MODERN WARFARE 2 has new BIG Problems...

[@M3RKMUS1C]

*LIKE* this video if you want MWII to improve and fix these issues! What's the worst problem that you're currently dealing with in Modern Warfare II?

[@shuriken_]

Frame drops

[@alfieyounger2331]

Wolters Francis

[@Lionswordleo]

Freezes

[@FatalGecko58]

The game’s existence

[@uncleruckus69420]

@@FatalGecko58 ur just bad kid, I’ll put you in a glockoma for talking all that stick

[@sirmerc297]

The biggest issue I've had with MW2 bugs that seems to have gotten worse with Season 1, is that when partied up there's a big chance it'll get stuck in a loop of loading. It will just keep saying "Connecting" and I will have to change to a different mode to make it load properly. For instance, this happens on Quick Play, then I go to 3rd Person and it happens again, so then Ground War, again, Teir 1, it finally works. Plays one match, then it happens again.

[@xNeuhTactics]

all you need to do is make a new lobby, literally takes 10 seconds

[@shadowtitan8545]

@@xNeuhTactics the game will crash trying to do that.

[@subculture.deepfried]

@@shadowtitan8545 just search for a match of invasion quit the queue and search 6v6 again works every time

[@tomcampbellsoup]

A tip for people having this issue. Just change party from private and back to public. Fixes the issue without making a new lobby

[@SenorrKalpo]

Gotta change party leaders to fix this

[@Lvna1]

You can’t throw anything through that hallway barrier thing either. My shock stick got stuck and I shocked myself and died the first time lmao.

[@dehfook]

Yeah, left side with the forklift facing the office it’s an invisible wall on the upper half

[@wareqo9768]

Ive died a number of times to it cause i keep forgetting

[@Beybon]

You can’t drive a wheelson through it as-well

[@sabastianmatchett6441]

That glitch was also in MW19 but on the forklift side on the left beside the box

[@inconspicuous7464]

The drill charge would work wonders then, it has quite a powerful explosion

[@zai5416]

They also "nerfed" the solid camos, now their more desaturated and less colorful. IW sees something that people like and removes it.

[@DocRobin]

I think the biggest problem right now is all of us who were false banned. Plenty of people on twitter and the Activision reddit are reporting that they have been unfairly banned in MW2 for no reason, including myself. It's so sickening to pay $70 to $100 on this game only to get banned for no reason or for verifying your game files (wtf?). All this and Infinity Ward/Activision have not even recognized the issue, and no one knows if a fix is coming.

[@tristanator2177]

It is possible that if u used the riot shield glitch that could be the cause

[@DocRobin]

@@tristanator2177 I wish it was my fault, but no, I literally just played the game for about 10 hours and then was randomly banned. Didn't even have the riot shield unlocked yet lol, and now I can't even refund.

[@mack3001]

@@DocRobin happened to me too and theyre purposely not talking about it, they banned me which also means i cannot play the campaign, which actually goes against their own game policy.

[@DocRobin]

@@mack3001 Straight up, it bothers me so much that they can just take away all access to the game. Like why would it even immediately perma ban on just a slight chance someone might be cheating? Like at least let me only get a week ban or something so you can see if I supposedly try to cheat again, or let me play the campaign or something. Instead its just $70 right down the drain.

[@epgamer1145]

You wouldn’t be banned unless you had a reason for something to pick up off your account.

[@chate6866]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about issues with custom classes. Before season 1 if you weren’t host you got random load outs you couldn’t edit in between games. You had to back out to the menu to check your classes. After the update whenever you search for a game it brings up your warzone load outs instead of mp

[@micahcarpenter4460]

This

[@As1anViking]

even if i were the host or was playing alone id still get put in the wz menu

[@FrenchyJr]

Yeah those load outs were for warzone before it was out, I know what your talking about, you just pull out of matchmaking

[@dariandouglas-burden772]

Just finished a match of DMZ where I exfiled with the M13 and didn’t get it unlocked even tho I had it out at the time of exfil. Also annoyed at the lack of a proper HC mode but there’s also the fact that there’s no “tier one” shoothouse playlist which is kinda annoying cause HC shoot the ship was one of my favourite things in MW19 Went a while where I hadn’t watch M3RK but have been absolutely loving the MW2 content, keep it up but ensure you get enough sleep

[@ERZO]

Restart your game, you should have the M13.

