Activision's battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone, a spin-off of its first-person shooter franchise, has garnered big numbers since release. In fact, the game has been so popular that Internet marketplace OnBuy has been hiring 'Gulag Gurus' to train players so they can win more often. With that volume of people playing, inevitably glitches and bugs will come to the surface, and a player who goes by Acez Gaming on YouTube has found a particularly egregious one.
In a video uploaded yesterday, Acez outlines a glitch to get infinite ammunition on any weapon that is able to use the "Akimbo" perk, essentially allowing players to dual wield guns at the expense of accuracy. When using Akimbo in Call of Duty: Warzone, Acez is able to unload the entire clip of their leftmost pistol without firing the other, swap it out with a weapon on the ground, and then pick the first gun up again with automatically reloaded ammo.
The glitch seems to occur because the game only registers the pistol in a player's right hand as the main weapon when using the Akimbo perk, or at least that's what Acez believes. Though fully utilizing the glitch means hunkering down next to a loose weapon on the floor, they believe it could have a huge impact given players don't have to manually reload when using powerful guns like the 357 Snakeshot or weapons with extra attachments.
There are arguably more overtly broken glitches that have been discovered in Warzone thus far. Some players have been able to glitch through level geometry to shoot opponents through the wall for example, and others have been able to make themselves outright invincible.
However, in a battle royale, there is something to be said about forcing opponents to come into a situation where they are vastly outnumbered in terms of ammo. At this point, it's hard to tell whether players who utilize this infinite ammo glitch will be affected by the same sweeping bans as the 70,000 cheaters that Infinity Ward hit last week.
It's hard to argue with the company making moves so its new game will be fairer, and thus last longer in the public consciousness. Already complaints have been levied against Warzone for its abundance of cheaters, though in the case of this Akimbo glitch there likely won't be a lot of work necessary to patch things up.
Call of Duty: Warzone is out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.