The issue with these consistent updates though is that they can cause more than a few problems for the gamers simply trying to play the games. The Pacific update for Call of Duty: Warzone, for example, which brought the new tropical island map Caldera to the game, has also brought about major graphical issues. Developer Raven Software acknowledged these bugs as soon as they were reported, yet with the addition of this file name change, there seem to be more bugs than were first anticipated.
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Upon installing the latest update for Call of Duty: Warzone, one player found that their Xbox labelled the game file as iw8 ship. As more players found a similar problem within their game’s file name, confusion ran amok within the Call of Duty: Warzone community as many sought to find why the file name to their game had been changed. At this time, there hasn’t been an official response from Raven, though the issue hasn’t stopped players from logging in.
Posted on Reddit, user u/CoreVortex brought the issue to light. In the screenshot, the game that is installing is clearly Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the title that initially introduced Warzone, yet the file name is iw8 ship. The comments underneath the post assure the user that iw8 is the game engine and that the name is a bug that coincides with the changes being brought about after the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard. Though some players are glad that the name change is merely a bug, others took this chance to raise other issues with Call of Duty: Warzone. One commenter wrote that due to this update they had to reinstall all singleplayer and multiplayer content, while another user expressed their problem with the huge file size of Call of Duty: Warzone.
The name change, iw8 ship, also caused some to see the lighter side of things. One fan had an interesting theory that now a ship would come to collect all Call of Duty: Warzone, players, with each having to wait their turn. Another thought simply that the name change was in some way related to Shipment, one of Modern Warfare’s most famous maps. Whatever theories players have come up with, the simple truth appears to be much more boring, with the file name only occurring as a mistake caused by a bug.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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