First year of Warzone was pure bliss. No OP metas, no spastic slide cancelling try hard sweats, no cheaters. Just people having fun. So glad I got to experience it.
It had some cheaters, speed hack, aimbot, mostly of them were rage hacking. Nowadays peoples notices cheating and streaming was key to makes profits $$$$ , to many believers into streamers capacities. Mostly are americans believers.
Graphics were so much better and realistic in 2020. Now in 2024/2025 we are back to a world in 2D-Fortnite-Borderlands-comic-illustrations with no shades and pure blandness.
Glad someone else felt that way about it too. Thats the first thing I noticed. Haven't played wz since al mazrah until yesterday. What a joke. Hated caldera and had problems with the cold war integration too. 2020 wz was peak
@@wildlife4nalysis Fr bro like how did they honestly take multiple steps backwards from 2020? Mechanics were better, graphics, guns, pretty much everything man
Fortnite graphics are awesome. It’s the best BR hands down. So much content dropping every other week. It’s bad when Fortnite sniping is better than CoD😂
No it wasn't. It was more thrilling and intense when it first came out because nobody knew or had the whole map memorised. They didn't even have 'team wipe' notifications when you killed people.
i honestly think the redeploy balloons that render vehicles useless and let you land on anyone, anywhere at any time -- have really had a way more negative affect than people realize. The helicopters are dog shit because they're truly not needed with balloons. In OG warzone you had to actually follow circle and make moves to get strongholds yourself, whether that was NEEDING to find a vehicle to get tf outta where you were or just to move it and destroy it so no one else could use it. too many "crutches" now that make people get back in to the game for free ( flares, gulag kits etc) while also letting you spend all your money on whatever the hell you want.
Yes! Vehicles were an integral part of navigating Verdansk. Back when you could wipe an entire team for driving around without a Trophy System, mines, C4 and launchers were relevant! I want to go back.
if they're keeping the balloons they should balance them to be more risky due to how convenient they are (btw i think PRDs are fine as they are). There should be a limit on how far they can take you, the amount of times they can be used and a set lifespan before they self-destruct, notify nearby teams when one has been deployed, make them more visible and less frequent as loot. Even if they're ok right now on resurgence if they remain unchanged when verdansk returns it will kill the gameplay flow and vehicle balance they want to recapture, they helped out on the other big maps like caldera, al mazrah and urzikstan but those maps should have never been that big to begin with.
COD had lightning in a bottle with the first iteration of Warzone. All it needed was an anti cheat that worked and people would have been thrilled. Instead they tossed it in the bin.
Thanks guys looks like some people realy remember how toxic and bs friendly warzone was in the beginning and don’t forget how “fast” the cod devs removed problematic weapons and skins (roze skin)
The craziest difference to me is the difference in skill. When you look at verdansk it was people running an shooting. Now everyone is dashing jumping sliding around like crazy. To think I ran an M4 with a HDR back in verdansk which has like zero movement speed, compared to now where no loadout lacks an SMG.
I remember it well a was in the hospital april 1 st 2020 for my heart op and stroke and how i started watching u and the lads for my rehab keep it up lads
Every map that came out was worse than the previous one. Im not sure if the problem was in the maps, but I feel like they kept nerfing things that gave the noobs a fighting chance, like the vehicles, RPGs.They also added things to make it easier for streamers to keep running around and destroying everyone, like baloons, zipline-jumping, running and stimming in gas forever. I remember in Verdansk days, we used to jump as far as possible from planes, get a helicopter, do 4-5 recons, buy everything we need like selfrevives, armorbox munitionbox, loadoat and then we went to the middle and waited, and painted the house, and eachother. I have some beautiful pics of me and my friends with paint all over us. New Warzone its just stress stress stress.
Ahaha we had fun with painting, mining the house whyle we waited. We would still play like that, but the zone closes to quickly now when you jump far from the Airplain. Plus we managed to quickly finish many recons because the helicopter was extremely mobile, now the chopper is shit. 😂
@Luke-ym7hd Nailed it. I am glad they removed the backpack system. But this omnimovement is complete ass. I said it for so long now. Bringing back Verdansk won't help the game. It'll get people interested for a tiny bit only to be disappointed by this buggy ass shit gameplay.
@@Ahzumer Me and my friends did it sometimes. For the average person they see a win maybe once every week or so, and most die before first cicle. If you recon it out and then wait you still get action but at the end of the game instead, which makes it more intense! Also if the zone ended by ATC or Prison we got tons of kills by sniping!
@Luke-ym7hd all that shit you said haas ruined it now was present then except the backpack change and omnimovement . It was just covid and everybody was bored shut in the house and desperate for entertainment and interactions with friends
OG warzone just played way better. Lotting was better the sound effects were better. Be fair it did get old and stale towards the end but I think that was the true end of warzone BR. Dead to me now. Just can’t sit there for couple hours I get to play and spend half that time on looting and loading in
It cannot be understated how much damage IW and it's leadership did to the Warzone name with WZ2. I still have a number of friends to this day who refuse to play CoD because how awful MWII/WZ2 was. I played well over a 1,000 hours and shamelessly bought a bunch of bundles in WZ1 and maybe played 10 hours of WZ2 and bought the first BP after being duped by the marketing. They had the easiest layup ever with just needing to add some things to make it fresh while building on the fundamentals of the game and decided to make a completely different game that permanently turned away players.
The early warzone was great, you could play casually. Having walked away from it for several years and coming back a few weeks ago. Very few talk on the mic if you join randoms, the game is bloated with gear and the buy box sucks. Many other issues with it but I’m trying to enjoy playing with my brother and nephew. It’s just such a sweat fest now.
the thing i miss the most from og warzone is the clean ui. everything felt so clear and well thought out in the current warzone the hud elements and notifications all look so darn ugly.
Verdansk was special for all the players because it was during covid and it was the first time COD had done something this big but as soon as Activision saw the potential that the game mode can generate income they monetized the hell out of it.
Ikr. I hate everyone copying each other same guns. Before I use to watch thr reply and be like wow, what gun is that person using, how is he killing me with that gun, wonder what perks he put on. But I think it's because all these streamers and content creators are what's ruined the franchise.
You mention the AMAX when you talk about the meta in Warzone 1. And This is what the meta is meant to be in Warzone. Yes the AMAX was strong. Stronger than the M4 or the M13 for example. But the AMAX was also more difficult to handle. And you if you were very good at the game, you could outplay the AMAX with a FAL.. This makes sense. Whereas today they push one gun or another to sell skins and cosmetics, without taking any guns' parameters (recoil, cadency, magazine size...) into account, at this time, the meta hase a sense. The stronger the gun was, the more difficult it was to handle it or to play with it (SCAR has only 30 bullets max, same thing for Oden, and they were very heavy, but the hitted like a truck)
exactly this. Yes the old game had meta guns, but other guns could beat them, exactly the way you stated. Now, and for a long time, if you dont use the same guns with the same attachments as everyone else, youre not winning a gunfight. Its ridiculous, and for me, with that, the continuous assault on casual players, and this stupid omni movement crap, means i’ll probably be uninstalling in the near future Shame, cos i loved the game
Da hell ?How blinded you are ? The grau as an example, gun was a laser even on hundreds of meters for weeks, what about the kar98 builds? Huh everyone used that shitty rifle cause the fast in scope time or what about that shitty smg from Cold War that everyone played, nah you forgot like 90 % of what happend back in the “golden days” in warzone but blame the new one cause it’s happens now … and nah stop coping bros, I’ve attacked you with that comment, your feeling imasculated and try to defend your opinion yada yada you talkin outa you ass accept it
Yup. Landing headshots with the Oden would devastate even the best Grau/Kilo players. I even had an "SMG" version I ran on Rebirth. And people forget that the ODEN/AK/Scar/FAL/AMAX'S recoil, low mag size, and slower fire rate made it the best choice for skilled players while the Kilo/M13/Grau/M4 were tailored for lesser skilled players. Damn shame what this game has turned into.
Warzone's Identity Crisis: Warzone completely lost its identity on Warzone 2 launch, they keep changing and adjusting core gameplay CONSTANTLY! 150 players, floating loot, only ONE gulag, being only able to return via winning gulag or being bought back, simple things like the crate humming noise from Verdansk/Caldera. Its like Fortnite suddenly going from 100 players down to 70-80 and changing the chest sound to something else, it just feels weird... Add new features and mechanics like Balloons etc... 100%, but STOP changing the core elements of the game! The numbed down movement in WZ2, backpack system causing nade, self revive, smoke and streak spam just made the gameplay unpredictable and boring! Currently 99% of gunfights are purely smoke battles and has been like this since WZ2 launch, there is no rotational knowledge at all anymore because people are carrying 6-8 smokes EACH and just rotate across the map that way. Its a BATTLE ROYALE, we went from 4 ways of returning (1 gulag, being bought back, jailbreak and most wanted) to currently around 6-8, WZ1 respawn system for a BR was PERFECT for a CoD BR, now its just beyond a joke, I shouldn't be killing the same team 4+ times in 1 game!? Warzone 1 is missed for reason, that formula worked! The lack of keeping this identity intact made resurgence player count sky rocket and still is a favoured mode and why? CAUSE THE GAMEPLAY LOOP IS THE SAME FROM WZ1! They need to accept this and stop bleeding resurgence into BR!
The problem with WZ now is that the players have got too good and they have actively removed all the ways a less skilled team can beat a better team. I.e. the war against camping
@@NotoriousCRD the camping in warzone 1 was absolutely atrocious. there are still definitely camping spots in wz3 and people are complaining about that still, but wz2 definitely hurt wz3's life cycle because it lowered br's reputation with all the unnecessary changes they made.
@@ncliffor that’s what it should be for but in practice it’s not sbmm but engagement based mm. it’s designed to keep you coming back. Ever noticed how you do well in your first few games then it gets awful? That’s what they do. Give you some fun then throw you to the wolves. Just enough fun so you come back the next time. Then you are cannon fodder for people better than you so they can have their fun and come back again. There are 2 options to get around it 1) be so awful you never leave the baby slopes 2) get so good no one can beat you
@@NotoriousCRD this game arguably has more ways than ever for low skilled players to win. Cluster mines stacking in backpacks, portable balloons for easy rotations, etc.
Verdansk was so well balanced. You can be a camper and still win against higher skilled players. WZ is becoming a game where it’s tailored to only skilled players and that is making it not fun. Verdansk was perfect in that balance.
@@MustafaGT laughs in monolithic suppressor, buildings with only one way in, Roze-skin infested dark corners, and wide open spaces with nothing in between.
I agree. Ironically enough, the more they do to give crutches the lower skilled players, the harder the game becomes for lower skill players. That’s because they forget high-skilled players also get access to those crutches as win-more tools.
I hate Resurgance for that reason, coupled with the fact that all the new crazy skins and weapons from all call of duty’s makes it such a chaotic mess that it’s not fun. Feels more like a chore to play, where before it actually felt relaxing
Still can't process how they shut down the entirety of wz 1 forever. That shit should be illegal or regulated. If you're from a European Union country, please sign the "Stop killing video games" petitio, so legislators hopefully vote on regulations on videogame life-cycles and post-launch support. The fact people paid money for wz1 skins/passes which are no longer accessible is criminal.
If you rent a hotel room or AirBnB, do you get access to it for the rest of your life? Today, the whole gaming industry is a rental business. You don't own anything, including wz1 skins/passes, or current wz skins/passes. Rental business is not criminal, unless they are not clearly notifying the customer that it is in fact a rental.
I'm a "glass half full" type of guy, so I have fond memories of all eras, including Caldera and Al Mazrah (which I agree needs to return). But OG Verdansk will always be my favorite, not because it was the best, but because of the memories we made during that time. Memories and experiences that no matter how great Warzone becomes again, can never be replicated.
@@bastien7985sounds weird but isn’t it always idiotic streamers and their consumers that ruin gaming experiences, without internet and all just imagine warzone in 2009 or so shit would have been amazing
I really hope DMZ comes back even if it wasnt as popular. Its nice to play a casual game mode than against sweaty 13 year olds. Also it was pretty nice to chat with stangers and share stories while doing some contacts of challenge
DMZ was majorly popular, that’s why it still exists now and has a large player base. The problem was that NO STREAMER had interest in it. So they dropped it. If they made a DMZ 1.0 and made it with updated story quests etc, it would outshine WARZONE.
