{"id":31481,"date":"2012-01-26T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31481"},"modified":"2012-01-26T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T11:41:40","slug":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-update-nerfs-akimbo-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31481-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-update-nerfs-akimbo-weapons","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 update nerfs akimbo weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I DON&#8217;T KNOW BUT I BEEN TOLD<\/p>\n<p>AKIMBO SPREES ARE GETTIN&#8217; OLD<\/p>\n<p>SOUND OFF, ONE-TWO<\/p>\n<p>SOUND OFF, THREE-FOUR<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s right there in Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Apocalypse Now, I swear. Okay, maybe not, but the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 update has nerfed all akimbo weapon firing rates so it doesn&#8217;t matter anymore.<\/p>\n<p>According to the notice over on the official Modern Warfare 3 community forums, the update also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Networking enhancements, and &#8220;further improvements to &#8216;Host Disadvantage&#8217; \/ &#8216;lag comp'&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>YouTube upload speeds increased from 32k to 256k.<\/li>\n<li>Shotgun re-balances, with a &#8220;slight nerf&#8221; to the Striker, and a &#8220;slight buff&#8221; to all the others.<\/li>\n<li>A fix for an issue preventing Prestige tokens not being correctly awarded.<\/li>\n<li>A fix for a bug reporting &#8220;games played&#8221; across Prestige levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The update is already out on Xbox LIVE,\u00a0 and due out on PC and PS3 &#8220;soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The post also lists a bunch of issues under consideration for the next update, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Further improvements to the spawn system.<\/li>\n<li>Improvement to PS3 mic quality.<\/li>\n<li>HD video uploads on PS3.<\/li>\n<li>Default 0:30 Round Start timer for System Link only, while looking into adjustable timer for System Link games for competitive play.<\/li>\n<li>Options to allow System Link players to &#8216;unlock all&#8217; for competitive play in System Link only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Call of Duty forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/thread\/100584619?tstart=0\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty forums<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC and PS3 updates out &#8220;soon&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":25665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,23,25],"class_list":["post-31481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-call-of-duty","tag-modern-warfare-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31489,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions\/31489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}