It began off as a meme, grew right into a principle, and now could be broadly accepted by the group: When new weapons are added into Fashionable Warfare 3, Sledgehammer makes them means too highly effective and nerf older weapons into the bottom, and gamers are sick of it.

Each season, Sledgehammer will introduce not less than one new weapon to the sport, giving completionists a weapon to rank up. This can be a good thought in principle, however what you discover is that any new gun added is straight away the most effective within the sport, and dominates the meta for weeks, whereas older weapons which were within the sport earlier than have their effectiveness turned down.

This causes nice frustration amongst followers, and FlowKom took particular offense to this on Reddit, complaining about how the launch of the Kar98k has gone.

“New gun=good, Previous gun=unhealthy,” wrote the CoD fan. “That’s their whole philosophy for steadiness. There’s no cause for the SP-R and SA-B to be completely ineffective whereas the Kar98k is the brand new greatest sniper in your complete sport.”

FlowKom made their level by displaying the efficient harm vary for the Kar98k and the SP-R208. Whereas the Kar98k is highly effective as much as 50.8m, the SPR208 solely has a harm vary of 13m, which is sort of 4 occasions much less highly effective than the brand new inclusion.

Unsurprisingly, the feedback had been largely in settlement with the submit, with one fan writing: “I get they need to make the brand new weapons higher than the previous ones, however they didn’t need to make the previous ones that unhealthy,” whereas one other questioned the method completely: “I personally don’t see the purpose in making your new gun [overpowered] after we understand it’ll get nerfed into the bottom later. Is the enchantment that you simply get a few weeks of enjoyment the place you’re feeling like a god?”

It’s having a transparent impact although. As proven by WZStats.gg, the Kar98k is at present the most-picked weapon within the sport at 5.37%. The SP-R208’s pickrate? 0.02%. Clearly, one thing isn’t fairly proper with Sledgehammer’s balancing rules, and I, together with different MW3 followers, would like to see it modified.