This Is How Much Warzone Has Changed In 4 YEARS!

[@Madjock56]

I remember it well a was in the hospital april 1 st 2020 for my heart op and stroke and how i started watching u and the lads for my rehab keep it up lads

[@lj5190]

I'm a "glass half full" type of guy, so I have fond memories of all eras, including Caldera and Al Mazrah (which I agree needs to return). But OG Verdansk will always be my favorite, not because it was the best, but because of the memories we made during that time. Memories and experiences that no matter how great Warzone becomes again, can never be replicated.

[@Stanklove]

i honestly think the redeploy balloons that rendered vehicles useless and let you land on anyone, anywhere at any time -- have really had a way more negative affect than people realize. The helicopters are dog shit because they're truly not needed with balloons. In OG warzone you had to actually follow circle and make moves to get strongholds yourself, whether that was NEEDING to find a vehicle to get tf outta where you were or just to move it and destroy it so no one else could use it. too many "crutches" now that make people get back in to the game for free ( flares, gulag kits etc) while also letting you spend all your money on whatever the hell you want.

[@antsa85]

👆this!

[@jamesmackenzie5904]

Exactly, well said.

[@JCBeastie]

Yes! Vehicles were an integral part of navigating Verdansk. Back when you could wipe an entire team for driving around without a Trophy System, mines, C4 and launchers were relevant! I want to go back.

[@kojicesmikurac]

Baloons were only meant for Caldera cause that map was mostly empty. It was indeed not necessary to add it everywhere.

[@NotoriousCRD]

The problem with WZ now is that the players have got too good and they have actively removed all the ways a less skilled team can beat a better team. I.e. the war against camping

[@fartmaster6977]

@@NotoriousCRD the camping in warzone 1 was absolutely atrocious. there are still definitely camping spots in wz3 and people are complaining about that still, but wz2 definitely hurt wz3's life cycle because it lowered br's reputation with all the unnecessary changes they made.

[@ncliffor]

Isn't that what sbmm is for?

[@NotoriousCRD]

@@ncliffor that’s what it should be for but in practice it’s not sbmm but engagement based mm. it’s designed to keep you coming back. Ever noticed how you do well in your first few games then it gets awful? That’s what they do. Give you some fun then throw you to the wolves. Just enough fun so you come back the next time. Then you are cannon fodder for people better than you so they can have their fun and come back again. There are 2 options to get around it 1) be so awful you never leave the baby slopes 2) get so good no one can beat you

[@thehumus8688]

Streamer turn Warzone from casual fun to Sweat Fest

[@dentoncrimescene]

I loved Caldera. With the exception of the mountain in the middle, it had distinct areas and fun transitions. I think Urzikstan is the most dull of the 4. Arguably.

[@ancientslav4863]

Peak, you mean. twas shit

[@vutsxx]

The best Weapons were MW2019 and Vanguard by far, the best big map for BR was Verdansk and the best one for Plunder was Caldera. Plunder in Caldera was pure CAOS.

[@AndrewOnYoutube]

My favorite memory of OG Warzone is the LTM with the TRUCKS!

[@johnross1048]

Blackout was the absolute best. No loadouts, no UAV, COD movement/gunplay with a PUBG grittiness. God I miss it.

[@indiemaniac88]

I wish blackout came back. Hands down the best BR. Everything was so balanced and the map was great

[@aridus46]

It cannot be understated how much damage IW and it's leadership did to the Warzone name with WZ2. I still have a number of friends to this day who refuse to play CoD because how awful MWII/WZ2 was. I played well over a 1,000 hours and shamelessly bought a bunch of bundles in WZ1 and maybe played 10 hours of WZ2 and bought the first BP after being duped by the marketing. They had the easiest layup ever with just needing to add some things to make it fresh while building on the fundamentals of the game and decided to make a completely different game that permanently turned away players.

[@JCBeastie]

DMZ was the best part and they abandoned it!

[@skyeait5939]

i met a lot of cool people playing this game after 2019 including my GF and now none of us play it. Miss those days.

[@rafaelrodriguez4866]

Really wish we had gotten blackout 2. All games being on the same engine now just makes each feel the same.

[@tiredcaffeine]

First of all, how can you claim that Cold War, MWII, MWIII and BO6 feels the same? Secondly, all being on the same engine literally, and I mean literally, means nothing.

[@grrinc]

Me too. Pure gunplay skill. You worked for your win. No free gifts.

[@0uttaS1TE]

​@@tiredcaffeineI think he means in terms of Warzone

[@tiredcaffeine]

@@0uttaS1TE Oh, I see. Still, Warzone 1, Warzone 2, and now Warzone with MWIII integration are all different. So my point still stands.

[@cuddlemuffin44]

Verdansk better still have a train with a renewing recon contract.

