The Only Way Warzone Can Survive...

[@ReplayMode]

Sorry for what might be another hot take... We got some fun, non-controversial videos coming up in the new year (assuming BO6 lasts until then :P) so stay tuned!

[@RuziNuk3]

if something as disgusting as MW3 survived, im pretty sure BO6 will survive 3 lives

[@rudnhed8djhrhdhdrhhfhf34]

warzone mod tools would be more appropriate, they have done mod tools before and its been successful so its stupid for them to claim its a bad idea.

[@rudnhed8djhrhdhdrhhfhf34]

also don't trade talent for "good ideas".

[@incompetencelogistics8924]

DMZ was an easy layup way to widen their offering and they just didn't

[@ReplayMode]

Such wasted potential...

[@SleepyjoeOG]

Lmaoo DMZ never left its “beta” stage from mw2 , they hyped it up so much to just abandon it

[@onemorescout]

because there is zero market for new extraction shooters and it flopped, twice with MWIII “Zombies” if DMZ actually had a sustainable playerbase it would’ve replaced Warzone by now

[@jmilianv19]

DMZ deserved better. That was the most fun I had on CoD since BO3. It should have been a free to play mode

[@wisdumcube]

Activision probably thought that the development going towards DMZ was the reason Warzone 2.0 sucked, so they got rid of it. It was not (but it certainly did not help). The problem was that Warzone 2.0 had a lot of bad design decisions, and it replaced the game people actually liked. For example, all weapons were hitscan, had too much visual recoil, TTK was near instant, and the general mechanics were just terrible and unpolished. And it's only gotten worse since then imo.

[@Brodman2k]

I honestly liked DMZ before it was sweaty. I honestly wished it was like MWZ where it's just PvE

[@Mattsuki]

7:48 this honestly has been my conclusion to most issues I currently have with cod and it's really eaten away at my enjoyment of the series. -300 cp less in battle passes? -shop bundles are now more expensive than even 2400cp? -paid for events that used to be free after buying the full priced game? -not sticking to a theme in multiplayer? -ai art and voice actors? -recycled maps without changes? -smaller less complex maps? -literally no self revive for free in dmz like u said + p2w dmz bundles too during mwii There's more. But it's all cutting corners to save a quick buck and inevitably this will lose fan's respect in the long run.

[@beachwind7274]

Your talk at the end about how made me realise that Battlefield isn’t CoD’s main competitor anymore, and how it hasn’t been for almost an entire decade. God, these two franchises really needed each other, huh?

[@ReplayMode]

Tbh that's a good point, I haven't really thought of the two in the same breath for a while. Maybe because BF is more of a 'once every 3-5 years' release now, so it doesn't feel as similar

[@justaserbiandoomer497]

Honestly that's why I pray Battlefield 6 turns out to be good. Cod has gotten too comfortable not having serious competition and it shows

[@rkb903]

DMZ, Ground War, Fire Team and also more live PVE events like the launch of Verdansk 84, or just open world sandbox modes

[@dillonc7955]

The live event with shadow company raiding the Al Mazrah observatory was byfar the best one. Absolute shame they don't try something like that once a season.

[@Zaxify6528]

Nah just let it die

[@8TFour]

The main problem I saw with DMZ is what you touched on, a lot of players started making it into 'mini warzone'. They would only go into DMZ to kill other players. Those players are the ones who hate warzone but somehow want to play....warzone. I never understood it but they ruined DMZ. However, I think DMZ could have been so much bigger if it received QoL updates and missions. Hell, I enjoyed the Raids for the same reason. PvE and you needed an actual team to do most missions. I had a blast with it.

[@dillonc7955]

This. I used to watch a handful of DMZ creators before they became the hunt squads they complained about. Some of the tier 5 missions may as well be considered impossible for the average player with how Warzonified DMZ has become. I've done some myself and tried helping my friends with them; never again.

[@ReplayMode]

Exactly! As an alternate to BR, I was really looking for something more casual, but DMZ just became the some of the sweatiest lobbies franchise history lol

[@JakeP2013]

Ground war being discontinued sucks so much, that's pretty much all I've played since MW19

[@arandomwatcher8174]

The whole MW2 felt like it was made for DMZ. But then they forgot to put muxh needed content in it. But for real, playing DMZ makes me kinda want to go back to WZ2. The recoil isn't even that bad. It was mostly movement and a sense of clunkyness generated by the high ads speeds. Man, I miss the WZ2 maps

[@Phillip_Graves]

The visual recoil in that game IS absolute aids.

