BO7 Season 4 Reloaded Patch Notes: All Changes

Treyarch dropped the BO7 Season 4 Reloaded patch notes on June 25 and it's a bigger update than the usual mid-season cleanup. New weapons, new Zombies map, Nicolas Cage as an Operator, and enough balance tweaks to ruin at least three of your current loadouts. Here is what changed.

Multiplayer

Black Ops Classic is now permanent. change The throwback playlist, which strips modern movement and slows everything down to 2010 speeds, is no longer going away. Four maps: Launch, Fringe, Hacienda, and Gridlock: join its rotation. Team Blueprint Sharpshooter and Knife Fight also return as limited-time modes. The latter is free farming for melee camo challenges.

Treyarch is officially in "we're done rebalancing everything" mode. The Black Ops 7 weapon tuning philosophy from here: touch only the outliers, leave the middle 80% alone. Late lifecycle. They said so themselves.

Assault Rifles

ADS spread improvements added across all LMGs via multiple attachments: General Mobility Spread Muzzle (+7%), Tactical Spread Stock, Steady Aim Laser. The XM325 also gets reduced view kick and horizontal recoil. Not exciting. Still useful.

Marksman & Sniper

The LTI Stentorian Brake muzzle had its vertical recoil penalty removed and rate of fire improvement increased on most weapons. If you run it, re-test your builds.

New Weapons

Two new weapons in Black Ops 7 unlock through the Nick Cage Event Pass, free track:

• AN-94 Assault Rifle: Fully automatic. First two rounds fire faster. Slower handling.
• Executioner's Duet: Dual hatchets. High damage, short range, fast attack. 30 mastery camo levels, zero attachments.

Nicolas Cage Operator

Yes, this happened. Nicolas Cage joins Terry Crews and Dave Chappelle as a playable Nicolas Cage Call of Duty operator. The free track of his Event Pass gives you the AN-94, the Executioner's Duet, and some cosmetics. The paid track gets you Cage himself, plus the "Unlimited" animated skin. It has flames. The mask changes. Nobody asked for this. It exists anyway.

Zombies

The headliner is Kowakujo Zombies map: a feudal Japanese castle set near active volcanoes. It brings a new Wonder Weapon, a new enemy called the Oni (armored, spiked club, angry), the Ghost Rifleman Trap, and a new Easter egg. A legacy weapon also appears in the Mystery Box: the PPSh-41 SMG with full Pack-a-Punch progression and Ammo Mod support.

The Hellping Hound is a new Legendary GobbleGum. Summons a Hellhound that fights for 5 minutes. In Dead Ops Arcade it summons three. Because one was not enough.

Bug Fixes (Zombies)

All four existing maps: Totenreich, Paradox Junction, Astra Malorum, Ashes of the Damned: received collision fixes, visual cleanups, and mode-specific patches for Rogue Run, Cursed, Directed, and Survival. The Group 935 Genetic Lab cell door that refused to open after a save reload: fixed. Richtofen's Quest death scene missing zombies: fixed. GobbleGum issues, Pack-a-Punch KRS 7.62 problems: fixed.

Warzone

Rebirth Island gets a summer visual refresh. The new limited-time mode is Squad Gun Game: trios on Fortunes Keep, Havoc's Hollow, and Rebirth. Buyback Quads returns July 9–13.

Gameplay Changes

• Supply boxes disabled inside gas. All modes.
• Hot zones now can spawn a gas mask as ground loot. Rare enough to not matter most games.
• Legendary supply crate rates increased inside hot zones; slightly reduced outside. Go fight for them like an adult.
• Gulag wait times are now dynamic: 95s (circle 1), 65s (circle 2), 45s (circle 3+). Less sitting there doing nothing.
• RCXD replaces Smoke Screen in buy stations. Costs 4,000. Stock of one.

Ranked Play: The XR-3 Ion Vulcan Minigun underbarrel and DS20 Mirage Dual Fire Kit underbarrel are banned from Ranked while Raven evaluates their impact in standard play.

Warzone Weapon Buffs

The MK35 ISR got a real buff: damage 32 to 35, range increases across two tiers. The Sternwolf and VX Compact received range and damage increases. Most other adjustments were attachment-level only: grip and stock changes on the DS20 Mirage, MXR-7, and Voyak KT-3 (the gun got nerfed, but attachments improved, somehow).

Endgame

Operator Prestige is now live. Endgame Operators at max Combat Rating can Prestige: discarding skills and resetting CR in exchange for extra skill slots over three Prestige levels. The Operation King Killer activity launches a new objective chain targeting the Glitch Boss. Zursa pathing is fixed. Dr. Falkner no longer falls through the map. Restore Tokens now appear in loot.