First of all, how can you claim that Cold War, MWII, MWIII and BO6 feels the same? Secondly, all being on the same engine literally, and I mean literally, means nothing.
Caldera was definitely not the least popular era. The initial launch of Warzone 2 with the movement nerfs was by FAR the darkest era of Warzone and also single-handedly responsible for the largest drop off in player count.
Yk, the funny part is that is totally wrong 😂 caldera time was down and only held up by rebirth island, with the launch of mw2 the numbers where through the roof so don’t know where you got your numbers body but mw2 revived the whole warzone stuff, not for long I give you that but still
As a Camper, I am setting up my tent in the area where we believe that, while WZ1 was great, it is mostly reconstructive memory that has so many holding on to it as the best thing ever. To me, it seems that much of the noise around things not being perfect (for a free game), that many are missing the fun of the game, to spend time finding some odd thing to make them feel the game is trash.
@@TheImSource yeah lol, we met and played all the time, nearly every weekend and in the week. Our squad was taking the piss out of us asking when we were going to start dating lol. Then eventually decided to get together having never physically met. Best decision ever!
I used to use smoke grenades back in warzone1, and even put smoke under barrel to my AR..and my team mates just get annoyed by it and told me to stop lol
That DMR meta defiantly changed the game lol I will never forget I was in a Heli flying over a fire station with the Boyz and then I get hit twice and I get knocked - I'm like WTF! " WHAT GUN IS THAT "
Not just Verdansk but the MW19 overall was so good. The maps and modes kept it feeling fresh. It felt like the game was supported and now they couldn't care about anything but the store
With the BO6 integration they should introduce LTM’s to emulate how Warzone was at a simpler time. A mode where there are no redeploy drones gulag tokens or flares, no blacksites or strongholds, bunkers that just have good loot but no foresight. A mode where finding specialists was like finding a unicorn. Finally bring back Al Mazrah and the original Fortunes Keep map.
As someone who has witnessed the evolution of Warzone, I can see that the shift in how the playerbase plays a BR, will become more focused on teamwork & strategy over METAS and gun skill.
I loved Caldera. With the exception of the mountain in the middle, it had distinct areas and fun transitions. I think Urzikstan is the most dull of the 4. Arguably.
The best Weapons were MW2019 and Vanguard by far, the best big map for BR was Verdansk and the best one for Plunder was Caldera. Plunder in Caldera was pure CAOS.
Caldera has great POI's that are in all the wrong places. The mountain in the middle, the titular Caldera, was such a problem. It looked cool, it didn't play as well.
I got back into gaming during the lockdown, via _CoD: Mobile_ whilst quarantined to a hospital room with my boss and a prisoner, lol. I used to watch you, Jackfrags, Tomo, Handler, Aculite, etc. I used to watch very carefully in anticipation of a gaming PC I’d ordered with an RTX 3080… week after week… month after month. I don’t think I even got my PC until right before _Cold War,_ but I can’t be certain.
My biggest problem with Caldera wasn't how the map looked, but that it was the most laggy map ever and had loads of glitches, where you would get stuck, run into invisible objects and objects being glitched in the floor/ground so you couldn't interact with them.
Yeah shit was terrifying from times, the state when they dropped it and how long it took to fix all their shit was crazy … fascinating how incompetent these guys are but still so successful
@@LeVeLs404 I think the deadlines they get are just impossible to meet I think activision has a lot bureaucracy problems going on ,and gaming decisions are not taken from gamers but board members
6:01 not only was Cold War Verdansk not radically different from the version before, most of the changes made for it made it inferior to the original Verdansk map.
WZ brought me back to COD. I didn't play for 10+ years, but it being free to play got me hooked again. I was deep into it for a long time. Got pretty good. Spent hours grinding guns, attachments, skins, etc on base multi-player. Spent hours just banging around Verdansk and then Caldera. Honestly the map change in MW2 along with the swapping of the UI killed the whole game for me. It was almost perfect before. Now... it's too much and feels like work. Haven't touched WZ in about 18 months and haven't touch multi-player in about 10 months.
Caldera era did bring in a lot of good changes though, players ui was way better with showing how many, streaks and plates each player had etc redeploy balloons etc. By the end of this era was probably also the best balanced meta and warzone was in a good space it just needed a new map thats all
Nope. I don’t understand at first, but then I realized, Activision wanted to sell more yearly cods to please their shareholders. It’s also an incentive for players to buy Cold war so they can rank up their guns faster, therefore have better gunfights against players with MW2019 guns. It’s clearly play to win scheme. MW2019 WZ was better in every way. It was originally part of MW2019 Franchise, same graphics, and gunplay, same mechanics. To me, the integration is what ruined it. The bloated guns, the same duplicate weapons from MW and CW. Like what’s the point having both AKs from both games in one BR game. Especially the add on to our console storage. It’s just not worth the constant updates. Then they had the audacity to add Vangarbage. 🤦♂️.
I went from passionately playing warzone in og/1984 verdansk and even powering through caldera, once they ditched wz1 even with its issues, I have since had no interest in
I thought I was the only one who thinks FK is better than rebirth island. I also agree that Al maz is the best map ever. And while I did like verdansk (I actually like the look of 84 a lot)… I really liked the caldera map too. I’m partial to bright sunny maps with palm trees lol. Great vid bro.
I remember the excitement for the stadium roof opening ,the first Halloween Night Time Verdansk was amazing ,they also had a smaller kind of BR mode 50 vs 50 or something i think it was. Also,did the train always go round the map or did that only start around season 4 ? 🤔 I miss that era of Warzone ,i miss Verdansk.
Very good, the Grau was indeed meta shit everyone played cause “good” or in other words I don’t have to have sill cause I’m holding a 60 shot laser in my hands
@@jacobfield4848because of the unnecessary changes they made (looting and movement being major ones). had that not occured, people would not leave such bad reviews of al mazrah. nor leave in huge numbers
100% agree with almazrah being good map! I think a major issue with cod .. is that they listen to these streamers way too much instead of just making a good game that they can build off of . The constant cycle of giving us new things then taking them away has gotten old really fast.
