The values of the magazine attachments of the weapons from Black Ops Cold War in Call of Duty: Warzone are currently difficult to track. A Warzone expert now shows the right magazines for the best “Cold War” weapons in Season 2 and MeinMMO presents his results.
Why is a larger magazine important? In Call of Duty: Warzone, you often find yourself facing multiple enemies at once or need to put pressure on distant opponents. In both cases, large magazines help you to be more effective. You can deal more damage before the next reload and have a better chance of hitting your enemy at long distances.
What is the problem with the selection? The magazines of the various weapons from Cold War always offer the same bonuses and drawbacks according to their descriptions. However, in practice, this is different. For example, while the 6th magazine for the popular assault rifle FFAR 1 is the best choice, this is not necessarily the case for other assault rifles. If you choose the wrong magazine, you significantly and unnecessarily reduce your aim down sights (ADS) time.
The Warzone expert “TheXclusiveAce” has analyzed the value changes of the magazines of the best “Cold War” weapons in Warzone in detail and shows which magazines will provide you with the most performance in Season 2.
The best magazines for the most popular “Cold War” weapons
Which magazine should I use for which weapon? The expert has analyzed the magazines for 9 weapons from Cold War in Warzone and recommends the following selection:
- FFAR 1 – 6th magazine – Fast burst 50-round magazine
- Seems to be faulty – provides large magazine and faster reload without drawbacks
- Krig 6 – 4th magazine – STANAG 60-round
- Large magazine with only moderate drawbacks in reload time and ADS speed
- XM4 – 4th magazine – STANAG 60-round
- Large magazine with only moderate drawbacks in reload time and ADS speed
- AUG – 1st magazine – 45-round drum
- Magazine provides more rounds without value drawbacks
- M16 – 6th magazine – Fast burst 60-round magazine
- Seems to be faulty – provides large magazine and faster reload without drawbacks
- MAC-10 – 4th magazine – STANAG 53-round drum
- Large magazine with only moderate drawbacks in reload time and ADS speed
- Bullfrog – 4th magazine – STANAG 85-round
- Large magazine with only moderate drawbacks in reload time and ADS speed
- MP5 – 4th magazine – STANAG 50-round drum
- Large magazine with only moderate drawbacks in reload time and ADS speed
- Stoner 63 – 2nd magazine – Fast magazine
- Strong reduction in reload time without ADS drawbacks
- Pellington & Tundra – 1st or 2nd magazine
- Either fast reload or larger magazine without drawbacks on the ADS value
If you want to see the complete results of TheXclusiveAce’s analysis yourself, we will embed the English YouTube video on the subject here:
Magazines sometimes bring unnecessary drawbacks to important ADS value
What can I do wrong with magazines? The values of the magazines from Cold War are still too inconsistent to make the right choice without background knowledge. This leads to unnecessary drawbacks in your aim down sights time, which results in significant disadvantages, especially with close combat weapons such as the powerful submachine guns and the FFAR 1.
The FFAR and the M16 are the prime examples of this. The 6th magazine improves your reload time and increases magazine capacity, but it should cost you ADS time. However, this disadvantage does not currently exist. At the moment, the 6th magazines are therefore by far the best choice for these two weapons. However, you can assume that this will be fixed soon. So far, however, there is no information on this.
What is the ADS speed and why is it so important? The ADS speed (Aim Down Sights) determines how fast you are with the sights of a weapon. It is about the time it takes for you to be fully in sight after pressing the aim button.
Although there are also hipfire setups like that of the MP7 from CoD MW, in general, you go into the sights before firing to ensure you can hit enemies accurately. The farther the distance to the enemy, the less important the ADS time becomes. But even with range weapons, a reasonable ADS speed is pleasant, as you can react faster when an enemy appears on the screen.
Attachments of the “Cold War” weapons have been a major problem since Season 1
What is wrong with the “Cold War” attachments? You cannot trust many in-game descriptions of the attachments. This has improved since the start of Season 2, but there are still some incorrect and even misleading descriptions.
Additionally, there are broken attachments like the 6th magazines of the FFAR and M16. In both cases, the value drawbacks are missing and there are also attachments where the bonuses are absent. On top of this, there are secret changes that occur with almost every major Warzone update.
Currently, it is therefore very time-consuming to actually find the best attachments for a weapon from Cold War in Warzone. For many players, this is a significant problem and one of the reasons why the integration of the new CoD into the Battle Royale is not well-received by many. That these problems still exist almost 3 months after the integration is another factor.
What do you think? Do you try out a lot anyway and choose your attachments based on feel, or are you annoyed by the sometimes misleading descriptions of the attachments? Does the gunsmith feature perhaps become more of a problem than a cool game mechanic?
