Since players first got their hands on it with 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Warzone has been a proverbial playground for anyone who enjoys the series' style of gunplay. There are plenty of options for players to experiment with between the various operators and weapons to find that perfect loadout. However, some players are finding inspiration outside of the game for their loadouts thanks to the latest Netflix sensation, Squid Game.
Netflix's Korean survival-drama series written and directed Hwang Dong-kyuk released worldwide on September 17, 2021, and become an almost overnight success. The series follows a contest where 456 people in deep debt compete in several games with the hope of winning 45.6 billion won. However, the games have deadly penalities for the losers often carried out by masked, heavily armed enforcers serving the game's mysterious organizer.
It's these enforcers who serve as the source of many Call of Duty: Warzone players' loadout inspiration in matches recently. According to Dexerto, the latest TikTok trend among Warzone players challenges to arm themselves with the Squid Game loadout to see how effective the enforcers' loadout is in-game. The loadout consists of an MP5 with a barrel compensator, tac laser, stippled grip tape, the sleight of hand perk, and a Magnum as the sidearm.
Unfortunately, players will not be able to don the vibrant pink suits of Squid Game's enforcers.
Creative loadouts like this are nothing new to Call of Duty: Warzone because, as mentioned above, the sandbox encourages experimentation and creativity to find success. It simply becomes a question of whether a player's loadout comes from a challenge akin to the Squid Game challenge, copying loadouts of streamers like Nickmercs or Dr. Disrespect, or simply trying out different weapons and perks until finding that perfect combination.
One of the more creative examples seen from the Warzone community came when players were creating "canon" loadouts based on their operators. An example of this was a "canon" Bale loadout shared on Reddit where user JT-TH built their loadout based on Bale's character description and history as a Russian Spetsnaz operator. The loadout included an AK-47 serving as the player's primary and .357 pistol as the secondary along with appropriate perks.
It remains to be seen what other sources of inspiration players an find for their Warzone loadouts. There's not shortage of options out there, especially when it comes to Netflix if any want to revisit that well but only time will tell.
Call of Duty: Warzone is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Dexerto