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CyberneticPunks - How we verify

Every stat carries its receipt.

Every weapon, core, shell and location we track carries its source and how sure we are. Confirmed reads strongest. Reported reads weaker. Where we don't know, we leave it blank. And when it's our judgment rather than fact, we label it Our Read.

Real receipts, pulled live
Marathon · Unique Weapon

BR33 Victory Lap

Verifiedprimary-source confirmed

BR33 Victory Lap - a precision rifle built on the BR33 Volley Rifle

SOURCE  In-game Showcase data; locked_mods owner-verified in-game 2026-08-03

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Wardogs · Weapon

A-91

Reportedcommunity-reported

A-91 - 65.81 damage to the head (FMJ), 2 shots to kill unarmored

SOURCE  Swoleguy in-game shooting-range ballistics testing (YouTube), released for community use, 2026-09-10, attributed, not owner-verified

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DMZ · Location

14th Political Prison

Verifiedprimary-source confirmed

14th Political Prison - named in the official DMZ Deep Dive Part 1 (pre-release)

SOURCE  Activision, DMZ Deep Dive Part 1 (pre-release), Call of Duty blog, 2026-10-05 (https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2026/10/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-dmz-deep-dive-hajin)

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These three are read live from the database as this page loads - a real verified unique, a community-reported weapon stat, and a location named in an official source. If a row ever stops qualifying, its card disappears rather than go stale.

How we source

We start from primary sources - official patch notes, store pages, developer posts, and the live game itself - never scraped wikis or another site's numbers. A caliber, a confirmed weapon, a stated price: that traces to the studio or to in-game observation, and the row records where it came from.

Every fact carries a confidence level, and we never dress one up as another:

  • • Confirmed - stated first-party by the developer or verified in-game.
  • • Reported - real, but seen in a beta build or a community capture (or otherwise community-reported), and labeled as exactly that. It is not the launch record until the live game confirms it.
  • • Honest-null - when a number is not published, the field stays empty. We do not fill it with a guess, a model's hallucination, or a competitor's estimate.

That last one is the discipline most sites skip. When a game launches with weapons we can name but stats nobody has measured yet, we publish the weapon - name, class, caliber - with the damage, fire rate, and everything else left blank and marked pending. A real gap, shown honestly, beats a confident fake. The numbers fill in as the live game is checked, and the row flips to verified when they do.

When a source changes, we correct the record and re-tier it - a beta figure that the launch build overrides gets moved, not quietly kept. And the operation is verification-first by construction: nothing publishes without review, unconfirmed content is held out of search until it is verified, and the editors interpret verified data - they do not invent it.

We are AI-operated, and that is how one network covers every weapon, shell, and build across every game around the clock, at a scale a single desk of people could not. The difference from the scraped-slop sites is not that a machine is involved - it is that ours reads the source and refuses to fake the gaps.

How to read a tier list

A tier letter is a ranking within an engagement band, not across the whole arsenal - a shotgun is scored against other close-range weapons, not against snipers. Each weapon is graded on four axes drawn from its real stats - firepower (burst lethality up close, sustained damage at range), accuracy, handling, and range - and the combined score maps to a letter: S, A, B, C, or D. Tap into a weapon and you can see the axis breakdown behind its placement; the ranking is a transparent model over measured stats, not a vibe.

The honest part: a weapon whose underlying stats are not in the database yet is Unrankable - the model returns no letter rather than a made-up one. An unrated weapon is a data gap we are showing you, not a low score.

The confidence marks

Every structured fact carries its source strength on its face — the SAME mark you see on a weapon, shell, or location page appears here, so you always know how far to trust a number at a glance. From most to least confident:

Verified
Confirmed in-game or in official patch notes - a primary source. It also covers a fact named in an official pre-release source, which is labelled pre-release on its page.

primary-source confirmed.

Mixed
The row is confirmed, but one or more fields are still pending.

some fields still pending.

Reported
Reported in a devlog, a beta build, or by the community - usable, but not confirmed by us and subject to change.

community-reported.

Unconfirmed
Structure is known but the numbers are not published yet - shown blank, never guessed.

not yet published.

Our Read is a separate axis, not a confidence level. It marks editorial judgment - a ranking, a recommendation, our interpretation of verified data - shown in violet so opinion never reads as sourced fact.

Our Read
Editorial analysis and judgment - our read, not a confirmed fact.

our reasoned call, not fact.

Articles are being brought up to the same standard. Every article Justin approves carries his receipt.

How builds are chosen

Two things wear the word "build". Best Builds on a weapon or shell page are reviewed write-ups - a specific loadout with the reasoning behind it. The Loadout Finder is the interactive tool: you give it your shell, playstyle, and rank goal, and it assembles a full loadout - weapons, mods, cores, implants - by reasoning over the game's verified stat tables. It works from the same checked data everything else here uses; it cross-references real values and does not invent stats or item names. It is a starting point tuned to your inputs, not a decree.

The difference

A wave of AI content farms scrapes wikis, mangles the numbers, and publishes broken data as fact. We built the opposite, and this page is the proof you can hold us to: sourced from the game, tiered by confidence, corrected when it changes, and honest about what we do not know. If you ever find a number here that is not backed by one of the levels above, that is a bug - not our standard.

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