Modern Warfare players are dying just for touching care packages

Since an update in early February, some Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players have started to experience a very strange bug with care packages, literally dying as they touch them.

Killstreaks – as opposed to scorestreaks – have made a return with this latest installment in the popular FPS franchise, bringing back a reward system that has not been in the game for nearly a decade.

One of these killstreaks is the fabled Care Package, which drops users one random killstreak, anything from a UAV to a juggernaut. Now, though, some players are unable to even open their care packages, as they get killed as soon as they’re close enough.

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While care packages can often be an exciting way to help you rack up kills (or be severely disappointed when you only get a Personal Radar), Reddit user MineRaid was less than impressed as he slid to pick up his random reward but didn’t even get the chance to try it.

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Raid slides at the care package and dies immediately, as soon as he touches it. Having taken the time to wait for it, and losing a couple of teammates in the process, his team was really relying on a good pull from the package to give them some hope.

They were 4-2 down in the map, playing Cyber Attack, meaning his life – and the streak in the care package – could have been really helpful in mounting a comeback and helping the team secure the win.

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His teammate was left in a 1v5, left with pretty much no hope, dropping as he rushed to revive Raid.

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Obviously, as Cyber Attack is a round-based gamemode, the care package was gone before Raid or his teammates could use its reward to save the game.

It’s not known whether they won the map but, at 5-2 down and seemingly without luck on their side, we can presume it didn’t go their way in the end.

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Every game has its bugs, and major AAA titles such as Call of Duty will also be held to a higher standard despite being a victim to how these bugs work just as much as any other game.

That said, bugs like these – that can literally ruin someone’s game – will likely need to be addressed sooner rather than later.