Activision's Call of Duty franchise is one of the most critically acclaimed series of shooters. Even though it failed to impress a lot of people with its first titles, when CoD 4: Modern Warfare arrived, the success was mind blowing.

Then, CoD: World at War became hugely popular even though it went back to World War II. Its intense action and cooperative Nazi Zombie mode made it sell quite a lot of copies all around the world and dominate the charts for a long time.

We've just received word from developer Treyarch that patch 1.5 for the PC version of World at War would arrive soon enough and that it promises to fix a lot of things, both for the game and for the modders who want to create new experiences using the standard game.

Here are some of the things that the patch will be comprised of, as found on the Call of Duty forums:

-CO-OP hosts can now kick players from their lobby
-Improved dog spawning in MP
-Addressed an issue with Zombie pathing
-Fixed an instance of the player model displaying incorrectly
-Some unhandled exception errors have been addressed
-Improved server browser’s refresh functionality when the Source is set to ‘Favorites’
-Added support for CODTV
-“cg_DrawFPS 1” now only displays FPS and cg ms/frame
-Added RCon command "teamstatus" to display players’ team information
-Mods: Added joinsquad script function
-Mods: Players can now join CO-OP lobbies that are hosting map names with more than eighteen characters
-Mods: Users can now load custom maps when the usermaps folder contains fifty or more custom maps
-Mods: Removed the loading of duplicate assets that contributed to the ‘2048 materials’ error
-Mods: Increased the amount of mods displayable in the Mods menu
-Mods: Fixed a crash related to the mod.arena file.

Also, the post revealed that the team was working on bringing Map Pack 2 on the PC, “Finally, we are continuing to work on support for Map Pack 2 on the PC. I have no specific information to provide on this yet, but I will update the community when there are more details.”

All in all, patch 1.5 promises a lot of interesting things for World at War players but until it is released, you'll still have to play the game as it is now.