[@junowunno1583]

Biggest problem I've got atm is crashing..... Tons of crashing, I've done everything the cod website told me to, verified game files , updated drivers and windows , yet my game crashes almost every time I tab out even for just a second... Another bug is when I press the social tab it kicks me right back to the choose game menu

[@ThatSchnee]

Erik, we appreciate you, if your continually are sleeping 5 hours a day grinding this game, it’s okay to take a break, we’re here for you

[@Sam36801]

Amen 🙏🏼

[@alexneville4063]

Yall are the lads we need! Thank you

[@kevincarneling7118]

This update removed anti-aliasing in the campaign on series x! Now all small details have tons of jaggies/aliasing! It' very strange why a season update would change the graphics settings in the campaign.

[@MegaPB4Life]

Happened on PS4 as well.

[@lucid523]

@@mrautismo420 name checks out lmao 💀

[@JCVenomous]

@@mrautismo420 🤡

[@jackalexande]

@@mrautismo420 bro what 💀

[@CowKirbo]

The worst part of this game is absolutely the bugs and how rough around the edges it is. It's fun but damn they are cutting so many damn corners.

[@juniore8001]

Something you could try for getting the tokens on Xbox is making sure you have the vault pack 2 downloaded because I had to manually download it for my tokens too for some reason it doesn’t automatically update

[@nols3662]

For those who do not wanna go through DMZ and get the chemist m13b all you need is a player that already has the blueprint in their contraband and have them drop it in game then exfil and you’ll get it for multiplayer. Hope this helps someone!

[@mapes1443]

Yesterday I found a HUGE issue at least for my xbox. every time I find a match either in multi-player or in warzone, in a party or playing solo, it shows an error saying "your profile was signed out". I've tried every reddit fix and it doesn't work so I'm currently having to reinstall my 131GB game. I'M LIVID!!!!!

[@MrGreen212]

Have yall noticed there's a play style list now in shoot house only. Between competitive casual objective and high kills. Now Idk if they got competitive and casual mixed but my god so many sweats.

[@NotaFollower11]

What does this comment even mean?

[@MrGreen212]

@@NotaFollower11 ill tell you, go to your game. Right! Go to shoot house, the one where you can only play shoot house. There's start and there's find a party, go to "find a party" and it will say party finder or preferences. Look at the preferences tab. And if you look at the bottom you will see play style. Primary play style and secondary play style. And you have a option to pick between competitive, casual, objective and high kills. Try looking at them. You'll see what I mean. Your welcome

[@NotaFollower11]

@@MrGreen212 oh yeah I see it 🤣 that's so weird

[@shmid9823]

Another thing they need to add is an in-game challenge tracker. Having to wait until a game is done/leave the game is a minor inconvenience, but if we could track 3 or 4 weapon challenges before games it would be nice.

[@Mus1kJunkie]

the pc stutters and the lack of a hardcore mode is absolutely killing the game for me rn. Being outgunned every time because I haven't worked through 3 different weapons to get the meta guns is so frustrating.

[@emielcors]

@@Bunger62 nah that's tier 1, nothing like hardcore

[@michaelbreckshot6589]

I came across something in DMZ, if you extract a weapon you have yet to unlock, it unlocks

[@mrcawfee.]

Yeah they stated it somewhere I think it was intended for helping people unlock stuff in a quicker fun way and to help those free to play players have a full arsenal if they choose to buy MW2. It’s a pretty cool feature I know some of those guns don’t unlock until pretty late.

[@ruudhansen89]

i were at 9/10 for a platinum shield, but now its saying that i need to get 2 melee weapons to gold, to unlock this challenge.. no idea how i'm supposed to anything about that.

[@BradyDoesntMiss]

I always fail to understand how these types of bugs aren’t addressed after 3 years of development. No AAA studio can release a game without a ridiculous amount of bugs or problems.

[@davidjackson9680]

It’s always gonna happen triple AAA is dealing with a lot more then a 3 person indie team

[@davidjackson9680]

And that’s another thing Triple AAA games should take like 6-7 years not 2.5-3 I’m surprised they made a game playable at launch considering how battlefield and cyberpunk did

[@LoneCrypT]

Idk if this is happening to other people but my custom perk packages are broken. I choose the perks I want then will be mid game and all the sudden my ghost perk changes to quick fix or tracker turning into battle hardened. The only partial fix seems to be choosing a different package then back to one you had to equipped. Also the perks it changes to do not do anything at all.

