Warzone Season 4 review \u2014 Best gun meta yet & feels like an action movie ActivisionWarzone is all about guns and, after nerfing the MG 82, Season 4 has the best gun meta yet. While the map changes are unexciting and the anti-cheat remains MIA, this season of Warzone is as action-packed a movie as ever. Metas, maps, and mechanics dictate the staleness of a battle royale. Before Season 3\u2019s Verdansk \u201884, Warzone was severely lacking in the former two. But Season 3 gave us a refreshed map and the game\u2019s most diverse secondary meta ever. And now, the new season has only continued that upward trajectory, albeit without doing anything very ambitious otherwise. Three new guns, relentless weapon tuning, and the flashiest Battle Pass yet. Season 4 may have only brought a few map changes (Red Doors, Satellite Crash Sites), but the ante has been upped. Notorious ailments remain, but this season has brought the game\u2019s widest loadout variety, fun cosmetics, and\u2026 a Dirt Bike. The latter might not seem very exciting, but it did give us the greatest Warzone highlight of all time. Warzone Season 4 trailer The best gun meta in Warzone history Everyone has their favorite Warzone guns. Some people miss the M4-A1, RPG days. Some miss the Grau. Very few miss the months of R9-0, DMR, and AUG oppression. Season 3 was already the game\u2019s most varied meta, then Season 4 \u2014 after a big bump in the road \u2014 took that even further. To launch the season, they introduced three guns, tuned 15, and adjusted a number of attachments on all Cold War snipers and assault rifles. The new MG 82 was unbelievably broken, so they nerfed it (an impressive) six days later. While the FARA 83 and Kar98k are the two main primary options right now, a number of others are getting tournament and regular play (e.g. the C58 and Swiss K31). And, continuing Season 3\u2019s trajectory, the secondary meta is incredible: Cold War MP5, XM4, Milano, MAC-10, Nail Gun \u2014 you name it. A shooter\u2019s central draw is the shooting and this season has more shooting options than ever before. Oh, they also finally made it possible to save Cold War gun classes. Special shout out for that. Map changes aren\u2019t anything special Dropping into the exact same map can be a bore and that hasn\u2019t been entirely solved in Season 4. They added fast-travel, loot-goblin Red Doors, some Satellite Crash Sites, and a Hijacked Gulag. They\u2019re all kind of cool, but none really get the blood flowing. One nice change though: the vault was removed from Nakatomi Plaza, meaning the quasi-limited-time-mode with a Specialist Bonus and $100,000 is finally gone. Altogether, the devs didn\u2019t ruin the map, but didn\u2019t do much to give it life either. Bigger budget action movie: Fun Battle Pass, fun Dirt Bike Warzone is cool because it feels like an action movie. And that feeling has only elevated in Season 4 \u2014 with a bigger budget and more outlandish options. If you want a wild time, look no further than reactive Operator skins, sillier emotes, and the now-infamous Dirt Bike. Getting CRAZY with the new dirt bike!!! \ud83d\ude31 #Warzone #CODTopPlays #CallofDuty pic.twitter.com\/IdKUSONS98 \u2014 Ham10Banks (@Ham10Banks) June 17, 2021 I mean, come on, that Dirt Bike play is as close to an action movie as you can get in a multiplayer title. Past that, the two reactive Operator skins are fun (one through the Battle Pass) and there are other goodies. When has a game\u2019s BP ever come with a middle-finger emote, animated ganja-smoking calling card, and an Illuminati pyramid charm? It\u2019s part funny, part kitsch, and all self-aware action cinema. The same sore spots: Anti-cheat, SBMM, dev errors Some issues are low-priority, like the primary gun meta (I miss you, M4-A1) and map changes (\u201984 wasn\u2019t introduced long ago). Some are even lower-priority, like the song selection for the \u201880s playlist in Season 4\u2019s BP (which could use some more bangers). But then there are the three longstanding problems that have yet to be remotely addressed. Solves for Warzone\u2019s anti-cheat and dev errors are still MIA, over a year after its release. Additionally, the SBMM situation has zero transparency \u2014 so kill-race tournaments are chalked and pubs are absolute dice rolls. The community has loved the transparency about weapons and mechanics, so let\u2019s see some progress on these issues too. Separate ranked and quick-play queues like Apex Legends? Custom lobby codes like Fortnite? There\u2019s a lot of potential here, but radio silence from the devs. Those things ought to change in the near future. Rating: 8\/10 Overall, Warzone is about shooting and shooting in Season 4 feels more dynamic than ever. The transparency about, and responsiveness to, the gun meta is unprecedented and that\u2019s enough for a strong grade \u2014 despite the relative quiet start to the season (I guess we can\u2019t always have a nuke). Past that, the action-movie cosmetic and mechanic elements are tremendous, but drawbacks persist. If the devs worked on those as much as they do purchasable cosmetics, this season would have approached a perfect score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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