Released a few weeks after the late-October debut of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the communal reception to Call of Duty: Warzone 2 has been fairly negative. The title still bears a mostly negative overall score on Steam, and respondents on Metacritic have whittled down the title’s user score to an equally low 2.3. Most of the ire surrounding the game likely stems from macro-level performance and balance issues, but some of the negative feedback also comes from more invested players beleaguered by less-obvious issues.

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Case in point, Reddit user hrz12 recently took to the Call of Duty: Warzone subreddit to call attention to a recent Call of Duty: Warzone 2 match they played in which four buy stations were situated next to one another. The response to the post was succinctly summed up by another Reddit user who quipped that had “3000 devs and not one of them could write a decent algorithm for spawning shops in a more consistent fashion.” The post also highlights the uneven distribution of these crucial map elements. While three or four buy stations may spawn in one area, other parts of Al Mazrah may be barren, which places an even greater emphasis on a squad’s landing location.

Issues such as these are particularly perplexing, as Call of Duty: Warzone 2 seems to be taking priority over the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer experience. The original Call of Duty: Warzone was a smash success that remained relevant through three separate Call of Duty releases, and, given its free-to-play structure, it remains an important part of publisher Activision’s revenue stream. Despite this, Call of Duty: Warzone 2 still has problems both small and large that need to be addressed.

That said, the less-than-stellar reception of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 was offset somewhat by the accompanying DMZ mode. An ideal Call of Duty co-op experience of a sort not seen since the spec ops missions in the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the DMZ mode could represent the next big thing for the FPS franchise, though that mode also makes use of the broken buy station spawning system.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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