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What is an average KD in Call of Duty: Warzone?

Kill to death ratio, or what is often referred to as KD, is one of the most popular stats when it comes to Call of Duty: Warzone, as many players wonder whether or not theirs is above or below average.

One of the most exciting aspects of Warzone is racking up large amounts of kills with your teammates on the way to securing a win. However, it is always in good fun to have bragging rights for who has the highest KD with the people you drop into Verdansk ’84 with.

With players often wondering if their KD is good or not, they look for what is considered to be an average Warzone KD and see where they stand when compared to it.

Average Warzone KD

Average Warzone KD

Players will find that the average Warzone KD is 1.00, meaning that a player with this stat gets one kill per death, which is not horrible for a battle royale game like Warzone, where you can get eliminated in the blink of an eye.

However, you may have a little less than a 1.00 and still not really be below average considering that deaths caused by eliminating yourself or a teammate crashing a helicopter count towards your KD even though the death was not caused by losing to an enemy player.

A Warzone KD significantly lower than 1.00, such as .75, is considered to be below average, while a KD above a 1.00 such as 1.5 to 2.0 is considered to be above average.

Some exceptional players will have KDs between 3 and 6 who are in the top 1% of players. These are often professional players or talented content creators and should not be compared to someone who plays casually.

Those interested in seeing where their KD stacks up against the rest of the community can either check in the game itself by heading to the Barracks and clicking on the kills option under Warzone by visiting a stats tracking website like COD Warzone Stats Tracker to see if theirs is above or below average.

 

 

Among Us coming to PS4, PS5 in 2021

 

A screenshot of Among Us with the Ratchet & Clank skin

Among Us launches later this year for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Sony said during its State of Play streaming event Thursday. The PlayStation versions will get an exclusive Ratchet & Clank skin when the title launches.

The social deduction game, which first launched in 2018 but shot to newfound popularity with the quarantine gaming conditions of 2020, launched on Nintendo Switch in December and was announced for Xbox One and Xbox Series X the same month, although those platforms likewise do not have a specific launch date.

In addition to the skin, players on PS4 and PS5 will also get cross-platform online multiplayer support.

Among Us, in which a crew of human players must root out the alien impostors who mean to sabotage their vessel, became so popular last year that the developers at InnerSloth put development of a sequel on hold, to avoid splitting up the player base.

 

Castlevania season 4 trailer promises to end the series with a bang

Netflix’s fourth and final season of Castlevania is coming to the streaming service on May 13, and based on a new trailer released Thursday, the animated series will pull out all the stops for the finale — both in terms of better-than-ever animation and the sheer amount of blood and gore.

As Sypha Belnades (Alejandra Reynoso) notes in the trailer, Castlevania season 4 is going back to “where it all started.” Putting an even finer point on it, Trevor Belmont (Richard Armitage) adds, “Everything has led us here.” The two will have to contend with an attempted resurrection of Count Dracula Vlad Tepes — Dracula for short — as Isaac and Hector spin up an army of night creatures. Alucard (James Callis) will be there too, but will also “struggle to embrace his humanity,” Netflix says.

Here’s Netflix’s official synopsis of season 4 of Castlevania:

Wallachia collapses into chaos as factions clash: some attempting to take control, others attempting to bring Dracula back from the dead. Nobody is who they seem, and nobody can be trusted. These are the end times.

Castlevania debuted on Netflix in 2017 with a four-episode season. Seasons 2 and 3 dropped in 2018 and 2020, respectively. The fourth and final season will run 10 episodes. According to a report from Deadline, Netflix is eying a new Castlevania series that will follow a different set of characters.

Apex Legends Season 9 patch notes: Arenas mode, new Legend, more

Apex Legends Season 9, Legacy, will go live on May 4, and the patch notes have been released for the coming update. Here’s everything that we know about, from the new Legend Valkyrie to the Arenas mode.

While there’s still some time left until the arrival of Apex Legends Season 9, there has been a ton of hype in the community as more upcoming content has been revealed, including the new Legend, Valkyrie, and Arenas mode.