[@arandomwatcher8174]

@Phillip_Graves Not really. The smoke mostly, but a 10-15% would be welcome

[@justaserbiandoomer497]

I can't be the only one who thought that Warzone 2.0 was good, right? I enjoyed the slower movement, the more tactical gameplay, the map was really good etc. All they had to do was make snipers one shot, reduce the visual recoil and bring back rebirth and I think it would have been my favorite installment of Warzone

[@Unpassantlambda]

Can we look at a video without crazy backround musics once ?

[@theladthatknowsstuff9901]

I wish I had something more productive to add to the conversation, but despite Fortnite's 3 BR modes (Battle Royale, Reload, and OG), all basically being the same game on different maps, they all feel so different, but BR, Resurgence, and Plunder all feel the same to me. Also, I see a lot of people praise Fortnite's Racing, LEGO, and Rock Band modes, but Fortnite has public player counts, and those modes did not do very well, and the racing mode isn't getting any new updates, so yeah it's cool to point at, but just like the World Cup LTM in MW2, nobody came to Fortnite for Rock Band. I think the only thing they should actually do is add Ground War, since that IS what Call of Duty is, but big enough to make sense on the free-to-play 120 player game, without being deep and expansive enough to make the $70 paid experience seem like less than the free mode.

[@ReplayMode]

Yeah, that's the challenge with GW on the free-to-play track (honestly with it on game pass anyway, just make COD free-to-play at this point to avoid all this) Good to know about player numbers, I appreciate though that they're at least TRYING new things. After all, FN started as a tower defense game, and COD started as just a basic WW2 shooter, but now it has zombies and BR as two of its biggest staples, and I wish they would continue trying to innovate and branch out and find the NEXT zombies and BR instead of circling the drain.

[@UBAT128]

Talking about rocket racing, was it a good idea? Yh, but the execution was rubbish. They had screw with rocket league community to do it. So much has been removed from rocket league after epic took over. So much has been promised to it for nothing to happen. Rocket league was supposed to having racing and unreal engine 5, all for it to go towards fortnite. They took away trading which is a huge part of the game where a large part of the community just do trading

[@XwiktorroX-u9o]

They should end warzone integration into Call of Duty titles. Candy anime big head animal non serious operators stay in warzone. The serious REAL authentic soldier operators return in yearly call of duty games. That is also why i think mw19 is better than mw22 and 23

[@dillonc7955]

Agreed but Season 1 of BO6 is already off to a bad start. More dragons, candy, and anime bundles than actual dedicated operator skins. Cold War had a perfect 50/50 mix between silly and serious. Hopefully season balances things out.

[@XwiktorroX-u9o]

@dillonc7955 I loved Cold war ! The operators really hit the Retro 80s aesthetic. They actually make sense , because the Black ops series was always less realistic and more arcadey than the modern warfare series. I think that its disterspecful , that Black Ops 6 , a game that shows a real military conflict - the gulf war, Has these ugly skins. What happened to immersion ? That is also why im worried about future world war 2 call of duties , but they already added Snoop dogg and space guns way back in vanguard -_- yeah... I am personally sticking with Black ops 1 and 2, world at war and MW2 and MW3 (2009) , (2011). ;)

[@Retw4d]

As a Warzone player I also don’t want anime bunny suit operators too I think all around, call of duty should just not add the goofy lookin skins

[@sirdoggy45]

Payload was my favourite warzone game mode by far. It's a mistake they keep stripping out the coolest game modes everytime a new game cames out, and then only bring back plunder and resurgence

[@Pigpen_YT]

In regards to DMZ, they 1000% should bring in just a PvE mode. As somebody who played MWZ for its entire lifespan, that was basically a DMZ PvE mode and the community was great! (at least from my experience) Like people would share items, get together to take out bosses, travel massive distances to revive other players who weren't in their squads. It just a fun time. A game mode starved of content but still a fun time. Making DMZ just PvE and making the PvPvE mode a hardcore variant would be the smartest move CoD's made in years. Also I LOVED ground war in MWII so to see it completely abandoned in MWIII alongside Invasion and War was just heartbreaking

[@ReplayMode]

MWZ deserved so much better in terms of support, it was a really fun 'lean back' sandbox mode, which is exactly what WZ needs! IMO, a PvE DMZ following MWZ's blueprint, but with more in-depth missions/side objectives, and PvPvE areas like Building 21, or specific regions around the map would be perfect.

