Call of Duty Warzone 2is currently dominating the discourse surrounding the massive and longstanding shooter franchise, and it is clear to see why. Offering a huge amount of new content and a fresh gameplay experience, fans are once again becoming enamored with the IP’s take on the battle royale formula.
A core part of howCall of Duty Warzone 2fosters engagement is via the presence of in-game contracts and activities that can be completed for some very attractive rewards. While this was also a feature of the originalWarzone, new activities like the safecracker contract are brand-new, and can offer an even more advantageous slew of benefits.
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Warzone’s History of In-game Contracts
A growing factor of battle royale gameplay across the industry concerns increasing player engagement and the breadth of content that is available to them in-game, beyond that of outliving their opposition.Warzonehas always done this in one of the most intriguing ways, offering players an array of contract types that can be optionally carried out to gain a serious advantage over other players.
Historically,theseWarzonecontractshave ranged from things like recon contracts, which reward players with knowledge of the next safe zone’s location, to most wanted contracts, which force players to hunt down a targeted opposing player for an attractive financial reward. Other in-game contracts include scavenger routes that need to be sought out, or time-sensitive supply runs that necessitate a rapid and knowledgeable traversal of the map.
These in-game activities offer huge amounts to theWarzoneformula in the way of providing a living and breathing sense of interaction in the game world, while breaking up the often frustratingbattle royale formulainto more compartmentalized sections of rewarding gameplay. The fact that these contracts have carried over and have been built upon withinWarzone 2is a testament to these aforementioned benefits, with the safecracker contract being one of the most popular and rewarding new additions to the game.
Warzone 2’s Safecracker Contracts
Along with brand-new game changing implementations like AI controlled strongholds and areworked 2v2Warzonegulag system, the safecracker contract ofWarzone 2is one of the most recognizable new in-game activities for players to engage in. Safecracker contracts can be found anywhere around the vast new map of Al Mazrah, and are marked on the map with a small safe icon.
Upon picking up a safecracker contract, three nearby safes will become available to the player, and they’ll need to open each one for full contract completion. Unlike the methodicalsafecracking ofModern Warfare 2’s campaign,Warzone 2safes are simply opened by a detonation, with C4 being planted on the safe once a player interacts with it, regardless of whether C4 is actually in a player’s inventory.
After standing a safe distance away from the explosion, players will be able to collect loot from the opened safe, which will usually take the form of money and a random selection of other items. If all three safes are opened,Warzoneprovides an additional monetary bonus to the player. The safecracker contract is popular in part because it has a rapid turnaround in team-based playlists where all safes can be opened simultaneously through teamwork. Given how important money is withinWarzone 2in how it fosters loadout and killstreak purchasesfrom buy stations, it is no wonder that the profitable safecracker contract is proving to be as popular as it already is.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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