Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 beta perk Dead Silence is really loud

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Modern Warfare 2 beta perks and upgrades have proved variously beloved and despised by Call of Duty fans, on the one hand offering a refresh and rebalance to the Infinity Ward and Activision FPS, while on the other, presenting some odd and seemingly unfair changes to a system that arguably was never broken. But there’s one MW2 field upgrade in particular, Dead Silence, that seems the most controversial, considering it does precisely the opposite to what its name would imply.

Footstep sounds have been a running problem – pardon the pun – in the Modern Warfare 2 beta, especially when coupled with changes to the minimap. In the past, enemy combatants using unsuppressed weapons would ping on the map as red dots whenever they were nearby, allowing you to track them down and try and score a kill. In Modern Warfare 2, this is no longer the case, meaning that your only real method for locating opposition players via sound is to listen out for their approaching footsteps. This can be negated, however, if a player is using the Dead Silence field upgrade, which mutes their footsteps and, in theory, turns them into a silent assassin. Dead Silence itself, though, seems to act as a giveaway to nearby opponents, as spotted by Charlie Intel.

So Dead Silence Field Upgrade makes a noise when you activate it. <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/MWII?src=hash&ref_src=» https: rel=«noopener»>#MWII

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— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) <a href=«https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1574030982323257345?ref_src=» https: rel=«noopener»>September 25, 2022

Though the upgrade is true to its name insofar as muting your footsteps, when you actually activate it, it produces a loud and very detectable