A Call of Duty: Warzone 2 player has recently taken to social media to voice their frustration with how the game's developers went about implementing Mortar Strikes. The development is just the latest complaint fans have had about the game, which include glitches and Call of Duty: Warzone 2 exploits, many of which are yet to be fixed.
Despite these issues, the follow-up to Call of Duty: Warzone released in mid-November to largely positive reviews, as well as some remarkable momentum, seeing how Infinity Ward and Raven Software took less than a week to hit 25 million Warzone 2 players. For context, the original Warzone peaked at 127 million players back in June 2021,15 months into its release. In spite of that initial success, some players were still left frustrated by the omission of many quality-of-life features from the first game, not to mention the presence of multiple bugs affecting the overall gameplay experience.
A new gameplay clip shared by Reddit user Dannyy760 illustrates a potential design oversight concerning Call of Duty: Warzone 2. Namely, the perfectly central placement of the "mortar strike incoming" notification obscures the player's line of sight during engagements, rendering aiming down the sights useless for the duration of the message. Given how the notification stays on screen for several seconds, the existing banner placement is likely to have dire consequences in competitive play, though it could just as easily frustrate casual players, as well.
The Call of Duty: Warzone Season 3 Reloaded update released in mid-2022 already dealt with a near-identical issue when it repositioned the "incoming killstreak" warning banner, whose original placement also had a tendency to block the player's line of sight during combat. The fact that this quality-of-life change did not inform the UI design of Warzone 2 has seemingly soured a portion of the players, some of whom are still voicing their frustrations with this state of affairs in response to the newly shared gameplay clip.
According to the Call of Duty: Warzone 2 Battle Pass timer, the inaugural season of the game is scheduled to conclude on January 31. It remains to be seen whether Infinity Ward and Raven Software manage to address this newly highlighted issue before Season 2 kicks off next month.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.