A new patch is causing longer than usual matchmaking times in bothCall of Duty: Modern WarfareandCall of Duty: Warzone. Many players acrossModern Warfareand the free-to-play standalone battle royale modeWarzoneare reporting that they are facing extended wait times when waiting to get into a match.
Infinity Ward released a patch earlier this week forModern WarfareandWarzonethat introduced a new weapon andObsidian mastery camoalongside the usual playlist update and bug fixes. This update also made a highly controversial change toWarzone’s bounties, which was reverted with the most recent patch. Now, after all these changes and additions, a few issues seem to have made their way into the game.
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When queuing up for a match, players have been running into unusually long matchmaking times. The matchmaking process begins with the typical searching notification before increasing the acceptable ping threshold higher and higher with no result. Eventually, some players do find a match, but others have seen incredibly lengthy queue times for bothModern Warfaremultiplayer andWarzone. Neither Activision nor Infinity Ward has yet to acknowledge the matchmaking issue, although a hotfix will likely be released sometime in the next few days.
Infinity Ward has recently made several changes toModern WarfareandWarzonethis week, most notably the addition of a data pack that is required to access both titles. Thedata packdownload size weighs in at around 15 GB on all platforms, and it’s a necessary download on top of all the patches and updates.
While these matchmaking issues are undoubtedly frustrating, they’ll likely be addressed and fixed by Infinity Ward before the weekend is over. Infinity Ward tends to act quickly when things like this happen,especially inWarzone, and it has a knack for deploying hotfixes with extreme speed.
Still, several players across all different types of social media have reported running into this matchmaking bug, so it’s not only affecting a small subset of users. This appears to be a widespread issue, and that can be disappointing to those that wanted to log intoModern WarfareorWarzoneand work on their battle pass or earn thatbrand new camo.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfareis available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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