Since its release in March 2020, Raven Software’s Call of Duty Warzone has suffered from a seemingly never-ending series of bugs, ranging from game breaking to ridiculous. It seems that every other day there is a report of a new glitch hindering enjoyment of the game, and Warzone players have had to deal with controllers disconnecting, spawn issues, and unkillable opponents, among other things. As a result, some of the Warzone player base has been turning to other shooters like Respawn’s Apex Legends and 2016’s Battlefield 1.
For the holiday season, Raven Software attempted to add some lighthearted fun to Call of Duty Warzone, and even that caused a number of problems. Warzone’s Festive Fervor update began causing crashes for a number of players as soon as enemy NPC Krampus appeared on the map to begin hunting someone. On top of that, the folkloric entity will sometimes be invisible, blocking player movement and killing them seemingly out of nowhere.
Many Warzone players are fed up, including Twitch streamer Kalei Renay, who became the first female member of FaZe Clan in June. Recently, another streamer named Ayden posted on Twitter that he had played Apex Legends for an hour and found it very refreshing. Kalei’s response was that perhaps everybody should just switch to Respawn’s free-to-play hero shooter, and her tweet now has nearly 3,000 likes.
Some of the replies to FaZe Kalei’s tweet expressed hope that players leaving Warzone in droves to play other shooters would compel Activision and Raven Software to put more effort into fixing the game’s plethora of issues. Other comments scoffed at the idea, replying that Activision is likely indifferent to player departures, and still others replied that they had already made the move to Apex Legends.
Respawn’s game has had its share of bugs as well, however. The shooter’s own holiday-themed update introduced an exploit that allows Apex Legends’ Loba to glitch inside the Winter Express train. This causes players using the exploit to become unkillable while keeping the vehicle constantly contested, thereby preventing the opposing team from earning points.
This hasn’t kept players from enjoying the game, though. Recently, Respawn released the year in review stats for Apex Legends, and the numbers are impressive. In 2020, more than 22 billion Apex Legends players have been killed, 5.5 billion revived, and 1 billion respawned. There have also been 16 billion ultimates used this year and, despite its reputation as the worst gun in the game, players using the Mozambique managed to rack up 446 million kills.
Apex Legends is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
