With today’s big Call of Duty: Modern Warfare patch, players aren’t just downloading the patch, but they’re also asked to download something more. While that in itself is a big pain in the neck for most people that don’t have unlimited harddisk space, it seems there’s an on-going Modern Warfare download corrupt issue happening as well, which makes things worse.
Multiple people on the Modern Warfare subreddit have expressed concern on how they’re experiencing data corruption and/or a download loop after today’s patch. It also causes some people to reset their ranks too!
Note that this seems to be happening to players on all platforms.
Data corruption xbox one x since 21 Jan Patch from modernwarfare
[ps4] [update issue] spec ops pack download loop from modernwarfare
Infinity Ward has acknowledged the issue, announcing over on Twitter that they are investigating the error prompt, and that players should not choose either of the two options.
We're currently investigating an issue where players are getting an error prompt informing them their data is corrupt or did not download properly. Please do not select either option, but please hard close your application. Thank you for your patience while we work on this issue.
— Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) January 22, 2020
Infinity Ward Senior Communications Manager Ashton Williams is currently collecting the Activision IDs of those affected to help with the studio’s investigation too. Chime in with yours in this thread.
We’re hoping that this issue gets resolved ASAP without any stat loss for players whatsoever. Hopefully, Infinity Ward can release a server-side fix to it, or even a new patch should be fine, as long as it works as intended.
Have you experienced this Modern Warfare download corrupt issue or looping bug? Don’t forget to NOT choose any of the two options for now.
I download spec ops patch launch the game and then it starts the spec ops download again. A never ending loop just eating away at my data limit
Same here!! Over and over!!
Same here.. have tried everything. Two straight days of downloading which screws up other streaming services – I hard start, hard restart, deleted previous update files & unplug/hard restart, deleted current save data file (after uploading/saving on PS+ cloud and USB storage), after last completed dL of the spec ops ck (which shows in the list of installed add ons for this game, yet save data file only updated and saved after the first download (Multiplayer pack 2) installed – and I think there lies the issue. Even if file DL & installed, the save data reflects to the point in time that is excluding the latest install – so when start game, it reads the save data which does not include the last or spec ops pack. THATS my best guess, so now that it just downloaded and installed, I’m going to try to make sure the save data file is the date and time that the spec ops pack was dl’ed & installed to stop the game from reverting back to using save data that was saved before the spec ops file dl’ed – thus making the game think the file was not yet dl’ed – if that makes sense – and prompts the necessary file DL over again as if it’s not already there according to date and time of last save file. WIsh me luck – I threw my controller SO HARD against the wall it broke. THE bug where ZANE isn’t unlocking has me completely pissed off as well. Activision/IW haven’t even recognized that fiasco, and i have contacted and filed bug reports repeatedly for the last month, even reporting bug on their site, tweeting the issue, hitting them up on REDDIT, and contacted the MW ‘ambassadors’ who were very nice to respond right away but after doing all the stuff they could think of & still didn’t work, suggested i contact their support team! LOL THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING WITH SUCH A LARGE GROUP OF YUGE NAMES IN THE INDUSTRY – IM TIRED OF GAMING STUDIOS USING PLAYERS TO TROUBLESHOOT ISSUES IN THEIR GAME FOR FREE !!! Do NOT release e a game that is unfinished – stop using betas as a way to offset costs of your team testing the game you release for $65-$120 to the public way before it’s time!!!