[@TheRama2299]

I get the wrong pop up, usually I have Ghost and the game says I got Quick Fix, but it's still Ghost not actually Quick Fix

[@LoneCrypT]

@@TheRama2299 well glad to know I’m not the only one experiencing it. Because no one seems to be talking about it.

[@Iwantedtokillyu]

Every time I open the game back up it resets all my settings controls audio interface fov and sometimes it resets just switching between warzone to multiplayer

[@Pckledaddy]

After playing the past two days I thought that multiplayer felt off. I hope that multiplayer gets as much attention as WZ2 and DMZ, but I’m sure Activision is down IW’s throat to push those game modes strictly to sell the battle pass and bundles. There is so much potential for this game, I’ve personally loved it so far and was dreading the release of WZ2 because I had a feeling something like this would happen.

[@EskimoAirman]

An issue I'm having is when I'm playing in a party on multiplayer, I'm unable to access my loadouts. When I go to the weapons tab, it shows me 10 loadouts that aren't even the default loadouts. When I need to edit my class, I either need to do it in-game, or have the party-leader back out of the match loading screen. I do also have the issue of missing tier skips from when I purchased the basic battle pass

[@codytarpley6328]

I’ve noticed before season 1 I hardly had any lag or connection issues however, once the new season came out I’ve had a ton of lag and it’s hard for me to connect to games too. Takes a full 1-5 minutes to find a game. I play on Xbox series X and like I said before season 1 I had no issues whatsoever.

[@lightwolf1664]

Aye It had happens to me as well, it happened in at least maybe three-two matches I think idk but I was getting annoyed. So I just stopped playing it and played something else.

[@nuranbilgin-arac9517]

Same here on PC

[@luismadude6780]

i literally cant progress my platinum camos, it says i need to unlock gold on all “AR’s” when i already have them gold.

[@Urboyyycarlos]

The speckled sefflepod is a charm inside a certain vehicle in DMZ/Warzone 2 It hangs in the middle,under the rear view mirror (Edit: It is most likely going to be the sedan)

[@xcollateralx3483]

For the shoot house bug it’s bc the map is not a exact copy but it’s the hall ways still have the mw 2019 hall way which is slightly smaller

[@_An0n_]

I havent played cod in 4 years quit the series but still love Merk's vids

[@woahh.curtiss]

I play solo a lot, better skilled matchmaking, but every single time im thrown into a late game. i would love a preference setting allowing me to never join an ongoing match.

[@iamdomooo]

Would love them to add game modes like infected and prop hunt for example. Really fun to play and have more variety

[@callunmcveigh4482]

Infinity ward don't want you to have fun

[@instinct2601]

I got falsely banned last night on the first day and dont know what to do they instantly denied my appeal. I play on steam.

[@haydencox8006]

Only issue I think is just a massive problem for me is the weapon customization HUD idk what it was in the beta but it’s a bugged mess for me personally another one is visual menu hud where names show in odd places in lobbies but personally I just wish overall activision would stop being so slow in updates patches got fixed it just feels like a slow process that is struggling to get fixed and I feel like time gatting shipment is kind of a awful idea for those who finally wanna progress their weapons without the worry of a big map where they struggle or they just can’t get the odds they want

[@joshv6972]

My campaign isn’t working. Every time I try to pick a difficulty it just freezes and there is nothing I can do. Please help me out Erik and try and help me fix this as I really want to play campaign

[@justVibes23]

My platinum challenge for the ARs is locked even tho I have all the ARs gold including the new M13 but it’s still locked. I think it’s cause of the other new AR being in the files but not available yet but not sure

[@agentlinrov1474]

The one issue that I can think about is that if you were playing DMZ and rank up the BP token, it seems to glitch out and put you back in the title screen. The token you earn doesnt show up until you exit the game fully and start it up again. Plus, I have no idea if the Battle Pass has a deadline.

[@ONI37]

Is it only me or did they also do something to gold camo? Looks a lot better now.

[@Shinnyy]

I believe they made on some changes to it for PC because it didn't look the best. I'm not too sure exactly what they changed, or if any change happened, but I do believe they made it look far better.