[@koleoverby8313]

at 7:53 when you are talking about a self revive on solo in DMZ, theres actually a passive mission that can be completed relatively easily to unlock that ability. Dead drop 40 selfs on ANY map and any time you play solo you get a free self.

[@ReplayMode]

Ah, I completely forgot about the upgrade tree. Tbh though, stashing 40 self-revives sounds like a lot of tedium vs just spending 15 bucks on a skin. It should just be default

[@vaquero141]

@@ReplayModei did that mission in kochei. Had a ton of money, kept buying and depositing self's. Took less than 2 minutes

[@Mattsuki]

You mentioned 3 ideas to bring warzone back and my mind immediately went to DMZ 😂 Hell ya! It's point #1!

[@Mattsuki]

I agree with you. I think Warzone has massively overstayed its welcome and people like a good chill pve. SO HERE'S MY PROPOSAL!!! - Let's have the Warzone team make an open world campaign! NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH OCMs, but it would be more so like Ghost Recon Wildlands or DMZ but with more story elements and dialogue. I want the ability for(up to) 6 person co op squads, a huge creative and dangerous map designed for stealth, parkour, sniping outposts, enemy bases to scout + take over, etc, instead of these tame, lawn high grass, everything is easily visibile/competitive, boring warzone style maps... it would almost be like cod ww2 HQ, but with much MUCH more to do. Imagine the potential to play a War(game mode) but just miniature within this mostly open campaign map. I'd love it

[@ReplayMode]

Honestly I would love an open-world campaign. I know the DMZ crowd would hate it, but my ideal version of that mode is almost exactly what you're describing.

[@onemorescout]

F2P Ground War would be the nail in Battlefield’s coffin, the real competition would be with Delta Force at that point. Battlefield has already burned so many casual and hardcore players alike that it’ll take a miracle for the next game not to flop even if it is good.

[@battleclover9537]

DMZ was the only thing that kept us going. DMZ zombie mode was ok, but was definitely worse than MW2. Now they just abandoned it. Love having long term challenging missions which BR just doesn’t offer

[@BioticCryptic]

Getting this in my recommended 32 min after it’s uploaded is crazy work

[@deadlykrede]

I'd take Blackout over Warzone any day. I'm still playing to this day with the same friends.

[@nfamus540]

I say LET IT DIE, Warzone ruined CoD

[@kursad3339]

Does somebody know the gamemode at 13:06?

[@ReplayMode]

Double Agent in CW. It was one of the final seasons, and their attempt at an Among Us clone, but tbh I missed it and have no idea if it was good or not

[@kursad3339]

@ I saw some vids of it, no idea why development time went to cringe gamemodes like this my god. Thanks for your reply!

[@kojicesmikurac]

PLEASE BRO, NO MORE CHANGE.😂 I left because of change. Maybe add a new event every quarter, like they did Zombies in Verdansk, or like they did Kong vs Godzilla on Caldera. But for now I just want them to put back everything as it was with Verdansk Season 5😂

[@K1LLERV0G4E]

Ur on your own with this

[@Highrollinhunter]

Honestly a 50 v 50 team deathmatch mode would make me play warzone again because I like casual modes like TDM.

[@DrKarlov1138]

Free to play warzone should feature a search and destroy mode and classic zombies on old maps

[@Plaz1398]

I know players like the round based zombies, and I’m probably in the minority but it was fun to experience the WZ map while not having to play WZ. I also think a bigger map isn’t always better, theses last 2 WZ big maps are just overall to big and just cluttered with buildings and mini cities everywhere, I liked verdansk because there was space this current map it’s just hide and seek in buildings and no one moves.

[@timdavies4881]

Why has call of duty stopped doing LTM’S aswell

[@ReplayMode]

It really feels like it's just Christmas and Halloween LTMs now... I would kill for Lockdown or Payload back again

[@LJProductions247]

They took away solo rebirth island like 6 months ago and it hasn’t been worth since.

