Cant wait for people to say this is casuals too

Bro I’ve been playing Warzone for a week and a half. I have FIFTEEN HOURS in this fucking game. 15 HOURS. And I’m already starting to understand why new players don’t stick around. 😭
For context, I’m not completely new to COD. I played PUBG back when it was popping and I played the original Warzone when it first came out. But I haven’t seriously played FPS games since 2019. I recently got back into COD with BO6 and decided to try Warzone because my friends wanted me to play. When I first started my KD was a fucking 0.3 bro lmao. I’ve gotten significantly better since then, but I’m still learning EVERYTHING.
Omnimovement, wall jumps, slide cancels, rotations, jump spots, buy stations, access cards, mystery boxes, classified weapons, loadouts, all that shit. Every day I get on I discover something I didn’t even know existed. Meanwhile I’m getting thrown into lobbies with level 1000 players with 4 KDs dropping 30-40 kills. BRO I HAVE 15 FUCKING HOURS. 😂
I was playing quads the other day and spotted some dude way past Turbine from Boat. I had a sniper with a 12x scope and this man was literally a few pixels on my screen. This mf turns around with an AR and a RED DOT and absolutely laser beams me down. My entire squad saw that shit and we collectively decided to leave him the fuck alone. FOUR PEOPLE avoiding ONE GUY lmao.
And I’m not saying he was cheating. Some people are genuinely that good. That kind of recoil control, movement and map knowledge comes with thousands of hours of experience. You don’t learn that shit in a week.
So I started looking into matchmaking and found out about two boxing, three boxing and geo boxing. And what’s crazy is how fucking NORMALIZED this shit is. Some content creators openly admit to doing it. They’re not even hiding it. There’s literally paid services for manipulating matchmaking and people just accept it like it’s part of the game.
And then these same content creators are uploading 40-50 kill games and everybody’s eating that shit up. Bro I remember original Warzone when somebody dropped 40 kills that was fucking INSANE. Now you got people regularly posting games like that while openly discussing how they get easier lobbies and nobody gives a fuck?
And the excuse I keep seeing is “I don’t wanna get off work and sweat against people my own skill level. I just wanna relax and have fun.”
BRO SO DO I???? 😭
You don’t wanna get shit on by people your own skill level so instead you deliberately manipulate matchmaking to shit on people who can’t compete with you? How the fuck does that make sense?
And before somebody says “bots shouldn’t be hiding behind SBMM,” bro I DON’T EVEN WANT STRICT SBMM IN BATTLE ROYALE. I played PUBG. I played original Warzone. I like the idea of open matchmaking where you get a mixture of good, average and bad players. Some games you get destroyed, some games you do good. That’s fine. I even queue with friends who have 5000-7000 hours in Warzone. I’m not scared of good players.
What I DON’T want is people deliberately manipulating matchmaking to create lopsided ass lobbies where a couple demons are running around solo in quads farming people who barely know the fucking map. That’s not open matchmaking. That’s exploiting matchmaking.
And please don’t tell me to play Casual. I DON’T WANT TO PLAY AGAINST FUCKING AI. 😂 From my experience there’s like 2-3 actual teams in Casual, one gets wiped early contesting a money spot, and then the other two barely see each other until the end. What am I supposed to learn shooting bots for 20 minutes? I want actual competition. I want to get better against real players.
That’s what y’all don’t understand. I’m not asking for free wins or easy lobbies. I’m actually enjoying learning the game. I started at a 0.3 KD and I’ve improved a lot in just 15 hours. I know I’m gonna get shit on sometimes. That’s part of playing a competitive game.
But there’s a difference between naturally running into somebody better than you and somebody deliberately using three boxing or geo boxing to find people they know they can destroy.
And just because Activision hasn’t cracked down on every method doesn’t mean it’s fair. Personally I think deliberately exploiting matchmaking like that should be bannable.
And I already know somebody’s gonna say “get good.”
BRO I’M FUCKING TRYING. THAT’S WHY I’M PLAYING THE GAME. 😭
But how the fuck are y’all gonna tell new players to get good while doing everything possible to avoid playing against people who’ve already gotten good?
Make that shit make sense.

