Drift0r explains why Modern Warfare stealth patches are \u201cunhealthy\u201d for CoD Popular Call of Duty YouTuber Brad \u2018Drift0r\u2019 Overbey has criticized developers Infinity Ward for a number of \u2018stealth patches\u2019 they have made to Modern Warfare, without informing players. Since Modern Warfare\u2019s October 25 release, fans have quickly identified issues they want to see adjusted. Among other things, Infinity Ward\u2019s communication \u2013 or lack thereof \u2013 has been criticized as insufficient. They have remained almost entirely silent as fans have debated skill-based matchmaking. However, they are facing renewed criticism since, at the start of December, it became apparent that Infinity Ward had been omitting details from Modern Warfare\u2019s patch notes. In an \u2018in-depth\u2019 video on December 31, Drift0r provided his thoughts on the situation. He makes it clear pretty early on that while most of his in-depth videos are guided completely by statistics, this is his subjective take on Infinity Ward\u2019s behavior. \u201cIt is a fact that Infinity Ward has been stealth nerfing, stealth buffing and patching various things in Modern Warfare,\u201d he explained. \u201cAs of now, I know for a fact the skeleton stocks got nerfed and slightly reworked, LMGS as a whole got a nerf\u2026 the FAL fire rate got a nerf.\u201d The list continued, but Drift0r claimed he\u2019s not bothered about the changes themselves, but that \u201cnone of these changes were in the patch notes \u2013 ever\u201d. \u201cHow are we, the gamers, supposed to know what\u2019s good or bad with all these hidden changes?\u201d he asked. \u201cHow can you at home know whether your weapon\u2019s changed or not?\u201d Overbey went onto explain that fans will speculate about what they\u2019re doing wrong when their go-to weapons do not perform as expected. They added: \u201cYou\u2019ll think \u2018have I forgotten how to aim?\u2019\u201d He also stated that the kind of \u201cirritating\u201d stealth patches Infinity Ward are using leads to a \u201cgeneral resentment\u201d from the CoD community. Drift0r finished up by describing how difficult it makes his \u2018in-depth\u2019 videos. While his statistics and weapon profiles are accurate at the time of recording, by the time he comes to upload the video, the weapon\u2019s stats may have changed, unbeknownst to him and to CoD community. Read More: Best Call of Duty games of the decade – Infinity Ward\u2019s insistence on stealth patches is a new step for Call of Duty, and does not seem to be particularly popular in the CoD community. Fortnite Chapter 2 developers Epic Games have stopped publishing patch notes altogether, supposedly to reduce the influence they have on player decisions. While that seems the most likely reason behind Infinity Ward\u2019s decision, the lack of information seems to be frustrating both Drift0r and the wider CoD fan base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drift0r explains why Modern Warfare stealth patches are \u201cunhealthy\u201d for CoD Popular Call of Duty YouTuber Brad \u2018Drift0r\u2019 Overbey has criticized developers Infinity Ward for a number of \u2018stealth patches\u2019 they have made to Modern Warfare, without informing players. Since Modern Warfare\u2019s October 25 release, fans have quickly identified issues they want to see adjusted. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}