Earlier this week on April 28 Infinity Ward released a new 15GB Modern Warfare and Warzone update. The patch primarily replaced the game’s bounty contracts with a new Most Wanted player contract.
Plus there was a new tweak that allowed players to carry up to eight armour plates instead of five. There was of course plenty more changes and bug fixes, but it seems the update has created one unintended consequence.
Lag and server issues. All Friday reports of the game's servers struggling grew throughout the day with more players complaining of issues.
Unlike a mass outage, the problems didn't hit suddenly but instead grew worse throughout the day. Activision and Infinity Ward remained relatively silent on the matter until the early hours of
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