepads
• Player no longer loses sprint functionality by holding down sprint keybind and the move keybind while respawning
• FOV Slider setting reverting to default after loading into the map.