There will also be various balancing changes for different Legends. The update will go live on May 4, and we’ve got the Apex Legends Season 9 patch notes.

Apex Legends Season 9 legacy patch notes

Apex Legends Season 9 Legacy update patch notes

New Mode: Arenas

A new 3v3 mode was previously leaked for Apex legends, and now we have confirmation that Arenas will arrive next season. This mode will feature custom-tailored maps, and a completely different playstyle from the battle royale.

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Here’s what’s been revealed about it in the patch notes:

  • Permanent 3v3 mode
  • 2 Custom maps:
    • Party Crasher: Mirage crashed into a downtown plaza
      Phaserunner: hidden experimental zone at the peak of a mountain
  • 3 BR-inspired locations
    • Artillery (KC), Golden Gardens, Thermal Plant
Apex Legends Season 9 Legacy Patch Notes

New Legend: Valkyrie

This is newest Legend to join battle royale’s roster. She’s the daughter of Titanfall 2’s Viper, and her abilities are based on Viper’s titan, Northstar.

  • Passive: VTOL Jets – Press Jump while in the air to engage jetpack. You can switch between hold and toggle in the options menu.
  • Tactical: Missile Swarm – Fire a swarm of mini-rockets which damage and disorient the enemy.
  • Ultimate: Skyward Dive – Press once to prepare for launch. Teammates can interact with Valkyrie to join the launch. Press again to launch into the air and skydive.
  • Class: Recon – Ability to scan beacons and reveal the next circle location.
Apex Legends Valkyrie

Olympus Map Changes

Respawn Entertainment teased some new map locations for Olympus, which was first introduced in Season 7. Now we know what will be included in the changes to this area when Season 9 goes live.

Here are all the confirmed map changes for Olympus:

  • Olympus has been over by a massive plant flown in by a mysterious aircraft, linked to Valkyrie’s entrance
  • Crossroads turned into the Icarus ship
  • On scientist corpses, there will be bridge keycards, which allow access to the best loot on the ship
  • 2 redeploy balloons have been removed – outside Golden Gardens and outside Orbital Cannon
Olympus map changes in Season 9

Legends

  • Low Profile removed: Wraith, Wattson and Lifeline will no longer take 5% more damage.

Fuse

  • Knuckle Cluster: Fuse now has two stacks of Knuckle Cluster. Reduced cooldown from 25s to 20s.

Lifeline

  • Combat Revive: No longer deploys a shield. Can now revive two players at the same time. Can now cancel active revives in progress to allow your teammate to defend themselves with their knockdown shield.
  • D.O.C. Heal Drone: Heal rate increased from 5hp per second to 8hp per second. Deployment time before healing begins reduced by roughly 33%.
  • Care Package: Cooldown reduced from 6 minutes to 5 minutes. Now guarantees an upgrade (if possible) in three categories: Body Shield, Other Equipment (Helmet, Backpack, and Knockdown Shield), and Weapon Attachment, based on your team’s current gear when the Package arrives.

Loba

  • Burglar’s Best Friend: Can now run and slide at full speed while aiming the bracelet and while the bracelet is in the air. Loba will no longer be slowed after translocating.
  • Fixed a lot of bugs that caused bracelet tosses to fail.
  • Black Market Boutique: Increased cooldown from 90s to 120s.

Octane

  • Stim: Reduced cooldown between stims from 4s to 1s. Increased health cost from 12hp to 20hp.
  • Increased bullet spread while in the air and shooting from the low Launch Pad trajectory.

Horizon

  • Gravity Lift: Reduced lift speed by 30%. Reduced side-to-side acceleration. Limited the time you can sit at the top of Gravity Lift to 2 seconds. Increased cooldown from 15s to 20s.
  • Horizon’s abilities will now get zapped by Wattson pylons.

Bangalore

  • Smoke Launcher: Thickened Bangalore’s smoke.

Bloodhound

  • No longer receives assists from Eye of the Allfather.

