Modern Warfare 3 April 16 patch notes

The Modern Warfare 3 developers implement frequent updates to keep the game fresh with new content, and the Season 3 update brought guns like the MORS Sniper and Gladiator melee.

Now, a new update patch is live, bringing weapon buffs, progression changes, and bug fixes. Here are all of the details from MW3’s April 16 patch.

April 16 MW3 patch notes

Weapons & Attachments

Assault Rifles

• MTZ-556: Increased bullet velocity from 650m/s to 690m/s (+6%).
• Holger 556: Adjusted recoil and gun kick to decrease deviation, allowing a more predictable pattern.
• M16 (MWII): Decreased horizontal and vertical recoil by 20%, decreased gun kick by 20%, and decreased visual recoil by 18%.

Submachine Guns

• RAM-9: Decreased minimum and maximum hipfire accuracy by 10% while also increasing aim down sight time from 200ms to 220ms (+10%).
• Striker 9: Removed the ability to aim down sights while sliding without Tactical Pads equipped.
• Striker: Decreased aim down sight time from 215ms to 204ms (-5%) and increased bullet velocity from 540m/s to 570m/s (+6%).
• WSP Swarm: Decreased flinch resistance from 0.8N to 0.15N (-81%).

Shotguns

• Haymaker (JAK Maglift Kit): Decreased damage pellet count from 5 to 4 (-20%), near-medium damage from 20 to 19 (-5%), and near-medium damage range to 6.4m.

Sniper Rifles

• MORS: Corrected an optic misalignment causing shots to travel slightly off-center.

Attachments

• MORS Hexer Optic: Removed aim down sight speed benefit.
• ECS Requieter Suppressor Muzzle: Added compatibility with all MWII Submachine Guns.

Equipment

• EMD Grenade (Tactical): Tracking device will now ignore enemies who are downed. Downed players now must stand before removing the tracking device.
• Frag Grenade (Lethal): Increased intermediate explosive damage from 130 to 150 (+15%) and Decreased intermediate explosive damage radius from 4.9m to 3.8m (-22%).

Killstreaks

• Remote Turret: Player is no longer forcibly swapped to their Primary Weapon upon the destruction of an owned turret.

Ranked Play

Weapon Evaluation

• Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, and the Call of Duty League are excited to share that we will begin a Weapon Evaluation this week after the success of our previous Map Evaluation.
• Starting April 16th, the following weapons will be unrestricted and available in MWII Ranked Play loadouts until April 23rd.
• Assault Rifles:
• BP50
• Holger 556
• MTZ-556
• SMGs:
• HRM-9
• RAM-9

UIX

• Maps widget in the Quick Play menu can now be scrolled to view all entries.
• MORS Sniper Rifle will now display the correct icon in the kill feed.
• Emblems unlocked in MWII will now be stated as such in the Customization menu.
• Addressed various issues causing certain stats to not be tracked on the Scoreboard in COD Caster mode.
• Resolved an issue causing the score to appear as 0–0 during the round transition in Gunfight and Search and Destroy.
• Editing a Loadout during a match will no longer cause the player to be given an incorrect Loadout.

Progression

• Executing a player with the Soulrender will no longer grant more XP than a standard Finishing Move.
• Resolved an issue preventing the Winner’s Perks Challenge from tracking progress.

Bug Fixes

• Addressed an issue that prevented a limited number of players from accessing MWIII Ranked Play.
• Addressed an issue that prevented Platinum and above players from being able to view their Seasonal Rewards.
• Addressed an issue that impacted the Seattle Surge 2024 camo pattern.
• Players will now see the correct lightning pattern as shown in the Camo select menu.