Call of Duty: Vanguard Players Are Celebrating The Recent Double Barrel Shotgun Nerf

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Since the game launched in November, the Call of Duty: Vanguard meta has been dominated by the various Shotguns available to players. Fortunately, over two months after Call of Duty: Vanguard first released, the Shotgun class’s reign of terror has come to an end.

When Call of Duty: Vanguard made its debut, it did not take long for players to recognize that the Shotgun class was not properly balanced. In particular, the Combat Shotgun decimated any and all competition, with the weapon boasting absurd range, ridiculous, damage, and huge magazines. With a player managing to pull off a nuke in thirty seconds using only the Combat Shotgun, Sledgehammer stepped in and nerfed the weapon. Unfortunately, the Double Barrel shotgun instantly took its place as the most laughably overpowered gun in the game.

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While Call of Duty: Vanguard’s Double Barrel Shotgun does extreme damage like the Combat Shotgun, its downside is that it can only be fired twice before reloading. However, once players started to level up the weapon and unlocked the dual wield attachment, as well as some attachments that added to the Double Barrel’s range, it became just as problematic as the Combat Shotgun. Thankfully, the Double Barrel was finally nerfed via the January 20 patch, and Redditors like Kalashcocknov are thrilled about the changes that have been made to the gun.

The Redditor’s thread is essentially a celebration that Call of Duty: Vanguard’s Shotguns are no longer overpowered, and the happiness is understandable. As pointed out in the post, “bad” players were able to dominate using a combination of the broken Shotguns and Riot Shields, beating out experienced gamers simply