How to earn loadouts in Warzone 2

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 faced the seemingly impossible task of living up to the hype of the world-renowned original Warzone game, CoD‘s take on the growing battle royale genre that really connected with its player base.

It brought a bunch of features from other games like Apex Legends and Fortnite, like respawning and weapon drops, and made them its own. One of the main features of the game was a Loadout Drop marker that was purchasable from the Buy Station, which gave a player or squad that opened the Loadout Drop access to a complete loadout.

Loadout Drops of course arrived in Al Mazrah as well with Warzone 2, and while the primary mode of acquiring them originally wasn’t there, Activision added some new methods of acquiring a Loadout before eventually making a huge change roughly a month after launch.

How do I earn a loadout in Warzone 2?

Here are all the ways that players can access Loadout drops in Warzone 2:

• Shop: Players can use their hard-earned “in-match cash” at the new-and-improved buy stations, now appropriately named “Shops.” At launch, players could only purchase the primary weapon of their Loadout, but after a Dec. 20 update by Raven Software, the ability to purchase a Loadout drop marker (now called a Loadout Drop Grenade) has now been added.
• Stronghold and Black sites: Earn Loadouts as a reward for making your way through the new Stronghold or Black sites located around the map, and completely clearing one of them out.
• Loadout Drop Public Event: Public events will spawn in randomly on Al Mazrah in between circles, and players that successfully complete them will earn a Loadout.

For players looking to buy the Loadout Drop Grenade from the buy station, it costs more the bigger your squad is. In Solos, a Loadout Drop Grenade costs $8,000, in Duos, it’s $16,000, in Trios, it’s $24,000, and in Quads, it costs $32,000.

Raven wrote in its Dec. 20 update that “continuity of this feature will depend on feedback we receive and overall impact on the Battle Royale experience.” But for now, buying Loadouts is back.