Warzone 2 Season 2: All Weapon Changes Detailed

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Season 2 is now live and the balance changes of the new update are now available. In addition to a new battle pass and the return of Resurgence, we also have tons of changes to weapons that will shake up the meta. A lot of the overpowered weapons from the Season 1 meta have been nerfed while some already powerful weapons have surprisingly received buffs. Here is a rundown of all the changes that are now live in Warzone 2.0 Season 2.

Warzone 2.0 Season 2: Balance Changes

General Changes

• Tuning has been enabled for Laser attachments

• Tuning Sliders have been updated for numerous attachments

• Some beneficial Tuning attribute magnitudes have been increased

• Some harmful Tuning attribute magnitudes have been decreased

• Season 01 Pro-Tuned Blueprints have received performance adjustments

Assault Rifles

• M13B

  • Increased damage at mid range

  • Increased upper torso damage

• Kastov 762

  • Small damage reduction

  • Added additional long range damage falloff

• Lachmann-556

  • Increased semi auto rate of fire

• M4

  • Increased semi auto rate of fire

• STB 556

  • Fixed an issue with the Single Tap Mod Magazine attachment which caused the weapon to deal considerably less damage to the upper left leg

Battle Rifles

• Lachmann-762

  • Decreased full auto head and torso damage

  • Increased semi-auto upper torso damage

  • Increased semi auto rate of fire

  • Reduced full auto recoil

  • Increased damage on long range

  • Added minimum damage against armor

• FTac Recon

  • Decreased full auto upper torso damage

  • Sped up ads (aim down sight) time

  • Reduced full auto recoil

  • Increased close range damage distance

  • Increased lower torso damage multiplier 

  • Added minimum damage against armor

• SO-14

  • Increased semi auto rate of fire

  • Increased long range damage

  • Reduced semi-auto headshot damage

  • Added minimum damage against armor

• TAQ-V

  • Decreased mid-range damage

  • Increased semi-auto torso damage

  • Reduced semi auto leg damage

  • Decreased full auto head damage

  • Decreased full auto head damage

  • Reduced semi auto rate of fire

Handguns

• X13 Auto

  • Reduced damage while using Akimbo

  • Increase lower body damage

  • Increased close range damage

  • Increase damage distances

Launchers

• STRELA-P

  • Removed activation distance for projectile

  • Projectile will now explode at any range

• RPG-7

  • Small increase to splash damage amount

  • Small reduction to splash damage range

Light Machine Guns

• RPK

  • Small reduction to ADS movement speed

  • Reduced mid and long-range damage

  • Reduced damage ranges

  • Small increase to ADS time

• RAAL MG

  • Increased recoil

Marksman Rifles

• EBR-14

  • Reduced long range damage

  • Increased upper torso damage

  • Added minimum damage against armor

• LM-S

  • Added minimum damage against armor

• TAQ-M

  • Slight increase to rate of fire

  • Increased upper torso damage

  • Added minimum damage against armor

Melee

• Increased non-lunging melee damage range, allows Players to hit equipment on the ground with melee while crouched

• Melee attacks with non-Melee Weapons will now require three hits to kill a fully armored enemy instead of two

Submachine Guns

• Vasznev-9K

  • Reduced mid-to-long range damage 

• Minibak

  • Reduced damage ranges

  • Reduced lower torso damage at close range

  • Reduced lower body damage at mid to close range

  • Added minimum damage against armor

• Fennec 45

  • Decreased damage overall 

  • Decreased headshot damage

  • Added minimum damage against armor

Sniper Rifles

• Signal 50

  • Reduced sprint out speed

  • Reduced movement speed

  • Reduced long range damage

  • Small decrease to bullet velocity 

Attachments

• Reduced ADS penalty for bipods

• Fixed an issue with choke attachments scaling hip spread incorrectly

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