As part of the season three update, Raven Sofware nerfed the Bruen MK9. In saying that, Call of Duty content creator JGOD still believes that the LMG is still one of the best weapons in Warzone, thanks to a new Aftermarket Part.
In the season three update, the Bruen MK9 had its minimum damage decreased from 26 to 24 and aim down sight speed down from 410 milliseconds to 350. On paper, both should have knocked the LMG out of contention for being a viable long-range meta weapon, but the damage downgrade came with a catch. Call of Duty content creator JGOD went into a Warzone match and manually tested what changed after the season three update. Surprisingly, The YouTuber discovered that the decreased damage only applies when firing at an enemy that is 400 meters away.
And while Urzikstan is a huge map, you will never realistically be fighting enemies from that distance consistently. So, the slower ADS speed does hurt the LMG, but JGOD expects that the Bruen MK9 will be fine, because the new JAK Shadow Titan Kit, which was introduced in season three. The Conversion Kit improves ADS speed, reload quickness, movement speed at the cost of magazine capacity, bullet velocity, and range.
According to data provided by JGOD, the Bruen MK9 with the JAK Shadow Titan kit has an incredibly fast average time-to-kill speed of 681 millisecond in long-range engagements. In comparison, the consensus favorite weapon, the SOA Subverter, has a 774 ms TTK speed from all damage ranges.
Since the RAM-7 also got nerfed, there is a chance that the Bruen MK9 with the Conversion Kit is one of the best sniper-support weapons in Warzone. Based on the weapon pick rate percentages on WZ Ranked, most community members are using the TAQ Eradicator and Lachmann-556 for long-range engagements, but we’d put our money on the Bruen MK9 outclassing both of those options.
