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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is just hours away, but a last-minute patch is making a major change to the multiplayer options first. Infinity Ward announced that it’s releasing an update that will remove all night maps from rotation.

The studio didn’t state a reason for the change but did say that it will be adding night maps back in as a separate playlist. The update will also remove the minimap from Hardcore modes.

Feedback to day-one patch notes may shed some light on the reason, though. Several users complained that night maps in the beta just fundamentally played differently than others, due to the reliance on night vision and specialized aiming attachments. Several players suggested doing exactly what Infinity Ward just announced: making it a separate playlist entirely. The day one patch notes, much of it addressing beta feedback, can be found below.

If you’re eagerly anticipating the release of Modern Warfare, you can pre-load now and check out what time it will unlock in your territory. Plus you still have time to run to Walmart and pick up a double XP bonus before you start playing. Read our pre-order guide for everything you need to know to prepare for launch.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Day One 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:

• Low Health Visuals:

• Weapon Balance:

• 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 rooftops

  • Fix 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:

• Trophy System:

• Recon Drone:

• 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 FPS

• ADS 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.

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If you’ve shopped for Lego sets in recent years, you know that they can get quite pricey. The days of a generic red bucket of bricks are long gone. But there are also more options than ever before, including a myriad of sets based on Marvel movies, Star Wars, Batman, Minecraft and so much more. Lego basically mirrors pop culture nowadays. If you’re shopping for a Lego enthusiast this holiday season, you’ll want to check out Target’s current sale, which features sets discounted up to 50% off. This is a great chance to save before the Black Friday madness begins.

Some of the Lego sales end today, but others will likely stretch into the weekend. Target’s sales usually run until Sunday, so you probably still have a few days to grab most of these sets. Many of the sets offer free two-day shipping, and you can even do pick-up in-store if your local Target has the set you’re eyeing. You can check out the full offering of deals at Target and see some of our favorite Lego sets on sale below.

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Lego DC Comics Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile – $65 ($100)

Doubling as both a cool Lego set and remote control car, this Batmobile is a 321-piece set complete with a tiny Caped Crusader holding a Batarang. The Batmobile is controlled through Bluetooth by an app that can be downloaded to your smart device.

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The Lego Movie 2 Rex’s Rexplorer – $60 ($120)

Hailing from The Lego Movie 2, this 1,887-piece set recreates the Rexplorer spaceship. It includes multiple figurines, dinosaurs, and gadgets. Normally $120, the Rex’s Rexplorer is currently on sale for $60.

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Lego Minecraft The Bedrock Adventures – $58.49 ($72)

Lego and Minecraft go hand in hand. They are both centered around building things from scratch. So it makes perfect sense that Minecraft fans would be drawn to Lego and vice-versa. The Minecraft Bedrock Adventures set features a modular design to create up to three different layouts with the 644 pieces.

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Lego Star Wars Porg – $35 ($56)

Porgs are arguably the best thing to come of the new Star Wars trilogy, and they are most definitely the cutest creatures to inhabit the galaxy far, far away. Now you can build your own Porg with this 811-piece set. When put together, the mouth and wings can move back and forth. There’s also a tiny Porg figurine who looks very sad next to the included Porg fact sheet.

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Lego Super Heroes Marvel Spider-Man Stark Jet and Drone Attack – $35 ($55)

Featured in one of the biggest movies of the year, Tony Stark’s jet played a critical role in Spider-Man: Far From Home. The 504-piece set lets you build the jet yourself and also comes with Spider-Man, Mysterio, Nick Fury, and Happy Hogan figurines. Two operable drones can shoot studs at the jet, too. It’s a really neat set for a great price.

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Though Game Freak hasn’t revealed any specific window for how long it will likely take to complete the campaign in Pokemon Sword / Shield, it looks like the upcoming game will have about as much content as previous titles in the franchise. Of course, since different generations have taken wildly different times to complete, that’s still a fairly large ballpark.

“In terms of the volume or the amount of content in the main adventure, [Sword / Shield is] comparable to other Pokemon generations that we’ve played,” Pokemon Sword / Shield director Shigeru Ohmori said, according to Game Informer. “I think there’s a lot of interesting activities that, for example, completing the Pokedex or really going out into the Wild Area and engaging with those mechanics, that’ll add a lot of replay value for players who are looking to get really hardcore into that.”

