Fans of Call of Duty seem to have rejoiced and welcomed Warzone with open arms, considering the game has quickly become one of the most popular battle royales released thus far. As time goes on, and Warzone’s metagame solidifies, players will likely be in search of variety in Warzone’s experience to shake things up. That’s why limited time modes being included in Warzone would be perfect. Here are a few concepts that could be worked into LTMs for Warzone.
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Faster Circle Speeds
A relatively simple concept borrowed from Fortnite, a fun LTM for Warzone would be a fast-moving circle. Similar to Fortnite’s Blitz LTM, bringing a faster-moving safe zone to Warzone would emphasize what Call of Duty does best. A lot of times Warzone, like other large maps in battle royale games, has these great lulls in action as players traverse further into the circle’s safe zone. Short-lived safe zones means higher paced gameplay, something Call of Duty has been masterful at crafting in its traditional multiplayer modes. One of the best ways to ramp up the intensity is to reduce circle timing and make the pressure on players mount quicker than usual.
Big Team Battles
Another simplistic LTM for Warzone would be to incorporate a big-team-battle mode for the battle royale. Again, something Fortnite pioneered with the 50v50 LTM, but a large team deathmatch that matches with Warzone’s high player count would be exciting. Certain regions of the map could be isolated and rotate between each match like a traditional team deathmatch, but with an immensely greater team size. Considering Warzone already supports 150-player-matches, the game could implement its own 75v75 mode as well.
Hero Battles
This particular concept is a bit harder to envision, but Warzone could implement its own Hero Battle-styled LTM. Iconic characters from the Call of Duty franchise, from Captain Price to Victor Reznov, would be able to join each match with their own specific special abilities. From those who remember the original Star Wars: Battlefront 2 from 2005, there was a specific mode on Tatooine called “Hero Assault” where players could play as iconic Star Wars heroes and villains. It’d be interesting to see a Call of Duty version of this mode in Warzone, featuring iconic characters from the whole franchise, each of whom utilizing their own unique abilities.
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RPGs Only, Or Something Like It
On the more absurdly fun side of things, an interesting LTM for Warzone would be some kind of team deathmatch or arcade mode with a random modifier or restriction. One specific example would be if it was like any other Warzone match but all of the weapon loot was just RPGs. Picking situational weapon types, or specific guns, could help change up the gameplay in awkward but entertaining ways. Halo has implemented a lot of custom modes with tons of random modifiers like “Team Snipers” or Slayer modes with rocket launchers only. Finding weapons that have very situational/tactical uses in regular multiplayer modes, but restricting players to only using these weapons or equipment, makes for some serious hilarity or absurdity that would be a nice change of pace from the seriousness of battle royale.
Gun Game In Warzone
Lastly, a potentially interesting utilization of Warzone’s battle royale would be to implement some kind of Gun Game variant. Gun Game in Call of Duty is an arcade multiplayer mode that’s similar to free-for-all, but with a significant twist. Each kills bumps the player up a weapon tier, where they either unlock a better or worse weapon to get their next kill. It’s Call of Duty’s signature frenetic nature condensed into a single game mode that’s incredibly addicting. Adding a variant of Gun Game to Warzone would be incredibly fun, whilst serving to shake up the typical battle royale gameplay by replacing loot with encouraging kills. Rather than focusing on finding loot, a Gun Game variant of battle royale would force players to attack one another so they can get better weapons. It’d be a genius flip on the typical mechanics of battle royale games.
Those are just a few examples of limited time modes that could come to Warzone in the future. Call of Duty: Warzone apparently already has plans for its next big expansion, which reportedly is a tie-in to Black Ops. While it’ll be interesting to see how this new side quest pans out over time, perhaps Warzone will incorporate a few more LTMs to the mode in the future.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One
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