Everything in Vanguard Season 2 update: New maps, perks, Ranked Play, full patch notes

New Maps: 

• Casablanca
• Gondola

New Mode: 

• Ranked Play Beta.
• Arms Race (more to come later in the season!)

New Killstreak:

• Ball Turret Gunner for 12-kill streak

New Lethal Equipment:

• Sticky Bomb: A grenade that sticks to surfaces before detonating.

New Perks:

• Armory – Perk 1: A direct counter-Perk to Engineer, Armory is ideal for Operators who use more than just their weapons in combat, namely placeable Demolition Charges, concussion mines, and placeable Field Equipment pieces.
• Mechanic – Perk 3: Mechanic provides a reasonable buff to Field Upgrade charge time, making it a must-have for completing challenges related to them or for Operators who love using them.

Upcoming Seasonal Event:

• Valentine’s Event – Feb. 11-17

For more information about all the seasonal content listed here, check out the official Call of Duty Season Two content blog.

MULTIPLAYER UPDATES

Stability

• Made several improvements to player textures and animations that resulted in Packet Burst spikes.
• Stability improvements should result in better connectivity and lower crash rates. The time to connect to Online Services should also be reduced.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in disconnecting during MVP Highlight Animations.

Maps

• General
  • A thorough pass on map environments has been completed to fix objects with unintended collision, issues with portaling through the ground, and to remove out-of-map exploits.
• Champion Hill
  • There will no longer be two consecutive buy rounds at the beginning of every Champion Hill Duos 2v2 private match.
  • A bug has been resolved that resulted in players losing Perk and Field Upgrade functionality in Private Matches if they played a match in Champion Hill previously.
  • Spawn improvements have been made for teams of three.

Modes

• Control
  • Fixed a bug that resulted in matches ending prematurely after a spectator disconnects.
  • Late match joiners are now able to spawn in when lives are available.
  • Swapping to spectate/different teams now consistently updates the lives left.
  • The last player alive warning now consistently appears.
• Private Matches
  • Silent Plant Option now works in Search and Destroy Private matches (fixed Feb 3rd).

Progression

• Seasonal Challenges
  • All players can now unlock Season 1 Mastery Cards after completing all challenges.
  • Field Specialist challenge is now tracking for all players.
  • Counter Measures challenges are now tracking consistently for all players.
• Operator Challenges
  • The Diamond operator skins will now unlock for Barbarian and Shadow operators.
• Welgun 
  • Gold and Diamond camos are now unlockable after completing all weapon Challenges.
• Launchers 
  • Ground based Killlstreaks now count towards the ‘Deadeye’ camo.

Weapon Adjustments

• Throwing Knife
  • Distortion VFX have been removed.

Equipment

• Incendiary Grenade
  • Fixed a bug that caused additionally visuals to appear when Incendiary Grenades are used.
  • Number of Incendiary Grenade uses are now tracked in your combat record.

Perks

• Dauntless
  • Suppression no longer applies to players with the Dauntless perk when the player is hit by shots.

Killstreaks

• Glide Bomb
  • Fixed a bug that resulted in graphical corruption when Attack Dogs were killed by a Glide Bomb.
• Mortar Barrage
  • Fixed a bug that resulted in the flare and smoke VFX from previously called-in Mortar Barrages temporarily re-appear.
  • Deploying the Mortar Barrage will no longer force-switch the player’s weapon.
• Flamenaut
  • Activating the killstreak and getting killed at the same time will now grant you the killstreak.

Field Upgrade

• Fix a bug with Deployable Cover that resulted in constant screen shake.

Bundles & MTX

• Year of the Tiger  
  • Players who purchased this Bundle but did not receive the Tiger Blueprint, should now have the item.
• Red Reactor Mastercraft 
  • Tracers are now displayed on weapons as intended.
• Graveyard Shift Mastercraft
  • “Ashed” tracers will now display correctly when applied to the Ore Sniper Rifle.
• Animalistic
  • Fixed a lighting bug with the Aquatint SMG that cause unintended lighting effect.
• Santa Slay
  • The Lucas Operator outfit, “Yarn Burner”, is no longer invisible for some players.

UI/UX

• A bug has been fixed that stopped players being unable to select a weapon when editing Prestige weapon classes.
• Prestige player progression is now viewable and tracking properly.
• Watch preview is no longer missing from the Battle Pass menu.

Misc

• A bug resulting in Play of the Game not playing or ending early has been fixed.
• Quips no longer play after an Operator is dead.
• Free Trial players should no longer encounter the error “This content is only available in the full game.