What are ‘Recommended Weapons’ in Warzone? Season 4 Reloaded feature explained

Liam Mackay
Warzone player with marco 5 smg

Warzone has almost 200 weapons to choose from, so if you’re not on top of the meta picks, it can be tough to decide what to run. With Season 4 Reloaded, the devs have included ‘Recommended Weapons’ to help make your loadout decisions.

There’s a new weapon added to Warzone almost every month, and with the game featuring guns from Modern Warfare, Cold War, and Vanguard, the game is fast approaching 200. With the meta constantly changing, it can be difficult to stay on top of the meta picks.

Warzone devs Raven Software are aware of this, so have introduced a brand-new ‘Recommended Weapons’ feature with the Season 4 Reloaded update.

Warzone Operator in Titanium Trials mode

While weapons such as the NZ-41 and H4 Blixen have dominated Warzone for weeks, the Season 4 Reloaded update is set to shake up the meta once again. Sniper Rifle buffs are incoming, and there’s the brand-new Vargo-S Assault Rifle.

This leaves players wondering what weapons to use, but Warzone’s new ‘Recommended Weapons’ feature should help with that. This will mark a handful of the guns that are performing well in each class as ‘Recommended,’ so players always know which weapons are competitive in the meta.

The feature is first being rolled out with the Season 4 Reloaded update and will only appear for some players. But, it should start rolling out to more players as the season goes on.

Warzone player with UGM-8 LMG

Which weapons will be recommended is anyone’s guess at the moment, but it’ll likely be Vanguard weapons. Thanks to their ten attachment slots and impressive damage-per-mag, they significantly outperformed Modern Warfare and Cold War weapons in the first half of Season 4, so we’ll need to see if the Reloaded update brings them more in-line.


For more on Warzone’s weapons, Vanguard Zombies camos have finally arrived, and you can unlock the new Liquid Metal camo through the Titanium Trials mode.

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