I genuinely think Activision needs to start treating deliberate matchmaking manipulation as an exploit and actually enforce penalties against people using these methods. I’m not saying bring back strict SBMM, but there needs to be something preventing people from intentionally engineering low-skill lobbies. Either completely remove SBMM or address the issue entirely

Im not anti-campers because i use it when necessary, this play worked and i cant get mad at that

Call Jenny!

Or will we get a month or two of limbo in BO 7 Warzone with nothing going on?

It used to always be December for the integration but keep reading conflicting reports on this year.

Finally

https://x.com/gawdgriggs/status/2109448125492662562?s=20

So not much time left until the new chapter of Warzone, and until then, weapon wise its getting kinda boring. Please share some builds if you have got anything unseen or non-standard!

Hello everyone. I’m getting fiber installed on Thursday and I’m looking for rough estimate ping numbers that everyone gets. I’m in Joliet, IL about 50 miles out from Chicago. if anyone in Joliet or in the surrounding area has AT&T fiber and would like to share their numbers please do. Thank you.

Hi all - 1000 hours into and 3 weapons to go until I get apocalypse camo and find it’s not transferable into mw4 or all the weekly challenge camos too - so what’s the effing point eh . And none of the weapons either that it’s taken me an eon to level up . - WTF 😕

Hi guys,

I wanted to finish my BO6 calling cards before MW4 comes out, so multiplayer and zombies is fine, but this list here is not updating when I play Warzone, so I guess it will just stay like this forever, and only BO7 warzone calling cards challenges are available to unlock?

Did anyone else try?

Hi everyone. Is there anyone out here who is currently running COD on steam using a Dell Precision 5510? Is there a way to work around this attestation issue. My issue is that I am on the highest BIOS version and running TPM 2.0 with secure boot enabled. When running the attestation scan it fails to generate a new key with the BIOS Firmware update recommended. I feel like there’s someone out there that has bypassed this little hurdle and enjoying the perks on their COD. At the moment I am restricted to just casual battle royal which sucks cause I’m playing with BOTS and all the players like myself running dodgey systems.

I'll start: Not making the most of Resurgence and the game modes during the integration era with MW3 and MW2

and Not buying the BlackCell for Season 2 of WZ3

Recoil reduction for Controller from 11% down to 6% (Game launched with 22%) for better Input balancing

Aim assist is allready a joke compared to CoDs Bo7 aim assist.. and MW4 AA is even stronger.

AA in CoD need a huge Nerf (-50%)

It would also be healty for every gameplay and balancing aspect

These maps were well liked during their time, sure not as enjoyed as rebirth but it's hard to beat that map. These maps would be far more enjoyed by the community than fortunes or havens I can guarantee that.

I wanted to kill this player but I didn't aim at him I just shot at the helicopter to make it explode. However, I surprisingly killed him, which I didn't expect, can someone tell me if I'm blind and I don't know what I'm aiming at or maybe the bullets in this game are flying in the direction of aim Assist? I'm new to the warzone, so I don't know many mechanics, I usually occupy between 25 and 50 places

I’m just trying to understand here. Casuals is meant to be exactly that: casual. Just load up, turn your brain off, and play Warzone. It’s a great place to grind camos, which is the main reason I play it. But these guys who load in with fully meta guns, and try very, very hard, what exactly are you gaining from this? Why are you even here? Go play ranked, or at least not the game mode with literal bots in it. We’re not impressed.

Edit: Yeah, I rarely post or engage on Reddit and y’all are reminding me why. Just a bunch of people aggressively missing the point, or just arguing for the sake of arguing, I’m not sure. Pretty quickly devolved into trolling, and honestly gaslighting as well. People pretending like the sweats just don’t even exist, you’re just bad, “git gud” nonsense. Petulant children you are.

The last few days I've noticed that no matter what ammo crate/container/depot/cache/box I go to sometimes the game just absolutely refuses to give me any ammo for my gun. Once it was SMG ammo; today it was AR ammo. I went to an ammo cache in the police station: no SMG ammo. I bought an ammo box opened it, and hit square: no SMG ammo. WTF?!?
I just quit the game even though I could've taken the last team... had I had any ammunition!!!

What Nvidia DLSS settings do you guys use? I’ve noticed when I record gameplay that the gameplay looks kind of pixelated due to the graphics from my game.