BulletSweats

Warzone is in a bad state. @RavenSoftware @Treyarch here’s some ideas to help fix the game: — Warning: hot takes ahead — 1. Remove the barriers to entry. None of my friends want to play because “their guns aren’t leveled up.” If you own BO6 they should automatically be max leveled in Warzone. Make camos be the grind. 2. This one’s obvious, kernel level anticheat. Ricochet was a complete failure. Take notes on however it’s being done by other big games. Many big streamers forced into a shadow ban loop, literally forcing them into not promoting your game is CRAZY. Imagine if you heard of another company trying to silence their promoters, their shareholders would actually lose their minds. 3. People love black ops multiplayer, but return the modern warfare look and feel to the game. Really should make it look, sounds, and feel like Warzone 1 as that was what made Warzone great, while retaining the quality of life, omnimovement, and changes that have improved fluidity and stability. 4. Either commit to players starting with loadout or take them out. Maybe even have a “no loadouts” mode. Regaining is seriously one of the worst feelings you could have playing. Dying in a millisecond to someone camping and having to spend so much time getting loadout again takes away from the experience. 5. Given they added loadouts as something you dropped in with, remove perks from something that’s part of your loadout and make perks, extra rare weapons (maybe 10 attachments?), and a big diversity of fun equipment as the loot pool. Loot should be the advantage, not your loadout. 6. Focus on more “rock, paper, scissor” dynamics when it comes to balance instead of “winner takes all”. There’s always a “best” options for weapons and perks which is not good. Every boost should counter a different boost. 7. Have all BR maps that have ever been, on rotation. Switch them out every week. Or take an Apex approach to map rotation with big map. Lots of players would come back to play Al Mazrah, Caldera, Verdansk, etc. each week. 8. Vault all the duplicate attachments and all irrelevant weapons from older games only retaining weapons that were meaningful. Kar98k, superi, maybe the RPK from MW2? Anything that players at one time enjoyed and could feel nostalgic returning too. New players faced with 200 weapons and 25,000 attachments, with 10 hours+ to level each because they don’t know what weapon will be best tomorrow is insane. 9. Seasonally (but more ideally, monthly) events. And I don’t mean “get lots of kills for a camo you’ll never use!” Events. I mean Godzilla vesus Kong level events. Krampus events. Things that introduce big and compelling elements to the game that make the game exciting and worth trying again. I know krampus was annoying, but it was extremely memorable. Coolest thing we had lately that was even close was purgatory. 10. Remove as many delays as possible. If you can die in half a second, equipment that can save you should be pop-able in less than that. There needs to be counters to getting shot at from campers or while out in the open. This would help alleviate the feeling of “what am I supposed to do there” when dying to unfair advantages. 11. Many perks should be default. Overkill, any movement related perks, even gunfighter, should be native. Perks should feel MUCH stronger, and again should be moved to the loot pool, not loadout pool. 12. Content should be “iconic” and memorable. If you are adding a new map, each POI should feel memorable, not a cluster of “copy and paste” buildings.” Weapons should feel memorable. Not another “low recoil/high fire rate” gun. Operators should feel memorable (this has been done well lately.) the more iconic something feels, the more players will love playing with specific weapons and in locations and content created playing Warzone will feel more entertaining, naturally. This is my list, do with it what you will.