Call of Duty Modern Warfare players have been through a lot these last few month. Glitch after glitch has plagued the game, and other changes are being called for by fans. With all of the problems that have dragged down Modern Warfare since its inception, it needs something to resuscitate it with the fan base. There's a chance that adding a well-put-together Battle Royale mode to the mix just might make Modern Warfare the newest instant classic.

A Strong Start

After record sales and an incredible beginning, Modern Warfare was declared the most played CoD of this generation. According to Activision, Call of Duty Modern Warfare has made more than $1 billion in revenue, and has some incredible stats for its first 50 days live. It has more hours played overall and more hours played per player than any other CoD game released for this generation of consoles, but despite these amazing numbers, Modern Warfare has had its share of problems, and those problems have the potential to affect MW's bottom line.

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Plagued by Bugs

Call of Duty games have never been strangers to bugs and quick fixes, but Modern Warfare seems to be plagued with them. For a Triple A title with a massive team behind it, it seemed like something new and game-breaking popped up a little too frequently. There was the aiming bug, the bug that made the HUD disappear, the glitch that left players floating above their maps, and many more.

The most recent glitch, called the Shoot House Glitch, has gotten a lot of fans (even avid fans of the games and genre) feeling pretty down about Modern Warfare and Call of Duty as a franchise. Every new patch seems to bring players new problems to fight through, and it seems like some players are putting the game down for good.

Listening to the Community

Players who have decided not to return to Call of Duty Modern Warfare have been filling out surveys from Activision. The exit survey asks one pretty pointed question: what would it take for them to come back? It asks players to check off anything that would be a tipping point for them to dust off their Modern Warfare copies and start really playing again.

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If anyone is surprised by the level of detail in this questionnaire, they shouldn't be. Anyone who has spent any time on the subreddit for Modern Warfare will see a lot of changes that fans have been requesting since the game's launch back in August. While a lot of these options are about fixing current content rather than adding new content, fixes might not be enough to get players to return. If players are leaving the game, most of them have most likely left because of domino effect of fixes and updates just causing more problems than they solve.

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What might bring people back, however, would be injecting the game with something brand new as flawlessly as possible. And Activision already has a game mode in the works that could do just that for them.

Battle Royale Mode

Another weird glitch in Call of Duty Modern Warfare was the Battle Royale glitch. Instead of properly deploying in a Spec-Ops co-op mission, players get stuck up in the air, displaying the whole of the map to them instead of the small piece they should have been able to see. This appears to be the map for the leaked Battle Royale mode.

While the Battle Royale mode does not have a release date, it will most likely be released in early 2020. Unlike Fortnite or PUBG, the Battle Royale mode for Modern Warfare will feature an incredible 200 players, solo or team (teams of 2 or teams of 4), and more. If this mode is well executed, it can reinvigorate the game in a way that might bring many of those who have wandered away back to try it out.

It might not seem that way if players remember Blackout from late 2018 in Black Ops 4, but the Modern Warfare Blackout-style mode may have learned from the initial issues that plagued Black Ops 4's Battle Royale mode. Although Fortnite is still the top dog on the market and there are plenty of others like Apex Legends, the multiplayer mode's popularity has remained constant, so an injection of CoD into it and BR into CoD may be a welcome sight. And hopefully, Modern Warfare's BR won't be locked behind a paywall.

There is a lot of competition in the world of Battle Royale, and much of it is free to play. If Modern Warfare wants to compete, it will have to do everything everyone else does, but better. It will need snappy combat to go along with its 1v1 Gulag revival gimmick that already has a lot of people interested. Also, the revival 1v1 battles will have to make up for Modern Warfare's incredibly short TTK, which some fans have compared to Black Ops 4's hardcore mode. Getting killed early in a 200-player game of Battle Royale just because a player landed in an unlucky location would be frustrating when paired with the low TTK, so this mechanic may go far in its popularity.

In short, what Call of Duty Modern Warfare needs is an injection of a fun, interesting, and replayable multiplayer event. A well-executed release of a (hopefully) free Battle Royale DLC can be everything this game needs to keep Activision's incredible player and revenue stats up where they should be. But whether that happens or how soon that happens remains to be seen, but based on the surveys, it needs to be soon.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare is available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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