I think a lot of us are feeling both COD and Warzone fatigue. Don’t get me wrong , I love a lot of the franchise and Warzone captured a lot of the fun I felt when gaming in the early days. The constant and massive changes, jumping between different iterations of the game as new iterations are released each year, and disappointing server maintenance has taken this game from a really fun experiment to a mode that, in order to stay relevant and remotely skilled, you have to pour in hours and hours of time, money and energy. I enjoy gaming, I don’t want the experience to feel stale and boring, but something has changed.
I hope they bring back the backpack system with the different types with the different vest too, just make it to were you can’t stack killsteaks, then all the zips and movement with balance and no cheaters,
How good warzone looked and played in the beginning before all the 2000 weapons were added. redeploy balloons etc etc. Ill take early warzone over what we have now anytime
True, but simple question how much and would you even play warzone today in the state of season 6 warzone (that was the season where they added a train system)
At least every six months I think of 2020 and I would really like to go back to it.. Everyone sees it as the period of Covid, but I see it as Playing with People in Verdanska.. Warzone 1 was so great where WZ 2 + 3 can dig its own grave…
what i miss the most is the quality of the game, on this video you can see the how the guns, map, fidelity looks is night and day compare to the garbage we have now and lets net forget about the audio.
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First year of Warzone was pure bliss. No OP metas, no spastic slide cancelling try hard sweats, no cheaters. Just people having fun. So glad I got to experience it.
Spastic slide cancelling 😂😂😂😂 brilliant!!
It had some cheaters, speed hack, aimbot, mostly of them were rage hacking. Nowadays peoples notices cheating and streaming was key to makes profits $$$$ , to many believers into streamers capacities. Mostly are americans believers.
Yeah the sweat losers really ruined it
@thedonzhorzh yep. 💯 Original Verdansk was 🐐.
All the streamers, cheaters and sweats ruined it.
Hahaha of course bro, they all do it. They using DMA hardware, Fuser, Kmbox ! Dont be delusional @@Twansaint7
Graphics were so much better and realistic in 2020. Now in 2024/2025 we are back to a world in 2D-Fortnite-Borderlands-comic-illustrations with no shades and pure blandness.
Glad someone else felt that way about it too. Thats the first thing I noticed. Haven't played wz since al mazrah until yesterday. What a joke. Hated caldera and had problems with the cold war integration too. 2020 wz was peak
@@wildlife4nalysis Fr bro like how did they honestly take multiple steps backwards from 2020? Mechanics were better, graphics, guns, pretty much everything man
Absolutely no color on the map. Unless you count the 4 apartments with their super flat colors. Game has lost it
@@wildlife4nalysis they fixed those issues with wz 2.0 but fucked it up again with the later games
Fortnite graphics are awesome. It’s the best BR hands down. So much content dropping every other week. It’s bad when Fortnite sniping is better than CoD😂
Peak warzone was when they opened up stadium roof.
This! Season 5 was the best
💯💯💯 I still remember it till this day. The cinematic season was insane
I disagree. it was in its beginning with no metas, no slide canceling. the game was just played how it was meant to be played with balance.
@@ericenright3721 true, just pure adventure and as good as no hardcore players that know every mechanic. With PUBG it was the same
No it wasn't. It was more thrilling and intense when it first came out because nobody knew or had the whole map memorised. They didn't even have 'team wipe' notifications when you killed people.
i honestly think the redeploy balloons that render vehicles useless and let you land on anyone, anywhere at any time -- have really had a way more negative affect than people realize. The helicopters are dog shit because they're truly not needed with balloons. In OG warzone you had to actually follow circle and make moves to get strongholds yourself, whether that was NEEDING to find a vehicle to get tf outta where you were or just to move it and destroy it so no one else could use it. too many "crutches" now that make people get back in to the game for free ( flares, gulag kits etc) while also letting you spend all your money on whatever the hell you want.
👆this!
Exactly, well said.
Yes! Vehicles were an integral part of navigating Verdansk. Back when you could wipe an entire team for driving around without a Trophy System, mines, C4 and launchers were relevant! I want to go back.
Baloons were only meant for Caldera cause that map was mostly empty. It was indeed not necessary to add it everywhere.
if they're keeping the balloons they should balance them to be more risky due to how convenient they are (btw i think PRDs are fine as they are). There should be a limit on how far they can take you, the amount of times they can be used and a set lifespan before they self-destruct, notify nearby teams when one has been deployed, make them more visible and less frequent as loot. Even if they're ok right now on resurgence if they remain unchanged when verdansk returns it will kill the gameplay flow and vehicle balance they want to recapture, they helped out on the other big maps like caldera, al mazrah and urzikstan but those maps should have never been that big to begin with.
Makes me sad looking back at Warzone 2020. Best times for gaming, then it got ruined.
best game i ever played..fun times back in 2020
Then the Raven nation attacked
I feel the same. I also hate how the graphics looks so much more cartoonish now.
Obv it was because you was locked down stop moaning
@@adam20003 bellend.
COD had lightning in a bottle with the first iteration of Warzone. All it needed was an anti cheat that worked and people would have been thrilled. Instead they tossed it in the bin.
Quarantine Warzone 1 was the most fun I had on COD since BO2. It’ll go down for me as the best part of the new era of COD that started with MW19.
@@EpticityOG I still play MW2019 and IMO the cods after it can’t even touch it.
whoa its crazy how good everything looks and felt those first 2 years of warzone, so lucky to have experienced the best times.
Kilo, Grau and MP5 were met as well before DMR. Within a month or two of launch Metas were established
Doof Doof fire shotgun , origin 12, kar98, snakeshots, dual renettis..., all in the MW2019 Era
DMR ruined it. It became DMR Zone 😂. Everybody was using it. All the sweets and try hards.
@5thdawg917 yeah but Dudes setting "World Records" by using a 2 shot fire breathing shotgun was so cheap it was ridiculous
Thanks guys looks like some people realy remember how toxic and bs friendly warzone was in the beginning and don’t forget how “fast” the cod devs removed problematic weapons and skins (roze skin)
I miss the kilo bro
The thing is, is I want the movement, no bag, vomit loot, etc. to all FEEL the same as Verdansk when it came out. Not just have the map again.
