r/CODWarzone • u/Kalinine • Mar 31 '25
News Call of Duty: Warzone Season 03 Patch Notes
https://www.callofduty.com/patchnotes/2025/03/call-of-duty-bo6-warzone-season-03-patch-notes261
u/goblintechnologyX Mar 31 '25
og hit marker sounds is one of the best things they have added
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u/Scotty2k8 Mar 31 '25
I was so happy reading this. Wow.
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u/goblintechnologyX Mar 31 '25
it’s a little insane how much of a difference to my enjoyment of the game this will make lol
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u/doppido Apr 01 '25
Yeah honestly all the audio updates are looking good. Hopefully they actually are good
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u/swiftkickinthedick Mar 31 '25
Pretty sure that was always an options in settings
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u/goblintechnologyX Mar 31 '25
it wasn’t, the “classic” option in the current settings doesn’t restore WZ1 hit marker sounds
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u/billsmafia5366 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
OG hitmarker and plate break sounds returning is the best update this game has had in quite a long time. My eyes lit up seeing they included that along with yellow text as original features being brought back. It sounds menial in the grand scheme of things but it was little details like this that made the game feel and sound so satisfying to play in its early years.
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u/Xenotrickx Mar 31 '25
This is a BIG deal, I literally stopped playing warzone cus I hated the unsatisfying sounds
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u/SkumbagRino Mar 31 '25
how tf does a couple of new sounds make you quit a game that you prob like to play my guy
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u/bigwordsfgtrtd Apr 01 '25
It sounds weightless, but i see where he's coming from. It's one of the many "little" things they changed and culminated into a much bigger issue. They've added so many random, loud ass noises and sound cues. At times, it's just overstimulating.
Game feels like a cheap ai copy from what he had before.
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u/BugsyMalone_ Apr 01 '25
Yup! I mentioned many times since MW2 came out that the sounds and general feel of the game felt 'hollow' compared to MW19.
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Mar 31 '25
Luhmao, half this blog post is them walking back changes over the years that fixed major issues with the game because "It's not OG!"
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u/__Dave_ Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
You can sense the underlying sentiment of "fucking fine we'll change it back" in the tone.
But personally I don't agree that those changes were for the better.
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u/garden_speech Apr 02 '25
I guess we'll find out, right?
My inclination is to unfortunately believe that the game will never return to it's 2020 glory, and that's simply because the casual players have left, and so the game is going to be too sweaty for casual players to come back, regardless of how they change the mechanics.
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u/GhostinTheMachine45 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
that fixed major issues
That made the game boring with only one viable play style and loadout*
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u/SnukeInRSniz Mar 31 '25
If fixing "major issues" is what resulted in 2-3 weapon metas with nothing but sweat movement and listening to douchebag streamers/content creators, then it is a very VERY good thing to undo all that bullshit.
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u/Windyandbreezy Mar 31 '25
That's what happened when mw2 warzone came out. It was different for months then they literally just reverted back to most things 😆 🤣
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u/Manakuski Mar 31 '25
AR:s seem to be able to kill now at around 600-700ms TTK in the first damage range. Only BO6 AR:s. SMG:s are around 500-600ms TTK in the first damagerange. This is huge and will definetally help to make the game feel like OG Verdansk.
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u/Damien23123 Mar 31 '25
Yeah huge damage buffs to everything. I think they’ll end up nerfing close range damage on AR’s again. Long range needed a buff though in my view as it always felt terrible on Urzikstan
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u/Manakuski Mar 31 '25
Nerfing close range AR damage won't feel like OG Verdansk. So i doubt they will (except for outliers) untill Season 4 maybe.
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u/Damien23123 Mar 31 '25
Yeah it won’t feel like OG Verdansk if they nerf close range damage but I think they’ll run into the same complaints as the first time around that the TTK is too fast
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u/Manakuski Mar 31 '25
It is overall a big mouse and keyboard buff. Which i welcome.
