Part of Call of Duty: Warzone's enormous player base is off to a very normal start to the new year, and since the DMR is a powerful scoped rifle with a high rate of fire and the ability to take down players with a barrage of body shots from a considerable distance, everyone is loading out is equipped with a DMR. Yesterday came the news that developer Raven Software had patched the DMR and a few other much-maligned weapons. The rejoicing lasted for a few hours, but players were quick to point out that the new DMR is available at ...... I'm kind of stuck with the old DMR," they began to opine.

It's worth mentioning that this is not strictly true. The patch significantly reduced the damage of the DMR, and according to Raven, the gun's recoil was also adjusted (many players claim this is not noticeable, and some even say it is an improvement.) JGod, a Warzone streamer, found that the headshot damage of the gun was reduced by about one-third He calculated the exact value of the drop, indicating that the gun's headshot damage was reduced by about one-third.

This is, of course, the balance that Raven must find, keeping the gun's performance in check while reducing the excess of DMR. As the reply to the developer's tweet announcing the patch indicates, people don't think the nerf worked well and are not very polite about it.

The Warzone community on reddit has collapsed into recriminations, memes, and slightly over-the-top videos about how ridiculous this gun remains.

The DMR remains clearly a powerful weapon, and if you wanted to find a player who claimed to have been slaughtered by an army of DMR drones, you could. Whether that is evidence that Raven got the changes wrong is another matter, but given that 30 new weapons were added to Warzone at once from the Cold War arsenal, the problem of overpowered guns seems almost predictable. At the same time, the Warzone community tends to get overexcited when it senses the possibility of a catastrophe, so maybe a few days in the field will subside the current excitement over the DMR. If it doesn't, well, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."