Anyone’s who’s been playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer recently will know about the S6 Stingray, one of a handful of DLC weapons added to the game recently – but locked behind loot boxes.
The tactical rifle quickly became a talking point, with many suggesting it was significantly overpowered, upset the balance of multiplayer and, because it was found in reserves (Black Ops 4’s loot boxes), added a disappointing pay-to-win element to the game.
The Stingray is incredibly powerful for of a variety of reasons, but chief among them is its ridiculously quick time-to-kill.
Its time-to-kill is fuelled by its Operator Mod, which significantly increases the damage each bullet that hits an enemy causes by making it explode. With the Operator Mod, the Stingray downs enemies at close to medium range in just 33ms. That’s significantly quicker than any other non-one shot sniper rifle in the game (the next quickest is perhaps the Auger with the high caliber attachment at something like 132ms), and pretty much impossible to react to.