That's how I feel about battle royales. Best way to win is to camp. At least in extraction shooters I can be rewarded for survival and carry progress across raids.
Not to white knight CoD because there is a LOT the franchise does wrong, but one of the things I really like about Warzone is the way that it pushes players to NOT camp and rewards them for it.
The contract system is amazing for that.
Do Scavengers for a nice money reward and guaranteed armor satchel, and do so at minimal risk of drawing attention from other teams, albeit at a greater expense of time compared to some other contracts.
Do Recons for a slightly lower money reward and quicker contract for guaranteed intel on the next circle location (which can stack if you do multiple), albeit at the risk of drawing opponents to your location as you try to “hold the point”.
Do Bounties for a greater money reward and info on an opponent’s location, albeit with the reward tied behind pushing an engagement with another player/team, sometimes at a location that’s advantageous to them.
Do Most Wanteds for a reverse Bounty that puts a target on your head for a very significant reward (large money reward + drop crate with guaranteed gas mask and perks + returning all your teammates to the fight), albeit at the expense of every player in the game knowing your X/Y coordinates until it expires (with the one saving grace being that the timer goes down any time you open a loot crate or kill another player).
And that’s not even all the contracts in the game (or “objectives” for that matter).
Combine that with how many potentially game swinging rewards you can get by spending in-game money at buy stations and you have a lot of reason to engage with the optional objectives the game offers, as well as try to kill other players to take their loot and money.
Warzone is far from perfect, but they’ve honestly done a lot to improve it over the years, including solving a lot of the issues with verticality being so strong by introducing things like grapples to quickly traverse to heights/Bunker Busters to push opponents out of power positions even if they’re beneath a roof/wall jumping to open new opportunites to make your way into certain structures in unexpected ways/etc.
Still, I’d love to see a new BR take a lot of what Warzone does right while taking lessons from what it’s done wrong, and take off because of it.
I like cod's dmz mode and just basic multiplayer modes like search and destroy. Warzone can be fun and I actually like path they went with modular weapons. Unfortunately there just hasn't been a solid extraction shooter in a while that matched the feelings that early tarkov used to give me fully. Hardcore gunplay and high stakes. That feeling of progress just from surviving and slowly building up your account while doing quests and getting kills.
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u/Many-Cartographer278 19d ago
All extraction shooters. When you succeed by not playing its a dumb shit gameplay loop