Warzone without hackers….
People have complained about hackers in warzone, but I think the issues run even deeper. I think if one plays countless of hours, they’re more likely to encounter hackers. I myself can’t recall the last time I played against someone who was clearly hacking, but personally I might play an hour or a couple in a day, or even rarely at all.
When we think warzone, there’s that fun, open world element where you can interact with the map, teammates, and opponents in so many ways. Creativity is high, from cancelling the gas mask animation by pulling out your tactical, to flying a recon drone at a target and blowing up C4, to of course jump spots that the average player probably struggles to utilize in real time. For what it’s worth, I think these things are positives and should be brought out to shine more.
But what’s being a pain other than hackers are just the plain, overpowered crutches across the game. Can we imagine a more modern warzone, where you don’t have to deal with loadout or buy station campers? How about dead silence all over the map? Apparently paying attention to the audio is useless now. And another real pain in the heartbeat sensor, where it seems like every time I die it’s when I don’t have ghost and there’s a little Timmy hiding around a corner somewhere and getting an easy kill.
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Part of the beauty of warzone is there is a counter-response to most things and it can play like chess almost. But what happens when there are so many insanely powerful viable options across the gameplay? The rooftop loadout camping, heart beat wielding kids who will do literally anything and everything to get some kills and even a win are just killing this game. This brings us to the overpowered nature of weaponry in general, where assault rifles are the new snipers, but not even fun to use. Assault rifles are literally so powerful that it seems a majority of players are running them as sub machine gun builds, again to get that absurdly sweaty edge in gameplay. Personally I have fun sniping when the game lets me, and instead of using an overpowered AR, I usually run a submachine gun like the MP5 or PPSH. Why? Because I actually have a bit more fun with these guns, and I want to push myself to consistently land snipes in medium range. Sure, I can skip the sniper all together and run an over powered AR with my submachine gun, or pair an AR with my sniper, and yet my decision so far is to stick to my guns and play for fun with a submachine gun along my Swiss sniper.
And what do I have to show for it? Almost at random, after such a long losing streak, I won 2 out of 3 warzone matches. Cursed I was to have one of these wins somehow not appear on my records. I was stuck at 13 wins for such a long time, won a couple, and yet it shows 14 wins. Thanks warzone.
So where does this leave us? Can there be a warzone without buy stations, without dead silence, without the goddamn baby monitor that even pros have to use because it’s so overpowered, without having to battle 4 teams to get your loadout? I’m thinking it’s time for warzone to be come modern. Instead of physically having buy stations across the map, which encourages camping, can a virtual buy station be introduced? Can loadouts just be ready and appear, instead of the garbage camp fest that is this sweaty game?
With such popularity, and no real forum to convey disgruntled feedback to the makers of the game, I don’t see much change occurring. The perk to counteract dead silence is just a bandaid solution for what has become a parody of a game. Hackers are the least of our worries with all the cheap tactics and camping. Time for some radical measures, creativity — a more hardcore style warzon.