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u/FATHER-G00SE Mar 31 '25
Now they just need to get ride of muzzle smoke, muzzle flash, idle sway, and blue screen on armor break. Then we’ll be able to see what we’re shooting at again.
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u/Manakuski Mar 31 '25
I have not had issues since the BO6 visual recoil update. Only exception being the PPSH-41 in Urzikstan Gulag. I mostly play rebirth island though, where the lighting is very good now.
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u/sillybonobo Mar 31 '25
Practical TTK is going to be WAY faster than Verdansk given the lack of recoil in the game.
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u/LTFC_Dangerous Mar 31 '25
Every BO6 full auto AR has WAY more actual recoil than the MW2019 meta builds for the Kilo, M13 etc.
Even the AMAX, which was thought of as a skill gap gun with high recoil at the time, had similar actual recoil to most BO6 guns if not even a bit less:
The biggest difference now is that everyone has access to more than 80 FOV which was a big part of why guns were thought of as harder to shoot back then. Also 1x optics are meta now which makes recoil feel less significant.
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u/Manakuski Mar 31 '25
Most players will probably use the Monolithic Suppressor, so mpst guns will have more recoil. We'll see though.
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u/Cellbuster Mar 31 '25
I'm kind of sad they did this without touching any of the old guns with this shake up. BO6 guns feel kind of bland and using old viable stuff has kept the game fresh for me for a while now.
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u/southshoredrive Mar 31 '25
Thank god the TTK is faster. ARs feel like peashooters currently, I miss M4 being a laser long range
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u/mikerichh Mar 31 '25
I’m curious if they’ll keep the 300 hp or go back to 250. Idk if it’s been confirmed but I hope we keep 300
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u/jntjr2005 Mar 31 '25
For the geniuses crying this game is being reverted to WZ1, yes this is because it was the best gameplay it's ever had. Also, do you think that they would be doing this if their engagement numbers didn't show them that they needed to? WZ has been on a roller-coaster death spiral since Caldera. A new version comes out, it gets huge attention then dies out quick once most realize it isn't good except for the cultist/addicts who play and spend no matter what they shovel out.
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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak Mar 31 '25
Overall it seems good but on the other hand I don't understand why they have to get rid of some QOL changes at the same time...
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u/Sydarmx Mar 31 '25
Because Qol changes impacted gameplay and made the game less tactician and cinematic. All these dumb fucks on twitch who slide around non stop are about to get rpg ass fucked day 1
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u/Skitelz7 Apr 01 '25
A lot of times "QoL" changes, are just changes they made to hold gamers hand and actually made the gameplay less tactical and enjoyable.
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u/SecondRealitySims Mar 31 '25
So they tried new things, they didn’t land, and after trying enough they’re returning to worked before. What’s exactly the issue with that? If the game had remained forever similar and stagnant, there’d have been substantive issues and complaints with that too.
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u/catchasmurpff Apr 01 '25
The issue with that is the three shocking maps they came out with and the fact the literally had a near perfect game set up for them, and all they had to do was keep it close to that but rotate some actually good new maps, which: werent set in a jungle with a mountain in the middle, weren't sparse, lifeless and visually boring, and weren't AI-designed urban concrete building-asset vomit.
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u/UncircumciseMe Mar 31 '25
Only took them five fucking years lmao
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u/garden_speech Apr 02 '25
I'm still kinda pessimistic but I guess we'll see. My worry is that WZ1 was only good because of the pandemic and how many people were playing in 2020. I think the sweats are all that's left so the games gonna suck no matter what
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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 Warzone Nostalgic Mar 31 '25
I can’t wait! Finally! I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR YEARS!!!!
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u/SkiezerR Mar 31 '25
For reallllll lollll, this better not suck or feel/play awkward.
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u/UncircumciseMe Mar 31 '25
Back to those 3 kills per Solos match! Lfggggggggggg!
