[RECAP] Infinity Ward’s Infinite Warfare MP Live Stream

❘ Updated: 2016-11-19T16:30:40

Infinity Ward hosted a live stream on November 18 to talk about upcoming updates for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Multiplayer.

Here’s a recap of what they discussed:

Updates to the Volk — live now in game
Key Earn Rate to increase for players
PC Patch update was not intentionally delayed, was pushed back due to issue. It’s live now.
“Something cool” is coming for PC players
Playlist Updates:
- They want to rotate modes in and out, Infected is back with new update.
- Hardcore FFA and Hardcore Kill Confirmed also live
Next weekend — new mode coming into Infinite Warfare — “People who love more classic Call of Duty are really going to enjoy it.”
Leaderboards are coming soon, no ETA yet. “Want to make sure they’re right before coming.”
In upcoming update, Advanced UAV will see through Ghost Perk.
Fix for Combat Rig Unlock Tokens are coming.
Next big update for Infinite Warfare is coming early December.
There will be Nukes coming to more weapons: Type 2 will get a Nuke weapon perk soon. Cannot talk too much about what weapons and stuff are coming.
Fix for Hardpoint spawns in general, pushing spawns further from hills in some areas to avoid split spawns. Coming in update very soon.
esports:
- Hardpoint Spawns update: adjusting Precinct start spawns
- Start Spawns and goals for Precinct for Uplink; updating reset range over roofs; “Making it more friendly for players”
- Payloads:
  - When using Cloak: plant/defuse bomb, carrying flag, drone, it will drain 2x faster.
  - When using Bull Charge, you drain 2x faster when carrying flag
  - No more Rewind exploits; if you use it while carrying flags, you will drop the flag
- Energy/Hybrid Weapons: Removed ricochet from any weapons in esports rule set; removed multi-functionality from hybrid weapons.
- Weapon Draft system: “both teams are choosing at the same time”; each player choses a weapon, cannot chose same weapon as teammate.
- Secondary Weapons are not part of Weapon Draft; open to all players.
- Bomb Sites: B in Precinct to be moved; B in Scorch to be moved; One bomb site moved to bridge on Retaliation; Both bomb sites on Breakout to be moved; A bomb site on Frost to be moved; A site to be adjusted, B site to be moved on Throwback
- CODCaster improvements, updates, and more coming

Watch the replay of the stream here: