The principle developer of Call of Duty Warzone has defined what went mistaken with this week’s Season 1 Reloaded replace, and issued an apology to gamers.
Following the mid-season replace’s launch, gamers bumped into intense visible and gameplay glitches that made the battle royale just about unplayable. The issues had been so unhealthy that Raven needed to pull the Champion’s Quest function, which duties gamers with profitable 5 Warzone matches in a row or 30 whole within the season.
Activision builders labored by means of the evening to get on high of the issues, issuing a raft of points that look to have sorted Warzone out for essentially the most half. Champion’s Quest has now returned, and gamers have already managed to finish it.
Now, Raven Software program has tweeted to elucidate what went mistaken, saying components of an upcoming, in-development function unintentionally went dwell, inflicting the bugs
Right here’s the assertion in full:
“We wished to handle the problems that gamers encountered in the course of the Season 1 Reloaded launch interval.
“We’ve been laying the groundwork for the return of some fan favourite options in upcoming seasons, which has required a level of preemptive setup in our dwell atmosphere.
“Yesterday’s replace shipped with some of that work, and we sadly encountered a battle between dwell participant knowledge and our servers. Our groups had been made instantly conscious of the problems and commenced investigating shortly after the replace went dwell. We rallied studio groups from world wide to get these points resolved as swiftly as attainable.
“We – as devs – love this recreation and apologize for the disruption that resulted from these occasions. Please know that we maintain ourselves to a excessive normal and yesterday’s points didn’t align with that.
“With that stated, we’re additionally very excited for what’s forward and sit up for bringing the very best we will to #Warzone!”
Raven adopted that tweet up with one other, teasing one of the in-development, upcoming options for Warzone (the fan-favourite Specialist Perk bonus is coming to Warzone):
So anyway, what are some of the options we’re making ready for nicely forward of time – you ask? 👀 pic.twitter.com/WhFYyCUE6P
— Raven Software program (@RavenSoftware) January 19, 2024
The Specialist Perk was an extremely highly effective and uncommon Perk from the unique Warzone that activated the opposite perks within the recreation unexpectedly. Given this teaser picture reveals the Specialist Perk on Rebirth Island, maybe gamers should anticipate the map to come back out earlier than its introduction later this yr.
There’s quite a bit occurring on this planet of Call of Duty, with Season 1 Reloaded additionally refreshing Trendy Warfare 3 with Ranked Play. In the meantime, Call of Duty’s anti-cheat tech was up to date in order that it crashes the sport if it detects a mouse and keyboard participant utilizing unauthorised instruments to allow purpose help. There’s even a touch at an upcoming Warhammer 40,000 collaboration.
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