Gives advantages in terms of expanded asset counts for several important things, increasing map compatibility greatly even for big mods. Dont know anything about additional sound formats since that would require compiling in decoders and such. Some of which would have licensing problems. Activision got rid of mp3 decoders, which cost them a lot of money, because of that reason and went with open source. And of course greater anti-cheat protection.
In any case, the main reason for the update was the loss of their domain extension and change to ovh. Requiring both cod4x servers and all clients that use it to update. The older clients still look for the update servers with the old domain extension.
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Smiley reacted to Sammy in COD4 Patch 20.5 / 21.1