[@jacobfield4848]

Al Mazrah, Leaving behind the brilliant MW2019 gunplay, and "Resurgence" killed Warzone. Warzone maps are too bland looking.

[@aretonsenner6664]

Al mazara was a great map

[@jacobfield4848]

@@aretonsenner6664 60% of the player base left.

[@fartmaster6977]

​​@@jacobfield4848because of the unnecessary changes they made (looting and movement being major ones). had that not occured, people would not leave such bad reviews of al mazrah. nor leave in huge numbers

[@aretonsenner6664]

@@jacobfield4848 so

[@FORZEFUL]

As someone who has witnessed the evolution of Warzone, I can see that the shift in how the playerbase plays a BR, will become more focused on teamwork & strategy over METAS and gun skill.

[@ancientslav4863]

When Verdansk comes March 10, 2025, will be the best day of my life (in gaming). And after it leaves, me and my friends already decided to stop with Warzone and COD in general. The cheaters, white listed cheating streamers, SBMM, sweat lobbies, server issues, bugs, mETaS, dull maps (Urzikstan and Caldera), worthless overpriced shop bundles, immersion breaking skins like nicki minaj and rat or duck heads.....its too much for us. Verdansk will come and go. What will happen after current S6 to March, nobody knows. And when Avalon, or any other big map comes late 2025 or early 2026, if it isn't Verdansk-like and Verdansk level or better, its bye bye. Map rotation is the only option. They use it for small maps, even fortnite using it soon. Its not hard to do with bigger map. but it needs 1 pre requisite: separate warzone from multiplayer and the rest. Or the files will be too much

[@DDog1125]

Nostalgia is one hell of a drug ngl

[@ancientslav4863]

@@DDog1125 nostalgia. Haha. No. Objective opinion.

[@DDog1125]

@@ancientslav4863 nice oxymoron lmfao

[@kojicesmikurac]

They will find a way to destroy everything you loved about Verdansk. They will add things that made the new maps so much worse. Things like Baloons, zip lines, bad vehicles, swimming, endlessly stimming in gas.

[@MustafaGT]

Verdansk was so well balanced. You can be a camper and still win against higher skilled players. WZ is becoming a game where it’s tailored to only skilled players and that is making it not fun. Verdansk was perfect in that balance.

[@mohamedkh3945]

I love your video style, great storytelling!

[@MarkKidsley1989]

I wish the general public got to play the version of WZ2 creators did

[@ricj5963]

Stadium opened during MW19 life cycle, not cold war

[@urchinsify]

Don't forget, due to how massive Warzone was. Major brands and sponsors are willing to put up MILLIONS of prize money on Warzone comp scene. All of which are blocked by Activision because of the CDL. They don't want their precious league to be outshined by Warzone, thus stifling the potential of WZ comp.

[@DrTopLiftDPT]

I quit playing for a month during the DMR meta. You felt like you couldn’t cross the street or any open area without dying.

[@TylerPoppe]

The cheating and the bugs really were just a 1-2 knock out punch for a lot of my friends. Then when Al Mazrah came out and I convinced them to come back because the map was good, the movement and the mechanics were such a process and crap that they all retired from WZ. I cant' even get them to try WZ3 now.

[@ClassicCOD]

when warzone had an atmosphere and you had to be tactical and use your brain, now its just use your reactions and tiktok loadout. never seen something work so well and downgrade itself so much....the HDR was one of the best sniping experiences in any call of duty and I only play the old ones😂 the vehicles on Verdansk were actually fun, dashing the helicopter at teams and downing them, driving backwards on a quad bike with a most wanted contract. actually feeling tension at all times when in open spaces. I always used smoke grenade it was so useful on this map

[@samhanmma]

Warzone verdansk returning is a mistake, peoples live in nostalgia and when this map will be back it will destroy thier nostalgia and ephoric souvenirs

[@ancientslav4863]

You mean _Verdansk. Its not nostalgia. I'm watching older videos of Verdansk gameplay. It was just better. Nice European trees, grass that didn't look like it was watered with mountain dew and spray paint, victory meant something, people having lots of fun. These sand arab maps or palm tree grass infested caldera just aint it for Warzone. Warzone was warzone in a modern urban combat areas. nobody wants these exotic lands, that don't make for good shooter BR. Many streamers now say they don't have fun on these newer maps, cause they ugly. Urzikstan worst map of all. Cheaters, bugs, SBMM....it existed in all warzone times. Yet people had fun before. Now Rebirth island carries entire franchise. And verdansk doesn't come back as a 1:1 copy either.

