Call of Duty's best new item is a drone that can kill enemies around corners

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I've come to appreciate Call of Duty's newfound love for unorthodox gadgets. Every CoD these days has at least one weird gear or throwable that replaces your grenade or takes up the «field equipment» slot that replenishes on cooldown. In last year's Modern Warfare 2 reboot, the Drill Charge was a star. This year, Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer has come out swinging with the Breacher Drone.

I played a good chunk of MW3 over the weekend during the PS5-exclusive beta, and while I sorely missed my mouse and keyboard, blowing people up from around corners helped fill in my controller skill gap. The Breacher Drone is a pocket-sized drone that flies in a straight line until one of two things happens:

It's quite literally a quad copter with a block of C4 zip-tied to it, and while past CoDs have toyed with similar gadgets as field equipment or killstreaks, this is the first time such a device has occupied the grenade slot. That's what makes the Breacher Drone so good, at least so far: it's decently powerful, flexible, and you always have one when you respawn. It's the ultimate expression of «throw it and forget it,» and it often gets a kill.

MW3 lead developer Sledgehammer Games says the Breacher Drone became an «instant favorite» at the studio, and I can see why. It's easily the longest-range explosive to ever occupy the grenade slot. As far as I can tell, the drone will keep flying forever straight until it reaches a destination. Its explosion radius is pretty big, too—closer to a C4 in payload than a puny frag grenade. Players are hurling these things across the map to root out snipers, gliding them past corners to catch an enemy in proximity, and even shooting them mid-flight to trigger an early detonation.

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