Warzone devs silently nerf non-Vanguard guns with controversial bloom feature ActivisionCall of Duty: Warzone fans were disappointed to discover a secret change to the game\u2019s weapon balancing, as TrueGameData revealed that non-Vanguard guns, like Black Ops Cold War\u2019s Stoner, have been nerfed by bullet bloom. When Vanguard launched in early-December, Warzone players were as excited as can be to check out new guns on a new map in the Pacific. As they began dropping into Caldera, though, they learned that a troubling mechanic had been added to the game. Essentially, Vanguard guns had \u201cbloom,\u201d which is a classic shooting mechanic, but one that was new to CoD. Different guns and attachments could affect it, but basically \u2013 bloom made it so that your gun had bullet spread and might not always hit where your crosshair aimed. Warzone streamers were delighted about the decision to remove bloom from the battle royale in mid-December. Now, they\u2019re finding out that it has instead secretly been added to some non-Vanguard guns. Warzone silently adds bloom to Black Ops Cold War weapons (For mobile users, segment begins at 5:11) As TrueGameData explains, some of BOCW\u2019s guns have somehow been given \u201cADS spread\u201d (or \u201cbloom\u201d) in Warzone. This is surprising, as those guns don\u2019t natively have the feature in their original game and have never had it in Warzone before. According to his tests, the two weapons most impacted by this change are the Stoner 63 and MG82. Looking at the Stoner in particular, bullets appear to now land well apart from the crosshair placement \u2013 a departure from the gun\u2019s former accuracy. TGD eased concerns by confirming that only the aforementioned two BOCW weapons seem to be impacted by the new bloom. Still, the finding is troubling. While he tested nearly all BOCW and Vanguard weapons, he was only able to test six Modern Warfare weapons. With most players playing Vanguard-only modes, this isn\u2019t necessarily a problem right now, but the implications have worried a number of players. In a number of Twitter replies, people are confused by the decision to silently change older guns\u2019 mechanics. While some believe it\u2019s simply a \u201cbug,\u201d others have speculated that this is a \u201cdeliberate move\u201d to make people buy Vanguard blueprints instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone devs silently nerf non-Vanguard guns with controversial bloom feature ActivisionCall of Duty: Warzone fans were disappointed to discover a secret change to the game\u2019s weapon balancing, as TrueGameData revealed that non-Vanguard guns, like Black Ops Cold War\u2019s Stoner, have been nerfed by bullet bloom. When Vanguard launched in early-December, Warzone players were as excited […]<\/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-33207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207","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=33207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}