For the most part, it seems Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players are backing out of lobbies when they have to play Vacant. Shipment is a much smaller map, resulting in immediate action, whereas Vacant is a more traditional Call of Duty multiplayer map. The two maps cater to very different tastes, and so it doesn’t make sense to a lot of players that they’ve been grouped together in the same playlist.
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On the flip side, some Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fans may want to avoid Shipment, but still want to play Vacant online. Due to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s spawn system, Shipment has become notorious for players dying immediately as they spawn into the match, with some of the matches ending up far too chaotic for some tastes.
One way that Infinity Ward could potentially fix this problem would be through implementing a map voting system. In the past, Infinity Ward has indicated that map voting isn’t in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare because players just back out when the game selects a map they don’t want to play on, but that appears to be happening regardless. Since Modern Warfare fans are already backing out of lobbies to avoid playing on certain maps, it seems like Infinity Ward really doesn’t have a reason not to include map voting.
A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fan on Reddit has come up with a different way to potentially fix this problem. They suggested creating Chaos and Callback playlists that would separate regular remade maps and the more chaotic, smaller-scale maps. For example, Shoot House and Shipment would be put in the Chaos 24/7 playlist, whereas Crash and Vacant would be found in the Callback playlist.
It’s unclear how Infinity Ward plans on addressing the problem, if at all, but there does seem to be multiple ways to fix the issue.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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