Call Of Duty Players Crash Warzone Servers With The Biggest Explosion Ever
Those crafty Call of Duty players are back at it again, and this time, they've crashed the Warzone servers with the game's biggest explosion ever. Since its launch last March, the battle royale behemoth has gone from strength to strength. When Warzone first launched, we only had Verdansk to explore. Although the staple map has changed a bit over the months with the likes of the Stadium having its roof blown off, the introduction of the Metro system, and the latest arrival of the S.S. Vodianoy to tie to Black Ops Cold War, we've visited every corner of this fictional locale and probably think we've seen there's all there is to see. Well, we were wrong.
If watching players glitch under the Prison, hide out in the gas cloud with the stim glitch, or clip inside walls wasn't enough to prove Activision's cash cow is a sometimes broken affair, what about players banding together to purposefully crash the servers on a truly epic scale? If you want to crash the Warzone servers, it turns out all you need is a content creator, an engaged player base, and some explosives. Apparently, blowing Verdansk sky-high is one way to crash the Warzone servers.
How did players crash the Warzone servers?
According to Video Games Chronicle, streamer MarleyThirteen recruited 149 of his followers to lead a covert mission into Verdansk with the sole purpose of bringing the map to its knees. In a video explaining how it was done, MarleyThirteen got everyone in the lobby to lay down their arms for a cease-fire, complete recon contracts to locate the final circle, then drive every vehicle on the map to that spot. The players all gathered at Promenade East with the aim of "causing a rift" in the back end of Warzone.
Turning the battle royale favourite into a giant NCP car park, all the vehicles were neatly lined up and then blown up. Everyone then bought a Cluster Strike and climbed up to a rooftop out of harm's way. With a simultaneous drop of everyone's killstreak, the pile of vehicles went up like the Fourth of July.
Giving the match the biggest Warzone explosion ever was apparently too much for the server to handle - causing it to promptly crash. No one really knew what was going to happen, but with the Verdansk sky being lit up, things went black and everyone was gifted the "server snapshot error" message. It was a job well-done. Unfortunately, players are now blaming MarleyThirteen every time the Warzone servers crash.
In several videos. MarleyThriteen showed off the logistical nightmare of looting the game and gathering all the vehicles as a hive-mind of chaos. There was an unfortunate incident of an explosion on the Airport runaway, but thankfully, they all pulled it off. Considering Warzone has previously been slammed for its sometimes questionable stability, is anyone really surprised the game's biggest explosion caused the servers to crash? We're guessing someone at Activision HQ was suitably shocked to see this spike, and probably wondered what on Earth was going on
Interestingly, the vehicle explosion looks like an ironic precursor to what's just around the corner. The recent Black Ops Cold War Season 2 has infiltrated Verdansk with zombies and the opening of missile silos. Although some thought the start of Season 2 would blow up the Verdansk we've come to know for the past year, there are continued reports of a cataclysmic event coming at the end of the season that will overhaul Warzone from the ground up. If you fancy crashing the server in the meantime, it just takes a massive following, some patience, and a bit of dumb luck.
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