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After continuously delaying the release date, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 3 has finally confirmed the final release date. At the same time, the news of the return of the best map Firing Range was also announced.

Release Time

The release timeline of the third season can be described as twists and turns. CoD BO6 Season 3 was originally scheduled to be launched on March 20, but was later postponed to April 3. The developer said that the need for more development time was the main reason for the delay.

Now CoD Black Ops 6 has revised these plans again, confirming that the release date will be advanced to April 2. This time, the reason for the change was not clearly given. Perhaps it was because the urgent needs of players made them speed up the development? We don’t know the specific reasons. But we guess that several main factors may have prompted them to make this arrangement.

First, April 2nd was the tail end of the Spring Festival holiday, and the launch at this time might be aimed at the peak traffic of student players;

Secondly, this arrangement can also avoid the release of other hot games in the same week, ensuring that the market‘s attention will not be diverted.

Compensation Measures

In addition, in order to calm players’ dissatisfaction with the frequent changes in the release time of the third season, the developer also launched two compensation measures.

• Use one day earlier than originally planned as a free trial.
• Kilo 141 assault rifle is unlocked for free: you can get it by logging into the game during the offline maintenance of Warzone server.

If you haven't learned about this weapon in advance, you can practice more in CoD: Black Ops 6 Bot Lobbies after obtaining it to ensure that you can perform at your best in the game.

However, we still want to remind you. Players who are still hesitating need to pay special attention to the time, because the promotion on April 2nd is the shortest free trial period of the game so far-only 24 hours.

Firing Range Returns

In addition, there is news that has set off the player the classic multiplayer map Firing Range will return with the third season of BO6.

This map, which was born in the first generation of Black Ops, has become a tactical sandbox in the hearts of series players with its classic layout. This remake is not a simple renovation of the original, but a completely new reconstruction:

• Dynamic environmental destruction: Training dummies can be smashed to open up new paths, and the explosion of ammunition boxes will change the layout of bunkers.
• Omnidirectional Movement System adaptation: New, Wall Slide and Double Jump, allowing players to break through the traditional movement line vertically.
• Light and shadow technology upgrade: The real-time shadow system based on ray tracing strengthens the difference in indoor and outdoor vision, forcing players to adjust their tactical habits.

In the promotional clip of the remake of Firing Range, the official emphasized that they hope to let old players feel fresh challenges while retaining muscle memory.

This concept is also reflected in the newly added weapon test area in the northwest corner of the map. Players can pick up randomly refreshed prototype weapons and gain special abilities for a short time. This kind of design not only echoes the setting of the original military training ground but also injects variables into the fast-paced confrontation.

It is worth noting that the developer also hinted that iconic maps such as Nuketown or Summit may be remade in the future. Players in the community have found some clues and speculated that this may also foreshadow the return of Summit.

The release of Black Ops 6 Season 3 marks the middle of its life cycle. As the announcement of the new work in 2025 approaches, players generally speculate that the fourth season may become the transition season between the new and old works. But Season 3 is obviously an important update, and there is a lot of content worth looking forward to.

It is only the third month of 2025, but there are already some games in the game market that have excellent reputation and sales and can compete for “Game of the Year” award. Split Fiction, a two-player cooperative game developed by Hazelight Studio, has now won 98% of Steam’s favorable reviews. The sales volume exceeded 2 million in the first week, showing a strong momentum.

Split Fiction’s rich and imaginative level design is its core selling point. Nearly half a month after the game was released, some players finally discovered the hidden level of this game. And under the extremely stringent clearance conditions, two Chinese players completed the world’s first clearance in the live broadcast!

One of the players who cleared the hidden level, E1uM4y, is a speedrunner who once set a Ghostrunner record of 1 minute and 45 seconds, won first place in Black Myth: Wukong speedrunning competition with 4 hours and 30 minutes, and defeated Promised Consort Radahn without taking any damage in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree when his character was only level 1.

The unlocking condition of Split Fiction hidden level requires players to activate the mechanism by continuously stepping on the buttons on the ground in the elevator before fighting the boss in Chapter 6 of the game. The specific order is: right, right, left, left, right, left, right, right, right, left. You will see a string of mysterious numbers before entering the level, which is a hint about how to open this secret level. After entering the correct password, a hidden level consisting of 5 small levels will appear.

