Rockstar Games GTA 5 They don’t tell you this going in but, for the vast majority of its running time, Bullitt is pretty boring. The classic car chase movie was shot during the rise of New Hollywood when traditional notions of pacing and story payoff were going out of fashion, and largely follows Steve McQueen as he potters about an empty hospital looking for a sandwich.

But for ten blistering minutes in the middle, its wheels barely touch the ground. Maybe it’s down to the stimulatory deprivation of the scenes on either side, but the first time I watched McQueen take off in pursuit of two hitmen, riding their rear bumper all the way out of San Francisco, my arms were in the air—the same involuntary response induced by a rollercoaster.

The muscle cars, the free-rolling hubcaps, the chalkboard tire screech, and especially McQueen’s wild wheel-twisting as he weaves through traffic—all of it informed the first generation of open-world games three decades later. The scene effectively doubled as Driver’s design document, and Rockstar followed close behind: just as McQueen’s Mustang filled the rear-view mirror of his target’s Dodge Charger.

Bullitt established San Francisco—with its extreme verticality, tram tracks, and dense junctions—as the international city of car chases. It’s a distinction that eventually led to its recreation in three Ubisoft open-world driving games over just half a decade (Driver: San Francisco, Watch Dogs 2, and The Crew; full marks if you managed to name them all).

Today, though, the ground isn’t nearly so thick with car chase games. The driver is on ice. The Crew got distracted by a passing plane and decided that was its new thing. Numbered GTA releases are now so far apart they’re recorded in epochs, not years. And Watch Dogs committed to capturing the street plan of London, a city so notoriously bad for drivers that its locals were driven underground (please don’t check this with historians).

The upshot of all that genre stagnation and inactivity is that the classics haven’t been bettered. Those returning to GTA III with Rockstar’s Definitive Edition have found that, in stark contrast to its unrefined storytelling and shooting, the driving still stands up. Liberty City’s catalog of sedans, flatbeds, and ambulances remain twitchy and buoyant in a way that forces you to wrestle with them for control, making even the game’s many basic A to B missions engrossing.

They don’t tell you this going in but, for the vast majority of its running time, Bullitt is pretty boring. The classic car chase movie was shot during the rise of New Hollywood when traditional notions of pacing and story payoff were going out of fashion, and largely follows Steve McQueen as he potters about an empty hospital looking for a sandwich.

But for ten blistering minutes in the middle, its wheels barely touch the ground. Maybe it’s down to the stimulatory deprivation of the scenes on either side, but the first time I watched McQueen take off in pursuit of two hitmen, riding their rear bumper all the way out of San Francisco, my arms were in the air—the same involuntary response induced by a rollercoaster.

The muscle cars, the free-rolling hubcaps, the chalkboard tire screech, and especially McQueen’s wild wheel-twisting as he weaves through traffic—all of it informed the first generation of open-world games three decades later. The scene effectively doubled as Driver’s design document, and Rockstar followed close behind: just as McQueen’s Mustang filled the rear-view mirror of his target’s Dodge Charger.

The Warzone 1984 was the first Vanguard gun available to play in a battle royale, albeit accidentally last October. It’s a handy weapon with a huge amount of potential in all aspects of the game, and the perfect accompaniment to your first foray onto Caldera. The STG44, like all Vanguard primary weapons, is unique in its ability to hold ten attachments, rather than the usual 5.

So, the following are the two best verdansk 1984 loadouts for Warzone right now, complete with the extended attachment combinations and advice on how best to use them. It’s a nice, balanced gun with all manner of attachment combinations, so you can really deck it out to your heart’s content.

First, we’re bringing out the MX Silencer. It’s basically like chucking a Monolithic Suppressor on your Grau 5.56. This muzzle takes you off your enemy’s radar and lets you fire to your heart’s content without alerting foes to your position, while also aiding your gun’s accuracy. If you want to go all-in on gun accuracy though, you can always pick the F8 Stabiliser.

