The brand new map for Call of Duty's zombies mode just released, but already players are starting to report some issues. Season 4 of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War began on July 15, promising plenty of new content for its multiplayer, battle royale, and zombies modes. This included a brand new zombies map, which caused many fans to get excited about how the mode might change.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's Season 4 roap promised plenty of changes for zombies players. However, the biggest change was undoubtedly the promise of a new map. In early July, the Mauer Der Toten map was finally confirmed in a new trailer, showing off the new location. The trailer also featured several new (and returning) perks and weapons that would be coming to the zombies mode. There were also some teases of new, more powerful zombies that players would have to fight, building the suspense to play the new zombies map even more. Unfortunately, once the map was released, it seemed that the experiences were a bit lacking.
According to Dexerto, several players on the Call of Duty subreddit have posted clips showing the map glitching out. For instance, Redditor JConz94 shows how their excitement to play the new map was undercut by all the issues. In the comments, JConz94 actually lists out all the glitches that they have encountered including the game freezing, not being able to hear the zombies, and parts of the map not loading at all. In another post, TroyA7X85 shows how these portions of the map are not loading properly. After ing through a door to a new part of the map, TroyA7X85 finds that the next section of the map has no floor and they are walking on air.
While other Call of Duty modes are well-known for their glitches, zombies is usually a much more stable game mode. Since the mode is not player versus player, there is less incentive to use cheats or exploit glitches to get an advantage. Instead, most of the changes needed for the zombies mode are either fixes for the rare bug or the introduction of brand new content, as was the case at the start of Season 4.
Unfortunately, this does appear to be one of the rare instances where a glitch in Call of Duty's zombies mode is so widespread and game-breaking that it will need to be patched quickly. Whereas, in the past, glitches in the zombies mode have simply led to some odd but funny moments, having full areas of the map not even rendering is going to throw off the immersive experience. Hopefully, the glitch will be patched soon so players can get back to killing zombies.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One.
Source: Dexerto, JConz94/Twitter, TroyA7X85/Twitter