Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Ghost Perk Receives Crucial Update

The Evolution of Ghost Perk in Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's popular Ghost perk received a crucial change in the game's newest update by extending the period that players can remain stationary before losing the perk's benefits. Modern Warfare 3 fans are likely happy to know that they can now remain hidden from enemy UAVs without having to be constantly moving.

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Throughout the franchise's history, Call of Duty has offered a wide range of powerful perks, but none have proved to be more enduring than Ghost. This perk allows players to remain hidden from enemy UAVs, but in an effort to discourage camping, some Call of Duty titles have required the player to be moving for the perk to be active. Modern Warfare 3 is the latest Call of Duty game to implement this tweak. However, the problem was that this was punishing aggressive players as well, since strafing, in addition to other actions, could cause Ghost users to appear on UAVs due to a momentary loss of movement. It seems that Modern Warfare 3's developers have solved this issue.

Following the December 14 update, Ghost users can now be stationary for up to two seconds before losing the perk's UAV-blocking effects. This seems to be a good middle ground for the perk, as players will still be discouraged from camping, while also not punishing aggressive players for strafing or briefly standing still. Ghost was already a widely used perk, and now it will likely be even more popular.

Other Changes in the Update

The recent Modern Warfare 3 update introduced other changes as well, including score-limit adjustments to Team Deathmatch and Kill Confirmed on smaller maps, the removal of a Ray Gun exploit in multiplayer, and a tweak to the breacher drone which was suffering from a common glitch. On the Warzone side of things, this update rebalanced 11 guns for the battle royale.

Previously, Modern Warfare 3's Season 1 update introduced a trio of new maps for players to enjoy. These include two 6v6 maps, Meat and Rio, as well as one 2v2 map, Training Facility. Fans of Modern Warfare's beloved 2v2 Gunfight mode were relieved to see the game mode finally return to Modern Warfare 3, bringing with it an assortment of 2v2 maps from previous Modern Warfares. Before the Season 1 update, all maps in Modern Warfare 3 were recycled maps from 2009's Modern Warfare 2, other than the War mode's lone Operation Spearhead map.

Future Additions and Expectations

Later in Season 1, the game will receive more additions such as Ranked Play, Modern Warfare 3's new Vortex mode, Team Gunfight, Infected, and more. Although Modern Warfare 3 didn't sell as well as last year's Modern Warfare 2, fans can expect Sledgehammer Studios to add more content until the next Call of Duty is released.