[@NotaFollower11]

They seemed to have made it less reflective, before it reflected so much that you couldn't even tell it was gold in certain lighting.

[@Dovinkii]

I have this weird bug where when i try to matchmake for DMZ or Warzone 2.0 i have a message everytime pop up saying something like “a person your platform denies permission to play with has joined the party. Would you like to leave the party” and NO MATTER IF I PRESS NO IT KEEPS POPPING UP

[@SoaRFennec]

New update Additions: Brought back the constant freezing and crashing. Removed social tab. Constant server issues in DMZ/WZ2. and so much more!

[@Shadow-s5x]

Major problems of season 1 locked m13 b in DMZ I understand locked weapons blueprints and operators skins in DMZ but dlc weapons need to be unlock in multiplayer Warzone 2 and spec ops

[@ChromaPrisma]

The reason you haven’t gotten the tokens is because you most likely didn’t purchase the vault edition through the in game store. You had to buy it through the warzone or mw2019 store to get the xp tokens. It’s not a glitch. However I do agree it’s bs that they only stated that like once and most ppl didn’t get the message. Like just let everyone who purchased the vault edition get the tokens no matter what store lol it’s stupid. Edit: if it’s an issue with just the battle pass tokens, then I’m not sure how to help there lol that is very odd.

[@Masochistickoala]

it isnt like that. Bought mine through the ps store and still got them

[@SoaRFennec]

this means nothing everyone got the 10hrs of xp tokens after they messed up marketing them. hes saying hes bought 3 copies of the game and didnt receive the battle tokens promised in that edition. Straight up ripped him off.

[@officialafrobec6803]

They actually did give everyone the xp tokens in the end

[@SoaRFennec]

@@Masochistickoala it was like that. but since they never clarified it they gave them to everyone.

[@GoatsephGerosa]

@@SoaRFennec I'm still waiting on my tokens

[@TheRama2299]

The game indeed feels like it takes way too long to find matches. I straight up can't find a single Third Person lobby with less than 200ms for some reason, and sometimes I have to restart matchmaking in core modes because the game for some reason decided to look for games with 150ms or more

[@Guffy2403]

The campaign looks amazing (from the small amount I've seen, I want as little amount of spoilers as possible) and so far I solely want the game for the campaign

[@rdclips3647]

The campaign is amazing I’ve played it all the way through it’s difficult yet fun and immersive

[@NickyG02]

Alex mason dies

[@itzeagle1969]

I'm locked out of my platinum camo challenges for my ARs, snipers, and battle rifles but I can work towards my gold for all the others

[@ErnestoGalarzaAsbun]

Hello there

[@wtfisthis1094]

Hi

[@suso6425]

Hello fleshy mammal

[@itsmrholmes738]

General Kenobi

[@thatonebabywhale]

In Xbox one multiplayer, we are not allowed to earn Battle pass experience for the credits in MP only on war zone you earn Battlepass credits

[@lonevs1884]

unlocked gold for the mp5 with the achievement popping up and everything but when i go to equip it the little lock symbol is still there but the camo challenges have a check mark as i’ve completed it , leaving me without being able to equip it at all

[@xandrecain430]

Haven't watched your videos in 5 years man, glad to see ur doing good

[@DatStapleBoi]

Another issue that I see no one talking about is that they have added new finishing moves in the battlepass, and you physically cannot use them, so you are technically paying for a product that does not work.

[@juzza_dude3948]

3:43 Warzone has issues giving out the tokens too. My friend and I won a match yesterday and I didnt even earn progress towards a token. Showed the screen but nothing happened

[@FreezingNick]

Whenever I join a match in WZ it keeps giving me the "a player your platform that refuses to play with you has joined, would you like to exit?" Every damn time I say no even in the GAME

[@disengagedsoul]

Sometimes when I use killstreaks. I am unable to use them, like I have to sit and wait for the 30 second timer to run out before I can move again.

