Treyarch has nerfed Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's loathed Recon perk, meaning your wallhacks won't last quite as long after respawning

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Activision-sanctioned x-ray vision has been reduced by an entire half-second.

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In the 10 days since Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's release, one perk has quickly become a focus for the player base's contempt: Recon. It's one of Black Ops 6's "combat specialties," which reward players for equipping a full set of perks with the same color-coded theme. Equip a set of blue perks, and you get Recon, which—to the confusion of anyone who's played a round of a competitive FPS—briefly lets you see enemies through walls whenever you respawn.

Players, as you'd expect, haven't responded well to their enemies enjoying Activision-sanctioned wallhacks. As our Morgan Park wrote in his own call for Recon's justified nerfing, "people are literally respawning, aiming at the head of someone they can see through a wall from their spawn point, and getting a completely unfair kill."

Interestingly, Treyarch also points out that Recon isn't the most popular combat specialty—that'd be Enforcer, which speeds up health regen after getting a kill. While those people might be getting their kills in a more honest and respectable fashion, they're missing out on what's easily the most powerful ability in the game.

Lincoln Carpenter
Lincoln Carpenter
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Lincoln has been writing about games for 12 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.