Call of Duty: Vanguard may only arrive at the end of the year, but plenty of leaks already off lots of details for the new game. As before with Cold War Black Ops, Warzone will integrate Vanguard. However that is easier said than done. Here are some of the problems that can arise from the integration.
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Weapon Balance
The biggest question is of course the game balance. How will the new weapons fare? Currently the Suppressor is the best attachment by a landslide and you can also find many modern optics. While there have been suppressors since the 19th century, they were far from common place in the World Wars.
Can we equip older weapons with them? If some are unable to, they need to have viable alternatives that make them competitive, otherwise the balance of the game will suffer.
Chronological problems in Warzone?
It is already known that we are headed back to World War II in the new Call of Duty, so how will the setting change? In Warzone you can still use all the weapons and gadgets from Modern Warfare although Black Ops Cold War has already been integrated. Since 1984 is not that far in the past and some of the weapons are still in use, it does not matter too much. But World War II is a very different era and if the reports of the new map in the Pacific are true, they would clash quite a bit with the current equipment.
Modern drones, heart-rate sensors and more have stayed in the game after the Cold War integration and could also be in Vanguard, but the immersion in the World War II era would suffer quite a bit.
Will the Perks remain the same?
Currently Warzone still feels like Modern Warfare even with the Cold War integration. Black Ops weapons were added and Verdansk was slightly altered but the Battle Royale is still dominated by the predecessor in terms of grenades, field equipment and more. Perks are not exempt from that and will need some fixing for Vanguard.
Cold-blooded does not make much sense as weapons from the second World War do not have thermal sights, others like Ghost should also be reworked.
What happens to the map?
Warzone has had a storyline since the very first season, which has also been continued into all the following ones. Usually the story advances through in-game events like the atomic end for Modern Warfare, which led to a jump back in time to explain the origins off the story.
How the story is supposed to continue on a new map is not yet known. Allegedly Vanguard’s map will be entirely new without any ties to its predecessors. It is also supposed to be larger, a point that might come back to bite the developers as Warzone’s pace already suffers from long rotations and periods of time in which nothing happens.
The Future of Warzone
Activision’s president Rob Kostich has said in an earlier investor call for last year’s fourth quarter that the company will focus more on Warzone. It should become a central hub of the franchise between all titles.
In order to properly build Warzone for the long-term the developers need to tackle a couple challenges besides the integration of new titles. Some of these issues have been in the game since launch.
All Call of Duty games need a better anti-cheat. Many players frequently complain about hackers and the large numbers in each ban wave are pointing to an endemic problem in the community. Another aspect the developers need to handle better is balance in crossplay.
Console players are in desperate need for Field of Vision sliders to compete with PC players that can simply see more.
Another question Raven Software needs to tackle eventually is deactiving old content. The game is already oversize and if future Call of Duty titles keep adding weapons, you will have hundreds of different weapons in the game.
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