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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 2 finally nerfs melee weapons

Tahmid Shihab

Published: 08:55, 08 February 2024

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 2 finally nerfs melee weapons

Melee Knives have been heavily adjusted with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 2 Update

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players complained about the melee (knives) being too overpowered.
With the Season 3 update, Sledgehammer Games has heavily adjusted the melees to make them an option for mobility only.
Previously, every melee in the game had a wider lunge distance, allowing players to pull off impossible kills with melee knives at closer ranges.

Melee Knives have been heavily adjusted with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 2 Update

Melees have been finally nerfed with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 update. The newest patch notes show that all melees have been heavily adjusted for meta-balancing.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players complained about the melee (knives) being too overpowered. Moreover, these melees significantly boosted movement speed in multiplayer.

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the melee knives were overpowered in close-range combat. Especially in maps like Shipment, Meat and Rust, players were killed by melee knives in the blink of an eye.

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Many threads on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 subreddit highlighted the melee issue since the game's launch, and players were requesting the devs to adjust the melees to a certain extent.

Finally, with the Season 3 update, Sledgehammer Games has heavily adjusted the melees to make them an option for mobility only. Previously, every melee in the game had a wider lunge distance, allowing players to pull off impossible kills with melee knives at closer ranges.

Here's a look at the adjustment for all melees knives in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3:

Gutter Knife (MWIII)
- Decreased melee lunge distance by 30%.
Karambit (MWIII)
- Decreased melee lunge distance by 30%.
Combat Knife (MWII)
- Decreased melee lunge distance by 30%.
Dual Kodachis (MWII)
- Decreased melee lunge distance by 30%.
Dual Kamas (MWII)
- Decreased melee lunge distance by 30%.
Pickaxe (MWII)
- Decreased melee lunge distance by 30%.

Since the game's launch, the Gutter Knife and Karambit have been the most popular melee options for all public and Ranked lobbies. With inhuman lunge distance, most players were fed up with being killed by melee knives over and over again.

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Melees have been axed with the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 2

Sledgehammer Games has done a perfect job of adjusting the melee knives by only nerfing their lunge distance, which leaves room for the melee knives to be the best option for added mobility. Moreover, mobility is a sensitive issue for Call of Duty enthusiasts, as we saw how Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's movement adjustments essentially killed the hype for multiplayer game mode.