'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Patch 1.094 Goes Live
A new update for *Call of Duty: Black Ops 7*, patch 1.094, is now live. The patch introduces new content and makes adjustments to the game's meta for both multiplayer and zombies modes. Players are advised to adapt their loadouts for long-range engagements in Warzone following the update.
- *Call of Duty: Black Ops 7* was co-developed by Treyarch and Raven Software and released on November 14, 2025. Its development occurred in parallel with 2024's *Black Ops 6*. - The title is the franchise's worst-performing entry since 2008, finishing as the fifth best-selling game of 2025 in the US behind competitors like *Battlefield 6*. In Europe, its opening week sales were 63% lower than *Battlefield 6*. - Player reception for *Black Ops 7* has been largely negative, leading to review bombing on Metacritic, with criticism aimed at the campaign and the use of generative AI for in-game assets. - Patch 1.094 is primarily a maintenance update focused on competitive integrity; it corrects an issue allowing the use of restricted "Gunfighter" and "Overkill" Wildcards in Ranked Play and fixes a bug that stopped weapons from firing during an automatic reload. - The patch also fully restricts the RC-XD scorestreak in all Ranked Play modes, a change following player feedback on the item's inclusion in competitive loadouts. - This update follows the larger Season 2 patch, which introduced new weapons like the REV-46 SMG and EGRT-17 assault rifle, added new multiplayer maps such as "Torment" and "Sake," and saw the return of the "Safeguard" game mode. - Prior balancing efforts have focused on addressing the meta, with nerfs to dominant assault rifles like the M15 MOD 0 and Maddox RFB to make them less effective at longer ranges, while improving the mid-range performance of several SMGs.