The barrel for this gun is a mouthful: the VDD 760MM 05B. It’s basically the longest barrel you can put on the STG, and it’ll help you enormously with your long-range accuracy and damage potential at the distances where your opponents are hopefully missing more shots than you.

To finalize our range bonuses, here’s the underbarrel we’ll be using: the M1941 Hand Stop, and our optic of choice: the Zeiss G16 2.5x. The Hand Stops underbarrel grip is yet another accuracy-boosting attachment to stack onto the STG, and the optic offers the perfect amount of zoom to acquire targets at range and follow closer enemies without losing track of them.

The Lengthened ammunition attachment is another vital part of the long-range kit on the STG: without it your bullet velocity will suffer enormously compared to other people running ranged loadouts.

For your final few attachments, you have a bit of leeway. I enjoy the Stippled Grip for even further accuracy improvements and recoil control, but you can switch it for the Fabric Grip to boost mobility a tad. Proficiency-wise, Vital is a great one as it offers an increase to your headshot area making it far easier to get speedy kills with fewer shots at all ranges. That takes ages to unlock, though, so you might want to use Sleight of Hand until you get there. The Surplus kit is a nice one to have as it gives you more XP for kills, but if you’re feeling like something a bit more traditional, Fully Loaded works a treat.

Call of Duty: Warzone guns usually shoot straight. If a bullet doesn’t land where your reticle is aiming, that’s usually because it’s far enough away to be affected by bullet drop. That principle was casually thrown out the window this week as players discovered that many of the 40 Vanguard guns added in the Warzone Pacific update have a tendency to shoot in random directions thanks to built in aim bloom (aka bullet spread).

Aim bloom adds a random chance for bullets fired from Vanguard guns to land several inches away from where your reticle is pointing. On Thursday players started taking notice of how much this random bullet spread can hinder a fair firefight, and Raven seems to agree it’s a bit much. In a new Warzone patch deployed Friday, Raven says it has “drastically reduced the amount of ‘Bloom’ on all base Vanguard weapons.”

Bloom isn’t gone entirely, but Raven does plan to phase it out altogether in a future update.

I happened to be testing out Vanguard gun bullet spread myself when the Warzone patch went live. After restarting my game, I could instantly see the difference in the spread on my STG rifle. Pretty much every shot is hitting dead-on now, but there was still a pronounced spread as I stood further away from the poor wall I was pelting with bullets.

Interestingly, this patch won’t affect how bloom works in the standalone Call of Duty: Vanguard, meaning the same guns will now behave in significantly different ways between the two games.

If you’re still catching up on all the new Warzone action this week, check out our tour of the fun stuff to do on the new Caldera map. I wrote about how Caldera looks a bit washed out and we’re also still tracking the worst Warzone Pacific bugs players are encountering.

The Warzone Automaton is one of those weapons that doesn’t have the most ridiculous time-to-kill, but does boast the accuracy required to hold its damage and potential at longer ranges than most. Remember back in the day when we all used the M4A1 or M13? Same energy here.

So then, here are a couple of Automaton Warzone loadouts. I’ve gone for the builds which exploit the weapon’s strong recoil-reducing attachments, while ensuring they don’t lose out too much on damage.

The Automaton has quickly asserted itself as a seriously strong contender in Caldera. This is the loadout to try if you’re looking to utterly maximise your range values and create a minimum-recoil monster. As with all ranged weapons, we want a silencer. The MX is the one to go for here, as it also helps your gun’s accuracy and recoil control.

Couple your muzzle attachment with the rest of these powerful attachments and your Automaton will barely have any noticeable recoil. The Anastasia Sniper is the one we’re going for here. The Empress 620mm Precision barrel requires headshots for maximum damage making it far less reliable, despite its improved accuracy. With the Pine Tar Grip, Carver Foregrip, and Anastasia Padded stock, you’ll be able to churn out a constant stream of rounds at enemies from long distances. The Lengthened ammo and 6.5mm Sakura 75 Round Mags mean you’ll have a long way until you run out, too.