To be honest, the design of this hidden level itself is to test players. Therefore, without the various whimsical ideas in the main process, the protagonists of these five small levels are all red lasers. Players need to avoid laser damage by constantly moving and jumping. Since there are no save points in the middle, you have to start from the beginning if you fail.

When the player passes the hidden level, the figure of Split Fiction producer Josef will appear on the screen. While praising the player, he also gave a special reward. If someone meets him in real life and is the first to prove to him that he has passed this hidden level, he will take this person to the Swedish headquarters to visit their studio, the new work currently under development, and other surprises!

The person who first discovered the hidden level is certainly more advantageous. It was just that after trying, and they were unable to complete the challenge and chose to give up.

It is precisely because of the extremely high difficulty of the hidden level that players joke that this level is selecting “Pacific Rim” Mecha pilots. The two players who challenge this hidden level must not only have superb skills but also must cooperate very well. If there is any mistake, you have to start all over again.

Aside from the debut of the main enemy faction Illuminate, Helldivers 2 hasn’t released an official update with major new content in a few months, but that doesn’t mean other small patches aren’t worth paying attention to. At least one of the latest patches provides new upgrades to a competitive weapon, R-36 Eruptor.

As a shooting game, there is always no shortage of good weapons in Helldivers 2. Therefore, in order to ensure your gaming experience and to keep up with the evolution of weapons, in addition to launching new weapons on time, it is also necessary to upgrade old weapons in time to avoid them falling into a situation where no one cares about them. Based on this, we will introduce you to the new special features of R-36 Eruptor.

What Enhancements Has R-36 Eruptor Received?

For too long, R-36 Eruptor has been easily replaced by the more versatile explosive crossbow, but thanks to a new patch, R-36 Eruptor now has a full second longer range projectile life, up from 0.7 seconds previously. While this change may not seem like much at first glance, it means R-36 Eruptor’s armor penetration has been increased from Medium (3) to Heavy (4), which is enough for most fights.

R-36 Eruptor’s Current Superiority

An extremely useful tool, the fully upgraded R-36 Eruptor now performs even better against heavily armored elite foes, allowing it to take down tier 4 armored enemies like Termanid Charger and Automaton Hulk, as well as many more powerful opponents.

It is worth noting, however, that while this type of weapon enhancement brings some benefits, it also brings some new difficulties to Illuminate and Automaton fronts, most notably Automatons’ heavily armored transport ships, and Illuminate’s shielded warp ships, which may bring more tough shooting practice to the new and improved R-36 Eruptor.

In short, it is obviously more popular to enhance old weapons by adding patches to bring them up to the standards of new weapons or to be able to match powerful opponents rather than simply weakening them. If you have a renewed interest in R-36 Eruptor, then go and try it!

I believe everyone must be familiar with Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. As a popular shooting game, it has a large number of loyal fans around the world. But what has troubled some PC fans recently is that they can't enter Black Ops 6 after updating their computers.

Black Ops 6 Cannot Be Installed

Players found that the optional update KB5052093 released by Windows 11 in February will damage the game Black Ops 6, and will officially become a patch in March.

It is worth mentioning that another problem with this patch was discovered before, and Black Ops 6 could not be installed after the update. Although this vulnerability has been fixed now, it undoubtedly wasted players' time training skills and upgrading weapons in CoD: Black Ops 6 Bot Lobbies, so some players have complained about this vulnerability.

Black Ops 6 Cannot Start

Microsoft does not seem to realize the seriousness of the situation caused by the latest patch and pointed out that only a few players are complaining on Reddit. However, more and more players are starting to speak out that they are encountering new problems. Black Ops 6 cannot start properly, and the game freezes on Battle.net with a blue spinning circle when trying to load.

The easiest solution now is to delete KB5052093. In fact, all preview updates are more prone to errors than the official version released. But the more troublesome news is that this patch will officially become a full update for Windows 11 24H2 on March 11.

If Microsoft still does not fix the problem by March 11, there will be more complaining Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 players. But there is also good news. The problem of Black Ops 6 not being able to install after the update mentioned above has been solved.

Update Failure

At the same time, people found another problem, that is, update failure. After choosing to update, the loading stopped halfway and generated the common garbled error codes 0x800f0983 and 0x800f0993.

After receiving a large number of complaints from users, Microsoft began to face up to these problems. Microsoft said that they have withdrawn the patch and optimized it to prepare for the day when the official patch is released. We also hope that Microsoft can try its best to improve the performance of the patch and fix the faults.