The Call of Duty 4 title update for the Xbox 360 is now live. Fresh out of internal testing and recently stamped with a Microsoft Certification, the new feature patch contains lots of new stuff including Kill Cams and Host Migration.

This news courtesy of Infinity Ward’s Communication Relations Manager via the Infinity Ward forums. When you sign into Xbox Live with COD4 you will receive a prompt for it. The PS3 version of the patch is “currently finishing up it’s final internal testing and should be heading off to Sony for it’s own certification in the near future.”



Kill Cams and Host Migration

New Kill Cams mean that you can see how you got hit. Everything has a Kill Cam including grenades, airstrikes, claymores, C4, M203 rounds and RPGs. Host Migration was added so when a host leaves you will no longer be dropped back to your lobby by yourself but everyone will stay together in the lobby, a new host will be assigned and the game will start up again. This will optimize online play all around because re-inviting and re-joining because a host leaves will become a thing of the past.

Sniper Rifle and ACOG Scope Accuracy have both been improved. Your sniper crosshair will better represent where the shot will land and ACOG scopes accuracy on any weapon has been improved. An upgraded Spectator Cam means that you can switch to third person or first person view when you are a spectator in spectator mode. You can also rotate the camera 360 degrees around the player you are watching.


Quick mute and additional features

Players can quick mute players with the new Quick Mute Option. Simply access the scoreboard in-game if playing or go to the player’s gamertag in the lobby and push ‘A’ to quick mute. The new patch will also ensure that players have improved and smoother network performance for larger games since more bandwidth is required to host 18 player games. There is also optimized server selection for your first match which will select the best bandwidth servers associated by LSP.

Players will no longer get the ‘Playlist older than host’ error when entering games as this has been fixed. Finally additional start spawn locations have been added in all maps, a minimum of nine extra start spawns on each side of all maps to be exact.

New playlists are also on the cards so stay close to keep posted.

Contributor: Lisa