"Friends I've loved, friends I've lost"
This line in the script is a small dedication to the tweets and Reddit threads we saw where players described the loss of a friend they played Warzone with.
For anyone out there experiencing loss, know that we see you ❤️
This PS5 controller has the SONY branding ~1mm off-centre to the left, and at a ~1 degree slant and it bothers me way more than it should.
I’m also available for dinner parties and can provide further great conversation like this.
Hey folks,
Hope you enjoy Season 03 and see it as a step in the right direction, with plenty more changes coming in the mid-season update.
My only request is to please keep things respectful and not personal. We love this game too and work hard to bring the best game to you.
SO THEY SET THE FIRST SEASON IN WORLD WAR 2 BUT PLAYERS SAID THEY’D PREFER IT TO BE MORE MODERN AND FUN SO THEY LISTENED AND MADE IT MORE MODERN AND FUN BUT THEN PLAYERS SAID THEY WANTED IT TO STAY IN WORLD WAR 2 CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A GAME DEV NO ME NEITHER
The *second major update is the most important as it shows our intentions for the chapter ahead as to how we plan to keep Warzone updated, healthy, balanced - and fun!
Lots more goodness to come in 2024, so until then - see you in Urzikstan 🫡
We've disabled the Snakeshot Ammunition on the Tyr Handgun due to its overwhelming strength, which didn't align with our intended vision for engagements.
We are actively exploring ways to balance it in the future, in conjunction with other planned adjustments.
We want everyone…
We want Season 1 to be a faster paced Battle Royale and fundamentally we are here to listen and evolve. It's never easy to balance a single experience for hundreds of millions of different player types and motivations - but we hope you love it too.
See ya'll on Wednesday! 🪂🤝🫡
This morning we announced that the player count for
#Warzone
Battle Royale is 100 players.
Our top priority is creating an optimal and fun experience for all of our players based on critical metrics.
These metrics include time-to-action, the map size of Urzikstan, new circle…
Sorry to hear the news of those affected by the recent tech layoffs.
We are hiring heavily here at
@RavenSoftware
, both for the immediate term but also on the horizon - join us!
The crazy part about launch is we have an absolute TON of improvements, but my personal favourite quality of life (potentially ever) is unannounced and pencilled for Season 1: Reloaded.
I’ll leave it at that before the lack of sleep and too much adrenaline get me in trouble 👀
#MW3
: Pull out a pistol underwater AUTOMATICALLY in Warzone with Season 01!
💥 No Pistol? No problem! You will ALWAYS have a pistol underwater now — even if you don’t have it equipped!
The first major update is the most important as it shows our intentions for the chapter ahead as to how we plan to keep Warzone updated, healthy, balanced - and fun!
Lots more goodness to come in 2024, so until then - see you in Urzikstan 🫡
We’ve published an update for
#Warzone
that addresses player footstep Audio, Weapon balance, Gameplay adjustments, and Bug Fixes!
🗒️ Check out the patch notes linked below:
Upgraded the families Xbox 360 to the Series S with a GamePass subscription, the little console that can!
I also love that my family are
#TeamSticker
💪
Dear
@insomniacgames
, over Christmas I absolutely fell in *LOVE* with your take on the Miles Morales universe - so much so that I took the time to 100% complete it. Thank you, it was wonderful.
So this is it, the final update I’ll be a part of in this era of Warzone.
I’d be lying if I wasn’t a little tearful this morning as this past year has been the greatest honour of my career.
I just want to say a personal thanks to our players and partners for this journey.
🫡
📢 The
#Warzone
Season Five Mid-Season update launches at 9AM PST!
A new mode (and some old favorites), new Weapons, Gameplay additions, tons of Weapon and Attachment adjustments, Bug Fixes, and more!
The Patch Notes are available at:
I’m so excited to announce that today I joined the team at Raven as a Creative Director on Call of Duty: Warzone!
I’m delighted to join the team, on a game I absolutely love. It’s a huge honour, privilege and opportunity and I’m excited to get started and meet the team (soon) 🇺🇸
The WZ2.0 pre-game party is in full effect! Love
@RavenSoftware
🖤💛
Salutes to our friends at
@InfinityWard
who I guess aren’t having to deal with snow today… 🫡
This week marks one year for me working at
@RavenSoftware
and 6 months leading the charge on Warzone. It’s been a wild ride and I owe it all to the team, our partner studios and our players for the trust you have put in us. I hope we are delivering, and continue to do so 🖤💛
PSA: Instead of destroying “Christmas noobs”, try jumping in to your favourite videogame with an open mic and leading a new player to Victory. Feels good. 🎄
@ModernWarzone
But the final paragraph was so important!