The craziest difference to me is the difference in skill. When you look at verdansk it was people running an shooting. Now everyone is dashing jumping sliding around like crazy. To think I ran an M4 with a HDR back in verdansk which has like zero movement speed, compared to now where no loadout lacks an SMG.
If you get in a cab fight without an SMG now, you're screwed. New warzone is terrible
I remember it well a was in the hospital april 1 st 2020 for my heart op and stroke and how i started watching u and the lads for my rehab keep it up lads
Hope you’re recovering well brother ❤️🙏
Every map that came out was worse than the previous one. Im not sure if the problem was in the maps, but I feel like they kept nerfing things that gave the noobs a fighting chance, like the vehicles, RPGs.They also added things to make it easier for streamers to keep running around and destroying everyone, like baloons, zipline-jumping, running and stimming in gas forever.
I remember in Verdansk days, we used to jump as far as possible from planes, get a helicopter, do 4-5 recons, buy everything we need like selfrevives, armorbox munitionbox, loadoat and then we went to the middle and waited, and painted the house, and eachother. I have some beautiful pics of me and my friends with paint all over us. New Warzone its just stress stress stress.
nobody wants to sit in a house for 10 minutes lol
Ahaha we had fun with painting, mining the house whyle we waited. We would still play like that, but the zone closes to quickly now when you jump far from the Airplain. Plus we managed to quickly finish many recons because the helicopter was extremely mobile, now the chopper is shit. 😂
@Luke-ym7hd Nailed it. I am glad they removed the backpack system. But this omnimovement is complete ass. I said it for so long now. Bringing back Verdansk won't help the game. It'll get people interested for a tiny bit only to be disappointed by this buggy ass shit gameplay.
@@Ahzumer Me and my friends did it sometimes. For the average person they see a win maybe once every week or so, and most die before first cicle. If you recon it out and then wait you still get action but at the end of the game instead, which makes it more intense! Also if the zone ended by ATC or Prison we got tons of kills by sniping!
@Luke-ym7hd all that shit you said haas ruined it now was present then except the backpack change and omnimovement . It was just covid and everybody was bored shut in the house and desperate for entertainment and interactions with friends
OG warzone just played way better. Lotting was better the sound effects were better. Be fair it did get old and stale towards the end but I think that was the true end of warzone BR. Dead to me now. Just can’t sit there for couple hours I get to play and spend half that time on looting and loading in
If it ain’t broke. Don’t fix it. But some reason, those devs love to reinvent the wheel.
Man that MW19 theme song hit me right in the feels. So many memories
It cannot be understated how much damage IW and it's leadership did to the Warzone name with WZ2. I still have a number of friends to this day who refuse to play CoD because how awful MWII/WZ2 was. I played well over a 1,000 hours and shamelessly bought a bunch of bundles in WZ1 and maybe played 10 hours of WZ2 and bought the first BP after being duped by the marketing. They had the easiest layup ever with just needing to add some things to make it fresh while building on the fundamentals of the game and decided to make a completely different game that permanently turned away players.
DMZ was the best part and they abandoned it!
DMZ is still today a better game than warzone 3 BR.
Hear hear! 👌🏻
Weird wz2 was amazing in my eyes still love that big map and all, verdansk was amazing and all but tbh al Mazra is the better map over all,imo
It wasn’t even that bad bro al mazra is up there with verdansk
The early warzone was great, you could play casually. Having walked away from it for several years and coming back a few weeks ago. Very few talk on the mic if you join randoms, the game is bloated with gear and the buy box sucks. Many other issues with it but I’m trying to enjoy playing with my brother and nephew. It’s just such a sweat fest now.
the thing i miss the most from og warzone is the clean ui. everything felt so clear and well thought out in the current warzone the hud elements and notifications all look so darn ugly.
@@frayhound dude, YES!
I miss the Yellow “DOWNED” notification so much. It was so satisfying, almost addicting, I must say.
Verdansk was special for all the players because it was during covid and it was the first time COD had done something this big but as soon as Activision saw the potential that the game mode can generate income they monetized the hell out of it.
activision saw the potential, and decided to bury it.
I can't stand in modern warzone where everyone runs around with the same 2 guns!
Ikr. I hate everyone copying each other same guns. Before I use to watch thr reply and be like wow, what gun is that person using, how is he killing me with that gun, wonder what perks he put on. But I think it's because all these streamers and content creators are what's ruined the franchise.
@@5thdawg917finally someone said! You know it gets annoying when you see the TTV in their clan tag.
Streamer turn Warzone from casual fun to Sweat Fest
Streamers n such... Tryin hard to go viral n become famous. WZ hs become a joke now
Activision did that.
Amen.
You mention the AMAX when you talk about the meta in Warzone 1.
And This is what the meta is meant to be in Warzone. Yes the AMAX was strong. Stronger than the M4 or the M13 for example.
But the AMAX was also more difficult to handle. And you if you were very good at the game, you could outplay the AMAX with a FAL.. This makes sense.
Whereas today they push one gun or another to sell skins and cosmetics, without taking any guns' parameters (recoil, cadency, magazine size...) into account, at this time, the meta hase a sense. The stronger the gun was, the more difficult it was to handle it or to play with it (SCAR has only 30 bullets max, same thing for Oden, and they were very heavy, but the hitted like a truck)
Stop sayinh dumb shii u stupid dumb f ,amax is literally a fng laser beam .god i fng hate people like you
exactly this. Yes the old game had meta guns, but other guns could beat them, exactly the way you stated.
