Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Leak Potentially Reveals Big Gunsmith Change

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While Activision Blizzard is yet to officially acknowledge and confirm the rumored existence of a fully-fledged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a direct continuation of 2019's Modern Warfare, it is highly likely that this is the next major COD on the docket. There's a growing number of leaks concerning the game, too, and the latest one is particularly intriguing.

Namely, one of Modern Warfare's most popular features was its remarkably complex Gunsmith feature, where players could outfit their weapons with a staggering number of attachments across a variety of slots. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may well be taking a step back from this complexity, however, according to Twitter leaker TheGhostOfHope.

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Though some players may have been thrilled by the opportunity to customize and tweak the two iconic returning weapons in Modern Warfare 2, TheGhostOfHope claims that the game won't allow players to go to such extremes as they previously could. Instead, the game is supposedly only going to have five distinctive weapon attachment categories, which is significantly scaled back from Modern Warfare's 10 disparate categories.

While TheGhostOfHope didn't go into any further detail on how the new Gunsmith would work, the implication is that it would be more similar to how old Call of Duty titles handled customization. This information is likely to be a part of the supposedly upcoming Modern Warfare 2 reveal if it ends up being true, as Gunsmith has grown to be a crucial element of every COD title released after Modern Warfare.

It's also worth keeping in mind that this streamlining of Gunsmith would likely make the game easier to balance and maintain, which could be crucial if Modern