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the modern military shooter titan and sequel to 2019's rebooted Modern Warfare is dealing with concerns its ping system - and a game breaking way players have exploited it.
Ever since the battle royale genre took the gaming world by storm, it has popularized a number of game mechanics that steadily seeped into other games as well. The pinging system, allowing team members to quickly mark objects, loot, locations or enemies for all their allies to see is one such mechanic. Originating from shooters made it easy enough to transplant into Modern Warfare 2.
Unfortunately something broke in translation, and Call of Duty's latest title shipped with a spectacular flaw in its own ping system - if players pinged an enemy player while on their respawn screen, that ping would persist throughout the whole match, following them everywhere and constantly showing the opposing team their location.