Now, and for a long time, if you dont use the same guns with the same attachments as everyone else, youre not winning a gunfight. Its ridiculous, and for me, with that, the continuous assault on casual players, and this stupid omni movement crap, means i’ll probably be uninstalling in the near future
Shame, cos i loved the game
Da hell ?How blinded you are ? The grau as an example, gun was a laser even on hundreds of meters for weeks, what about the kar98 builds? Huh everyone used that shitty rifle cause the fast in scope time or what about that shitty smg from Cold War that everyone played, nah you forgot like 90 % of what happend back in the “golden days” in warzone but blame the new one cause it’s happens now … and nah stop coping bros, I’ve attacked you with that comment, your feeling imasculated and try to defend your opinion yada yada you talkin outa you ass accept it
Yup. Landing headshots with the Oden would devastate even the best Grau/Kilo players. I even had an "SMG" version I ran on Rebirth. And people forget that the ODEN/AK/Scar/FAL/AMAX'S recoil, low mag size, and slower fire rate made it the best choice for skilled players while the Kilo/M13/Grau/M4 were tailored for lesser skilled players. Damn shame what this game has turned into.
Verdansk better still have a train with a renewing recon contract.
@@cuddlemuffin44 hahaha
Warzone's Identity Crisis:
Warzone completely lost its identity on Warzone 2 launch, they keep changing and adjusting core gameplay CONSTANTLY! 150 players, floating loot, only ONE gulag, being only able to return via winning gulag or being bought back, simple things like the crate humming noise from Verdansk/Caldera. Its like Fortnite suddenly going from 100 players down to 70-80 and changing the chest sound to something else, it just feels weird... Add new features and mechanics like Balloons etc... 100%, but STOP changing the core elements of the game! The numbed down movement in WZ2, backpack system causing nade, self revive, smoke and streak spam just made the gameplay unpredictable and boring! Currently 99% of gunfights are purely smoke battles and has been like this since WZ2 launch, there is no rotational knowledge at all anymore because people are carrying 6-8 smokes EACH and just rotate across the map that way. Its a BATTLE ROYALE, we went from 4 ways of returning (1 gulag, being bought back, jailbreak and most wanted) to currently around 6-8, WZ1 respawn system for a BR was PERFECT for a CoD BR, now its just beyond a joke, I shouldn't be killing the same team 4+ times in 1 game!? Warzone 1 is missed for reason, that formula worked! The lack of keeping this identity intact made resurgence player count sky rocket and still is a favoured mode and why? CAUSE THE GAMEPLAY LOOP IS THE SAME FROM WZ1! They need to accept this and stop bleeding resurgence into BR!
The problem with WZ now is that the players have got too good and they have actively removed all the ways a less skilled team can beat a better team. I.e. the war against camping
@@NotoriousCRD the camping in warzone 1 was absolutely atrocious. there are still definitely camping spots in wz3 and people are complaining about that still, but wz2 definitely hurt wz3's life cycle because it lowered br's reputation with all the unnecessary changes they made.
Isn't that what sbmm is for?
@@ncliffor that’s what it should be for but in practice it’s not sbmm but engagement based mm. it’s designed to keep you coming back. Ever noticed how you do well in your first few games then it gets awful? That’s what they do. Give you some fun then throw you to the wolves. Just enough fun so you come back the next time. Then you are cannon fodder for people better than you so they can have their fun and come back again. There are 2 options to get around it 1) be so awful you never leave the baby slopes 2) get so good no one can beat you
@@NotoriousCRD I've been option 1 for years - y'know us casual players just want 40 minutes of fun, not grind
@@NotoriousCRD this game arguably has more ways than ever for low skilled players to win. Cluster mines stacking in backpacks, portable balloons for easy rotations, etc.
Verdansk was so well balanced. You can be a camper and still win against higher skilled players. WZ is becoming a game where it’s tailored to only skilled players and that is making it not fun. Verdansk was perfect in that balance.
@@MustafaGT laughs in monolithic suppressor, buildings with only one way in, Roze-skin infested dark corners, and wide open spaces with nothing in between.
I agree. Ironically enough, the more they do to give crutches the lower skilled players, the harder the game becomes for lower skill players. That’s because they forget high-skilled players also get access to those crutches as win-more tools.
@@MustafaGT verdansk was infested with cheaters. It’s much better now
I hate Resurgance for that reason, coupled with the fact that all the new crazy skins and weapons from all call of duty’s makes it such a chaotic mess that it’s not fun. Feels more like a chore to play, where before it actually felt relaxing
@@EpticityOG Fully agree. I've had a full year out and came back today. It's like i'm a complete noob again.
Still can't process how they shut down the entirety of wz 1 forever. That shit should be illegal or regulated.
If you're from a European Union country, please sign the "Stop killing video games" petitio, so legislators hopefully vote on regulations on videogame life-cycles and post-launch support.
The fact people paid money for wz1 skins/passes which are no longer accessible is criminal.
If you rent a hotel room or AirBnB, do you get access to it for the rest of your life? Today, the whole gaming industry is a rental business. You don't own anything, including wz1 skins/passes, or current wz skins/passes. Rental business is not criminal, unless they are not clearly notifying the customer that it is in fact a rental.
I'm a "glass half full" type of guy, so I have fond memories of all eras, including Caldera and Al Mazrah (which I agree needs to return).
But OG Verdansk will always be my favorite, not because it was the best, but because of the memories we made during that time. Memories and experiences that no matter how great Warzone becomes again, can never be replicated.
@@lj5190 verdansk was objectively the best battle-royale map of all-time
@@VamosLa. I didn’t say it wasn’t.
Fortnite would like a word on verdansk being the best br map all time
@@alarrim29574 Warzone-wise.
Warzone 2 killed warzone
@@crazyratpors warzone killed warzone
Streamers did kill the game
@@bastien7985sounds weird but isn’t it always idiotic streamers and their consumers that ruin gaming experiences, without internet and all just imagine warzone in 2009 or so shit would have been amazing
I think it started dying after cold war integration
This got me thinking about those Verdansk days.... the subway train, Nakatomi Plaza, Rambo running around the map... man, to be young again.
Intriguing and informative. Thanks for the overlook of our past with WZ! Makes me appreciate everything we have had along the way
I really hope DMZ comes back even if it wasnt as popular. Its nice to play a casual game mode than against sweaty 13 year olds. Also it was pretty nice to chat with stangers and share stories while doing some contacts of challenge
DMZ was majorly popular, that’s why it still exists now and has a large player base. The problem was that NO STREAMER had interest in it. So they dropped it. If they made a DMZ 1.0 and made it with updated story quests etc, it would outshine WARZONE.
