Call of Duty: Vanguard brings back an overpowered feature from Modern Warfare 2 with various perks and weapon upgrades. With the right options, you can stab anything and anyone from absurd distances with the bayonet. You can find out what bizarre things this leads to here on MeinMMO!
This is how melee combat works: A natural law in shooters states that melee weapons should deal significantly more damage to compensate for their lack of range.
In CoD games, it is usually the case that a single blow or stab with a melee weapon instantly takes the opponent out of virtual life, while only the most powerful firearms allow such insta-kills from a distance.
Bizarre melee antics like in Modern Warfare 2
What’s so crazy about the bayonets? Although not realistic, this is in the interest of gameplay balance. However, in the multiplayer mode of Vanguard, you can not only stab people with the knife, but you also have the option to attach a bayonet to various rifles.
This, in turn, increases your range with the melee attack. Additionally, there’s a weapon upgrade called “Reach,” which further increases your range. This makes absurd attacks possible from dozens of meters away. Together with the perk “Lightweight,” you can dash across the map and stab enemies from long distances.
What does it look like in the game? The YouTuber Drift0r tried all of this, and the result is downright laughably absurd. He stands at the edge of the fountain in the Stalingrad map Red Star and jabs with the bayonet roughly in the direction of an opponent sitting several meters away on the fountain in the middle.
The result: The opponent falls dead, even though the bayonet shouldn’t have been able to reach him. Even more absurd is a scene where the opponent stands a whole floor above the player and is still simply stabbed.
This whole situation is taken even further when using the special ability “Bayonet Charge.” Then, your Operator runs wildly screaming with the bayonet, and anyone who gets in his way simply dies automatically.
What does this have to do with Modern Warfare 2? Drift0r compares this completely overpowered aspect with the perk “Commando Pro” from the old Modern Warfare 2 released in 2009. In that game, similarly absurd melee maneuvers were possible, and this has remained a joke and meme among CoD veterans to this day.
In one respect, however, this absurd stabbing fits well with the game: The campaign is also full of exaggerated pathos, over-the-top boom scenes, and insane opponents who storm into heavy gunfire with the bayonet: And I really like all of this about the campaign!
