SHG Weekly Community Update - Friday, May 11

The Blitzkrieg Community Event came to an end this week, but that doesn’t mean Captain Butcher won’t be back. Until he returns, we’ve got a whole lineup of Midweek Mobilize and Weekend Warfare days for you that are full of bonus XP opportunities!

Dom 75. This is now the new standard on all platforms, so make sure to get in there and play!

Weapon Contract and Daily Orders. This week’s Weapon Contract is for the Sterling. Make sure to pick it up before 10AM PDT on Tuesday, May 15.

Special Order/Weapon Bribe Issue. For those of you affected, check out ATVIAssist’s Reddit post on this for info about a makegood.

Master Prestige Rewards. We're working on some new rewards for you guys, and want to make them special. While they're not quite ready yet, we aim to have them ready for you for our next big game update. Thanks for your patience!

Weekend Warfare. This weekend, make sure to hop on and take advantage of 2XP on the Throwback Moshpit playlist in the Featured tab, live until Monday, May 14. We’re talking old-school Modern Warfare and MW2 perks as Basic Trainings! We saw how much the community enjoyed the traditional Killstreaks with the Blitzkrieg Basic Training, so we decided to bring back some more MW classics. They are as follows:

Commando Pro:

+ Increased melee range, and no damage from falling

+ Bonus: Melee faster

Danger Close:

+ Explosives deal more damage

+ Bonus: Frag x3

Double Tap:

+ Greatly increased fire rate of weapons

+ Bonus: Significantly improved hip-fire accuracy

Juggernaut:

+ Increased health

Martyrdom:

+ Drop a live grenade on death

+ Bonus: Shortens fuse of explosives

Stopping Power:

+ Deal Increased bullet damage

Stun x3:

+ Three British No69 concussion grenades

+ Bonus: Immune to Shell Shock & Tactical Equipment

Lots of oldies, but goodies, in there, so don’t miss out!

Ground War. We’ve heard your feedback here. Thank you for your enthusiasm for this mode! As a result, we’re bringing Ground War back next Wednesday, and it will be here to stay.

Requisitions Nerf. After taking into consideration community feedback and data, we nerfed Requisitions. We wanted to give the community some insight into our decision. First off, the Requisitions Basic Training was intended to provide novice players with a route to earn mid-tier Scorestreaks. Only on exceptional matches were highly-skilled players meant to be able to acquire top-tier streaks like the Ball Turret Gunner. However, the current frequency with which players are able to earn these top-tier streaks with the training is far too high. To address this issue, we’ve raised the cost of the top 5 Scorestreaks by 600-1200 score when using the Requisitions Basic Training.

We’d also like to provide some additional insight into our tuning philosophy. With the Divisions Overhaul on April 10th, we took two initial steps that we hoped would reduce Requisitions usage. These steps were adding the Blitzkrieg Basic Training and buffing the Ordnance Basic Training. A month has passed since the Divisions Overhaul, and Requisitions remains the most-used Basic Training in the game (since the removal of Primed). Due to a difference in score/XP between game modes and maps, Requisitions is tough to tune. The Training has mainly been an issue in Domination, Hardpoint, and on the Shipment 1944 map. For other modes like Team Deathmatch, Requisitions seemed fairly balanced. The aim with today’s tuning is to get Requisitions into a fair place for Dom and HP on non-Shipment 1944 maps. Many of the top streaks will now be exceptionally difficult to earn in TDM. Shipment 1944 will be a bit less chaotic than it has been, but that’s the nature of the map and we can’t tune the game around this very specific edge case. Below are the adjusted Scorestreak costs:

Emergency Airdrop: Increased from 1800 to 2400

Fire Bombing Run: Increased from 1950 to 2700

Paratroopers: Increased from 2400 to 3300

Carpet Bombing: Increased from 2850 to 3850

Ball Turret Gunner: Increased from 3600 to 4800

War Bonds. Until May 15, you can pick up War Bonds to earn extra COD Points. The “Hit the Front” Bond gives you 200 COD Points when you sign in. The “Get Intel” Bond gives you 100 COD Points when you sign up for the Call of Duty newsletter. The “Fight On” Bond gives you 200 COD Points when you complete 10 MP matches. Go see the Quartermaster and grab ‘em before they’re gone! For complete details, visit the Call of Duty blog.

Introducing: One Shot. This new mode is coming to you next week for TDM and Dom! Take a look:

Hot Fix and Weapon Tuning Updates. We pushed out a few hot fixes and weapon tuning changes this week, in case you missed it. Check out the details on these threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/8iprhf/hot_fix_and_weapon_tuning_update_may_11_dom_75/

https://www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/8i75xk/hot_fix_update_may_9/

Game Update. This Tuesday’s game update, as we stated last week, only contained a few items in it. Full details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/8hz84y/quick_game_update_may_8/

The Drostan Files.

And now for our community celebration:

Come on, team! Let’s not leave this soldier hanging (or kneeling, rather). Commend to no end.

Now THAT’S a cake topper! Congratulations to the extremely dedicated MJFan062509 on his marriage!

Thanks for a good laugh, skrilla7!

Really digging this ‘color-changing’ splatter Paintjob by Diamant!

Mother’s Day Video. Also, we posted a video today with some special messages for our mothers. Take a look:

Thanks everyone for your continued feedback and support. It’s always welcome and appreciated! Please continue to reach out to us over our social channels:

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