Call Of Duty: Modern Warefare update 1.21 brings several new cool features and additions to both the Multiplayer and the Warzone Battle Royale. But one addition stands out from the rest, the new, updated gulag; with very bad weapons.

The new gulag update removes the regular pistols and shotguns that we would always use and replaces them with AUTOMATIC WEAPONS, like Assault-Rifles and Sub-Machine-Guns. This update is already very unwelcome by a large majority of the Warzone community, but we need to properly stand up and let Infinity Ward know that we don't like it, and we won't take it.

The issue with Battle Royale games like Fortnite or Black Ops 4's Blackout back then was that in squads, once you died (unless you went very close to 1st place and you spectated your team to the end) most people would not see a reason to stay in the game, because you wanna PLAY, not WATCH OTHER PLAY. Fortnite had a solution to this which was adding the Reboot Van. A van which would allow you to respawn your dead teammates back into the game; as long as you collected their reboot token. Warzone improved on this even further. They not only gave you an option to buy your teammates back (with cash that was laying around all over the map) at buy stations, but they also gave you a second chance, in the form of a Gulag. The Gulag: a prison that you would spawn into after you died that would give you 1 chance to respawn back into the map by winning a 1v1 in an arena against another player that had died. The player that won, would parachute back into the game. The player that lost (WHOMP WHOMP) would usually spectate their team, hoping for them to get the money and to get to a buy station to buy him back.

These Gulags were a nice game of skill, you would get a pistol or shotgun, spawn at each end of the arena and fight to the death (or to whoever conquered the flag first). While the shotguns may have been a little buggy or annoying sometimes; the pistols, they were a proper game of skill. It wasn't just whoever saw the other player first would win, No. If a player saw another player from the back first they (obviously) had an enormous advantage but because it's a pistol, they would have to hit their shots. This meant that it would always be the better player who came out of the Gulag alive, which motivated newer or worse players to try harder and train to win the next time.

But then...BOOM. A new update rolls around, and the Gulag loses it's charm tremendously. Instead of the pistols, in which every shot counted because missing one single shot could lose you the battle, we got Automatic Weapons. The Gulag is now simply a game of "whoever spots the other player first wins". Because when you spot the other player, and you fire at him first, you're guaranteed to win because it's an automatic weapon and it doesn't require much skill to use. If you disagree with the last statement, think of those Black Ops 2 or Black Ops 3 lobbies where in some games, there were (as usual) normal players who just played with a regular AR or SMG and would play normally, and then there were those players who dominated a lobby with an M1911 or sometimes even a combat knife! Those players (as annoying as they were xD) had skill - because it's skilful to do good in a lobby where you have to hit every shot right or get close enough to someone to stab them; while the enemy gets the advantage of being able to spray you with bullets from an AR. The lack of skill encourages bad or toxic players of having a way out of the gulag without having any skill and not training to be good at the gulag. Soon enough, you will probably be able to buy your way out of the Gulag with COD Points, if Activisions Microtransactions prevail.

I'm an average Warzone player but I went from winning 9 out of 10 gulag matches to like 5 out of 10. Before, there were many times when a player saw me first and started shooting from the back and missing, I turned around, and killed them in a couple of well-placed shots. Now it's not about skill, just camping at spawn and waiting. My rushing tactic in the Ol' Gulag somehow threw some players off and even though it was apparently a really popular strategy, rushing to the other players spawn ( while minding your own surroundings, obviously ) worked like a charm. And now, it doesn't work anymore as, like I said before - it's who can spot the other player first and press the R2/RT/Left-Mouse-Click button. I'm very average at Warzone, I've had my cringe-worthy noob moments where I didn't deploy my parachute and died as soon as a teammate spawned me back, and I've had my ultra-cool pro moments where I wiped 4 teams consecutively by myself after my teammates (who died) thought they might as well leave since there's no way of me buying them back LMAO (I ended up with like 20k cash, 11k more than I needed to respawn them both back).

By signing this petition, it really shows that you: 1. Either just got killed in a gulag and are pissed off, or 2. You really want Infinity Ward to bring back the old Gulag - and not slowly start putting out bad updates that many players don't like, like Fortnite did. I want to make a change in the game because it's really fun for me. I enjoyed Fortnite before their bad updates (Robots etc.) and I really see Warzone as a major upgrade from BO4's Blackout which I also enjoyed; before Warzone came and kinda beat Blackout it in every aspect (My Opinion), so I want it to be at it's best. Which it's not at the moment.

If you did sign the petition you can also leave feedback about this on the r/CODWarzone subreddit. I am fully aware that Change.org Petitions simply DON'T WORK. Any successful change.org petitions were accomplished not because of the petition itself, but because the people that believed in the change, whether they signed/saw the petition or not, went out of their way to do more about the subject. This is further supported by the fact that "Infinity Ward" and "Activision" are not actual "decision-makers" on this website, meaning they won't see this even if it gets a million signatures. That's why, if you truly want change to be done, the best way to do it is not to press the "sign petition" button and just hope - it's to go onto the subreddit or even email Infinity Ward / Activision support and tell them your opinion, your feedback. Donating to this "petition" will only advertise it on the website, which as stated before, won't do much. As much as I believe most players are upset about this change, IW might not be so sure until we flood the subreddit with requests to revoke this part of the update. That's why even if you're a new/unexperienced Redditor with little to none Reddit karma, you should still post something about this issue. Something as simple as a title stating "The new guns in the gulag suck ass" and a description of "I really don't like the new guns they ruin the whole mechanic of the Gulag and it makes it really bad". Because strength in numbers - if a lot of normal players got together to state that this new addition really grinds their gears and ruins the fun, it would look bad on IW's part to not remove them. So please, if you want this change, DO leave feedback; even if you may feel it's insignificant and feel it's just spam on the subreddit to post the same thing over, when other, possibly more experienced Redditors posted the same thing - still do; it'll make a difference. And please, do not donate to this petition: It's a waste of your hard-earned money and it won't make a difference, no matter the amount. If you want more people to get the message (from this petition), you can link this petition under your post (the last paragraph). I'm not asking for money, just a minute or two of your time and a few keyboard clicks of your opinion.