Call Of Duty Removes Armor-Piercing Effects From…Armor-Piercing Ammunition - Kotaku

Yesterday, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 got their latest patch. The notes bespeak the accustomed tweaks and bug fixes 1 expects of semipermanent live-service games, but 1 alteration to limb ammo has fans scratching their heads. Armor-piercing ammunition, it seems, nary longer (checks spot notes) pierces armor.

As expected, Call of Duty has a ton of guns for players to equip and customize. Sights, stocks, barrels, it’s each there, including ammunition. Given that Warzone successful peculiar often sees players wearing armor, carrying armor-piercing ammo into the tract has proven an fantabulous endurance aid (especially successful the DMZ). But based connected the latest spot notes, the “damage multiplier against armored opponents” has been wholly removed. Now, specified ammo volition lone bash other harm against vehicles.

Fans of the gritty war-crime simulator are pointing retired the obvious: It’s unusual to region a diagnostic thing is named after…and past support the aforesaid name. “It’s present conscionable Ammo💀” one Redditor commented connected a thread calling retired the antithetic shuffle successful ammo stats. As galore constituent out, enjoying a harm bonus against armored foes seemed a just commercialized for the instrumentality slot the armor-piercing ammo consumed. “If idiosyncratic wants to usage an attachment slot connected AP ammo they should get much than a niche payment from it,” reads 1 specified comment.

Others are taking the accidental to gag astir a modification that nary longer does what its statement says. “In the adjacent update: High Velocity Ammo present moves slower. Incendiary Ammo present applies freeze,” snarked one.

But it’s not each jokes. Some are wondering however this impacts force AI, peculiarly successful the game’s caller DMZ mode, which sometimes puts you up against ample numbers of precise well-armored AI. “So present it’s misleading by its name, and with however galore armored enemies that DMZ throws astatine you, you’re gonna tally retired of ammo adjacent faster” a Redditor commented. “It should astatine slightest assistance you against armored DMZ AI opponents?” suggested another. “If [it] lone helps with vehicles, past it shouldn’t person immoderate negatives astatine all.”

Kotaku has reached retired to Activision for specifics regarding what crippled modes this alteration affects.

It’s not each antagonistic changes successful the latest update, however. Various weapons saw tweaks to ADS speed, recoil, and slug spread. And a clump of bugs successful the UI, progression, and directional audio were squashed. In what is hopefully a motion of much improvements to come, navigating the camo conception has been improved, with caller controller bumper navigation and a toggle to show/hide locked camos. Modern Warfare II’s paper strategy can beryllium earnestly confusing, and each the horizontal scrolling doesn’t help. This is simply a measurement successful the close absorption for sure.