Crypto

  • Crypto’s drone can now scan and open care packages.
  • Can no longer use his drone to “hijack” a respawn beacon that’s already in use.

Weapons

New Weapon: Bocek Bow

The Bocek Bow is part of the Marksman Weapons class. As the name implies, you can use it to fire Arrows at your foes from a distance, and these can be retrieved after firing.

When fully drawn back, the bow will deal 70 damage to body, and 123 damage to the head.

Bocek Bow

New Hop Ups

Deadeye’s Tempo (Sentinel & Bocek Bow)

  • Description: Firing at the perfect moment increases fire rate

Shatter Caps (Bocek Bow & 30-30 Repeater)

  • Description: Rounds split into a blast pattern on firing

Care package weapons

  • Peacekeeper removed from care packages
  • Triple Take goes into care packages

Fully kitted weapons

  • Added: Wingman, Bocek, R99, Hemlock, and Sentinel
  • Removed: R301, 30-30 Repeater, Mozambique, Longbow DMR, and Spitfire
Apex Legends patch notes fully kitted

Peacekeeper

  • It comes with the Precision Choke by default, which can be toggled off
  • Pellet damage reduced from 10 to 9
  • Rechamber time increased from 0.9 seconds to 1.1 seconds
  • Reload times increased (regular from 2.45 to 2.5, empty from 3.35 to 3.5)
  • Pellet spread increased in general, and spread when charged increased for all charge levels (from 0.65/0.45/0.2 to 0.85/0.65/0.35)
  • Quickly loses charge after leaving ADS

Triple Take

  • As a crate weapon, it will come with a 9 ammo clip and 63 reserve ammo
  • Fire rate increased from 1.2 to 1.3
  • Time to full charge reduced from 1.1 seconds to 1 second
  • Retains charge briefly after leaving ADS
  • Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs
  • Increased spread while airborne and aiming down sights
Apex Legends patch notes triple take

Havoc

  • Increased recoil controllability early in the pattern

Spitfire

  • Reduced recoil controllability early in the pattern

30-30 Repeater

  • Increased leg damage multiplier from 0.75 to 0.85
  • Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs

G7 Scout

  • Move-speed while aiming down sights has been increased to match other marksman weapons — faster than snipers, slower than ARs
  • Increased hipfire spread size (reduced accuracy) to be more in line with other marksman weapons

Marksmen weapon category

  • Added new weapon category for the Triple Take, 30-30 Repeater, G7 Scout, and Bocek Bow.
Apex Legends patch notes marksmen class

Longbow & Wingman

  • Increased headshot multiplier from 2.0 to 2.15

Mozambique buff

  • Now has 6 shots
  • Moved the lower 2 pellets inward in the blast pattern

P2020

  • Increased bullet damage from 15 to 18
  • Lowered fire rate from 8.5 to 6.25

Assault Rifles

  • Reducing the headshot multiplier for all assault rifles from 2.0 to 1.75

Arc Stars

  • Aim and movement slow removed from the initial stick.

Spawn Loot

Apex Legends patch notes spawn loot

In Apex Legends Legacy, players will spawn in with a ‘starter kit’.

  • White Shield
  • White Knockdown Shield
  • White Helmet
  • 2x Sheild Cells
  • 2x Syringes

White gear has also been removed from the loot pool.

 

Ground Emotes

Ground Emotes added

  • Viewed in third person
  • Each legend has a default, Epic and Legendary Emote
  • Anti-peek system: Legends not in first-person view will not be visible when emoting.
Legacy emotes

Clubs

Club invites will now show which mode it’s for (BR, Ranked, Arenas), and how many players are in the party.

