Activision is delaying Name of Responsibility: Warzone’s subsequent season by a couple of weeks to concentrate on fixing bugs. The writer introduced in a blog post as we speak that Vanguard and Warzone Pacific season 2 launch has been pushed from February 2 to February 14—a beautiful day for a Warzone replace.
“We really feel your frustrations and listen to you loud and clear. So far, we’ve deployed numerous updates, however extra must be achieved,” the put up reads. Warzone has been in a tough spot for the reason that launch of its new Caldera map and addition of Vanguard weapons in December. Particularly on consoles, the sport has suffered efficiency points that weren’t current on the previous map.
Warzone’s official Trello page is monitoring among the weirdest points popping up, together with a crash that may happen on Xbox in case you press the house button an excessive amount of and sure operator skins that turn players invisible at lengthy distances.
Warzone is not any stranger to persistent bugs, however that is the primary time a deliberate replace has been postponed due to them. “We’ll use this extra improvement time to ship updates, together with optimizations to gameplay, sport balancing (together with weapon and gear balancing), to repair sport stability and bugs, and to make sure an general stage of polish to enhance the expertise for gamers throughout Vanguard, Warzone Pacific, Black Ops Chilly Warfare, and Fashionable Warfare.”
It isn’t unreasonable to assume the delay might have one thing to do with the ongoing strike at Warzone developer Raven Software program, which laid off a 3rd of its high quality assurance workforce (the parents that test for bugs earlier than updates roll out) only a few days after the launch of Warzone Pacific season 1. As Warzone’s speedy future is dim, Name of Responsibility is about to have new masters. Yesterday, Microsoft introduced that it’ll purchase the whole thing of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.
