Season 1 Reloaded is the first significant upgrade to the weapon balance for MW2 and Warzone 2. With the mid-season update, Infinity Ward implemented balancing tweaks that were applied to both games as a whole.
All Weapon Changes in Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 Season 1 Reloaded
Although the meta for MW2 and Warzone 2 differs, a few weapons have become popular choices. The Akimbo X12 is said to the best weapon in Warzone 2, and a CoD content creator, TimTheTatman, discovered a one-shot kill shotgun loadout. Here are all of the weapon balancing changes that Season 1 Reloaded will be bringing to MW2 and Warzone 2.
General
- Akimbo P890, X12, Basilisk, and .50 GS have received a damage reduction against armored opponents
- Fixed an issue causing shotguns to inconsistently display the broken armor hitmarker
Assault Rifles
MX9
- Increased movement speed, ADS speed, and sprint to fire speed on the 32 round magazine
M13B
- Blocking underbarrel launcher and shotgun on 7” Bruen B-M20 barrel
Kastov-74u
- Small reduction to close damage; three hits to kill requires at least one chest hit
Kastov 545
- Increase to muzzle velocity
- Small decrease to hip spread
- Increase close damage
- Increase to chest damage multiplier
SMGs
VEL 47 SMG
- Reduced hip spread.
- Increased movement speed.
- Increased far damage.
Basilisk Revolver
- Blocking Basilisk compensators and flash hider on the FTAC ARROW barrel
- Adding muzzle attachment usage on the FTAC ARROW barrel: LOCKSHOT KT85, SA LEVELER 55, CRONEN DARK KX30
.50 GS Pistol
- Reduced hip spread
- Increased 1 hit headshot range
- Increased damage range
- Increased neck and upper shoulder location damage multipliers
- Increased bullet velocity
- Increased damage range on SA LONGSHOT – 50 and SA TYRANT FIFTY barrel
Shotguns
Shotguns can no longer kill fully armored players in one shot
Expedite 12 Shotgun
- Added guard category:
- TV CF40 Guard
- AZ-40 Shotguard
- AZAROV T15
Melee
Riot Shield
- Reduced movement speed
- Reduced melee damage to 3 hit kill
- Shield movement animation improvement
- Longer switch time pulling out throwing knife when riot shield is equipped
Launchers
JOKR
- Missiles no longer land out of bounds when targeting a wall on the edge of a map
- Improved the thermal readability when aiming in