[@mortalkombatrules45]

the friends list is completely broken for me and my friends, we try to open the social tab and it just kicks us back the quickplay menu

[@daxterman9889]

that invisible barrier goes around the top of the doorway as well; it stops you from throwing grenades. and you can demonstrate it with a Shock Stick pretty well

[@jaket8792]

The biggest issue I’ve had is my game crashes only when the map albagra fortress and the hydroelectric map. Not sure why (pc steam)

[@johnfreeman9842]

Currently the worst happening to me in game is the fact I keep crashing out of matches and keep getting hit with “DEV ERROR 11557” error message or just hard crashing out the application entirely. Also having an error message called “PLATFORM/TEXTURE_CACHE_ALLOC_ERROR” pop up every time I enter the “Featured Gamemodes” screen after going through the start screen. This is on my PS4, but there are likely similar issues happening on other platforms.

[@NewEraSupreme]

Bro I hopped in a match and I couldn’t do anything but walk straight and aim my gun. Wasn’t able to look left or right or even move left of right. Just run straight. I thought it was my controller but it was the game. I was so fed up bro. Then lagging out of DMZ multiple times LOOSING EVERYTHING

[@SaltSpirits]

im a pretty casual player. i only have a few gold ARs - just the ones I like using, and noticed that my challenge to unlock the platinum challenges was reset. I’m currently sitting at 3 gold ARs with 0 progress for the platinum challenge. I don’t even know if I’ll be able to unlock it anymore, since there are now only 6 ARs I can earn gold with including the M13

[@lluvkai]

In S&D sometimes it bugs out where one team gets an extra person on their team and that extra person was supposed to go on the other team.

[@Kingbasegod]

Some calling card challenges aren’t working properly too. I got 39 headshots with battle rifles out of 100 and it just stopped counting up no matter which gun I use

[@UnwantedToast]

I got a problem with my finishers. I bought bundles and even tokens to get new finishers and no matter what even if I unequip and equip my new finishers I'm still stuck with the original default one

[@mondaesskik9676]

I started getting werid crashes, where the game just completely freezes and crashes. you might need to verify the games files..

[@griffinmurray114]

I have noticed the gunsmith causes game crashing sometimes after changing multiple attachments on different guns.

[@javierborrez1189]

Yup, same issue.

[@Fuzely]

7:00 Good point. Me when I realised Gunfight wasn't in MW2, the gamemode I had like 75% of my playtime in lol

[@Zane-TheToiletSalesman]

The numbnail is literally the robot from Infinite Warfare and damn do I wanna scream GOOD DAY FLESHY MAMMALS

[@dessinger4998]

one issue ive notcied is that after I won in duos for warzone twice for the calling cards it didnt count towards a win

[@leelandwoods5056]

the battle pass tokens are in vault pack 2 which typically will not install on its own and you have to install it on ur own to be able to get ur tokens

[@smile.mp3906]

The platinum skin thing, I didn’t have any long shots, but I had all the gold skins for all my ARs. For some reason it’s saying I have zero gold skins-like it didn’t reset and I have to do it again it just literally broke and I can’t get the platinum skin

[@Joseph-lz8cm]

Couldn’t call in my VTOL would just pull up screen and I would have to wait for 30 seconds. Couldn’t cancel it or anything. Also got disconnected from DMZ for no reason after stuttering for a minute or so

[@PoyntFury]

If you want your battle pass tokens you might have to redownload the add on for the vault edition. I had the same issue and just redownloaded both of the add ons and got my tokens as soon as I started the game.

[@joeboomer9212]

I do like this game. My problem right now is that I can't even load the social tab menu. When I click it, the game takes me to the main menu without any error message. Sometimes I get a lil thing that says "fetching online profile" but then straight to main menu. I have no problem playing by myself but this issue is frustrating

[@CowKirbo]

I wish you could either track challenges to see in game or just have an area in the menu to view challenges.

[@TheAmericanCelt]

We did in mw2 2009

[@duncandehulst2016]

Not a major thing, but quite often after playing a while, the weapons customization menu only shows my warzone loadouts... Fun fact... I dont play warzone, and i cant get to my MW2 loadouts only after pretty much restarting the game i can reach them again! Other than that, im having fun (:

[@moisesvargas9398]

One of the biggest bugs I deal with is my mouse and keyboard in a semi-frequent basis not being registered by the game on my xbox series s. sometimes it literally happen when I'm in the middle of a game where I can no longer use the mouse and keyboard until I close the application for MW2022. And its not my mouse and cause the issue because I play a bunch of games with mouse and keyboard support including MW2019 and I never encounter this issue.

[@manic-8182]

Warzone 2 has a Bug where I cant open the social tab on PC for some reason ???

