Black Ops 6 and Warzone December 10 Patch Features Big Changes to Multiple Weapons

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Treyarch and Raven Software have published patch notes for their December 10 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone update, revealing a list of changes that will impact the current weapon meta.

The team behind the latest Season 1 update unveiled all of the changes in two blog posts published on the Call of Duty website. The first covers core Black Ops 6 features, mentioning tweaks to weapon motion, aiming idle sway delay, maps, and modes. It’s an update that also comes with general adjustments to stability across the experience, including a handful of Zombies changes, too. However, the real focus of the December 10 Black Ops 6 update revolves around weapon balancing and headhsot damage.

Treyarch explained its goals in detail in a message baked directly into today’s patch notes. It says players can expect new adjustments to “increase the effectiveness of headshots on full-auto primary weapons.” That means most weapons will take less time to kill when executing headshots in Multiplayer, with the one weapon class exception being SMGs. The team says it’s “wary” of allowing SMG time to kill being too fast, so to account for the more general changes, SMG ranges are being increased “to help them keep that consistent edge at short ranges.”

It's a shakeup that will no doubt alter how your average Multiplayer game plays out, and the team was quick to acknowledge this.

“We expect this change to greatly impact the weapon meta, especially in conjunction with our weapon motion changes,” Treyarch said. “We will be monitoring closely as that new meta settles to make sure individual weapon and weapon class variety continues to be strong in Black Ops 6.”

Raven’s December 10 Warzone patch notes, meanwhile, detail its own changes to weapon motion and aiming idle sway. This includes reduced visual recoil on all weapons, with full-auto guns specifically mentioned as weapons impacted the most. Raven says its mission is to “improve the combat experience,” adding that players should notice more