On December 5, 2018 Treyarch released a patch for Call of Duty Black Ops 4. The patch focuses mostly on current in-game issues that players have been experiencing. The patch has fixed a lot of issues related to challenges not unlocking, challenge cards disappearing, and zombies challenges not being rewarded. Along with the bug fixes the patch includes some scorestreak updates.

Black Ops 4 December 5th Patch Notes

Patch Notes Summary

• K9-Unit pathing improvement

• RC-XD and Dart targeting update

• Zombies update for Aim Assist and Deadshot Dealer

• CWL Custom Game fixes

• Challenge fixes for “Got Rocks” and “Bring the Pain”

• Stability fixes in MP, Zombies, and Specialist HQ

• Zombies fixes for cutscene skipping and Bowie Knife Prestige on PC

Full Patch Notes

ALL PLATFORMS

Multiplayer

• Specialists

  • Updated Nomad’s K9-Unit AI to address an issue that prevented Juneau from pathing to enemies under certain circumstances.

• Scorestreaks

  • RC-XD

    • Targeting diamond now only displays for enemies in line of sight.

  • Dart

    • Targeting diamond now only displays for enemies in line of sight.

• Challenges

  • “Bring the Pain” Challenge now properly only tracks EKIAs with Operator Mods on the Saug 9mm, MOG 12, Mozu, and VKM 750.

• CWL Custom Games

  • Fixed an issue with displaying friendly name and health UI after the player died in the first round of CWL Search and Destroy.

  • Closed an exploit that could allow players to spectate the enemy team while playing CWL Control.

• Stability

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a Custom Game with Bots and Custom Classes disabled.

Zombies

• Gameplay

  • Addressed an issue where Aim Assist and Deadshot Dealer were not functioning properly for players who were not the host.

• Stability

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when activating DEFCON switches in Classified.

General

• Global Challenges

  • “Got Rocks” Challenge now properly tracks launcher kills in Blackout and Zombies, and should restore lost progress since this week’s 1.08 update.

• Specialist HQ

  • Fixed a crash that could occur during Ajax’s Combat Training.

PC

In addition to the changes above, we’ve also made the following changes on PC in version 265.45(57).16.0.33.0.24825:

Zombies

• Miscellaneous

  • Restored the ability to skip Zombies cutscenes.

  • Players can now Prestige the Bowie Knife in Zombies.