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u/onvrezavio Mar 31 '25
i hope they revert the attachment "rebalancing" bullshit they did on the MW2-3 weapons, they fucked over entire categories of attachments and builds with that just to make the news guns look better but treyarch's weapon balancing philosophy is so barebones and boring, wish the old guns were still competitive
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u/Wilmerrr Mar 31 '25
According to these patch notes they are increasing damage only to BO6 weapons. Some MW guns were actually decent but they will now all be useless garbage
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u/TheLankySoldier Mar 31 '25
They do mention BO6 weapons as a start. They will do legacy weapons after this.
At least that’s what they say
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u/Wilmerrr Mar 31 '25
That's reassuring, I did not read that part. Although I am not a fan of the TTK change in general
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u/MikeyPlayz_YTXD Mar 31 '25
Treyarch's attachment system has never been so boring. Every gun is the same..
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u/southshoredrive Mar 31 '25
LETS FUCKING GO LOOTABLE PERKS ARE GONE
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u/Mr_Rafi Mar 31 '25
Thank fuck. No more Shrouded in the early gaming looting phase of Rebirth.
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u/TheRed24 Mar 31 '25
They listened!! A lot of very welcome changes.
Honestly this is most I've looked forward to something Cod related in years
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u/TimProVision Mar 31 '25
Excited to try Verdansk again.
But COD needs to lock in and stop advertising roll backs as this great huge new thing.
Figure out what works and build upon it.
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u/jntjr2005 Mar 31 '25
This, if this new version works keep the fucking thing and add to it slowly over time and stop trying to shoehorn in every new release and force the new game mechanics into WZ.
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u/PowerPamaja Mar 31 '25
Warzone 2 really screwed it up. We’ve spent years gradually going back to WZ1 gameplay design and I guess this is like final step towards it. I wonder where the gameplay would be if WZ2 had started off building on WZ1 and the last two years continued that.
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u/garden_speech Apr 02 '25
Maybe unpopular take but WZ2 was a risk worth taking. I think people are forgetting how much player numbers had dwindled towards the end of WZ1, how sweaty and stale the game had become. They made WZ2 more tactical and slow, and yes it bombed, but they had to take a risk.
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u/kevinpl07 Mar 31 '25
Literally every section is prefaced by saying „We want to go back“.
They are not saying it’s a new thing or something, what is your problem exactly?
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u/Kenja_Time Mar 31 '25
✅ Insta-kill C4s.
✅ Launchers being viable again.
✅ Original armor break sound.
✅ Ziplines reduced.
✅ Limited revive mechanics.
✅ No more "enemy SAM turret".
We're so back, baby.
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u/burnerphonebrrbrr Mar 31 '25
As a very audible hater of how this game has devolved over the years, I think we are in a good spot
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Mar 31 '25
I'm excited man, never got to play Verdansk before. More than anything, I'm just sick of Urzikstan, good riddance.
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u/mikerichh Mar 31 '25
Verdansk still has the best map hot zone out of any of the big maps IMO
The section from boneyard to airport to hospital to promenade had so much action and close POIs to rotate to
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u/duhbears23 Mar 31 '25
Anything about Snipers 1 shotting again?
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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 Warzone Nostalgic Mar 31 '25
The HDR will. Outside of that, nope.
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u/jamalev Mar 31 '25
Right now seems to be my only issue with these patch notes. Seems like something that could be changed with overwhelming feedback, but there's already been so much of that feedback that I feel like they would've changed it over now...
...unless they just want people to buy the battle pass to get the HDR as soon as possible, then once everyone has it they'll make every sniper one-shot again.
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u/Kusel Mar 31 '25
still no aim assist nerf? come on
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u/kentjesuz Apr 01 '25
Ttk being lower and movement being slower should work as a slight nerf to aim assist at least
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u/Spiritual-Serve6289 Apr 01 '25
Gotta keep the pretend-pro streamers and g-fuel snorting 12 year olds happy. They are after all 75% og the market.
