Balancing any game is a difficult task. The second things get more complicated than Pong, you're suddenly dealing with variables that can quickly grow tendrils and become a monster. In a fighting game a developer may have one to two dozen characters that must function harmoniously across all possible combinations. This is an incredibly difficult thing to achieve and balance patches are frequent in the genre.

Call of Duty: Warzone is in the middle of a balance crisis. Unlike most battle royale games, in which floor loot is pre-determined from a small pool of weapons, Warzone’s Loadout system means that players can essentially wield any weapon from the base game, with whichever attachments they want.

And what have players done with access to literally several thousands of mod combinations? Well, they’re racing each other to create an unparalleled death machine, of course, and Infinity Ward can’t keep up. By the time the studio discovers and nerfs a weapon that’s been causing the community bother, those really dedicated to the cause have found five other weapons that’ll atomise any enemy who dares be on the same map as them.