The release of kicks off a brand-new chapter of Warzone, coming with a ton of and . However, CoD expert JGOD has urged the devs to address weapon balancing and the state of the meta before the new game arrives. Although Warzone is packed full of guns from both MW3 and MW3, only a handful are truly viable in practice.

Those who decide to steer clear of these meta picks leave themselves at a disadvantage, as the rest of the lobby uses top-tier weapons with TTKs that can send them to the Gulag instantly. This is something that Warzone guru JGOD highlighted in an upload to his YouTube channel, where he broke down all of the changes he felt were needed ahead of Black Ops 6. “One of the biggest issues with this game currently is that the weapon balancing has been atrocious,” he said in the video, arguing that players are always “heavily limited” when it comes to building competitive loadouts.

He compared the current version of Warzone to the original, which spans from MW2019’s Verdansk to Caldera with Vanguard. Each season in the original had a wide variety of different guns that were seen as meta. For example, at launch the M4A1, AX-50, Kilo 141, and three or four others were all solid choices, while BOCW Season 6 had around eight guns that were all fairly evenly matched.

This meant there was a lot more variety and genuine debates to be had about which was the best option for sniping, close quarters, and long distances. Now, the meta is pretty cut and dry, as everyone kn.