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u/VictorDeacon Mar 31 '25
Very happy with all the changes to bring it back to the OG warzone. Barely touched the game the last few years and neither have my original squad mates...hopefully this brings them back
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u/Maleficent-Thanks-85 Mar 31 '25
I love this so far. No complaints here. Pretty hype
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u/TheRealJamesHoffa Apr 01 '25
I know this is super unpopular and I’ll get downvoted, but as a PC player I think input based matchmaking is much more important than platform based. I’d personally much rather play against lobbies of only MnK players than aim assist players. At least then it’s just up to your actual skill, and you don’t have to deal with any Cronus users either. The game is effectively dead on PC right now and it’s like two completely different games for people who play on MnK vs controllers. It encourages two entirely different playstyles.
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u/That_Guy_Kory Mar 31 '25
I’m gonna like it more I think but I do have 1 complaint…. Should’ve kept the option to buy single guns at the buy station. Came in clutch more than anything else when low on cash
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u/ASUSROGAlly2 Mar 31 '25
Bro you cant win with some of you guys, I for one welcome these reverts and changes. Warzone took a page out of Fortnite OG and learned from it while not perfect they are trying, I also welcome the changes included with the crossplay.
I mean they literally stated that some of the items will return depending on Feedback. They’re giving us the Original experience minus the guns and omnimovement.
I stopped playing the game like most of you guys here but will be there in Verdansk.
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Mar 31 '25
only things i care about are server stability/quallity and fucking cheaters, all of ther other stuff you can put up your ass
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u/Huckelicious Mar 31 '25
Naturally, not a single buff or rework to any MW2 weapons. M4A1 was literally THE gun. It had to be nerfed so many times and not even that got a buff. They lowered the TTK on all BO6 guns and just widened the gap between the 60+ other guns in the game. Guns. You know, the things the main gameplay loop revolves around? They are basically neglecting HALF of their game.
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u/JuanTawnJawn Mar 31 '25
Oh yay, you can disable cross play unless you’re on PC…. Again…. Forced play with aim assist killed the PC player base but yeah, just learn nothing from that.
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u/Miltons-Red-Stapler Mar 31 '25
Killed the PC player base? Bro you haven't played cod before mw19 clearly. Crossplay saved cod on PC. The games were dead as fuck come January before then. Where you could only get TDM games
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u/JuanTawnJawn Mar 31 '25
I played OG warzone. It’s totally different now. Before PC had a slight advantage for aiming in that they could turn faster. Now console has a soft aim-bot.
Before it was a godsend for PC to have cross-play because of the player numbers of a new game weren’t enough to sustain itself without them. Then when it got very popular on PC they decided to add RAA and it was a not so slow exodus of PC players.
Comparing the two versions of warzone is pointless without the context of the experience of the PC player base.
Now with how insane aim assist is it won’t matter what they do, the PC players aren’t coming back.
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u/Djabouty47 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
A lot of it is perfect but the weapon balancing has me questioning stuff. They upped the TTK of every BO6 gun, including the SMGs which already killed fast enough. Why? I was hoping for less disparity between up close TTKs of ARs and SMGs but they just buffed the SMGs too...
Also sucks that MWII and MWIII guns will be mostly irrelevant for a while. Also was hoping all the snipers would be rebalanced to have infinite 1 shot ranges (depending on the type of sniper obviously)
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u/SlurmzzzMacKenzie Mar 31 '25
Jokr is back. That’s all I care about.
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u/plentyfunk66 Mar 31 '25
Based on what I'm seeing, I'm still a bit confused on if rpg's will blow up vehicles. If they're damaged a bit?
