21 Gb (ish) update today, in readiness for Season 2 next week - 14 Feb.

Patch notes

https://www.sledgehammergames.com/blog/ ... wo-updates

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
Combat Shield
Fixed a bug that exposed player’s heads to damage above the shield.

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.

Engineer
Players are no longer able to see an enemy Goliath’s diamond through walls without the Engineer perk.

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

Attack on Titan
Fixed a bug that resulted in missing VFX on the Kar98k.

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.

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.

Complete the Valentine's Day Event Challenges for some sweet treats:

Get 15 elims as Flamenaut &
get the Wade Operator skin “King of Hearts” + the title “Huggernaut”



Earn a Victory in Champ Hill Duos 5x &
get the Kingmaker Type 100 Blueprint + “First Love” Calling Card

250 Mb (ish) update :

Sledgehammer Games@SHGames
We have deployed a patch to Xbox & PC players who were experiencing connectivity issues at game start-up after the previous update.

2.6 Gb update.

Patch Notes:
https://www.sledgehammergames.com/blog/2022/vanguard-season-two-patch-notes

17 Feb:-
Social
Fixed a bug that resulted in a spontaneous crash when scrolling through friends lists

Weapons
The Sten Mk5 Historia weapon blueprint spawns as a STG 44 on public MP matches

Bundles
Attack on Titan - Levi Edition Bundle
The Sten Historia weapon blueprint will no longer spawns as the STG44 in public Multiplayer matches
Paradise Lost Bundle
Halima's skin Fire Brand is now consistent with the preview.
Final Flight Bundle
The Hawk Blueprint will no longer use Ironsights instead of the Scope when Aiming Down Sights

Battle Pass
Tier 20 Reward “Beatrice Parisian skin”
An issue with the Beatrice Parisian skin has been fixed. All Tier 20 players have been granted this item retroactively.

ALSO:-

To thank players for their patience after Season 2 was delayed, Vanguard and Warzone’s devs are gifting players the Forbidden Sacrifice Bundle before it arrives in the Store, as well as 10 free Battle Pass Tier skips. Here’s how to claim the free rewards.

All Vanguard and Warzone players need to do to collect the Forbidden Sacrifice Bundle for free is
log into Vanguard or Warzone between 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM GMT on February 18and 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM on GMT February 22.

As soon as you log in, you’ll be prompted to claim the free gifts, so just hit accept and everything from the bundle will be in your inventory.

The Forbidden Sacrifice Bundle contains a Legendary Operator skin, a Legendary Assault Rifle and SMG Blueprint, and a Battle Pass Tier Skip – bringing the total up to 11.

Also, Max Double XP Weekend: Friday, February 18 – Tuesday, February 22
2x Regular XP, 2x Weapon XP, 2x Operator XP, 2x Battle Pass XP, and 2x Clan XP (exclusive to Vanguard).

According to the devs, the bundle and Tier Skips would normally cost $20, so it’s well worth logging in to claim them and take advantage of the Double XP.

They left a note to say that players should contact Activision Support if they don’t receive the bundle or skips.

Small update: 18 Feb:

Bug Fixes

Battle Pass Tier 100: The "White Mirage" Operator Skin's preview and item have been corrected. Players who reached Tier 100 prior to this update will be granted both versions of the Operator skin.

Players will now be shown the Season Two Story Cinematic upon loading into Vanguard for the first time during Season Two.

Just to clarify, the free Forbidden Sacrifice bundle contains these blueprints:

AR Dog / NZ41 - 'Death Walks Among Us'

SMG Baker / Sten - 'Spinebuster'

The KGM40 blueprint seen in the Armoury is the Battle Pass 100 reward.

Also, in the main Playlist - 'Grindcore' is Hardcore TDM & Kill Confirmed on large maps,
specifically for getting long range kills.

