Since releasing early in 2020, Call of Duty: Warzone has had its fair share of visual bugs and glitches. The popular game has run the gamut of invisible vehicles and players, buildings with floating numbers, weapons and items having the wrong textures, and even buildings that replace the map shaders with distorted and trippy colors. In fact, the operator Roze even became the center of controversy due to her having an outfit that was very hard to spot, giving players an unfair advantage.
However, one recent issue has continued to plague Warzone players. Late last month, players began highlighting the oppressive sun glare that could occur on certain Warzone maps, essentially becoming blinding preventing players from accurately seeing their surroundings. While Raven has acknowledged issues with the glare and reflections, promising a fix sometime in the near future, the issues with it now have gotten progressively worse and is now shining in places it shouldn't be able to.
In a new post on the Call of Duty: Warzone subReddit, a user by the name of LegendWho shows off just how bad the sun glare issue has become. In the accompanying screenshot, the sunlight is now so powerful that it is able to pierce through solid objects like a rock wall. As some pointed out, the rock wall isn't completely solid and has a few holes in it, but the amount of glare that is pouring out of the rock wall is way more than should be there.
As other commenters point out, lighting has been a massive problem throughout the game's lifecycle. Others have resorted to jokes, some linking the incident with global warming in the Call of Duty: Warzone universe, one user indicating that light could penetrate rocks in the 1980s, while others have related the glare to that of Gandalf appearing on the horizon with the Rohirrim to save the Battle of Helm's Deep in the Lord of the Rings series.
In addition to the countless examples of lighting problems the game has experienced over the past year, another frustrating glitch with the opposite problem has materialized again. A problem from earlier this year has again appeared, giving snipers an extreme advantage as the glare from the scope has been completely removed. Normally, the spec of light is there to indicate a player is looking down a gun scope to give the player a short window to react. Without it, snipers have no way to be countered, striking down enemies without giving away their position.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.