Modern Warfare 2 may be giving people too much power with the addition of attachment tuning

come back when modern warfare 2 shown to only a select few in the media, one particular feature of the armorer was overlooked during the presentation. It showed the player adjusting the characteristics of weapon attachments, and some of the attendees even mentioned it in their trailers.

However, it has since been forgotten about, simply because it was nowhere to be seen in the beta, so everyone assumed it had been removed.

But it’s actually in the end game. Buried deep in a blog post about progression, Activision confirmed that players will be able to modify the behavior of attachments. The feature is unlocked by reaching max level with a buildable weapon, basically any weapon that can be modded at the Gunsmith.

This opens the new Tune menu, which will be available in the tuneable attachments. Essentially, the setting allows you to change the weight of the attachment’s pros and cons. As you can see in the screenshot below, there are two sliders that represent the particular stats for that attachment.

In this example, you can effectively reduce the ADS speed penalty for the Edge-47 grip, which could lead to some unique behavior not available in the standard version of the grip.

Infinity Ward sees tuning as part of the end game; the next step after unlocking all attachments. It’s unclear if you’ll be able to save different tunes from your chosen attachment, but it seems the goal is to create something new by messing with the parameters of each attachment on your weapon.

We’ve seen some lament in the community when the Gunsmith was first introduced for seemingly making the act of choosing a weapon and fitting attachments more complicated than it needed to be. Tuning will undoubtedly send the already disaffected into overdrive.

The Modern Warfare 2 campaign is out now (here’s our review), and the full game will gradually roll out worldwide in a few hours. Catch up on PC release times and console release times at the links.

Oh, and you shouldn’t change your console region to play before.