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Call Of Duty: Warzone has quietly removed Bounty Contracts and it is a travestyBounti-empty
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Look, maybe I’m overreacting, but seeing this did genuinely just make me do a high-pitched yelp at my screen, so I’m going to run with that emotion.Call Of Duty: Warzone’s latest update has removed Bounty Contracts from the game. These were optional in-game missions where you had to hunt down a player from an enemy squad. You were told roughly where they were, and they were told you were coming. They were great. I wrotea whole article specifically praising them.
Both Contracts elegantly solve one problem with battle royale games, where you’re incentivised to play passively. That’s OK if you want to spend a quite and suspenseful time hiding in huts for 30 minutes, but rewards for going out and killing do make the game more interesting. Bounty Contracts were especially good for pushing players into conflict. Jointly crying ‘oh no’ when someone on your squad starts getting hunted was a lovely little ritual, even though we all secretly welcomed the excitement.
The update also includes a new gun, cosmetics, and the return of a close-range map playlist for regular old multiplayer. You can read the full patch noteshere, when you’ve calmed down.
Warzone is free-to-play, and still very good. You can download ithere.
