Modern Warfare & Warzone update nerfs Akimbo .357 pistols: patch notes Infinity Ward \/ YouTube – ChrisBeBallinInfinity Ward have rolled out a new update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on May 7 \u2013 one that\u2019s finally nerfed the highly-overpowered .357 Snake Shot pistols that had been terrorizing Warzone in recent weeks. On its own, the .357 handgun is one of the worst guns in Modern Warfare, but when equipped with the Akimbo weapon perk and Snake Shot attachment, the dual wield became arguably the strongest setup we\u2019ve seen so far in Warzone. However, those days might now be in the past, as Infinity Ward released a patch on May 7 that implemented a \u201cdamage rebalance\u201d to the Snake Shot aspect of the pistol. While the exact details of these balancing changes were not revealed, expect the magnums to no longer pack the same punch, especially since the patch also addressed a bug that was causing the Snake Shots to do too much damage at long-range. Read More: Best Grau loadouts & attachments for Warzone – On the flip side, IW did reduce the fire delay on both the Lightweight and Match Grade trigger attachments on the .357s, which means that they could be shot at a faster rate. Watch: The Upset That Created One of CoD\u2019s Greatest Dynasties One other important note is that this patch has tuned the smoke challenges to be \u201ca bit more forgiving,\u201d so the recently-added Bruen MK9 LMG should be a lot easier to unlock. Modern Warfare & Warzone May 7 update patch notes Tuning all smoke challenges to be a bit more forgiving. This includes the challenge to unlock the Bruen MK9 – Fix to help prevent vehicle exploits – Various exploit fixes, including Ground War Infected – GameBattles: Fix for a few issues where players might not be able to join a new match – Reduced fire delay on the Lightweight and Match Grade trigger attachments on all .357 calibers – .357 Snake Shot damage rebalance – Fixed a bug where the damage on the .357 Snake Shot was too high at longer distances – Now the question becomes whether or not the Akimbo .357 Snake Shot setup is still viable in multiplayer and Warzone, which only time will tell at this point. Early reactions to Infinity Ward\u2019s announcement suggested that the guns still get a lot of one-shot kills, so if they\u2019re still reliable enough, players will undoubtedly be hesitant to move away from them. Read More: How to climb the Dam in Warzone – However, if they\u2019re no longer great, then there\u2019s speculation that the meta could shift towards the Akimbo Renetti, the free new pistol in MW that was added at the start of Season 3. There\u2019s also a chance we could see the Akimbo handgun trend get largely abandoned following this update; a lot of people won\u2019t mind going back to the meta-strategy of using the MP7 or MP5 as a secondary since both SMGs still shred in Warzone. As always, make sure to follow us on Twitter @DexertoINTEL for all the latest Modern Warfare and Warzone news, updates, guides, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Modern Warfare & Warzone update nerfs Akimbo .357 pistols: patch notes Infinity Ward \/ YouTube – ChrisBeBallinInfinity Ward have rolled out a new update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on May 7 \u2013 one that\u2019s finally nerfed the highly-overpowered .357 Snake Shot pistols that had been terrorizing Warzone in recent weeks. On its own, […]<\/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-29346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29346","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=29346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}