“I feel like a lot of players these days will typically burn through content and try to go to the ending as fast as they can,” Pokemon Sword / Shield producer Junichi Masuda added. When looking at previous Pokemon games, their campaign’s run the gamut of 26-41 hours of content, with Gen I as the low outlier and Gen IV as the high one. Comparatively, the stories in Gen II, III, V, VI, and VII are all in the 30-35 hour range–so it’s probable that’s where Gen VIII will ultimately end up as well.

One of the biggest new features in Pokemon Sword / Shield is the Wild Area, an open-world expanse where Pokemon roam about in the overworld–just like they do in Let’s Go, Pikachu / Let’s Go, Eevee. This area doesn’t work like the routes seen in previous Pokemon games. In the Wild Area, Pokemon don’t naturally scale to your adventure, so when you’re just starting out, you may run into wild Pokemon that are far too strong for you to take on, forcing you to be sneaky. You can also interact with other players while in the Wild Area, allowing you to easily find other trainers to battle against or trade with.

Pokemon Sword / Shield is scheduled to release for Nintendo Switch on November 15.

Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono, one of the faces behind the Street Fighter series, has admitted that 2009’s Street Fighter IV could have been an entirely different experience he thought was “revolutionary” at the time.

In a Eurogamer interview during EGX 2019, Ono revealed that Street Fighter IV could have returned as “a turn-based simulation.” Ono thought that bringing the franchise back with turn-based mechanics would have been revolutionary, though he admitted that convincing Capcom was “really, really difficult.”

Per a translator, Ono said Capcom at that time–around the late ’90s and early aughts–was “passed [the point of] making fighting games in general for a while, let alone just Street Fighter.” To get a new entry off the ground, Ono talked to his then-boss Keiji Inafune and former-president-now-chairman Kenzo Tsujimoto, who greenlit him for a new Street Fighter title.

Though SF4 managed to bring the series back into renewed focus, Ono said there were other ideas on the table for the series’s return. “I did have an idea that I thought could be revolutionary to turn the game more into a turn-based simulation, so you would take the moves you want to do and put them together like blocks,” Ono said via a translator. “Then they would run automatically, but obviously we didn’t make that in the end.”

Eurogamer’s Martin Robinson also asked Ono whether he had other ideas for Street Fighter’s return, like a first-person view or a gritty reboot. He did not clarify anything but laughed at the first-person idea. The 3DS version of Super Street Fighter IV included an over-the-shoulder view, and Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers on Nintendo Switch featured a first-person perspective.

As previously reported, Street Fighter 6 was not revealed during EVO 2019, which ran from August 2-4. Ono confirmed that the development team is more concerned with Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. Valve leaked SFV: AE’s latest DLC characters, which include Poison, Lucia, and E. Honda, ahead of the EVO 2019 reveal.

It’s been 10 years since Left 4 Dead 2 was released, and no, your eyes are not deceiving you. Ten! Feel old yet? Despite it being a decade since Ellis, Coach, Nick, and Rochelle carved a path through the zombie hordes–and Valve’s aversion to the number three–Dying Light developer Techland is still carrying the Left 4 Dead torch with an upcoming crossover event.

Dying Light is almost five years old itself, but Techland continues to support the first-person parkour-infused zombie slayer, even with Dying Light 2 on the horizon. After a recent Deadeye’s Promise event, the Polish developer hinted at a Left 4 Dead crossover in a tweet, saying “We don’t want you to be left 4 dead waiting for results!” This, of course, got people talking, and the crossover has now been confirmed.

Techland hasn’t shared any more details beyond this tweet so we’re only left with speculation as to what this zombie crossover might entail. It’s probably safe to assume it will include cosmetics like Left 4 Dead 2 character skins and voice packs as opposed to something more substantial like a new game mode or enemies like The Boomer and The Witch appearing in Dying Light.

Nevertheless, it’s cool that Valve is still acknowledging Left 4 Dead’s existence, even if we’re still waiting on another sequel. Who knows, maybe Valve has something else up its sleeve for the game’s 10-year anniversary in November?

Dying Light 2 is due in Spring 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.