Warzone’s new Most Wanted contracts appeared to be a universally welcome addition to the game. That is, until players figured out it had replaced something else.
Call of Duty: Warzone has been a welcome addition to the already crowded battle royale scene for the most part. It is easily CoD’s most popular take on the BR genre to date, and after just one month 50 million people had given it a try. However, if Infinity Ward wants to keep those players playing, it needs to be more transparent with Warzone’s updates.
Warzone kicked things off with nothing more than a Trios mode, which was fine by pretty much everyone. It then added Solos a few days later and Quads a little while after that. However, Quads replaced Trios for some reason and Warzone got its first dose of backlash from what has never been a shy bunch of battle royale playing gamers.
That backlash forced IW’s hand and shortly after, Trios was added back. It wasn’t so much the mode’s removal, it was the developer’s attempt to do so without even mentioning it. This week, something akin to that has happened again. The latest update introduced Most Wanted contracts to the game. Activate one and the player becomes a target for everyone else on the map for five minutes. Survive, and their entire team is redeployed.
News of this new contract type appeared to please pretty much everyone playing Warzone. That was until those players started to realize the contracts had replaced something else in the game. Bounties. Bounties were basically the opposite of Most Wanted contracts. Activating one will pick a random player on the map for someone to find and kill, resulting in a big reward if they manage to do so.
The removal of Bounties from Warzone has resulted in people turning on the idea of Most Wanted contracts. Some players now claim it encourages camping as its holder just needs to hide for five minutes. Warzone is now being accused of trying to appease new players, something Fortnite was accused of when it introduced B.R.U.T.E.s to the island.
Don’t be surprised if Bounties return to Warzone before the end of the week.
