This week, Activision took to the Call of Duty website to outline what’s coming in CoD Warzone Season 2, and it appears the focus is on fixes rather than new content.
In a massive blog post published this week, Call of Duty has outlined their upcoming plans for Season 2 of CoD Warzone, and it appears the development team is returning to the drawing board. The blog post introduces the season and mentions the “comprehensive feedback” the development team has received from players, and their plans to address issues plaguing the in-game experience.
The blog post specifically states “We’ve made the decision to prioritize focus on gameplay tuning, adding more quality of life, and addressing ongoing bugs” continuing with “Our priority is having the most solid foundation that Battle Royale can offer and are excited for players to see it all live.” CoD Warzone has experienced some ongoing issues recently detailed by the community, ranging from rampant cheating and exploitation to server issues and in-game bug extermination. Treyarch promises they hear the player feedback and are looking to address it.
So far, the blog post claims “Over 136,000 Ranked Play account bans” have been instituted since they’ve deployed updated detection models for behavioural systems (namely aim bots and other cheating methods), and the new detection model is meant to flag CoD Warzone accounts and take aim at other accounts the perpetrator account regularly partied with to determine if whole parties use cheats. With all of this mentioned, Activision still notably doesn’t use IP-based bans for anti-cheat purposes.
On top of deploying a more strict anti-cheat measure, CoD Warzone has addressed constant server disconnects that have affected the state of the game in recent weeks, and the stability teams have narrowed down some specific causes of these issues that can affect all players. Activision promises new improvements have been made to server infrastructure in an effort to reduce malicious bad actor activities that dampen CoD Warzone‘s competitive nature.
Fans have taken to the official X (formerly Twitter) announcement post from Treyarch to air grievances with the current CoD Warzone model. User Drilleh has commented under the post “Reduce the SBMM/EOMM or remove it completely from public matches and this game is 10/10!!!” echoing the sentiment of many others. For the uninitiated, SBMM/EOMM are referred to as Skill Based Matchmaking, and Engagement Optimized Matchmaking, and players consistently struggle to find games quickly due to it.
While the entire blog post can be found on the official Call of Duty Blog, it appears (at least according to X) Treyarch and CoD Warzone fans are still divided on issues as Treyarch aims to right the ship with large patches.