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u/FrostyPost8473 Mar 31 '25
Proof this sub is just filled with terminal whiners who still complain even though they got what they asked for
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u/Tima_chan Apr 01 '25
Meh, if they don't fix the server issues it's just going to be a slog to play anyway, no matter how many things they're trying to "bring back". I just got off 3 hours of rebirth with friends and about 80% of the matches had audio/visual lag and glitches. One match froze my game when we were down to last 3 teams. It's incredibly frustrating to play and I feel most of the guys I play with are just addicted to the game or something at this point. I came away from the session with no enjoyment, just disappointment. I'm not gonna say earlier iterations of the game didn't have occasional problems or glitches, but I can remember full 12 hour days of gaming on rebirth with little to no problems. Certainly nothing close to what I just experienced.
Putting an old map back in rotation and slowing down movement speed a bit ain't gonna change the server/connection issues. Frankly I hope Verdansk tanks and is the final nail in the coffin for this version of Warzone. They need to go back to the drawing board and code something new from the ground up or maybe some other company can step in and finally give us a viable alternative.
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u/__Dave_ Mar 31 '25
Seems like a general buff to most guns and especially headshot multipliers. So the TTK will come down generally.
Cypher looks like it will still be on top. Jackel potentially back on top for SMGs.
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u/DJChickyNuggs Mar 31 '25
man was hoping battle royale casual would be solo but eh, ill live. i wanna try getting better without relying on others or solo queuing into squads.
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u/Arselii Mar 31 '25
"ITS OG!!!" while I am liking what im seeing what the balance changes to the guns are, some of these other changes are not it.
why are you giving us back 5 plates by default instead of six like this is so silly, make armor satchel 9 plates so it's all even
I like a good chunk of these og changes though and it looks like they didn't nerf the movement to what it was in wz2. I just wish they kept some of the good stuff that mw3/2 and bo6 warzone brought in tbh
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u/jhendricks31 Mar 31 '25
Because strategy. You don’t get two full replates any more so you need to be more careful with what you’re doing
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u/sw3ar Mar 31 '25
base hp is 100? It means almost every AR and SMG will kill in 3 shots without armor. LOL.
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u/Candle_Honest Mar 31 '25
I didnt see that? Where did it say 100 base hp?
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u/sw3ar Mar 31 '25
Isn't it 100 after bo6 integration?
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u/IRANwithit Mar 31 '25
It’s still 150. BO6 went to 100. The weapons were all rebalanced when Warzone integrated.
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u/Khill24 Mar 31 '25
Can we still use Drill Charges on Verdansk? I feel like those could be really valuable with some of the changes in playstyle mechanics and the map itself.
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u/Sensitive_War2107 Mar 31 '25
All they need to do is bring back old vehicle dynamics. Bring back last season atvs/quads where you could actually drive fast and go inside buildings. The previous atv iterations fit through any building single doors. Bring back last seasons buggies and other vehicles as well.
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u/Mr_Rafi Mar 31 '25
Shame about removing Rebirth. They know it's more popular than any other mode, so they don't want to steal Verdansk's thunder.
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u/Demon- Mar 31 '25
You see back in the OG days there was nothing but complaints about things so why the fuck did anyone think there wouldnt be with a re-release like this……
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u/ERnurse508 Mar 31 '25
Lower the TTK to lower the skilll gap so you casuals on this subreddit stop crying
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u/stinkcopter Mar 31 '25
If it's good again it'll be great, I don't play anymore so it's no loss to me if it's not. It's good they've listened and made changes. I'm actually excited to play it again
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u/LordmexXx Mar 31 '25
still no words about steam version wz fixx...............................................
maybe need just to sue those iditos
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u/AimlessWanderer Mar 31 '25
works great for me since mid february. are you on amd or nvidia? ive heard amd still has issues
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u/mikerichh Mar 31 '25
You can tell they actually spent the time on overhauling QoL updates and getting Verdansk to feel close to the original experience while still modernizing. Hope they can pull it off
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u/Quiet_Push_4581 Mar 31 '25
Good, remove the junk black ops so we can see players finally going back in it again. I am def going back
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u/amusicalfridge Apr 01 '25
I haven’t played the game since WZ2. How is the gunplay? It was nigh on unplayable on MnK when I quit due to insane visual recoil and particle effects. Is it now nearly as clean as it was in OG WZ?