Patch Notes 22-2-22

MULTIPLAYER UPDATES

Weapons

Bug Fixes
MP-40 (Submachine Gun)
Rune Blueprint will now fire Shadow Tracer Rounds as intended.
Welgun (Submachine Gun)
Addressed an issue which prevented weapon unlock progression in Multiplayer and Zombies.
Gorenko Anti-Tank Rifle (Sniper Rifle)
Fixed a bug that resulted in the Atomic (Completionist) camo from being equipped.

Balance Adjustments
MP-40 (Submachine Gun)
Decreased damage range.

Attachments

Bug Fixes
Proficiency (Sniper Rifles)
Addressed an issue that sometimes resulted in game disconnect while aiming down sights with the Quickscope Proficiency and the Hardscope Proficiency.

Killstreaks

Bug Fixes
Counter-Spy Plane (4 Killstreak)
No longer prevents the V-2 Rocket (25 Killstreak) from being used.
Mortar Strike (5 Killstreak)
Addressed a graphical issue which caused smoke and fire effects to populate more than once.
Bombing Run (7 Killstreak)
Server Snapshot Error should no longer occur when using Bombing Run

Balance Adjustments
Spy Plane (4 Killstreak)
Enters and exits the play space significantly faster, making it more vulnerable to being destroyed.
Counter-Spy Plane (4 Killstreak)
Enters and exits the play space significantly faster, making it more vulnerable to being destroyed.
Bombing Run (7 Killstreak)
Improvements to the flight path determination logic to further avoid damaging the player who called it in.
Decreased damage and damage radius of bombs.
Attack Dogs (10 Killstreak)
Added an audio cue to further communicate the position of a nearby Attack Dog.

Equipment

Bug Fixes
Incendiary Grenade
Addressed a graphical issue which caused smoke and fire effects to populate more than once.

Operators

Bug Fixes
Addressed a typo in Anna’s biography to reflect setting accuracy.

Challenges

Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that prevented the Field Specialist challenge from progressing.
Addressed an issue which prevented “... kills while moving” challenges from progressing under certain circumstances.

Modes
Combat Pacing is now available for Hardcore modes in Quick Play.

Bundles

Bug Fixes
Motherland
The correct Calling Card “Food Ration” has been granted to players who purchased this Bundle.
Bayou Bruiser
The correct Padmavati Calling Card has been granted to players who purchased this Bundle.

Sledgehammer Games Retweeted
Call of Duty
@CallofDuty

Incoming: more Max 2XP
...and to show our appreciation we’re extending Max 2XP for another week.
Let's keep the party going

Today @ 19:56

Sledgehammer Games@SHGames❗️
We've temporarily removed Kill Confirmed from rotation in all playlists in #Vanguard while investigating an issue resulting in server disconnect errors.

We'll provide an update once this issue has been resolved.

3rd March update:

MULTIPLAYER

Maps
Casablanca

Fixed an issue where players would sometimes spawn near enemies in the Patrol mode.
Casablanca has returned to the map rotation in Patrol playlists.

Modes
Ranked Beta
Intuition Perk and Marksman Rifles will now appear as Restricted items in pre-match Create-a-Class in Ranked Play.

Champion Hill
Fixed an issue causing a “Lost Connection to Host” error message when attempting to load the Champion Hill - Solo mode in Private Match.

Attachments
Gung-Ho (Proficiency)
Decreased weapon sprint-out times.

Equipment
Gammon Bomb
Decreased explosive damage and explosion radius in Hardcore modes.

Perks
Fortified
Fully-healed players equipped with the Fortified Perk can no longer survive being stuck with a Sticky Bomb.

Killstreak
Spy Plane and Counter-Spy Plane
Decreased cruise speed.

Bundles & MTX
Year of the Tiger Bundle
The “Arrival of Luck” Weapon Charm has received an animation pass to improve physics and overall appearance.

Death Bite Pro Pack
Roland’s “Toxic Run” Operator Skin will no longer appear multiple times in the Customization menu.