'We'll bring Black Ops Cold War's characters and weaponry into the free-to-play experience,' said Daniel Alegre, the company’s chief operating officer. Hopefully, the major balancing issues happening in Warzone can be adjusted as soon as possible.The merge was explained as part of Activision’s latest investor call. However, issues related to the differences between game engines - as well as dramatic mechanical differences between the combined sandbox of Modern Warfare and Cold War weapons - will be much harder to iron out. Weapon balancing is a given fix that'll be happening over the lifespan of Black Ops Cold War. Many Call of Duty players are largely okay with switching titles around, but with the drastic weapon sandbox issues and gameplay differences based on graphics engines, the transition between Cold War and Warzone isn't as smooth as it should be. This has upset Cold War players, who don't want to be forced out of their brand new game to go play last year's installment.

Unfortunately, there's a snag with this system: an overwhelming majority of these operator challenges require players to turn on Warzone to complete them. RELATED: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War - How to Unlock Flora and Science Weapon Camos On the surface, that's understandable considering the 30 year difference in those game's settings and the real-world technological improvements seen in that time. While Cold War's guns hit significantly harder (at least at first) in Warzone, many attachments present for the weapons in Cold War aren't nearly as good as Modern Warfare's. Right now, weapons are unbalanced on both ends of the spectrum. RELATED: Call of Duty's New Prestige System Is Confusing - Here's How It Works Cold War introduced over 30 new firearms, and players have been scrambling to try and compete with these new weapons, especially considering they lack the nuanced balance tweaks that Modern Warfare's guns went through within a year. This issue is compounded for dedicated Warzone players, who now have to adjust to an entirely different weapons meta than previously established. The dramatic mechanical changes between Warzone and Cold War's game engines leads to weapons feeling wildly different and traversal mechanics feeling off. Cold War-exclusive players will have a rather hard time adjusting to the mechanics of Warzone.

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