I’ve been thinking of a way to allow for more weapon usage in Warzone, with experiencing moments of " Ehh we’re about to lose i won’t burn any of my cards". What I propose most likely I am not the first person to think of this, which is to make most of the basic power weapons free. Free in terms of once you’ve unlocked the certification you have unlimited amounts, but still constrained to the amount of Req points you have.
By Basic power weapons:
Any power weapon that is its basic style.
Such as the following:
Needler
Plasma Rifle
UNSC Sniper Rifle
Beam Rifle
Plasma Caster
Rocket Lawnchair
Spnkr Rocket Launcher (Possibly)
Incineration Cannon
etc.
There have been way to many times playing this game where I will use a basic shotgun or sniper or anything for the matter, get accidentally betrayed and lose that power weapon and that being only card I have for it. This idea of only having so many at any given times is producing at least with me a hording type of style where I never want to use them. That shouldn’t be a thing in any game.
This idea where everyone has all the basic weapons unlocked might seem to break the game, but there already is a system that works which is the req points. That are given to players who are playing the game. With the current setup just by slaying and only using a specific weapon doesn’t give you enough points to repurchase that weapon. Sure groups of people might decide to only get all rockets at one point but if thats the case there early game and there late game after that entire group with the rocket dies will be lacking. This proposal will create more diversity with what we would see in Warzone where I feel I am not the only one who was thinking of a game mode we’re its pure chaos. At the moment this game mode is dominated by the basic weapons we can have in a load out. Which takes away from the excitement this game mode should be.
Now when it comes to the special power weapons such as Nornfang, Sword of the Faithful, Open Hand, Typhon etc. those should still be limited in quantity that way when you do encounter one its a big deal. As I’ve stated before with the way things are now power weapons at the moment are a HUGE deal when you see them because no one is calling them in. I understand there might be concerns as to why this might not work and just break the game but 343I should at least try and attempt this or something of this caliber. This game mode has alot of potential that is locked away because you or I don’t want to burn a card and get nothing out of it.
This method could as well be implemented towards the vehicles as well but that is another issue in of its self.