{"id":203131,"date":"2025-09-27T00:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2146565"},"modified":"2025-09-27T00:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T00:21:31","slug":"call-of-duty-warzone-gets-perhaps-its-most-significant-weapon-balance-update-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/call-of-duty-warzone-gets-perhaps-its-most-significant-weapon-balance-update-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Warzone gets perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/call-of-duty-warzone-gets-perhaps-its-most-significant-weapon-balance-update-yet.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the launch of its third season, Call of Duty: Warzone has received perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravensoftware.com\/community\/2021\/04\/call-of-duty-bocw-warzone-season-three-patch-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patch notes<\/a>, Raven detailed changes to many of the weapons in the battle royale, with significant nerfs and buffs. The impression I&#8217;m getting is Raven is trying to make Warzone&#8217;s time-to-kill slightly longer, after a period in which players have felt the game to be too lethal.<\/p>\n<p>The headline, though, is a significant nerf to the FFAR 1 assault rifle &#8211; one of the dominant weapons in the game. Here are the changes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-22-call-of-duty-warzone-gets-perhaps-its-most-significant-weapon-balance-update-yet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-22-call-of-duty-warzone-gets-perhaps-its-most-significant-weapon-balance-update-yet\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of its third season, Call of Duty: Warzone has received perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet. In the patch notes, Raven detailed changes to many of the weapons in the battle royale, with significant nerfs and buffs. The impression I&#8217;m getting is Raven is trying to make Warzone&#8217;s time-to-kill slightly longer, after a period in which players have felt the game to be too lethal. The headline, though, is a significant nerf to the FFAR 1 assault rifle &#8211; one of the dominant weapons in the game. Here are the changes: Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Call of Duty: Warzone gets perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the launch of its third season, Call of Duty: Warzone has received perhaps its most significant weapon balance update yet.In the patch notes, Raven\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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