Call Of Duty Vanguard Mode Disabled On PS5 and Xbox!

Well… Concerns have been raised!

After the game’s latest playlist update, the Champion Hill mode of Call of Duty Vanguard has been currently removed on Xbox Series X/S and PS5 console versions due to a crash issues.

‘We’ve removed Champion Hill on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S while we investigate crash issues in this mode’ – Sledgehammer Games in a public statement.

Vanguard released on November 5th with a selection of noticeable malfunctions, to use parliamentary language. There’s been reports of visibility issues on maps, an FOV glitch and code redemption issues for PS5 owners. Vanguard also has the oddly specific title of Worst Performance Of A Call Of Duty Game in The UK In 14 Years! But that’s rich coming from us, considering our film industry isn’t even big enough to be consistently self-sustaining for crying out loud!

Call of Duty Vanguard also closed its ‘Secrets of the Pacific’ event hours into it’s launch due to similar crashing issues. Now, I’m not saying this was due to crunch work issues… No, really, I’m not saying that. All I’m saying is I’m not saying that!

After reports of low sales, in an inconspicuous act of corporate nepotism, publisher Activision held a free Call Of Duty: Vanguard Multiplayer Trial Extravaganza a couple weeks after the game’s release.

Call of Duty Vanguard will have launch its first official season December 8th along with a new map.

Now, given the one-two comboner of Vanguard receiving poor reception and my having not played it, it would be extremely crass and disingenuous of me to say that I feel it is worth buying… But, in the spirit of paraphrasing the CinemaWins philosophy that “every game is somebody’s favourite”, feel free to have a butcher’s round our store if you want to give it or anything else we have a try. You also get a cheeky discount by signing up to our newsletter if you’re so inclined.

The State-Mandated Corruption-Reminding Power Hour (Trigger Warning – One mention of suicide and sexual assault in this paragraph): Just using this paragraph to say that regardless of the game’s quality, another aspect of a product worth noting is how it came about. If someone wants a company’s games to be ethically made and sourced the same way some ethically sourced venison farms work where the little Bambis die of old age first, then it is my (and others’) duty as reviewers and/or commentators to say “these are the facilities in which this product was made, take that how you will”. I bring this up in regards to Sledgehammer Games and Call of Duty Vanguard because, plot twist, their parent company is Activision, so this was secretly a “look at the horrible things Bobby let happen” piece all along! Specifically, around the early stages of Activision Blizzard’s California lawsuit, there was coverage of an often-assaulted and bullied woman who killed herself shortly after nude images of her were shared around the workplace. One of the main perpetrators in that story happened to be from Sledgehammer Games. This goes back to how firing Bobby Kotick isn’t going to fix the issues with a collection of board members that own multiple companies, as the systematic issues here are far beyond just one bloke.