In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War pro player Envoy has no regard for the submachine guns (SMGs). According to him, they are currently useless in the game and far inferior to the assault rifle class. You can find out why this is the case according to the pro here.
Who is Envoy? Dylan “Envoy” Hannon is a 20-year-old pro gamer currently playing for the OpTic Chicago team in the CDL. Following the release of Cold War, the first e-sport rounds took place, and according to Envoy, a quite rigid meta-game seems to be developing.
What is Envoy’s opinion? Unlike Modern Warfare, where both assault rifles and submachine guns had a fixed place in the meta, it seems that the multiplayer of Cold War is leaning towards a brutal dominance of the assault rifles.
In a discussion with his teammates, the SMG player Envoy stated that “SMGs are simply useless in this game.” The reason for this is likely that they had a mixed setup at the start and were absolutely dominated by teams coming in with four assault rifles.
We faced [the team from] New York and they had four AK74s in Moscow. That blew my mind. The SMGs are much harder to play in this game. We then switched to the AK-74u, which is a bit easier to play, but the MP5 was just impossible.
The German submachine gun has indeed been nerfed recently:
What can one use instead of SMGs?
These are the reasons against using SMGs: As Envoy and his comrades stated, it is very difficult to compete against assault rifles on the maps with the current SMGs. The maps are also more designed for assault rifles. Envoy has said:
“So many head glitches, so many open alleys, and hills from which you can see them well.” This makes it partly impossible to capture some of the mission objectives.
Therefore, the meta-game is currently strongly focused on assault rifles. A good rifle that every player should get soon is the good old M16, for which we have written a guide here.
One of the reasons why submachine guns are currently so hard to play is certainly due to the strange bullet velocity that has been implemented in Cold War for these weapons. SMGs shoot significantly slower projectiles than in other CoD games. Why that is and what you can do about it, you will find out here at MeinMMO.
