In CoD Warzone helicopters are in acute danger. Because a bug turns the usually quite useless crossbow into a powerful AA gun. How can this be?
What is the deal with the anti-helicopter crossbow? The crossbow is actually a lousy weapon in CoD Warzone that hardly anyone uses voluntarily. The fired bolt is too slow and it deals too little damage on impact. You’d rather grab an assault rifle, like one of these top weapons from Season 4.
But due to a curious bug, the crossbow has suddenly become the ideal anti-aircraft weapon in the Warzone. As a user on reddit found out, bolts take down helicopters with just one hit. Even allied helicopters are not safe. One shot and the helicopter spirals down in flames.
Bug turns bolts into a kind of flying wall
How does the bug work? Behind the curious effect that bolt fire has on armored combat helicopters lies apparently a bug. Because the bolts seem not to be recognized as normal projectiles by the game, but rather as “world objects”.
The difference is huge, because world objects are usually things like walls, rock faces, or buildings. So all the things that can cause damage to a vehicle, like a helicopter, upon collision.
If a bolt hits a helicopter, the game interprets it as if the helicopter had crashed into a wall at high speed. Only, in this case, the “wall” is a fired bolt. Therefore, helicopters are also hopeless against this form of fire, and since it is technically a collision, you can also destroy your own helicopters this way.
However, there are no points for the kills, since you technically haven’t shot anything down. The helicopter has merely collided with a wall in the game’s view, and there is no reward for that.
Since this clearly constitutes a bug and exploiting it would be an exploit, we strongly advise against shooting at unsuspecting helicopters with crossbows. After all, you don’t want to risk a ban, which is something that only experienced cheaters typically face.