[@cbmcclintock]

The biggest issue I have with CoD and Warzone us the cheating. If they addressed this, I would still be playing. All I want is to play with console players only. BO6 is the first CoD I haven’t played since 2009.

[@Totally_Truk]

Bro ngl you are super underrated

[@Deathwarrior115]

MWZ should’ve been part of warzone , it is exactly what you mentioned in the first “solution”

[@ReplayMode]

Honestly, I'd be down for it. MWZ was another mode that was abandoned too quickly before it could really get all the kinks worked out IMO

[@justinnnnnn]

I feel like I gotta force myself to play warzone

[@dillonc7955]

I personally think Warzone needs to become its own separate thing. Firstly, the storytelling took a major nose dive during MWIII. After they brought back Soap in the most Marvel multiverse way possible, I no longer cared about the story. Also is it thar hard to give us replayable cutscenes so we can keep track of what's going on?! Secondly, making Warzone a seperate IP could allow modes like DMZ, fireteam, and other holdiday modes to be added and more time to polish. Seeing Urzikstan in a less functional state as the alternative to Area 99 was depressing to say the least. It feels like pulling teeth gettig my friends to squad up as opposed to MW2019 and MW2's DMZ.

[@ReplayMode]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think after MW2, they stopped trying to give Warzone a real story, and now it just kind of exists, doesn't it? BO6 has a light story so far in MP, but it doesn't seem to connect to Warzone at all. And tbh, with CODHQ I think this is as 'separate' as Warzone is going to get, but I don't think that locks it out of getting those modes you mentioned. I would love to see Warzone get more support in the modes department, even Lockdown they just stopped bringing it back in rotation.

[@LJProductions247]

I think warzone needs to separate from multiplayer. Then guns need to be put into categories of statistics instead of having 200 different stats for guns. Then lean into the vault of Br and bring back blackout verdansk and everything else.

[@jchikn]

nuketown not having any bathrooms ain’t a hot take 😂 loved that video tho

[@vaquero141]

Dmz needs to come back. Mwiii didn't update ground war once. At least mw19 and mw22 had updates to gw.

[@icy1172]

Honestly, even BO6 MP is boring. It’s not just a Warzone thing. There’s nothing really new about it outside of omnimovement and maybe a couple of new modes. While all maps are different, idk. It just feels like the very basics for a CoD game. Nothing that innovative.

[@TacticalWarrior69]

Warzone with MW theme was best, now it's crap!!!!!!!!!

[@RunscapeGuideOfNoobs]

Warzone needs to change and then suggests 2 modes that have already been tried. While they were moderately successful, they weren't supported because they didn't have enough players it's as simple as that

[@ReplayMode]

Well yeah, I outlined why they didn't work and how I think they could be tweaked appeal to a broader audience. Tbh I think a big part of the MWII-era modes like DMZ, Raids, and GW failing is they didn't get enough time to work out the kinks, and the devs were spread too thin in terms of support (on top of MWII specifically just not hitting for a lot of the base), so really the suggestion is to actually commit to something and not half-ass it

[@Mattsuki]

Love the Helldivers praise 👊

[@ryanrainey2656]

Great video man!

[@Retw4d]

The last 5 years of Warzone is just making nostalgia content and refixing the game, the only integration that actually added new content to the core battle royale was Warzone 2.0. Of course Warzone 2.0 was ass but they did add so many new things like the that terrible 2v2 gulag or the fortresses(after the npcs got taken out) and many other little things that were new but didn’t help the game. Anyway why I’m trying to get at is they just need to make new content that actually good but as we can see they’re not good at that at all.

[@QiasZ6Tv]

I decided to lace up and give up on this game i have a 1575 hours of game time in warzone last 2024 but last night i think i need to move on on this game. The game is unbelievable unplayable the bugs and half of the active players are mostly cheating or doing weird shit to gain a uperhand on the player for tweaking something for this game . But hoping verdansk will bring the warzone glory again

[@TheViolator91]

the dharma initiative xd

[@NeoSoulCrew]

These Warzone bad videos are tiring. Its okay to play other games. Repeat its okay to play other games.

