With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the developers are foregoing the well-known progress system with prestige levels, which doesn’t necessarily appeal to all CoD soldiers. A fan has now designed a system that is really well received by players.
How does the leveling system work in CoD? The well-known first-person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare provides thrilling action and exciting firefights. To ensure that players also feel a certain progress over a longer period, there is a leveling system.
CoD: Modern Warfare Leveling System
- 55 levels of basic progress
- Up to level 55, players unlock base equipment.
- Weapons, perks, and equipment for everyone.
- Level 56 – 155 as seasonal progress
- After that, players can continue leveling up to level 155.
- With each level, players receive “Officer Rank Challenges”.
- These challenges grant experience and ribbon rewards.
- Each season, progress is archived starting from level 55.
- In the new season, players start again at level 55.
- Battle Pass progress
- Currently, a Battle Pass is running that can also be leveled and offers cosmetic rewards.
The new system does not necessarily appeal to all players. In particular, the resetting of levels after each season has attracted criticism. A fan has now come up with his own system on reddit and receives a lot of support.
Fan creates progression system with 1000 levels
What did the player come up with? The Redditor “David83IT” has now designed a system that is quite simple but appeals to many players.
This is the fan progression system
- There are still the 55 base levels to unlock standard equipment.
- From level 155, it goes into a prestige system.
- At 155, there is an animated calling card and a new slot for loadouts.
- Every 100 levels, another prestige level is reached, up to 10 times.
- Every 100 levels, there is a loadout slot and another animated calling card.
- The overall progress includes a total of 1,055 levels.
If you reach the next prestige level in this system, weapons and equipment are not reset, as was previously the case. You level up the 1,055 levels and can present your progress at a glance.
Players like the leveling system but find the current one frustrating
How is it received? In the thread about the system, users discuss the current system: Many are frustrated by the regular resets. Especially when the 100 Officer Rank Challenges were almost completed.
I prefer this system 100 times more than the current one. It’s so frustrating.
Swansky on reddit (translated)
Swansky is fully on board and would find this system much better than the current progress.
I completely agree with you! Please make it happen, Activision! Starting at level 55 every season is really disappointing!
Mholton on reddit (translated)
Mholton is also not pleased with the current leveling system and wishes for continuous progress without regular resets.
Stop trying to tell the developers how to design their game!
sergeantgringo on reddit (translated)
However, some voices go in a different direction. The user sergeantgringo is not frustrated with the leveling system but with the countless suggestions to improve the game today.
Change to the progress system seems unlikely
Will the system change? The developers of Modern Warfare have shown themselves quite flexible in the first weeks and have also responded to some of the community’s wishes.
Whether such a drastic change to the progress system will be made for an annual title seems unlikely. In a survey where players were asked what Modern Warfare would need to do to bring back lapsed soldiers, this was not mentioned at all.
What do you think of the proposed system? Do you also find the current system not optimal, or are you satisfied with it?
