Call of Duty: Warzone’s Armor Plates May Have Been Secretly Nerfed

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Call of Duty: Warzone gets its content updates and hotfixes at a brisk pace, and with how many weapons, items, and gadgets there are in the game, sometimes it's easy to miss some of the changes that are being made in the grand scheme of things. One of these changes seems to have been made with the game's latest update, in particular.

Namely, players who had gotten used to how Call of Duty: Warzone handled its implementation of armor plating and the way they drop from killed players may be in for a surprise. The community has now discovered that, in the process of updating how satchels work, developers also seem to have reduced the overall number of available armor plating in any given match.

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According to Reddit user throwawaybones11, the game's armor plating system has been fundamentally changed with the new COD: Warzone Season 2 Reloaded content update. Whereas killed players would previously drop 8 fresh armor plates and a satchel, counting for 16 armor plates in total (if the player picking them up didn't already have a satchel), plating is now included in the satchel itself, meaning that there are generally fewer armor plates available for players to pick up.

Following the update, armor platings now drop as part of the satchel, and players can get a maximum of 8 plates from a player they had killed. Further, a player with 6 plates can only take up to 2 extras from the dropped satchel, leaving the rest for other players to pick up. This isn't necessarily set in stone, as Raven now offers Warzone balancing polls so that the community can decide what it wants out of the game.

The community generally agrees that the change makes sense, but the fact is that