Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode Fix Could Be Coming Soon
Call of Duty Warzone is one of the most popular and successful battle royale games in the genre, and a large part of that is due to the content creators who are helping it thrive even with the new Verdansk 84 map. But this doesn’t mean that the game is perfect, and the Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode, in particular, is problematic.
Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode Is Messy Right Now
It is such a huge issue that many content creators who stream Warzone regularly have made a huge deal about the fact that it doesn’t work nearly as well as it should. Fortunately, it looks like developer Raven Software is getting ready to address the Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode finally.
It all comes down to a tweet recently on Twitter that was one of the most prolific battle royale content creators, JoeWo from NRG. The popular streamer tweeted at the official Raven Software account, requesting that the company finally fix the “broken” Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode.
JoeWo noted that doing this would “really help with the smoothness of a lot” of the Warzone matches that streamers compete in. JoeWo is far from the first content creator to request this or bring up the problem with the particular setting and probably won’t be the last, but this was the first time that we have received an official response about it.
It got thousands of likes, eventually gaining even a direct response from Raven. The tweet was fairly transparent, beginning with the fact that the Warzone developer is “listening” now to what JoeWo would like to say about the current state of the mode.
Raven Is Finally Listening to Suggestions for Streamer Mode
Hey @AverageJoeWo,
— Raven Software (@RavenSoftware) May 14, 2021
We're listening. What kind of improvements would you ideally like to see to the current "Streamer Mode" setting?
Best,
a studio.
Raven specifically asked about the kind of improvements that, ideally, JoeWo would want to see implemented in the current Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode setting. The tweet was written much in the same way as the open letter of sorts that the NRG streamer tweeted, giving a nice, more human-like feel to the studio, which is nice.
The studio replied again and tagged popular Warzone streamer Tommey who the 100 Thieves rep. It is worth noting that this tweet was simply the studio saying that it is prepared to listen to the feedback from these content creators rather than announcing anything.
Fortunately, this is a very important moment for the future of the setting (potentially other relevant features in Warzone), so it is great that Raven is now willing to listen to direct feedback from the players who are affected by the actual settings in the game.
It didn’t take long for JoeWo to respond to the tweet from Raven, noting what he would like to see in the setting. Streamer Mode is supposed to protect content creators from the players they come in contact with by giving them a fake name.
What the Streamer Mode Is There for
This is done in terms of the player and what they themselves see while they are streaming. For instance, when JoeWo is streaming to his audience, the viewers will see an anonymous name that he is using so that they are unable to go into a match and immediately find him in the battle.
This is there to prevent stream sniping, which is a huge issue in battle royale games being played online. Even with the minor delay that you can have on Twitch to protect the content creators, it isn’t usually enough, and stream sniping is a massive problem.
Viewers can try to queue up for a match at the same time, get into it, and then head towards the general location of the map where the streamer currently is to kill them. It is an unfortunate and frustrating experience that has even caused some players straight up to quit the game in the middle of a stream.
How to Fix Streamer Mode
JoeWo has the idea of fixing the Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode setting by ensuring that it properly works to prevent situations like those. What is odd about Warzone is that the setting does not actually turn off the name for the player when they eliminate someone in a match.
It will show their username properly, with the setting on, and say that, for example, NRG JoeWo eliminated BillyBobJoeMomma123 when it shouldn’t. This lets the entire match of players know that the content creator is in their match, and they can then look up their stream, hunt them down, and take them out unfairly.
Other battle royale games like Fortnite properly have the Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode implemented where it will show “Anonymous12345” or some other string of numbers when they eliminate someone in a match.
That is how Warzone should work, and it is a travesty that it doesn’t currently work that way. But other features could be implemented beyond fixing the Streamer Mode, like streamer and broadcaster MerK’s idea to have the streamer’s name be randomly picked like in Cold War.
It is pretty bizarre that Black Ops Cold War has a proper Streamer Mode and its own companion game Warzone doesn’t right now, especially since the latter is much more popular on Twitch and the like. Of course, even that one isn’t perfect as I am often able to see the actual username of the player when the game glitches, like in the lobby before the match starts or when they reconnect to the match.
But, still, Raven Software seeking out ideas about the Call of Duty Warzone Streamer Mode is a positive start and this, hopefully, means that we will get these much-needed changes much sooner rather than later. Be sure to stay tuned here for more details, hopefully soon.
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