[@lucaslimadasilvamello6356]

@@ancientslav4863 Now you're talking

[@fartmaster6977]

​​@@ancientslav4863holy nostalgia. does no one remember the horrible visibility and lack of color verdansk had? especially after the cw integration? no balloons that would get campers off of rooftops, nor the fact that some parts of the maps were horrible for circles? almost no counterplay to campers with one way up and down building philosophy. literally look at jev's old wz videos and you could see the glaring problems wz1 had. like damn man, it was a fun time but that time will never come back because you thought verdansk was the holy grail of wz maps. it was all the new casuals now playing games due to covid and mw2019 bringing back tons of players

[@big_g3318]

Al mazrah is my favourite map of the ones we've had. Was a great map. Maligned because of wz 2 mechanics that many didn't like but the map was great.

[@erk489]

OG warzone just played way better. Lotting was better the sound effects were better. Be fair it did get old and stale towards the end but I think that was the true end of warzone BR. Dead to me now. Just can’t sit there for couple hours I get to play and spend half that time on looting and loading in

[@ancientslav4863]

And now everyone and their mothers scream for verdansk. Me too. Cause we never knew what we had until it was too late. Caldera played like shit and was boring. Mazrah had a very rough start and became stale and was dull cause they used 1 color for entire map - sand brown. Urzikstan is THEEEEEE worst map Warzone ever had. At the beginning, I fell for the hype. They all said urzi is a mix of Verdansk and some other. Well, shit. Urzikstan is just that bad and has 0 in common with Verdi.

[@eriksand9262]

I feel like not much has changed. I mean, its been 4 years, and they still haven't figured out how to let us cleanly scale rocks. 🤣

[@aleksandergjengst782]

They killed it As soon as they made the decision to push the games ingame shop via streamers.

[@nerdedkyle3515]

They have to raise player count back to 150 when we go back to verdanks also they need higher tik rate servers if bf2044 can have 128 player on 44 tik rate servers surely they can raise it for warzone. Also bring back iron trials

[@ancientslav4863]

Map rotation for big maps and separation of wz from mp for file size reduction, is the only way poeple will be happy

[@ShrekThePimp]

I disagree 100% about Fortunes keep. Me and my buddies don't play if that's the only option. If it's a rotation, we skip it.

[@kevinvanvaerenbergh1055]

Wasn’t rebirth resurgence allready in blackout?

[@lj5190]

Yes. It was called Alcatraz.

[@ancientslav4863]

OG Verdansk S6 > 84/Blackout > Mazrah > Caldera/Urzikstan

[@aretonsenner6664]

I loved Al mazara

[@TheMightyFleming]

Jgod should react to this video, i would love to see his reaction to the history of verdansk

[@grrinc]

More free gifts and crutches. More methods to get ‘unkilled’ It stopped promoting gunplay skill and pushed gimmicks. What a joke.

[@sortdnz]

The Caldera clips show the terrible visual recoil they added to firing. Wish they would remove that and smoke. Think more impactful to m&k players

[@goodegg8757]

Activision released an entire white paper on SBMM, how it works is out in the public now. Like it or not, you should at least refer to it when talking about it to speak factually.

[@0ptic0p22]

I just hope we get all the QOL fetures we have accumulated in these years and that omnimovement doesnt break the game and they have anti cheat(45 or 60hz servers wont hurt either)

[@ancientslav4863]

omni movement was a nice marketing scheme. but in reality, its cancer. it needs to go

[@0ptic0p22]

@@ancientslav4863 i really cant think people not being FRUSTRATED with this finger breaking mechanic 5 months alter

[@scaryKILLERwhoKILLSpeople]

@@ancientslav4863 the second i touched omnimovement i struggled to do anything else in cod. im getting withdrawals

[@kingart23]

sweats and their poor matchmaking system ruined the game :/

[@Reece_underscore]

i would honestly love to see a year headed entirely by treyarch and raven. so far it seems like the BO6 year is about to be something like that people never give Blackout credit. the map was amazing, they actually introduced rebirth island (alcatraz island back then) and the resurgence mode. despite being under serious crunch and budget cuts after being moved to Cold War in the middle of 2019, the Blackout live service was fantastic. i hope they bring that sauce to Warzone

[@francisagnew8300]

*got worse

[@larrytaylor2692]

Your so wrong caldaira was amazing and so much fun it was the map after that which ruined warzone

[@ramina9207]

Fortunes keep is the WORST resurgence map ever released not the best lol even ashika island is better

[@jkhkjbhjkhfhgvb]

not fun anymore ... HARD PASS

[@shazzyr7954]

Ashika island was and is the resurgence map. Rebirth is so over rated. FK 2nd best. Vondel s the worst

[@xxxmtb]

Caldera was good fun

[@ancientslav4863]

I have literally 0 memorable moments from Caldera. Me and my pals played all maps of Warzone daily. Caldera was the biggest chore. Mazrah, in retrospect, pains me to say, is better than current map, Urzikstan.

[@Steveanus49]

They should have left warzone the way it was. It was perfect

[@High_Lord_Of_Terra]