Activision will let you pay to make your Call of Duty guns sound like 2009
There are few artifacts of videogame culture that can teleport me to a specific time and place more powerfully than the sound of the MP5 from Modern Warfare 2. For months in 2009, the prickly whine of an MP5 followed (ideally) by the chime of a 3-killstreak UAV meant that I was in my happy place—getting a few matches in after school, probably sipping an energy drink I bought with quarters.
I was the perfect age to become a Call of Duty obsessive and still associate the series with some of my fondest memories of gaming, which is why I'm not surprised that, 14 years later, Activision is bottling up that nostalgia and selling it back to me with Season 3 Reloaded's «Throwback Audio Pack.»
«The ultimate taste of nostalgia is coming with Season 03 Reloaded,» reads today's blog post outlining everything coming in the May 10 midseason update. The cosmetic bundle will come with two weapon blueprints: the “Good ’Ol Days” Assault Rifle and the “Lachmann Classic” SMG, both of which are fitted with «familiar attachments and retro-fitted audio from that Call of Duty era.»
Weirdly, Activision isn't being upfront about which guns these blueprints apply to, but one of them is obvious by the name: the Lachmann Classic SMG likely refers to Modern Warfare 2 (2023)'s version of the MP5. It makes sense that the first throwback audio pack covers one of the most iconic guns in the series, and as a lifelong MP5 enjoyer I am curious to hear its shrill, pneumatic nailgun-like(opens in new tab) sound FX recreated in a newer game (I couldn't find a clean showcase video for the classic MP5, so that link actually shows the MP5K).
As for the «Good 'Ol Days» blueprint, all we know is that it's an assault rifle. There are a few good candidates from
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