Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Update Changes Polyatomic Camo

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Game updates can see developers touching up parts of games players may not immediately think of, such as cosmetics, and Infinity Ward did just this in its latest update to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's Polyatomic camo. Players aren't without choices of camos inside the game, whether it be purchasing camos such as the returning Damascus camo or any of the camos available to unlock from the game's challenges. However, Infinity Ward has given a makeover to one of the game's oldest camos, and it seems some members of the community are not happy with the change.

The Polyatomic camo was among the first set of camos players could unlock from challenge completions after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's release in October 2022. As one of the first two mastery camos available to unlock, alongside the Orion camo, it meant the grind to unlock it was among the longest in the game. Players first needed to complete the gold and platinum weapon challenges on all 51 launch weapons in order to unlock Polyatomic weapon challenges, which finally unlocks the camo.

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Originally, the Polyatomic camo turned players' weapons dark purple along with an almost crystalline design covering the weapon from stock to barrel. The latest update changed this, as Reddit user Lorenso0 points out in a thread on the Modern Warfare 2 subreddit, which makes the previously stock camo into an animated camo. It also saw the previously dark purple color scheme made significantly brighter, now appearing to be more of a flat purple.

The change appeared to catch many users by surprise as Infinity Ward had given no indication it was going to make any changes to the Polyatomic camo. Responses to the camo in