When Infinity Ward initially announced the Most Wanted contracts forCall of Duty: Warzone, the community seemed generally enthusiastic about the idea. For the uninitiated, the premise of Most Wanted contracts is that players can pick them up and then become a visible target for all the other players on the battle royale map, but if they survive for a certain amount of time, they can instantly re-deploy all of their dead teammates. However, Infinity Ward faced some backlash upon actually implementing the Most Wanted contracts inCall of Duty: Warzone, and it has quickly removed them from the game.
Most Wanted contracts were added toCall of Duty: Warzoneas part of thebig April 28 update, but they have been removed as of an update that was released on April 30. Infinity Ward made no prior announcement that it intended on removing Most Wanted contracts fromCall of Duty: Warzone, and it has offered no explanation as to why they were removed. However, it seems as though there are a couple of different possibilities.
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There is agame-breaking bug associated with theCall of Duty: WarzoneMost Wanted contractsthat makes players lose all of their weapons if they happen to revive a teammate when the contract is finishing up. It’s possible Infinity Ward pulled the Most Wanted contracts from the game while it works to fix this bug, though it’s also possible that Most Wanted contracts were removed due to fan backlash.
Call of Duty: WarzoneMost Wanted contractswere criticized for a couple of different reasons. For one, many fans felt as though the rewards for the contract didn’t justify how difficult they were to complete. Secondly, Infinity Ward decided to replace regular bounties with the Most Wanted contracts, which upset fans as bounty contracts were a popular feature in the game.
It will be interesting to see ifInfinity Wardadds Most Wanted contracts back toCall of Duty: Warzonein the future. If so, it seems likely that the developers will leave regular bounty contracts in the game next time, as that seems to be the primary reason why fans were upset about the Most Wanted contracts. However, that’s just speculation at this time, as Infinity Ward has not announced its intentions when it comes to Most Wanted contracts.
Call of Duty: Warzoneis out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
