The Call of Duty: Warzone Season 1 update has been in the game and that is a sign of the new meta. The new meta is what everybody is trying to figure out, which weapons are strong, power loadouts for the new map or still Verdansk will be adv. CharlieINTEL’s last tweet linking with a post on best weapons after the update has somehow turned around the typical video games talk. It is a simple question with a complicated answer and the replies? Oh my God, they tell the whole story of being in the Warzone community at this time.
First of all, the basic thing is the tweet pointed players to a guide that is revealing the top class weapons after the balance changes in Season 1. This is totally normal for a live-service game like Warzone. The developers change the damage numbers, recoil patterns, and time-to-kill stats, and the entire ecosystem of what is ‘good’ shifts overnight. Players who have been leveling a certain rifle for weeks might suddenly discover it has become inferior. It is a cycle that keeps the game fresh but at the same time drives a certain part of the player base crazy trying to follow.
In any case, the real scuttlebutt is not in an official announcement, right? The comments are where the juicy part is. This tweet’s replies give perfect, chaotic snapshots. The information seekers are there like user ‘properplayzz’ who merely asked, ‘Wonder what weapons thez are, would be cool if they had a name.’ A sincere question. At the same time, there was an instant opposition. User ‘AirinhoJoga’ rather bluntly put it, ‘not even close,’ probably voicing dissent with the guide’s choices. And ‘Sh4dowVT’ went on a whole rant: ‘Who cares? To all Warzone players, just use whatever you want. Screw ‘the meta’. Just enjoy the game. It’s not a tournament, you’re not going to win money, just stop…’
That’s all. That’s the everlasting discussion, isn’t it? Meta versus fun. Some players are really passionate, they want to take advantage of every single detail, and they want to go after that ultimate loadout that they saw in a streamer. Others just want to get in, shoot at enemies with a trendy gun, and not care if their SMG has the fastest theoretical TTK by 0.05 seconds or not. Both are legitimate but they will fight about it on Twitter.
Then there’s the usual technical chaos that comes with a major update. ‘DoctorJ’ talked about a ‘dev error 0xd8e46539 mp_vh_vm_c_tqp_usa_pl_carver.’ ‘soapshadow’ couldn’t apply the pre-order camo. ‘MrSmilez0’ just said, ‘go check the reddit’ as a solution to someone, which is almost equal to saying, ‘turn it off and on again’ in a modern way. It indicates that weapon stats might be the talk of the day but the game has to run smoothly. And sometimes it happens that after the update, the game is just not working.
Personal stories are the hidden treasures in all that. ‘sammyvitris’ gave us the mood: ‘I’m 42 and I have played all Call of Duty titles. I don’t have the time to relearn how to aim.’ Preach it! The older gamer’s battle to cope with a continuously changing environment is very real. And ‘hhheavn’ moaned that ’22 impulse? Bruh I don’t have that barrel’ and this really spots the grind-wall that frequently isolates a player from the ‘best’ setup. If you haven’t unlocked the attachment, the meta loadout still remains just a theoretical dream.
Amidst the craziness, some replies attempted to give an actual answer to the gun question. When ‘realAdmAckbar’ seemed to be inquiring about the guns, the users ‘__Ac0g__’ and later ‘MTWalka’ came in with the details: ‘its the first lmg and the msmc quite obv’ and ‘Those are the MK.78 and the MPC-25.’ So there you go, two names have been suggested but who knows if that’s what the original article said. The information gets fragmented very fast.
And of course, you can’t have a gaming Twitter thread without some pure, unadulterated salt. ‘_JBIGOR’ simply stated, ‘This game sucks’ with a crying emoji. ‘mkneller33’ told someone ‘BATTFILED FUCKING SUCKS!!!!!!!!’ when another battle royale game was mentioned. And ‘tminnzy’ and ‘SinGeekedOut’ were involved in a discussion about whether sharing meta discoveries is helpful or just promoting whiners. ‘You niggas cry about anything, he DISCOVERED it and shared it with you.’
This kind of community reaction is common across platforms, including on PlayStation and Xbox networks.