There will be Vanguard Resurgence on the Caldera during week 1, and I speak as a massive Rebirth Resurgence fan myself when I say how much I love what the Beenox team have created here for the Pacific. Hope you all like it too.
Warzone has been life changing in so many ways. Through good times and bad times, Verdansk was there.
I'm proud to have gone from a being a Warzone fan to a Warzone fan with a hat on, and I'm beyond excited about the year ahead.
To the community; we got you, stay frosty.
I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’ll be joining Ubisoft Toronto as Game Design Director in two weeks time!
I can’t wait to get started and it’s the perfect way for me to kick off 2019. Biggest thanks to my wife
@RarePandii
for inspiring me to take the leap of faith 🙌
Alright folks, I’m clocking off for the holidays. This year has been a busy one and I’m left so proud of what the team has achieved. I feel we had a great year and I’m left excited about the opportunities in 2023.
See you then, stay warm 🫡 ❄️
PSA; I know a lot of Warzone players turn off music to better hear the gameplay but for Operation Monarch you really owe it to yourself to play with music ON and LOUD. The soundtrack is 🔥
The response to Warzone Season 4 has been incredible, what a journey we have all been on together since Season 1. The next few tweets will be retweets that I make no apologies for getting excited about, I’m still the young kid at heart dreaming of one day making videogames.
Today has been really touching, to see all the love for the teams work is humbling. Thank you for joining us on this Warzone journey, we have a great year planned ahead so will see you in 2024 🫡
My best buddies baby daughter is in
@GOSHCharity
having neurosurgery today, so if you’re on the high seas of
@SeaOfThieves
and have donated for the new “Sails of Hope” can you post your screenshots here and I’ll pass them on - retweets appreciated 💚
#SailForGOSH
📢
#Warzone
We've deployed an update to disable the use of the Maelstrom Dual Trigger Attachment on the Lockwood 300 Shotgun in public Playlists.
It will remain visible in the Gunsmith but will not be usable in a match.
12 years ago today I queued up as a fan at the midnight launch event in London for the OG MW3, where I had this photo taken. Never could have imagined I would be a part of a new MW3 all these years later! 🤏
Goodnight Warzone Caldera. Proud of how we left this game, the team did good. Too many special memories and moments to list, just the most life-changing game.
Now, onwards to Call of Duty: Next…
👨🍳 🐦⬛
When my boy Totoro suddenly died during the development of
#FarCry6
, the team immortalised him forever on the walls all over Yara - including his brother Yoshi by his side. I’m eternally grateful for this, it means so much and was such a thoughtful surprise ♥️
Fun first week, lots to do this week. 💪 Been great reading through all the player feedback and seeing creator numbers going 📈 but selfishly the highlight has been jumping back in with my UK buddies and getting some dubs. Felt like 2020 over again, good feeling. 🫡
I’m excitedly nervous about the new Warzone LTM, “Champion of Caldera”, that’s dropping tomorrow (Thursday).
We’ve been quietly working away at this in the Raven oven for a while, chipping away to find the magic solos BR formula. I hope we’ve found it, see you on Thursday!
This represents an amazing moment for the team. The last few months have been wild as we listened and polished. Hopefully the fun and laughter coming from the
@RavenSoftware
playtest room is a good sign!
Excited to see you all in Al Mazrah 🫡
Today marked my last day at
@RareLtd
. It’s been an amazing few years and I’m so proud to have played a small part in Rareware’s history.
@SeaOfThieves
is absolutely magical and I look forward to watching it continue to grow as I head to the horizon for lands unknown... 🗺
It takes a bold, brave and humble team to admit that things could have been better handled. I have infinite respect to Xbox for saying this.
The same could be said of Lionhead. As a studio we made decisions that didn’t set ourselves up for success. Accountability goes both ways.
@IgorLanaa
@RavenSoftware
Definitely aware of this, especially that I speak as a console player.
Thing is, if I tweet literally anything then it will become a headline which wouldn’t be fair on me or the team. I just hope that these patch notes make it clear; you are being heard, and we are listening.
I’m really inspired by the entire team’s fast response to the challenging launch as this is a new Quality of Life update worth waiting just a little longer for! Proud to be a part of the Warzone team. 🖤 💛
In Wednesday's
#Warzone
update, a bug was causing Killstreak notifications to not appear.
That was a side-effect of an in-progress Quality of Life feature slated for release during Season 2.
