Iron Trials 84 is so popular that Warzone players are demanding: ‘This mode absolutely needs to stay permanent.
The new Iron Trials mode has crept into Call of Duty: Warzone rather unobtrusively with the latest patch. Some may have completely overlooked it until now, but it is currently causing a lot of excitement among many players.
We explain what Iron Trials is all about and why many players want the mode to become a permanent part of Battle Royale.
How Iron Trials Works
The rules are rewritten here to allow skill and tactics to play the central role – something many players have long desperately wanted from Warzone. Iron Trials will be played as usual on Verdansk ’84 and with a maximum of 150 players, but with a few serious changes:
- High TTK: You now have significantly more lives, namely 400 (fully equipped) instead of 250 (fully equipped). This increases the time to kill, i.e. you die more slowly. On the other hand, you will have to hit more often until an enemy falls down.
- Faster rounds: The time limit is shorter and the death zone moves faster, which means that a match runs about two minutes faster than normal. Campers have a harder time as a result and frequent movement is rewarded
- Sniper less powerful: A headshot from a sniper rifle no longer sends players to the ground immediately by default, but only within 30 metres. So you can often still react well to sniper fire
- Prices adjusted: No more free loadout drops, you always have to order equipment at buy stations now. The costs for armour, reconnaissance drones and so on have increased, so there are fewer UAVs flying over your heads
- Fewer vehicles: Helicopters & Co. fly out, in Iron Trials only Dirt Bikes and ATVs are available. So there is clearly more emphasis on pure infantry combat
- Other Loot: You will find epic and legendary weapons much less often, fewer killstreaks and smaller amounts of money. This means that you have to think more carefully about how to capture as many crates as possible, and contracts become more important again.
Further adjustments make snipers less deadly at long range, weaken stun grenades and lower health regeneration. This makes Iron Trials very different from the rest of the content in the current Season 5 Reloaded:
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What do the changes actually mean? Due to the new rule set, Iron Trials plays quite differently from the normal Battle Royale. Seemingly paradoxically, the mode appeals to both experienced players and beginners. On the one hand, tactical skill, teamwork and skill are now rewarded much more, while on the other hand you have much more time to react when you are attacked. The low TTK in Warzone always causes heated discussions.
On the other hand, the mode is not very suitable for campers – which, in turn, pleases the majority of the Warzone community.
The balancing also changes noticeably: It is once again much more important to master the respective weapon safely, as it now takes more hits to eliminate an opponent – and less important to use one of the current meta weapons, which are simply stronger than the rest.
How players find the mode
In the forums and social media, many players are excited about the new gameplay of Iron Trials. On Reddit, for example, a petition is running to convince the developers to offer the mode permanently.
Other threads wish that Iron Trials would also be available as Solo, Trio and Quad, or even be made the new standard of Warzone, preferably in time for the integration with CoD Vanguard.
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Famous Youtuber and CoD expert TheXclusiveAce even calls Iron Trials “the best thing that ever happened to Warzone” and has dedicated an entire video to the mode. Below, many viewers share his enthusiasm.
Will Iron Trials? Right now it’s a limited time mode that can only be played as a duo. However, after so much praise and exuberance from players, it’s very likely that Iron Trials will pop up more often in the playlist rotation. Some hope that it will develop into a ranked mode for Warzone. Whether it will actually become permanently playable, however, is impossible to say for sure at this time.
What else is happening in Warzone? Before the end of the year, the long-awaited anti-cheat and the new Pacific map, which replaces Verdansk, are to be released. We have all the info for you!
