CoD Warzone and Black Ops – Cold War get their traditional weekly update this Thursday.
It’s Thursday once again and that means that it is update day for Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops: Cold War and there are more store items, new playlists and a double weapon XP event set to take up much of our time over the weekend.
Now we are past the midway point of Call of Duty Season 4, the fun does not look set to slow down with more big updates send to land over the next few weeks.
But when will the CoD update drop this week, and what exactly will it change in Warzone and Cold War? Read on for all the details.
CoD update release date and time: What time does the weekly update drop on 29th July?
The Thursday playlist changes for CoD fans almost always take place at 6pm UK time, with this week’s instalment expected to drop at that exact time on Thursday 29th July 2021. It should be a nice little early evening treat, then. Maybe you can squeeze in a game before dinner?
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Patch notes: What’s new in the 29th July CoD update?
We are still waiting on the patch notes for this week, which normally come from a new post on the Activision Weekly Briefing blog, but we have been able to find at least some of what is coming for the update this week.
For starters, we have the latest Gunfight tournament kicking off today and we are already looking forward to jumping back into that. And from tomorrow, July 30th, we have Double Weapon XP running in both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone. Discounted Battle Pass tiers are also due but we are still waiting to hear more information about them.
New playlists and modes in Call of Duty Season 4
Only a couple of changes on the playlist front this week with Combined Arms 24/7 returning to Black Ops Cold War while 3v3 Gunfight Snipers Only is coming in to replace Gunfight Blueprints.
New CoD store bundles
And in terms of what’s going on in the store, this is the latest intel we’ve gathered on that front:
- Tracer Pack: Weaver Operator Bundle that contains Grigori Weaver as a playable operator along with three legendary weapon blueprints and the Krossbow Kollector special weapon.
- Tracer Pack: Firestorm Maxis Mastercraft Bundle: Contains the ultra rarity Phoenix Inferno assault rifle mastercraft and the legendary rarity Firebrand pistol. But that is not all as you also get Maxis Heat Seeker skin, wrist accessory, dirt bike vehicle skin, an animated calling card, animated emblem, and a charm – not a bad eight-item bundle this!
- Magma Fury Bundle: Contains Knight’s ultra rarity Magma operator skin along with three legendary weapon blueprints, a wrist accessory, vehicle skin, emblem, and the Optical Illusion finishing move.
How to fix slow download speeds with the CoD update
As ever, with all of these CoD updates flying around, servers may struggle and our home internet networks could feel the strain. If your update seems to be taking ages to download, try the usual tips: cancel or pause any other downloads and streams; move as close to your Wifi router as possible, and connect up to it with an ethernet cable if you can. Hopefully, that will speed things up, and you’ll be playing the latest version of CoD in no time.
In other CoD news, the rumours are intensifying around Call of Duty: Vanguard, which is rumoured to be the next WW2-themed game in the series. More on that as we hear it…
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