Really wish we had gotten blackout 2. All games being on the same engine now just makes each feel the same.
First of all, how can you claim that Cold War, MWII, MWIII and BO6 feels the same?
Secondly, all being on the same engine literally, and I mean literally, means nothing.
Me too. Pure gunplay skill. You worked for your win. No free gifts.
@@tiredcaffeineI think he means in terms of Warzone
@@0uttaS1TE Oh, I see. Still, Warzone 1, Warzone 2, and now Warzone with MWIII integration are all different. So my point still stands.
Caldera was definitely not the least popular era. The initial launch of Warzone 2 with the movement nerfs was by FAR the darkest era of Warzone and also single-handedly responsible for the largest drop off in player count.
Yk, the funny part is that is totally wrong 😂 caldera time was down and only held up by rebirth island, with the launch of mw2 the numbers where through the roof so don’t know where you got your numbers body but mw2 revived the whole warzone stuff, not for long I give you that but still
As a Camper, I am setting up my tent in the area where we believe that, while WZ1 was great, it is mostly reconstructive memory that has so many holding on to it as the best thing ever. To me, it seems that much of the noise around things not being perfect (for a free game), that many are missing the fun of the game, to spend time finding some odd thing to make them feel the game is trash.
Blackout was the absolute best. No loadouts, no UAV, COD movement/gunplay with a PUBG grittiness. God I miss it.
I wish blackout came back. Hands down the best BR. Everything was so balanced and the map was great
Blackout also introduced Alcatraz (Rebirth) and resurgence.
Blackout was sick, I still remember my first win at the wind turbines. 😂
Blackout was amazing. Everything after blackout and wz1 is just not very fun for mouse and keyboard players. The gunplay sucks ass.
My favorite memory of OG Warzone is the LTM with the TRUCKS!
One of your best videos TTB. Very well done, Sir!
Original Warzone when it first came out was by far the best. Just give us that.
The tree and bush and mounds of dirt placement makes the map so awesome.
I’ll give you this much lachy your recorded videos are some of the best presented out there.
i met a lot of cool people playing this game after 2019 including my GF and now none of us play it. Miss those days.
LMAO. You got your girlfriend on call of duty warzone?
Tinder wasn’t working for ya?
@@TheImSource yeah lol, we met and played all the time, nearly every weekend and in the week. Our squad was taking the piss out of us asking when we were going to start dating lol. Then eventually decided to get together having never physically met. Best decision ever!
@@skyeait5939 Congrats man. I'm envious lol.
I disagree 100% about Fortunes keep. Me and my buddies don't play if that's the only option. If it's a rotation, we skip it.
I used to use smoke grenades back in warzone1, and even put smoke under barrel to my AR..and my team mates just get annoyed by it and told me to stop lol
That DMR meta defiantly changed the game lol I will never forget I was in a Heli flying over a fire station with the Boyz and then I get hit twice and I get knocked - I'm like WTF! " WHAT GUN IS THAT "
The Al-mazzy haunting event was amazing! I have great memories from that time span
Not just Verdansk but the MW19 overall was so good. The maps and modes kept it feeling fresh. It felt like the game was supported and now they couldn't care about anything but the store
Godzilla v Kong was the only good thing about the vanguard era..... Would love to have it come back to any map
These type of videos are amazing, I am enjoying the most explanatory type of content. Keep on the good work TacBrit ;-)
Man, seeing ole school, Verdansk really brought back some amazing fond memories
With the BO6 integration they should introduce LTM’s to emulate how Warzone was at a simpler time. A mode where there are no redeploy drones gulag tokens or flares, no blacksites or strongholds, bunkers that just have good loot but no foresight. A mode where finding specialists was like finding a unicorn. Finally bring back Al Mazrah and the original Fortunes Keep map.
I would kill for this. 😂
Al Mazrah was a really boring map tbh
I quit playing for a month during the DMR meta. You felt like you couldn’t cross the street or any open area without dying.
As someone who has witnessed the evolution of Warzone, I can see that the shift in how the playerbase plays a BR, will become more focused on teamwork & strategy over METAS and gun skill.
I loved Caldera. With the exception of the mountain in the middle, it had distinct areas and fun transitions. I think Urzikstan is the most dull of the 4. Arguably.
The best Weapons were MW2019 and Vanguard by far, the best big map for BR was Verdansk and the best one for Plunder was Caldera. Plunder in Caldera was pure CAOS.
@@INCONFORMADOX Plunder in Caldera was absolute PEAK!!!
@@DDog1125 the insane nonstop airfield fights lol
@@chronozeta good times!!! Especially with the planes and strafing everyone was sublime asf.
Caldera has great POI's that are in all the wrong places. The mountain in the middle, the titular Caldera, was such a problem. It looked cool, it didn't play as well.
I love your video style, great storytelling!
I got back into gaming during the lockdown, via _CoD: Mobile_ whilst quarantined to a hospital room with my boss and a prisoner, lol. I used to watch you, Jackfrags, Tomo, Handler, Aculite, etc. I used to watch very carefully in anticipation of a gaming PC I’d ordered with an RTX 3080… week after week… month after month. I don’t think I even got my PC until right before _Cold War,_ but I can’t be certain.
The best era was the DMZ era, man I was addicted as hell on that mode.
As a casual player, I can confirm that I do indeed love respawning. I'm glad the developers figured this out! Bravo.
My biggest problem with Caldera wasn't how the map looked, but that it was the most laggy map ever and had loads of glitches, where you would get stuck, run into invisible objects and objects being glitched in the floor/ground so you couldn't interact with them.
Yeah shit was terrifying from times, the state when they dropped it and how long it took to fix all their shit was crazy … fascinating how incompetent these guys are but still so successful
@@LeVeLs404 I think the deadlines they get are just impossible to meet I think activision has a lot bureaucracy problems going on ,and gaming decisions are not taken from gamers but board members
I wish we could run OG Verdansk. Best days of my life gaming
6:01 not only was Cold War Verdansk not radically different from the version before, most of the changes made for it made it inferior to the original Verdansk map.
WZ brought me back to COD. I didn't play for 10+ years, but it being free to play got me hooked again.
