(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Why all of a sudden over the last two days has the game been completly filled with Silencers?Every room im in over half the players both sides now use silencers but before I almost never noticed it being used?Was there some update to them that im unaware of?

Also how does a silencer reduce damage?Is it because of decreased range?or do your bullets actually do less damage?

People are just sick of being on the minimap. The uav spam has created a new wave of map watchers (which used to be a pro skill keepin one eye on the map) now its easy kills. Hell im so sick of it i run a silencer and ghost and run around in circles if i need to stay in an area. Also when the game came out no one knew the maps so a being a red dot wasnt so bad. Now its the same as any cod, red dot = dead.

Silencers reduce the damage over range so bullets have a lower damage multiplyer at all ranges i think.

I think the DSR isnt affeted by a silencer, a guy kept killing me with it and it was always a one shot kill, maybe they dont affect damage that much anymore.

I'm not entirely convinced there is any difference. Personally, I think you've only just noticed it. I noticed a gradual increase.

Funnily enough, this is the first EVER COD game that I have NOT run with a silencer. Why? Due to the constant UAV spam and the inability to hide from them until you prestige, I thought it was pointless to use a silencer when they can see me pretty much the whole time anyway. I have now prestiged and because I am now used to running without a silencer, I haven't bothered to change tactic.

Maybe other people have done the same as me, but now they've prestiged, they have switched tactic to using the silencer like they would on any other COD game. Wait until Xmas time for the next wave of people (or kids) to start up and it will seem like nobody is using silencers again, for a while at least.

For some reason, I find that Silencer's are only really essential on IW games, but not Treyarch ones. On BO1 in particular, it was all about Rapid Fire on SMGs (in particular the AK74u) and if you sacrificed Rapid Fire for Silencer, particularly on a map like Nuketown, you were simply not getting a kill and it's as simple as that.

Radar = skill equalizer.
Knowing the location of people is a huge plus in a game with a super fast time to kill. And people wonder why camping is popular it sort of forced on you.
A silencer reduces the damage you do at range changing your range profile. Trying to remember, but I think the number is 15% off the max damage range/min damage range.
So your 3 hit kill range is reduced by 15% and 6 shot kills 15%
In the case of shotguns you get less of a penalty and same with snipers.




The penalty is pretty small for snipers and shotguns also.

Silencers take you off the mini map and make you a ninja! They're helpful for those who want high scoring gameplays