Sigh. After todays fun a few days off from the game might be in order for me. Fortunately I believe Activision may have heard my sad groan.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/0 ... -tomorrow/

Activision say the download size will be about 18-22GB.

Circa 15-20 hrs for me. Don't know when it starts and it's actually for a game type we won't play (Battle Royale).

Download is live. 22gb

Maybe we should give it a go, BR in Battlefield was quite intense to play.

Patch notes 2020-03-10

PLAYLIST UPDATE:
Added Search and Rescue
Added Mayhem Mosh Pit (10v10 Grind, Drop Zone, and Cranked)
Removing "Boots on the Ground War"

GENERAL FIXES:
NEW Shotgun: "VLK Rogue"
Fixed a bug that prevented respawning after a Defcon Nuke had been set off in Realism Ground War
Increased damage to Juggernauts when being hit by a Thermite Crossbow
Various Exploit fixes, including fixes to Hackney Yard and Piccadilly
Fix for a bug where a different pistol than one that was equipped would appear when climbing a ladder
Fixed a bug where any charm used alongside the MP7 Bengal variant would clip through the weapon
Various Ground War exploit fixes
Fix for a bug where a constant yellow “High Alert” screen would persist after death if the player died while the perk was granted via Specialist
Fixed a bug in the After-Action Report that would display 0 in the Challenge field even if a Challenge had been completed
Fixed a bug that would spawn players elsewhere on the map after using a Tactical Insertion near the crawl space on Rust
Fixed a bug in the Giant Infection mode that spammed radio VO across all teammates when a player is a driver or passenger
Fixed a bug that allowed players to deploy throwable Field Upgrades during the round countdown. After the countdown ends, the player would still have another Field Upgrade available. This has been fixed
Added option to toggle a square or circular minimap

Weapons:
725 Sawed-Off Barrel:
Increased move speed
Increased ADS Spread
Reduced ADS damage
Reduced far damage range
Extended very lethal close damage range
Fix for the RAM-7 variant, “The Corrupter” not allowing the use of any sniper scopes
Fixed a bug that could create an 'infinite ammo' glitch on the Model 680
Updating the ammo descriptions to the “Bludgeoner” LMG and the “Skull Hammer” Shotgun
Fix for a bug where using an NVG Thermal Scope on the Grau 5.56 could cause a graphical bug

Missions and Challenges:
Fix for a bug that only displayed the “One Shot One Kill” splash medal on screen when a sniper rifle was used. This is fixed to display whenever any one-shot weapon like shotguns or marksman rifles are used
Fix for the “Get 50 Kills with Light Machine Guns” challenge not tracking as intended
Fix for Golem’s 3rd Mission Objective, “Get 5 Kills using Lethal Equipment” not tracking properly
All vehicles now award progress to any challenges that require “X vehicle run over kills”
Updates to the splash screen and in-game HUD as players make progress in the “Alliance” Missions

Classic Special Operations:
Fixed a bug that prevented players for being able to use finishing moves on enemy AI. This has been fixed
Bomb Squad: Fix for a bug there enemies might not spawn until after the last bomb is defused
Special Operations: Survival - Leaderboards for Azhir Cave (night) and St. Petrograd have been added
Special Operations:
Camera is now in a fixed position when reviving while prone or crouched
Hostages will reset to a safe area if dropped out of bounds
Fix match ending if the last-alive player calls in a Team Revive but goes down before the other players revive themselves.
Fix some instances where the juggernaut music could stay on unintentionally
Increase Heavy Hitter weapon perk to 2x melee damage
Ensure that players who are parachuting receive the ‘out of bounds’ warning if they drift out of bounds
Fix for hint prompts showing up while players are in last stand
Fix for an edge case that could prevent the 4th squad leader from spawning in during Operation Headhunter
Operation Just Reward: Fixed an issue where the cell phone intel would fail to drop
Operation Strongbox: Fixed a bug where destroying an enemy Wheelson was not granting any XP

Keyboard and Mouse: a contextual menu is now displayed when KBM player right-click on usernames in the Social menu’s Party tab

PC:
Several fixes to prevent crashes and improve stability
New PC players that are using the latest Battle.net client now have access to a simple, one-click way of creating their Activision account using their Battle.net credentials
Fixed a few cases where certain Social menu pop-up messages would display incorrectly in higher
aspect ratios

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NB. They've also added British Playercards - English, Scots, Welsh.

Having downloaded this beast and updated my drivers, I'm curious as to why it won't download shaders. It always has before. Anyone else noticed this absence?

Mine not D/L shaders for a few weeks now.

No shaders here either...

Small update about 120 Mb ??

"We’re rolling out a playlist update across all platforms that fixes an exploit where players could counter the gas ring while in Battle Royale."

i quite like it , but not as fun on your own ,really need the team of three

If we can get 3 I will roll with you