Sledgehammer Video games has issued an emergency repair for the Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare 3 beta this weekend, nerfing the clearly overpowered Battle Rage Gear—even regardless of Sledgehammer themselves believing the pre-beta buffs to the Gear have been essential.
The builders closely nerfed Battle Rage in a late Oct. 6 update, with its transfer to the Tactical slot and its pre-beta adjustment proving an excessive amount of for the dwell sport. The period after activating the gear has been decreased from 10 to 6 seconds, and kills will now not enhance the period of the buff.
Enhancements to well being regeneration will now be interrupted when the participant takes injury, which solely prompts upon killing an enemy now as an alternative of all through the merchandise’s period. Sledgehammer has additionally eliminated the elevated well being regeneration velocity granted by Battle Rage.
It’s a welcome sight for MW3 beta gamers who have been totally fed up with the state of Battle Rage, which was closely over-tuned after Sledgehammer’s MW3 showcase. Whereas we’re positive Sledgehammer didn’t imply to buff Battle Rage as a lot as they did, its Oct. 5 tweet reaffirming its stance forward of the beta weekend was horrifying given the state of the Tactical Gear when it launched.
Simply hours after the MW3 beta launched, tons of of clips emerged of gamers profitable gunfights whereas outnumbered or outgunned, all due to the state of Battle Rage. Its results have been damaged past doubt, with the buff feeling extra like one thing a high-level killstreak would grant.
Gamers have been fast to reward Sledgehammer for appearing so swiftly in nerfing Battle Rage. “[It] would’ve taken Infinity Ward 17 patches and three months to handle, bravo,” said one commenter. Many extra started piling on quite a few different solutions hoping the devs would look into extra points, which we’re positive they’ll look into each now and forward of the all-platform open beta subsequent weekend.
Within the meantime, catch me on Skidrow working down gamers who’re nonetheless utilizing Battle Rage prefer it hasn’t been nerfed.
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