Challenges

  • One free reroll per day
  • Challenges are for both Arenas and BR
  • Can ‘favorite’ challenges to track them in-game

Ring update

  • Ring 4 pre-shrink time reduced from 2:00 to 1:45
  • Ring 4 shrink speed reduced from 33 second close time to 40 seconds
  • Ring 5 shrink speed reduced from 20 second close time to 40 seconds
  • Ring 6 pre-shrink time reduced from 1:30 to 1:00
  • Ring 6 shrink speed reduced from 1:40 close time to 2:00

Quality of life updates

  • Badges are now sorted by categories and can be filtered by “all” or “unlocked only”. This suggestion came directly from players.
  • When looting death boxes, players can now see health bars for everyone on the team.
  • Flight path adjustments: Removing edge dropship flight paths to prevent matches where large portions of the map receive little to no traffic. These screenshots show a before/after comparison of possible flight paths on Kings Canyon.
Apex Legends Legacy patch notes flight path
  • Players can now request better equipment by going into their inventory and pinging a piece of equipment.
  • Ranked: Fixed edge cases where an abandon penalty would be incorrectly applied due to server errors.

That covers just about everything on the Apex Legends Season 9: Legacy patch notes. For the bug fixes make sure you check out the official patch notes, and for more on Apex, check out our article on Valkyrie’s character trailer.

 

 

Roblox Game Adopt Me Is Launching An Easter Update, Weeks After Easter

Adopt Me, the cute animal game based in the Roblox platform, is getting an Easter-themed event–a few weeks after Easter. The update adds a new ultra-rare lamb pet, available now through May 13.

The timing isn’t a mistake, though. According to Entertainment Focus, Roblox Corp chose to release this update later in the month so as to avoid conflicting with a separate Ocean Eggs patch.

Aside from the little lamb, the update includes new accessories for your pets, avatar, and house. Those include egg-shaped sunglasses, a bunny ear crown, baby chick backpack, and a chick hat. You can take part in an Easter egg hunt to earn currency for purchasing the new accessories, and you can get a look at some of them in a trailer for the update.

Adopt Me is one of the more popular offshoots from Roblox, which functions as both a game and a creation platform. Roblox Corp, the parent company formed around the breakout hit, recently went public on the US stock exchange. It doesn’t appear to be profitable in itself yet, but the company says it is confident about its long-term prospects, especially given its success on mobile.

Warzone pros are not happy with teased CR-56 AMAX nerf

The most recent Warzone patch notes from Raven Software teased an upcoming nerf to the CR-56 AMAX Assault rifle, and top-tier players in the community were not happy to hear that the powerful weapon could soon be less effective.

Weapon balance has always been a major discussion point in the Warzone community, as there have been multiple weapons that have been much better than their counterparts and were the staple in loadouts such as the AUG, FFAR, Grau, Bruen, and more.

The CR-56 AMAX has always been an effective Assault Rifle no matter the meta in Warzone and has not seen any significant changes to its performance since it was added to the Call of Duty battle royale. However, a recent update from developer Raven Software has teased upcoming changes to the CR-56 AMAX, which has not sit well with some players.

CR-56 AMAX Warzone Nerf

Warzone CR-56 AMAX Nerf

In the patch notes for the April 28, 2021 update for Warzone, Raven Software gave the community a sneak peek that there will be upcoming balance changes to the CR-56 AMAX, Fara 83, and Bullfrog.

The reveal that upcoming changes would be coming to these weapons, especially the CR-56 AMAX, shocked plenty of players, as the high recoil of the CR-56 AMAX made it a higher-skilled weapon in most players’ eyes and not worthy of a nerf in any regard.

NRG JoeWo is known for his prowess with this Modern Warfare Assault Rifle, as he has gathered plenty of highlight clips of it over the game’s life, and he had a simple message for Raven Software regarding the teased nerf.

Jukeyz of the London Royal Ravens stated that he doesn’t understand how they can nerf the Assault Rifle when some players can not even control its recoil.

Considering most nerfs are applied to weapons that are overpowered and give lower-skilled players a greater boost than every other weapon in the game, it does seem fairly unusual that Raven would want to nerf the AMAX.

Jukeyz states that he believes the CR-56 AMAX is the most balanced weapon Warzone has ever had.

It remains to be seen what exactly this teased nerf from Raven Software will be for the popular Modern Warfare Assault Rifle, but there is no doubt that the community will have strong opinions regarding what the changes turn out to be.