The 4 known Call of Duty hitboxes chest, stomach, head, limbs were recently expanded to include a neck hitbox. The numbers experts for the Battle Royal Warzone have now discovered new information. This could be important for you before you shoot yourself in the leg!
Just in August, the new neck hitbox between head and chest was discovered. Now Warzone expert Anthony “TrueGameData” Zachman has found a new hitbox: the lower extremities, i.e., forearm and lower leg. Bullets hitting the lower halves of arms and legs do less damage than those to the upper half, according to tests.
Therefore, you need to be particularly careful with certain weapons not to shoot at legs.
Limbs have two hitboxes
Why is this relevant? Each weapon has its own damage multiplier for different hitboxes. However, not every weapon has a multiplier for each hitbox. Therefore, especially snipers have benefited from the neck hitbox, but probably only three other weapons: Oden, XM4, and OTs 9.
The newly discovered hitboxes affect limb damage, dividing arms and legs into lower and upper sections.
The green-marked area of leg and arm is now the upper arm and thigh hitbox. Purple marks the new hitboxes for forearm and lower leg. These markings are as precise as possible. Minor deviations cannot be ruled out, as testing is also difficult to perform and therefore cannot be 100% accurate.
What does this mean? If players are hit in the purple area, they take less damage than in the green area. Because this information was previously unknown, the previous measurements were also incorrect.
In the measurements, experts like TrueGameData shot at the lower areas of arms and legs. Therefore, the damage values that you find online for certain weapons are not complete.
Submachine guns are affected
How large is the damage difference? The numbers expert shot the upper and lower limbs separately and found out: The damage is between 10 and 15% lower when you hit the lower leg instead of the thigh. Therefore, you should try to avoid these areas as much as possible.
Which weapons are affected? TrueGameData found that these newly discovered values do not affect many weapons. Only players using certain submachine guns need to think about this at the moment. However, the Bullfrog, a current top-10 weapon (via wzranked.com), is affected.
The full list of affected weapons, with their highest and lowest damage points for legs and arms at close range:
- Bullfrog (31 – 27 damage)
- CX-9 (24 – 21 damage)
- Fennek (24 – 21 damage)
- ISO (25 – 22 damage)
- LAPA (31 – 27 damage)
- LAPA with 8.9″, extended (30 – 27 damage)
- LAPA with 7.9″, pulled (32 – 29 damage)
- LAPA with 7.9″, BR compact (33 – 30 damage)
- PP19 Bizon (34 left leg, 27 – 20 right leg)
Curious: The PP19 Bizon always does 34 damage to the left leg, but 27 to 20 damage to the right leg. You do a whole 70% more damage if you hit the left leg instead of the right lower leg.
These new discoveries make it clear: Until now, the worst-case scenario was measured for arm and leg damage out of habit. These weapons were therefore better than previously thought. To get the best out of them, however, one must be even more precise than previously assumed.
Regarding the neck hitbox, TrueGameData mentioned that it will change the Warzone meta. While the lower leg hitbox is not expected to do so strongly, the Bullfrog is indeed the submachine gun affected that was the most popular in our survey the most popular submachine gun in Season 6.
What do you think? Will you change your playstyle or loadout because of this new information? Or do you think it will have little impact on Warzone? Let us know in the comments.
