Fans in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War community are quickly growing accustomed to new and strange bugs within the game. These bugs are usually caused by left-over code or unintended gameplay mechanics affecting the map, but the developers are usually quick to repair the issue. Despite this, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War fans seem to always find a new bug around every corner.
When Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launched, the game was filled with bugs, and many fans felt that the title was unfinished. While some community members returned to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, others stuck through the errors and instead have embraced bugs as a part of the game experience. As such, every new bug acts as an interesting detail to the maps that the fans often discuss on social media sites.
A Strange Nuketown Glitch
In a clip captured by thebbythibson and posted to Reddit, the fan captured a bizarre glitch on the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War map Nuketown. In the clip, the player is seen looking around at what appear to be massive pillars jutting out of the map. As he walks around, fans can see pieces of the ground missing, bottomless pits, and eventually the entire ground disappearing. While the player can still kill enemies and interact with the game mode, the map seems bugged out of proportion causing interference with sightlines.
On the bright side, this bug seems to be limited as a graphical error. Fans will not need to worry about the pillars of wood impacting their gameplay experiences if they encounter this strange bug. As a graphical issue, the bug will most likely be put into the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Trello board as a minor fix. It is unknown if this is a widespread issue, but players in the comments have an interesting point of view regarding the unconventional in-game architecture.
Community Reception
The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Reddit community had quite a few words to share about the interesting graphical error. Most fans reacted with humor joking about the glitch adding "variance" to the gameplay. Jokes about radiation damage, movie references, and other strange comments make up a majority of the chat.
Interestingly, the other half seems to be filled with discussions over the only kill in the clip. Players have discussed the flick-style shooting that this player uses, and many believe that the shot could be rather suspect. With Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War dealing with its own hacker problems, the game's community is on high alert for anything that could possibly be cheating within the title. Questions from how the player saw the enemy to their shots' jumpy nature have provoked full discussion within the comment section.
Reddit user 0scar_alh0 does bring up some possible theories as to how this glitch manifested within Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Their best guess is that the player's system had trouble compiling the shaders within the game. Slow HDD reading, corrupted files, and bad GPU drivers could all cause the above effect. While it is possible this is a server-side bug, they are leaning towards a client-side issue. Despite this, some fans have reported seeing the same issue on other maps, which further supports the idea that this is a server-side error.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.