The spur of Call of Duty: Warzone has been wreaking havoc in Battle Royale for a few months now – and it looks like the game’s developers are struggling to overcome it.
The stim is a device that restores your character’s health and updates the super sprint. It is supposed to help players get out of difficult situations, but it has also been used nefariously as part of a series of flaws and problematic exploits that just won’t go away – despite the various patches.
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The best known of these is the infinite stimulus glitch, which first appeared in October 2020. This glitch allows players to use infinite tactical items, thus making it possible to spam healing Stims and hide from other players within the gas until the game is over.
Despite the developers’ best efforts last year, the failure of the infinite stimulus returned before it was supposedly fixed. But now it is apparently back – for the fifth time.
A game clip uploaded to the Warzone subreddit this week shows the viewer’s view of an apparent cheater who uses fragmentation grenade mechanics to trigger the infinite stimulus glitch. There is a strange moment in the clip when the player seems to activate night vision goggles for a fraction of a second, even though the night vision goggles are not in Warzone. However, night vision goggles are used in the Modern Warfare campaign. The player then heads for the gas, spreading the stimulus to survive.
I discovered that the stim failure came back when watching a hacker … from r / CODWarzone
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Here is another example of the failure of the infinite stimulus in action this week:
– Ayushman (@ AlphaGolf26) January 28, 2021
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In addition to the suffering of stim, this week a new use, not exactly sporting, of stim emerged in the Call of Duty community. Call of Duty content creator JGOD posted a video below, revealing a method that involves ammunition boxes, which replenish equipment. A well-coordinated team can earn enough money to get so many boxes of ammunition that a player can hide in the gas simply by repeatedly replenishing his stimulus. This is not a defect, but an abuse of the existing game mechanics to play unintentionally.
Therefore, the stimulation problems persist and, once again, players are calling on Warzone developer Raven Software to remove the item from the game for it to be properly corrected. What should be done? Increase the damage the gas does to players inside it? Add a cooldown to the stim? There are many suggestions. But so far, little action.