On February 5th, a major update for Call of Duty: Warzone was launched. Experts found a number of hidden changes, but the official adjustments are also extensive. What is currently known is shown to you here on MeinMMO.
What hidden changes came with the update? Call of Duty: Warzone released a surprisingly large update on Friday, February 5th, and it turned out that once again, more was changed than what is stated in the patch notes.
The Warzone experts and YouTubers “TrueGameData”, “TheXclusiveAce”, and “JGOD” have looked at the hidden and official changes:
- They found that almost all weapons that came from Black Ops Cold War into the Battle Royale have different values for their barrel attachments.
- XclusiveAce has looked at the adjustments for reloading the weapons from Cold War and also found extensive changes here.
MeinMMO has informed itself about the currently known changes and shows which weapons you should now choose a different barrel for and how the changes affect reloading.
Many weapons from Cold War now need different setups
Why do I need new setups? The barrels are important for the “Cold War” weapons in Warzone as they often increase bullet speed. The firearms from Modern Warfare often have an advantage here, leading many of the weapons from CoD MW to feel better in Warzone, as you can land hits at longer distances more easily.
We show you which barrel attachment you should now use for the strong “Cold War” weapons in Warzone according to the opinion of the CoD experts:
- Groza Assault Rifle – 16.2″ GRU Composite
- + 72% bullet speed
- FFAR 1 Assault Rifle – 19.5″ Special Operations
- + 51% bullet speed
- Stoner 63 Light Machine Gun – 17.8″ Ulan
- + 80% bullet speed
- M16 Tactical Rifle – 15.9″ Assault Team
- + 51% bullet speed
- AUG Tactical Rifle – 18.2″ Assault Team
- + 113% bullet speed
- DMR 14 Tactical Rifle – 17.1″ Ulan
- + 51% bullet speed
- Bullfrog Submachine Gun – 7.4″ Special Operations
- + 76% bullet speed
- MP5 (Cold War) Submachine Gun – 9.5″ Special Operations
- + 77% bullet speed
- MAC-10 Submachine Gun – 5.9″ Special Operations
- + 77% bullet speed
As of now, at least 10 weapons have been changed in this way, which now have different values for their barrel attachments. The difference is particularly noticeable with the burst-fire rifles AUG and M16. Previously, the Titan barrel was the best choice, which now offers no bonus to bullet speed at all.
The two English videos from JGOD and TrueGameData on the subject can be found here:
Reload behavior of many “Cold War” weapons adjusted
How was the reloading changed? This change was once mentioned in the patch notes – the reloading of the weapons from Cold War now goes significantly faster than before the patch. However, this only applies if you empty the magazine of the gun completely and then reload.
The Warzone expert “TheXclusiveAce” has released a short English video on this, which you can watch here:
Ace explains that many weapons from Cold War now reload significantly faster. If you previously had to wait for the entire animation to finish before the bullets were ready, you can now, for example, interrupt the reload with a sprint, saving you about half a second of reload time.
It is important to look at the bottom of the screen to see when the bullets are in the magazine. As soon as the number at the bottom shows the bullets in the magazine, you can interrupt the remaining animation and start shooting.
After this change, over 15 weapons from Cold War likely have a new reload behavior.
M16 
FFAR 1 
MAC-10
Experts criticize poor patch communication
What is the problem with the Warzone patches? All three CoD experts mentioned in this article criticize the patch communication of Warzone as insufficient. They deal a lot with the values of the weapons and determine the concrete numbers based on elaborate testing procedures that often take several hours.
For them, it is outrageous that the patch notes never provide comprehensive hints about what adjustments have been made. They don’t even have to be the exact changes in percentages. However, a hint about the modified barrels, like in the reload animation, would have been sufficient.
TrueGameData states that the current patch has caused significant changes to the balancing of weapons from Cold War and says, “It’s crazy that this isn’t mentioned in the patch notes.”
Despite the many weapon changes, XclusiveAce does not believe this justifies the size of the update, which on some platforms reached almost 14 GB. He suspects that future content has already been added to the game, possibly even the new large map for the battle royale, which might be released in March for the one year anniversary of Warzone – Here you can find everything we know about the possible new map.
