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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – How To Tune Weapons

Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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This Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) guide explains how to tune weapons in multiplayer.

Call of Duty has been living in the shadow of the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot over the last two years. But that’s changed with the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

After early access for the game’s campaign, players are now jumping into Modern Warfare 2‘s multiplayer mode. And players are curious about the new features and changes they’re now seeing for the first time.

Infinity Ward has revamped one fan-favourite feature in particular – Gunsmith. The way players customise, progress, and unlock new weapons has changed.

A brand-new feature in Modern Warfare 2 is weapon tuning. And this has left players asking how to tune weapons in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 How To Tune Weapons
Go to Multiplayer Loadout.

For those who don’t know, weapon tuning allows players to finely tweak gun attachments and stats to their liking.

It is a pretty revolutionary new feature that has introduced a whole new level of customisation into the already impressive Gunsmith.

With that in mind, let’s go over how to unlock weapon tuning and how to tune weapons in Modern Warfare 2

How To Unlock Weapon Tuning in Modern Warfare 2

Like many features in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, weapon tuning isn’t available right from the start. Players need to unlock it first.

Thankfully, unlocking weapon tuning is straightforward. It just takes some grinding.

This is how to unlock weapon tuning in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: To unlock weapon tuning, a weapon must be ranked up to its maximum level.

How To Tune Weapons in Modern Warfare 2

Once you have it unlocked, weapon tuning opens the door to much deeper customisation.

If you already felt overwhelmed by the plethora of attachments and their associated stat effects, tuning won’t make things any easier. But for those who love tinkering with their weapons to find the meta build, it is a new avenue of opportunity.

With weapon tuning, you can tweak things like handling, recoil, ADS speed, range, fire rate, and more.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 How To Tune Weapons
Select Gunsmith.

This is how to turn weapons in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2:

  1. From the multiplayer menu, navigate to the “Weapons” tab.
  2. Select the loadout and weapon you want to tune.
  3. Press up and select “Gunsmith”.
  4. Where available, attachments will have a “Tune” option next to them.
  5. Select the attachment you want to tune and use the sliders to tune it to your liking.

N.B. Shortly after launch, Infinity Ward removed the weapon tuning feature due to it causing bugs with the game. It will be reintroduced in a patch in the near future.

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Sam Harby

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