Hi all! So the new warzone update just rolled out recently, with both pros and cons. I’lll start with the cons so we can end on a good note. A BIG change that came with the update was the additional points per kill (which was put in place to help reduce farming). Now I can see the need and want for something like that, however I personally don’t believe it’s working as intended. Games now finish within 15-18 minutes, so we are missing out on those mythic bosses which have in effect been made redundant. I rarely see myself getting past level 8 reqs as well. This is caused from a few things. 1. the final bosses haven’t dropped, 2. The time the game would normally take is drastically shorter, 3. I’m not getting as many kills as I normally would in a standard game. A solution to this in my opinion is to implement the extra points per kill to each team at the moment one team occupies all bases and the enemy core is vulnerable. I had a thought of reducing bosses points but that in itself would make them redundant.
H2BR, first of all. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I freaking loved the H2BR at level 4 reqs. Now I wouldn’t have too much of a problem with this but to be quite honest, if things like the whiplash, blaze of glory, etc are level 4 then the H2BR should have its place there still. I know why it was changed but more on that later.
Now for the pros! Firstly, I love the req 2 BR I find myself using the BR in Warzone again for the first time in a long time. I feel comfortable using it and it has changed up my way of playing WZ. I find myself using BR variants that I haven’t touched in forever as well, this is thanks to the higher req requirement for the H2BR.
The DMR being moved down was also a pleasant sight, I’m happy I get to utilise that weapon more often in WZ now too.
To finish off how I feel with the WZ update I would say that it’s enjoyable and offers more than repetitiveness game after game. I would absolutely love to see a balancing update to be looked into to address the extra points per kills, or at least a new approach to how the bosses work and how req energy increases.
Thanks for reading.