[@sake01]

The issue where you can't shot while on corner of specific building isn't just on shoot house happened to me on warzone multiple times while sniping

[@tylerweber2920]

All my launchers lost my plat progress...

[@esahc8979]

Every mw2 update weve gotten was over 90 gigs for my xbox series s, everyone i mention it to never had the same problem but its almost like im redownloading the whole game every update. This past update was 97gb for me

[@rooneyctmr]

max token glitch happened for me, also have all guns gold and it’s saying for 0 out of 8 for any of the catagories that have a new pass weapon are bugged (snipers smg )

[@cali..]

I've got a bigger bug to report: How about not even being able to play the game as every time I try installing the MISSING DATA PACK, I keep getting looped back in to having to reinstall it over & over & over. Many people are having this issue. Since the launch of WZ2.0 & Season 1, I can't even play the game. Guess I'll just hang out in the fire range.

[@charliedoig7235]

Don’t know if you follow the competitive scene, but they took out all the cdl game modes from private matches, which meant the pro teams can’t practice and the first tournament is in 2 weeks, I think they added it back now but was not available for like 5/6 days

[@spaceglide]

Activision has intentionally sabotaged their games for player retention or whatever for a while now. Same thing happens in WoW.

[@flyfly2427]

Don't forget all the ghost skins we haven't gotten yet from vault addition.

[@Muffinkakes1]

I’ve had some weird bugs but I really do enjoy the game

[@megherlichmihai9086]

The first time I tried playing Shoot House I threw a semtex at the barrier and died, left the match in less than a second and went straight to DMZ and had a lot more fun

[@staychrispy91]

Even if you play the game normally, the game doesn’t reward you with tokens. It’s glitched out or something

[@roxjoet]

Idk if it’s fixed yet but when I threw in overkill and picked riot shield in the secondary slot, you would just crash every time a kill cam played

[@HouseAtreides]

Loving, and Looking forward to the new videos bro. Glad to be watching your videos again! :)

[@greiratOS]

Idk if other people have this but sometimes lobbies just glitch out and it causes everything to be in slow motion, like a literal power point. It's not ping or fps. All I can do is just leave.

[@fernanology]

Warzone 2.0 bug yesterday while playing Duos. I called a Bomb Drone and I could not move the drone at all. Drone blew up in front of me. It downed me. I could not move when I was downed. Got revived. Could not move anywhere after I was revived but could still shoot. Felt fun being a statue. Maybe if I stood still enough I would be invisible to the common eye.

[@RicePikkerSMW]

Main problem I’ve had is the camp progress not tracking at all, I played some kill confirmed and got 17 prone kills with the signal 50, all of them were one shot one kills and neither of the camps gained any progress, so I literally can’t get platinum for my snipers atm

[@RobiiShadowRunnerBuckland]

The other issue with the tokens that me and my girlfriend noticed was that the “free” items in the battlepass still take away a token when you select the free item, like if its free why is it still taking tokens.

[@Juanchii9]

Idk if it id only me but when i play Shoothouse, in mid match my game always froze

[@natebradshaw1266]

Me and 5 of my buddies were having major issues matchmaking Game wouldn’t let us find a match with a party of more than 2 people. so we ended up just messin around on private match which you have to make a new lobby for every game. Lame Game Activision.

[@SuperRJ2012]

The mullet to face ratio overloaded the mainframe, which caused the g fuel cup to slip outside of dimension 6 at a high rate of speed@ 10:57 😌 ... Yes.

[@wetdropshots]

I literally almost had platinum ARs and it got reset/ glitched where it says I have 0/8 gold ARs and can’t even attempt the long shots

[@QE-mf6gd]

IW has now said that the Vault mode tokens will carry over to the next season. So if you don’t get them until later you can use them on future seasons.

[@alecciminelli4407]

I had 3 cheaters in my game yesterday. It was the most obvious aimbot walking I’ve ever seen. Also when I select my stuns mid game in lags my game horribly.

[@MrPlayDay]

I also cannot even earn battle pass tokens, i get the progress bar all the way up and then it just resets and i still have 0 battle pass tokens, so annoying.

[@frospering]

The Combat Knife kills doesn’t progress Melee Kill Mastery challenges, however melee kills with guns and launchers do count. (Using the increased melee damage muzzle does work as a substitute, albeit very tedious.)