I was deep into it for a long time. Got pretty good. Spent hours grinding guns, attachments, skins, etc on base multi-player. Spent hours just banging around Verdansk and then Caldera.
Honestly the map change in MW2 along with the swapping of the UI killed the whole game for me. It was almost perfect before. Now... it's too much and feels like work. Haven't touched WZ in about 18 months and haven't touch multi-player in about 10 months.
First 4 months of warzone launch was something else. Felt like a intense military Sim.
I remember when it was like M4, MP5, or HDR. Pick two and go! Definitely the best time to play.
The wholly unexpected success of Warzone really explains the horrific launcher situation we are now stuck with.
Caldera era did bring in a lot of good changes though, players ui was way better with showing how many, streaks and plates each player had etc redeploy balloons etc. By the end of this era was probably also the best balanced meta and warzone was in a good space it just needed a new map thats all
The coldwar era was the best on the warzone side. The best metas. The best camos and skins. The most player active.
@@YoseDelRosario it wasn’t. It was the beginning of the downfall of warzone
Nope. I don’t understand at first, but then I realized, Activision wanted to sell more yearly cods to please their shareholders. It’s also an incentive for players to buy Cold war so they can rank up their guns faster, therefore have better gunfights against players with MW2019 guns. It’s clearly play to win scheme. MW2019 WZ was better in every way. It was originally part of MW2019 Franchise, same graphics, and gunplay, same mechanics. To me, the integration is what ruined it. The bloated guns, the same duplicate weapons from MW and CW. Like what’s the point having both AKs from both games in one BR game. Especially the add on to our console storage. It’s just not worth the constant updates. Then they had the audacity to add Vangarbage. 🤦♂️.
I went from passionately playing warzone in og/1984 verdansk and even powering through caldera, once they ditched wz1 even with its issues, I have since had no interest in
man og warzone was the best. hours of fun. great times with friends, just isn't the same anymore.
Ashika Island one of the best resurgence maps ngl. It was very fun and kinda like the beginning of comeback for warzone
I thought I was the only one who thinks FK is better than rebirth island. I also agree that Al maz is the best map ever. And while I did like verdansk (I actually like the look of 84 a lot)… I really liked the caldera map too. I’m partial to bright sunny maps with palm trees lol. Great vid bro.
Like all things good in life, whenever greed bleeds in, quality hemorrhages out!!
Love your work Bro!
Long Live Verdansk 2020
I'm so old I remember a game mode called Blackout which was Warzone years before Warzone
Warzone will never feel like it did in 2020. I don’t even play it now.
Warzone during 2020 was pure chaos 😂 l love it so much
I remember the excitement for the stadium roof opening ,the first Halloween Night Time Verdansk was amazing ,they also had a smaller kind of BR mode 50 vs 50 or something i think it was.
Also,did the train always go round the map or did that only start around season 4 ? 🤔
I miss that era of Warzone ,i miss Verdansk.
THIS IS THE 95% of my thought. This video is perfect as a 2020 player ❤ I miss then
really awesome video but a bit incorrect as the Grau was the first Meta that I can remember in early Verdansk. Grau, MP5, Kilo, AX50 and HDR
Very good, the Grau was indeed meta shit everyone played cause “good” or in other words I don’t have to have sill cause I’m holding a 60 shot laser in my hands
Seeing BrokenMachine is fun to me. He still out here grinding everyday
Stopping power rounds were OP.
the downed movement speed was so good. Now its just cumbersome.
The graphics were the best in the first version.
yeah
All my pals play resurgence. I miss the gameplay when people knew they were down to their last life
Great video !!!
Al Mazrah, Leaving behind the brilliant MW2019 gunplay, and "Resurgence" killed Warzone. Warzone maps are too bland looking.
Al mazara was a great map
@@aretonsenner6664 60% of the player base left.
@@jacobfield4848because of the unnecessary changes they made (looting and movement being major ones). had that not occured, people would not leave such bad reviews of al mazrah. nor leave in huge numbers
@@jacobfield4848 so
@@aretonsenner6664 it was sooo boring tho, couldn't name you a single feature area after a year of playing it other than observatory.
100% agree with almazrah being good map! I think a major issue with cod .. is that they listen to these streamers way too much instead of just making a good game that they can build off of . The constant cycle of giving us new things then taking them away has gotten old really fast.
I think a lot of us are feeling both COD and Warzone fatigue. Don’t get me wrong , I love a lot of the franchise and Warzone captured a lot of the fun I felt when gaming in the early days. The constant and massive changes, jumping between different iterations of the game as new iterations are released each year, and disappointing server maintenance has taken this game from a really fun experiment to a mode that, in order to stay relevant and remotely skilled, you have to pour in hours and hours of time, money and energy. I enjoy gaming, I don’t want the experience to feel stale and boring, but something has changed.
I would die for a "Warzone Classic" S0 feelings, no metas, no Cold War guns, just the classic experience.
May have been capped at 80fov but 120fps was definitely a major improvement
Verdansk before the hackers WAS THE BEST!!!
October 2020 (Halloween) was peak Warzone
I hope they bring back the backpack system with the different types with the different vest too, just make it to were you can’t stack killsteaks, then all the zips and movement with balance and no cheaters,
OG Warzone still looks so much better! Not even a contest!
How good warzone looked and played in the beginning before all the 2000 weapons were added. redeploy balloons etc etc. Ill take early warzone over what we have now anytime
True, but simple question how much and would you even play warzone today in the state of season 6 warzone (that was the season where they added a train system)
>CoD's idea of resurgence didn't even exist
Blackout: am I fucking joke to you?
At least every six months I think of 2020 and I would really like to go back to it.. Everyone sees it as the period of Covid, but I see it as Playing with People in Verdanska..
Warzone 1 was so great where WZ 2 + 3 can dig its own grave…
what i miss the most is the quality of the game, on this video you can see the how the guns, map, fidelity looks is night and day compare to the garbage we have now and lets net forget about the audio.
Call of duty has had resurgence since Blackout’s Alcatraz island, dont forget that! Used to crush that map.
I actually liked blackout more than warzone when it first came out. I came around as I started sniping more in warzone than blackout.
Floating loot needs to return. So simple