Call of Duty: Warzone has a fluctuating meta that the game's community constantly attempts to monitor. The title tends to rotate weapons frequently, and many fans try to gear themselves with the most powerful options available. While Call of Duty: Warzone's meta rate has been increasing, fans have noticed a sudden drop in players using meta gear.
While there is no obvious cause for this decrease in meta usage, fans are watching as the "meta coefficient" continues to fluctuate. Call of Duty: Warzone's meta has been dominating the game for some time, and to see a decline could mean change is happening among the community. Till the next update, it will be unclear if this trend continues as predicted by fans.
In a chart provided by VITOCHAN on Reddit, the Call of Duty: Warzone meta coefficient has dropped below pre-integration levels. Once Call of Duty: Warzone integrated with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, several spikes in meta weapon usage were tracked by fans. The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War weapons begin to spike as many fans discovered powerful builds that far outweighed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's armory. While there are tons of options in the game, fans found that many players were ignoring subpar weapons in favor of meta-dominating picks. This resulted in lobbies filled with one or two different loadouts appearing multiple times in a game.
love to see it. Meta pick back down to pre cold war integration. Now, if they could just buff the lower 30 weapons (ScarH, Striker45, SKS )etc from CODWarzone
While the post's author would love to see older weapons buffed, it is not likely Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's guns will ever receive an update. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is the focus of the game's developers, and the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare audience continues to be pressured into the next title.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the meta coefficient with Call of Duty: WW2 Vanguard launches later this year. While many fans have expressed mixed opinions over Cold War's weapons, it has already been revealed that the game will undergo another integration period. Call of Duty: Warzone is planned to be the central pillar of the franchise, and the next title will most likely share in its built history.
Until Call of Duty: Warzone updates next, fans are left with only speculative data. The game will continue to update weapons and adjust the balance, and any patch could cause an immediate shift in the game's loadout selection for meta-following fans.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.