Warzone Season 3 release has some pretty major bugs that still aren’t fixed

In anticipation of Operation Monarch, Call of Duty is calling on digital artists to mock up a poster that’ll be part of the official campaign.

You can try your hand at immortalizing the epic battle between King Kong and Godzilla, and earing a cool $2,000 which is approximately £1,594 / AU$2,810. There’s a whole brief to follow, so make sure you check of all the boxes if you want to enter. 

You can find out more details on the official website. 

If you want to get that sweet XP, the Call of Duty Twitter account has just confirmed that there’s max 2XP from now until Monday, May 2. That goes for both Vanguard and Warzone.

A weekend of grinding awaits those of you who want to make some serious progress as fast as possible.  

Vanguard Season 3 patch notes have also dropped. Sledgehammer Games shared the details in a blog post.

Ranked play leaves beta, but it ran into a bit of a hiccup immediately after the update went live. But it’s sorted out now.  

Players’ Season 3 Skill Ratings have been reset, and the Season 3 Top 250 Skill Division and Ladder leaderboard is set to go live on May 4. We’ll be one week into the new season by then, so you’ll have plenty of time to earn a rating and advance through the divisions. 

This isn’t the first time this bug has popped up in Warzone. A December 2021 update similarly messed something up, and required players to have an Xbox Live Gold membership to play. That was after Xbox rolled out its policy around free-to-play games. 

The official Call of Duty Twitter account  hasn’t responded to the complaints yet. And neither has Raven Software. The devs may still be grappling with the ‘corrupted loadout data’ error. 

If you’re not desperate enough to play that you’re going to sign up for Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass, you’re going to need to find alternative ways to amuse yourself until this is addressed.  

If you thought the drama was over, think again! Another bug has manifested which has resulted in Warzone no longer being free-to-play.

“I can’t play Warzone on Xbox Series X without xbox gold/ultimate pass,” tweeted @mactez5. 

“It used to be free2play until today’s update. Please resolve this bug. It says ‘the current profile is not allowed to play on xbox live'”.

A fellow Warzone player has also run into this problem, tweeting, “thank’s for the update, now I can’t play warzone unless I buy a membership, so much for a free game.”

@BagsPlays shared a screenshot of the bug, saying they’ve been playing Warzone for free for months, citing the Xbox policy around free-to-play games. A couple of people replied to their tweet saying they’re having the same issue.

It doesn’t appear that the devs have acknowledged this yet, but we’ll monitor their socials. Fingers crossed it gets…