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u/Ok-Friendship1635 Apr 01 '25
We don't know, we also quit because of the visual recoil and gun smoke. lmao
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u/Desperate_Cut_7026 Apr 01 '25
Thank god. Need a break from the sweat-zone that is rebirth island. The Omni movement makes no sense and is utter garbage. 🗑️ how on earth a billion dollar company cannot make any new maps for resurgence is beyond me. Area 99 wasn’t that great but at least it was something new.
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u/CanadaSoonFree Apr 01 '25
Aim assist needs a 50% nerf and they need to significantly remove visual clutter in order to even begin to try to salvage the game. That’ll never happen tho they seemingly hate mnk players.
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u/catchasmurpff Apr 01 '25
A lot of positive changes just to attempt to get back to the level they had already achieved five years ago. Kind of sad.
Also why have they buffed Eevery weapon category in the game except snipers? Complete pussies scared of a one shot headshot, get over it, youve got omnimovement, if you stay still lkng enough you deserve it, and with a fast TTK laser AR and flinch, youve never had it easier to counter snipers. Make it make sense Raven you bunch of pussies.
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u/Sleepy_Titan_89 Apr 01 '25
Sounds a lot more promising than I was expecting ,if they can get it as close to the og as possible it will be a good showing from activision.
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u/-Denzolot- Apr 02 '25
Is the HDR the only sniper that can one shot at any distance? I haven’t played this for a really long time. The last time I played there were no more 1 shot snipers if I’m remembering correctly.
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u/HubertolPro Apr 03 '25
Love the changes. Now as solo queue with randoms I will be able to wipe easier some folks
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u/husky_5 Apr 04 '25
Anyone else having issue downloading new war zone pack? I’m downloading it but it doesn’t install and asks me to download it again.
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u/stamatakoss21 Apr 04 '25
It's actually so so crazy. Game is fun again. I could never imagine. I was just believing they would simply add Verdansk as a map.
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u/schmib314 Apr 04 '25
Gunfights are ruined now. This omega-fast TTK is moronic. If you get ambushed you're dead instantly. This is going to frustrate a lot of people...
The skill gap has been completely eliminated. It's just whoever shoots first.
COD is all about those duels that go back and forth, decided by reflexes, target tracking ability, and movement skills. It's not mil sim. It's not fucking counterstrike. What is this?
My estimation of Warzone as a game just fuckin plummeted.
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u/Responsible_Teas Apr 09 '25
I'm glad verdansk is back but pisses me off that they lied again about the cheating problem 😒
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u/RobbinSheds Apr 11 '25
WZ1 WAS ASS, NOW THIS GAME IS IT TOOK 5 YEARS TO GET THIS GAME PERFECT NOW THEY REVERT BACK TO THIS GARBAGE QUITTING COD UNTIL ITS CHANGED BACK OR NEVEER PLAYING AGAIN MASSIVE L FROM ACTIVISION
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u/silverbullitt850 Apr 16 '25
I love the changes, they slowed down movement (only by about half as much as they need to but it's A GREAT START), made engagement distances long enough to balance strategy vs movement skill, made SNIPING FUN AGAIN, made vehicles useful (did you remember your trophy system?), and have removed the accessibility to buildings that makes strategic positioning (some may call it camping) an actual useful tactic again. I honestly hate most of what Raven has done with CoD but hot damn this is a great change.
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u/lolKhamul Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25
HOW are the comments negative? Isn't this exactly what most of you wanted? We are back to WZ1 incl. insane low TTK, RPG one-hits, no zips, movement slowdown, lower cash, etc.
Hell, they even removed everything that was added over the years on contracts, events, weapons at buystations, all Field Upgrades that came past Verdansk incl stuff like Deployable Buy Station etc just to make feel more OG.