It needed a nerf. Maybe not that much, but it needed it.
Full_Bag6281
It really did now kindly move on
MajorGilCoaching
Probably for the best, being downed by a 1 hit body shot explosive was never fun to go against.
Trappdaddy
I play daily and was killed by the crossbow once while it was “op”. They should have kept it the way it was. I was planning on trying it out, then it was nerfed. Now I’ll never touch it.
jokey_clough
The crossbow is so much fun. They could have “nerfed” it by limiting the one hit area to stomach, chest, arms, neck and head. I had a few downs where I stuck someone in the toe, and though it was hilarious, that probably shouldn’t be a down. But to nerf it like they did, it’s useless in Warzone and might as well not even exist in the game.
For one week, this warzone had some of the fun trolling elements that I enjoyed in WZ1.
Confident_Slide7969
Quit, you won’t regret it 👍
Wacky_grass
What people should do is move on from COD. Besides the constant nerfs, the hacker issue, the game breaking updates they do because they can’t even update the game without breaking it. The servers are garbage, there are literally free to play games like Fortnite, XDefiant, etc that are completely free to play and have better servers and 100% less issues than COD from shot differential to everything is better. You pay 70 bucks, plus the store bundles they can put out weekly and you’re still playing a broken game while Activision milks you dry. Sooner you people quit feeding them money, the better COD will get. Give them a reason to make a good game, right now they don’t have one.
patriotraitor
These are the same people who called for the BP50 nerf.
You get what you fucking deserve.
keller_rado
Crossbow was the greatest high risk high reward weapon in the game. If you miss your single, low velocity, inaccurate, extremely long reload time, shot. You’re dead.
It is absolutely ridiculous that they saw fit to nerf it AGAIN.
In a standard gun fight, a viable player with a submachine gun, assault rifle, hell, a pistol still has enough time to down me before the explosive tip goes off. This is a vital point I think everyone misses. IF you land you’re incredibly risky shot, it still doesn’t down right away (as compared to the immediate down of kar98 cheese)
Kar98 is a one shot to the head with a moderately fast rechamber speed. It is plaguing the game and it is MILES above the crossbow. But no one bats an eye to that.
Additionally, Crossbow requires you to give up EVERYTHING in your class (attachments and perks) to even make it viable. I give up so many useful perks that all other players get to use in addition to their low skill weapons. THIS is another form of balance that is overlooked.
It frustrates me that the devs take the lazy way of “balancing” the weapon and only adjust damage.
Why not keep the damage and make it more inaccurate, or lower velocity, or can hold less ammo? Or make trophies systems counter it like Treyarch did?
Get more creative and allow different play styles besides easy fully automatic weapons, or cheesy snipers.
BusLocal2816
You wanna know why it was actually nerfed. Because no one will buy the battle pass for the kar98 meta when there’s a stronger one hit meta out already
SaggyMeat
Good
Electronic_Sky_6363
This is just bad, it is a high-skill gun, which is rarely used by people, I don’t understand why they decided to nerf it so heavily, it is a senseless decision
tacodung
They got their overpriced bundle money from it being OP, and now that the profit from those are slowing down, they’re nerfing this to prepare for the next overpowered weapon to sell bundles for.
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It needed a nerf. Maybe not that much, but it needed it.
It really did now kindly move on
Probably for the best, being downed by a 1 hit body shot explosive was never fun to go against.
I play daily and was killed by the crossbow once while it was “op”. They should have kept it the way it was. I was planning on trying it out, then it was nerfed. Now I’ll never touch it.
The crossbow is so much fun. They could have “nerfed” it by limiting the one hit area to stomach, chest, arms, neck and head. I had a few downs where I stuck someone in the toe, and though it was hilarious, that probably shouldn’t be a down. But to nerf it like they did, it’s useless in Warzone and might as well not even exist in the game.
For one week, this warzone had some of the fun trolling elements that I enjoyed in WZ1.
Quit, you won’t regret it 👍
What people should do is move on from COD. Besides the constant nerfs, the hacker issue, the game breaking updates they do because they can’t even update the game without breaking it. The servers are garbage, there are literally free to play games like Fortnite, XDefiant, etc that are completely free to play and have better servers and 100% less issues than COD from shot differential to everything is better. You pay 70 bucks, plus the store bundles they can put out weekly and you’re still playing a broken game while Activision milks you dry. Sooner you people quit feeding them money, the better COD will get. Give them a reason to make a good game, right now they don’t have one.
These are the same people who called for the BP50 nerf.
You get what you fucking deserve.
Crossbow was the greatest high risk high reward weapon in the game. If you miss your single, low velocity, inaccurate, extremely long reload time, shot. You’re dead.
It is absolutely ridiculous that they saw fit to nerf it AGAIN.
In a standard gun fight, a viable player with a submachine gun, assault rifle, hell, a pistol still has enough time to down me before the explosive tip goes off. This is a vital point I think everyone misses. IF you land you’re incredibly risky shot, it still doesn’t down right away (as compared to the immediate down of kar98 cheese)
Kar98 is a one shot to the head with a moderately fast rechamber speed. It is plaguing the game and it is MILES above the crossbow. But no one bats an eye to that.
Additionally, Crossbow requires you to give up EVERYTHING in your class (attachments and perks) to even make it viable. I give up so many useful perks that all other players get to use in addition to their low skill weapons. THIS is another form of balance that is overlooked.
It frustrates me that the devs take the lazy way of “balancing” the weapon and only adjust damage.
Why not keep the damage and make it more inaccurate, or lower velocity, or can hold less ammo? Or make trophies systems counter it like Treyarch did?
Get more creative and allow different play styles besides easy fully automatic weapons, or cheesy snipers.
You wanna know why it was actually nerfed. Because no one will buy the battle pass for the kar98 meta when there’s a stronger one hit meta out already
Good
This is just bad, it is a high-skill gun, which is rarely used by people, I don’t understand why they decided to nerf it so heavily, it is a senseless decision
They got their overpriced bundle money from it being OP, and now that the profit from those are slowing down, they’re nerfing this to prepare for the next overpowered weapon to sell bundles for.