Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, sniper rifles depowered by launch

This weekend is very important for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War: players, exclusively on PlayStation 4, are having the opportunity to experience first-hand the new title of the highly acclaimed franchise. Probably someone has also noticed that sniper rifles are literally lethal: never mind, they will soon be weakened.

This will certainly happen within the launch, but with some luck also within the next beta. That's right: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is not yet available on the market, and we are already thinking of nerfs for individual weapons. In reality there is nothing to be surprised: the alpha on PlayStation 4 is used exactly to test the games, the functioning of the weapons, the balance of the various game objects.

So Tony Flame, developer at Treyarch, has already alerted the snipers. For now, the alpha of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War houses only two sniper rifles, but both of them can take out a player with a single shot, especially if hit in the head; the latter immediately noticed a remarkable speed in the use of the sight and in mobility while holding these rifles.

Are they too powerful? Yes, if Tony needed to clarify the situation on Twitter, with a message. "Okay, let's talk about snipers in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Crossplay is in the pipeline, but we knew it wouldn't be in the alpha. So we upgraded the sniper rifles to evaluate their performance, in this single alpha in particular. They will then receive balance changes within the next beta, based on the data collected this weekend. "