Season 1 Reloaded is the first significant upgrade to the weapon balance for MW2 and Warzone 2. With the mid-season update, Infinity Ward implemented balancing tweaks that were applied to both games as a whole.

All Weapon Changes in Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 Season 1 Reloaded

Although the meta for MW2 and Warzone 2 differs, a few weapons have become popular choices. The Akimbo X12 is said to the best weapon in Warzone 2, and a CoD content creator, TimTheTatman, discovered a one-shot kill shotgun loadout. Here are all of the weapon balancing changes that Season 1 Reloaded will be bringing to MW2 and Warzone 2.

General

  • Akimbo P890, X12, Basilisk, and .50 GS have received a damage reduction against armored opponents
  • Fixed an issue causing shotguns to inconsistently display the broken armor hitmarker

Assault Rifles

MX9

  • Increased movement speed, ADS speed, and sprint to fire speed on the 32 round magazine

M13B

  • Blocking underbarrel launcher and shotgun on 7” Bruen B-M20 barrel

Kastov-74u

  • Small reduction to close damage; three hits to kill requires at least one chest hit

Kastov 545

  • Increase to muzzle velocity
  • Small decrease to hip spread
  • Increase close damage
  • Increase to chest damage multiplier

SMGs

VEL 47 SMG

  • Reduced hip spread.
  • Increased movement speed.
  • Increased far damage.

Basilisk Revolver

  • Blocking Basilisk compensators and flash hider on the FTAC ARROW barrel
  • Adding muzzle attachment usage on the FTAC ARROW barrel: LOCKSHOT KT85, SA LEVELER 55, CRONEN DARK KX30

.50 GS Pistol

  • Reduced hip spread
  • Increased 1 hit headshot range
  • Increased damage range
  • Increased neck and upper shoulder location damage multipliers
  • Increased bullet velocity
  • Increased damage range on SA LONGSHOT – 50 and SA TYRANT FIFTY barrel

Shotguns

Shotguns can no longer kill fully armored players in one shot

Expedite 12 Shotgun

  • Added guard category:
  • TV CF40 Guard
  • AZ-40 Shotguard
  • AZAROV T15

Melee

Riot Shield

  • TV CF40 Guard

  • AZ-40 Shotguard

  • AZAROV T15

  • Reduced movement speed

  • Reduced melee damage to 3 hit kill

  • Shield movement animation improvement

  • Longer switch time pulling out throwing knife when riot shield is equipped

Launchers

JOKR

  • Missiles no longer land out of bounds when targeting a wall on the edge of a map
  • Improved the thermal readability when aiming in