[@dillydraws]

I think the age of br is over and everyone is just waiting for the new thing. Maybe a return of hero shooters

[@ReplayMode]

Hmmm, Hero shooters seem really hit or miss lately. For every Marvel Rivals, there's a Concord, XDefiant, OW2, etc... I'm hoping for something PvE to become the next big thing, but I honestly have no clue

[@Hey-ur7bl]

i bet if they will add those modes from this video they will add it to the paid version and not warzone

[@alexwilliams9546]

Inky played warzone in 2019, and for mw3, those were the only fun warzones, in my opinion. Coming from a maily 6v6 player.

[@RuziNuk3]

Warzone needs to go lmao

[@Cabe77773]

Battlefield for life ❤ 💙 💜

[@od13166]

DMZ with actual PVE only mod like tarkov and dont need matchmaking could revive MWII more I mad arguement about MWIIIZ when i wish just have solo match without matchmaking Like Outbreak

[@JPDD2]

They should have stuck to mw3 character size nd hit boxes. That game still works flawlessly. These nee bo6 mechanics in general are just bad.

[@ricj5963]

But at the same time, they did do a 180 and changed everything. Aka warzone 2.0 and ppl bitched

[@ReplayMode]

True, but I think the issue with WZ2 was instead of preserving BR and building up a separate mode with its own mechanics (DMZ), they combined them and it just lead to neither mode really being the best it could be.

[@ricj5963]

@ReplayMode Contrary to popular beliefs, I enjoyed Warzone 2 and DMZ. Especially in the later seasons. Warzone 3 was ok and this warzone is hot garbage lol. All we can hope now is that they bring back verdansk next year almost exactly how it was back then for warzone to come back. And if that don't work, they should kill warzone all together

[@V3n1x_x]

My new years reselution was to get good at the pass times I spend to much time on to justify being avrage... and I see all these videos of it dying... I like warsone only complaint is to many players at end

[@ancientslav4863]

Even if all the cheating, servers, bugs were gone and game was playable, the game would have still issues. Farting unicorns, nicki minaj pink panther, crackhead snoop, duck and chicken heads etc are immersion breaking. Urzikstan is veen bigger piece of crap map than caldera, and thats hella say. Its just boooring. It was boring after week 1. Its a mix of verdansk, caldera, and mostly mazrah, but worse than any of them. Verdansk coming march, but whats the point if the wz1 elements are gone? Omnimovemet sweat fest sonic speeds, lgbt skins, 1 gun metas, bad audio....

[@Phillip_Graves]

Remember all the ID10TS back then who would always say if a new game wants to succeed it needs a BR? WHERE Y'ALL AT NOW?! I thought BRs were all the hype and now they're dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh those autistic, tiktok brainrot, follow and do what the streamers say fools are the laughing stock now.

[@tutiadhd]

BR is still fortnites most played mode by a long shot warzones and every other brs issue is that theyre just bad in general due to either bugs or 0 new content/recycled content

[@rkymtnrsx]

It does

[@LJProductions247]

I have an autism corner

[@yungcartierofficial]

I can’t lie I think it’s good warzone is failing this is something that was supposed to stay in mw2019 in snuck in tell now cause of inflated numbers during covid and ever sense then they’ve made every yearly release basically just a testing ground to then go into warzone multiplayer got the shit end and it’s the one that cost money so please let’s let warzone go to the green pasture fammo

[@capybaranathan3770]

True

[@mr.goodvbe6168]

Boycot

[@4N0N-D6]

“Warzone needs to change, actually”, so you mean regress. Literally, the first iteration was the best one (besides not having ricochet, which is dogshit anyway)

[@ionlymadethistoleavecoment1723]

I disagree with the premise of this video a bit, as someone who was super into warzone throughout it’s time, but with a feeling like it’s just been declining. Im sure that adding back a bunch of game modes would bring people in, but I wouldnt say that adding back DMZ and ground war will help warzone. It would take resources away from warzone. And that might be ok… i think the niche that warzone fills is PVP only with high stakes. DMZ towards the end of it’s life WAS that. And it was great. Resurgence and groundwar feel different, they arent high stakes. I dont think they would be adequate replacements or help the essence of warzone survive. DMZ might be able to, but I dont think there could be bots. It takes the emphasis away too much from pvp. A little pve isnt bad, but when 90% of your engagements are just with bots… well… its less fun. Bots have perfect aim, always no where you are the second youve been seen, they dont do anything interesting or unexpected when youre in a fight with them. Its like playing one of those arcade games with a gun shooting at a cowboy, where they just pop up and thats it.