Call of Duty: Warzone, the recently released battle royale spin-off of Activision’s multiplayer first-person shooter franchise, hassurpassed 50 million active players. The relative newness ofWarzoneand the flood of feedback from this mass of players in its infancy has led to a number of updates since its March 10 release, and one of the next elements that may see changes is money drop rates.
Amos Hodge, creative director at one of the free-to-play game’s developers Raven Software, announced thatArmored Trucks were removed from Solosto help “tone down” the vehicle meta via Twitter yesterday. In response, a fan who goes by NightSkull_720 asked if the team could adjust the pricing for Loadout Drops in Solos so it would make more sense compared to the current universal 10K price.
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Call of Duty: Warzone’s Loadout Drops are high-risk-high-reward packages with default or player-designed weapons and perks that can be purchased during a match and airdropped onto the battlefield for players to fight over. Hodge said they would like to keep prices consistent “so players won’t have to memorize a bunch of different prices,” and instead are looking into adjusting the drop rate of money used to purchase these loadouts based on player count.
While a number of players have taken offense at the insinuation that multiple price points based on game mode would be too complex to memorize, there is some merit to the idea that adjusting money drop rates instead offers the same general fix to an overall issue with difficulty scaling. There are a number of other design decisions inWarzonethat have drawn ire from its community, including the repeatedremoval of playlist modes like Trios.
At the same time, game-breaking glitches and exploits have been discovered throughout the battle royale. One recent example is awall glitch inWarzonethat allows players to kill their opponents from outside the level geometry, guaranteeing they have an impassible shield.
Infinity Ward has been working to stem these issues within their game, however, with big moves like announcing a70,000 player banto try to stop cheaters and hackers from affecting the experience. If these watchdog efforts and adjustments to things like money drop rates keep up, no doubtWarzonewill have a long shelf life.
Call of Duty: Warzoneis out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
