Warzone should remove core feature to prevent stale meta

Warzone continues to attract millions of players despite the game-breaking flaws many experience throughout a match. Whether it’s invisible Operator skins or hackers running rampant in Urzikstan, fans keep coming back for another chance to be the last one standing in the final circle.

Call of Duty’s battle royale features several unique mechanics including the ability for players to purchase their preferred loadout. Complete with attachments, perks, and utility, accessing your loadout as fast as possible is a surefire way of gaining the upper hand in the early stages of a match. Although loadouts play an integral role, they can result in a stale meta when Raven Software doesn’t apply regular balancing. To combat the issue, one simple suggestion could prevent a stale meta from ever appearing.

How to fix Warzone’s stale meta

As soon as the best loadout is uncovered, everyone flocks to it so they have a fighting chance in the heat of battle. To spice up the meta, one fan believes removing loadouts altogether will make all the difference.

If Call of Duty really wants to gain more players, do away with loadouts, and allow people to add attachments to ground loot the way it was in Blackout. A lot of people don't touch warzone because having to level up guns first is a chore if you don't like the MP experience. SBMM…

— 𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙘 (@TheeGodric) January 7, 2025

Instead of having access to a weapon equipped with the strongest attachment combination, the fan believes adding attachments as ground loot will alleviate the grind players have to endure to unlock the best items. 

Adding attachments as ground loot wouldn’t be the first time Call of Duty has utilised this to create balance. In Blackout, Treyarch’s take on a battle royale, players had to loot attachments and equip them to a weapon they find instead of gathering cash to spend at a Buy Station.

Why remove Warzone loadouts?

Ranking up weaponry can be a tedious task, especially when the developers add at least three new rifles as part of each seasonal update. Adding the strongest attachments and optics across the map gives players a chance to create new combinations alongside having to adapt to whichever weapons they’re able to find. 

Black Ops 6’s integration into the battle royale has been far from smooth sailing, so perhaps a radical change to the structure could inject a new lease of live into the game before Verdansk’s imminent return.

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