The bug has since been fixed, but how about a preview of that in-progress QOL? 👀
My thoughts go out to all those affected by today’s news. If I can be of support to any of you, whether as someone to talk to, a LinkedIn reference for your next role, or a simple retweet of your availability for work - my DM’s are open.
All studios, platforms, and stakeholders should unify as one voice against cheating.
Cheating has no place in our industry and it’s time to put a stop to it once and for all.
I also love the fact that Warzone Season 4 remained largely a SURPRISE, and that the ‘leaks’ were either wrong or non-existent. There’s something special about players hearing the stories when they are ready to be told, I hope as an industry we improve at preserving that 🤐
Guys guys guys, I just had a look at
@Swagg
’s “to-do” list for today - it’s a busy day ahead!
✅ Bake
@RavenSoftware
Cookies
✅ Get a Tattoo
✅ Give away Big Right Toe
✅ Free Grandma
Warzone hot take; Fortunes Keep Duos > Rebirth Island Duos.
The pacing, the intricacies of the level design, the verticality - all add up to an improved Duos experience with a unique gameplay heartbeat. Probably my favourite mode right now.
Thoughts?
I know it goes against popular opinion but game devs play our games a LOT and we really care. In 21 years of game dev I’ve yet to meet someone who comes into work every day not trying to give 100% to their game, their players and the community.
Honestly after today we just really appreciate the communities support all throughout Warzone’s history. Today is a very special one for the team and will live long in our memory I’m sure.
Thank you, and see some of you in Iridescent 😈
No it's not our birthday, but on April 3 it's
#RebirthDay
and everyone's invited 🎉
Leave no friend behind. Call of Duty
#Warzone
- Rebirth Island trailer tomorrow at 8 AM PT 🤝
Absolute 🐐’s
We have so much talent working on Urzikstan that you can see a little bit of everyone and the references to past maps.
Also to callout Eric Biessman, who is far too nice and humble to be on twitter (😄) but as a father of Warzone we have a lot to thank him for 🙏
Urzikstan arrives tomorrow 🪂
@RavenSoftware
gives us a behind the scenes look at the development process behind the new Call of Duty Season 1
#Warzone
map 🗺
Operation: Flashback is the first Call of Duty experience I’ve directed so for it to receive such a positive response is humbling (and a relief!). *Huge* shout out to the team at
@RavenSoftware
, I’m so proud to be a part of this journey and they smashed this out the park 💯
We always try to make right turns, but when we turn left we try to course correct as quickly as possible.
Enjoy these final days of Season 3, see you in Rebirth 💛
We've heard you want to end Season Three with our beloved Rebirth.
We're updating the Playlist to include all Rebirth Resurgence squad sizes - replacing Caldera Resurgence - until Season Four arrives at 9AM PST on 6/22.
This is NOW LIVE! We appreciate your continued feedback!🥰
It's cool to see that Warzone viewership and channels have doubled and it's the 7th most watched game! Especially knowing we have a lot of Content Creators on YouTube and other platforms.
We set out to make a more watchable game, so onwards we go! 📈📈📈
I mean this is by far the most amazing set of patch notes I have ever read in my entire life. Absolutely outstanding job, I NEED TO KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE I WILL BE CREATING A SHRINE OF YOU AND PRAISING YOU FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS YOU ABSOLUTE GOATS!
@Activision
…
I’m not the best player in the world, certainly I don’t expect to be called “TGOD” or “TimTheTedMan” after this clip, but winning a 1v1v1 in Caldera Quads by killing both enemies solo - I’ll take that. Generally pretty happy with my positional play here.
This past week at ATVI HQ isn’t one I’ll forget, to be able to speak about a game I’ve been playing for almost 20 years and supported by a team I couldn’t ask for is a highlight right at the very top of my career.
But what am I giving the side-eye to? 👀
2023;
✅ no caffeine
✅ cold showers
✅ gym every other day
✅ fruit and veg every day
✅ ship the new Warzone
✅ no Uber eats
❌ work / life balance
❌ new hobbies
Gotta work on the last two more, a good but testing year.
I wish everyone a great 2024, and hope world peace ✌️🙏
Appreciate all our players approaching the Season 3: Reloaded update with an open mind, as the philosophy is to have more playtime, with less spectating. The regain potential in this update is huge, and ultimately as the proof is in the pudding we will be listening 👂
@charlieINTEL
In all seriousness this was an innocent human error (it happens to us all), but it’s also a curtain peek to show how much planning and work goes into daily internal playtests. I have so much respect for our playtest management, and how I learn daily that BNX are absolute demons…