Call of Duty: Warzone Season 06 Patch Notes

Season 06 is a shorter Ranked season, giving us an opportunity to test meaningful changes and evaluate their impact quickly. Our focus is increasing the competitive challenge within the Top 250 while preserving a path to the top of the ladder that does not feel overly punishing. Ranked Play Resurgence will follow the same schedule as Multiplayer Ranked, with three weeks of normal Ranked play followed by one week of Ranked Series.

For Skill Rating, our goal is for progression near the top of the ladder to better reflect consistent performance rather than time played alone. We’re happy with the SR journey for players in the Bronze through Platinum divisions, but we’ve seen significant SR inflation in Diamond and above over the past few seasons. To address this, we’re increasing deployment fees in those top divisions. This will reduce the maximum SR that can be earned in a single match and may significantly compress the Top 250 leaderboard. SR amounts for Division breakpoints will remain unchanged.

We’ll also be disabling SR Challenges for Season 06. These challenges were originally intended to help players reach their true rank faster, but we’ve seen players hold onto them to create a larger SR cushion later in the season. Disabling them will give us a clearer read on the underlying SR system.

These are intentionally aggressive changes designed to make their impact clear during the season. We know increased deployment fees will significantly affect the amount of SR available at the top of the leaderboard, giving us valuable data on whether these changes are achieving their intended goal. We’ll monitor the results closely and adjust our approach in future Ranked experiences as needed.

We’re also expanding the Ranked Play sandbox by making several historically restricted items available in Loadouts, including a thermal scope, a shotgun, and launchers. To preserve counterplay, we’ll reuse the existing one-shot protection system active on snipers in Ranked to help ensure these newly unrestricted items do not cause too much disruption.

These Loadout changes give players more options when dealing with enemies in buildings or vehicles. We’ll monitor their usage and effectiveness throughout the season.

Season 06 will provide valuable data on SR progression, leaderboard separation, Loadout diversity, and the overall feel of Ranked Play at the highest levels. We’ll use that feedback to guide future Competitive experiences.

» SR Updates «

• Challenges
  • All SR challenges have been disabled for Season 06.

• Deployment Fees
  • All deployment fees in Diamond and above have been adjusted as follows:

• Supply Drones Rework

  • Adjusted the overall amount in the sky.

  • Now only hover above High Value Loot Zones.

  • Destroying Supply Drones will cause more Supply Drones to spawn up to a specific limit per circle.

  • Increased the number of Legendary Crates that Supply Drones carry.

  • Reduce the number of non-Legendary Crates that Supply Drones carry.

  • Now deploy during infil and stay active longer throughout the match.

  • Fly more predictably and avoid low-altitude hovering.

  • No longer spawn in the gas.

We wanted Supply Drones to feel more intentional and they’ll now be more predictable, concentrate around High Value Loot Zones, stay in the sky longer and offer better loot.

Adjusted

• Lootable Perks
  • Updated lootable perks to the following:
  • Contract Rewards
    • Hunter
    • Tempered
    • Momentum
    • Shrouded
  • Legendary Supply Boxes
    • Drill Instructor
    • Surveyor
    • Momentum
    • Shrouded

• Ground Loot
  • Removed the Utility Box in loot and added the Armor Box and Munitions Box
  • Removed the Combat Axe and added the Frag Grenade
  • Removed the Flash Grenade and added the Concussion Grenade

• High Value Loot Zones
  • Updating High Value Loot Zones on Verdansk:
    • Superstore
    • Hospital
    • Stadium

• Juggernaut Public Event

  • Juggernaut Public Event has been disabled.

• Cluster Strike

  • Added to Buy Stations for $4,000

• Killstreak Warning

  • Incoming killstreak warning will now alert players regardless of height.

We've improved the logic used to determine which players receive incoming killstreak warnings, resulting in more consistent alerts for nearby threats. We'll continue monitoring feedback and evaluating the overall killstreak warning experience.

• Fixed issue that caused players to not fully plate up with setting “Apply All” if one of the plates had a small amount of damage. 

• Fixed issue that caused some items to sometimes not be deleted when deep in the gas.

• Fixed issue that caused the buystation and Ammo Cache Depot on the Fortune’s Keep boat to not properly disable when deep in the gas.

• Fixed an issue where the Grimm Operator Skin "Axia" was not properly highlighted when viewed through thermal optics.

• Fixed an issue where a Recon Site could spawn partially clipped into geometry near Gatehouse on Fortune’s Keep.

• Fixed an issue where the Spectating widget could incorrectly appear after entering a vehicle.

• Fixed an issue preventing players from picking up a Champion’s Quest contract at the spawn location south of TV Station.

• Fixed issues that allowed players to exploit map geometry to access unintended areas.

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*Game features described above are based on current in-development features that are subject to change based on final development changes and/or game tuning or updates that may remove or modify some or all of the above features.