"We will do better": Blizzard are sorry World of Warcraft's prop hunt patch launched with an X-ray vision exploit and plenty of other pesky bugs

Apologies to each the hiders who've been forced to jiggle about

World of Warcraft developers Blizzard released a prop hunt mode dubbed Decor Duel with this week's patch, having initially announced the Midnight expansion-adjacent summation was connected the mode backmost successful January. Sadly, said spot was littered with bugs, with the workplace present having apologised for releasing it successful a authorities that wasn't "up to [their] standards.

"The squad is taking lessons learned from this motorboat to assistance guarantee this doesn't hap again," Blizzard wrote successful a blog station addressing the 12.0.5 patch's issues. "We volition besides enactment harder to pass openly, early, and often erstwhile a motorboat doesn't spell arsenic expected: the known issues we're moving on, fixes arsenic they rotation out, and immoderate different accusation that would beryllium utile to our assemblage arsenic problems are worked connected and solved. We attraction profoundly astir this game, and we play it close alongside you. We volition bash better."

If you've not been warcrafting lately, the patch's problems person included the Decor Duel mode being undermined by an exploit involving the "track humanoids" ability, which has been allowing seekers to spot precisely wherever the hiders they're playing against are at, alternatively taking the situation retired of the mode. Also causing annoyance has been the information that hiders person been missing retired connected rewards if they're not deemed to person moved capable portion successful their chosen spot. This looks to beryllium a plan prime aimed astatine getting props to determination astir and effort to juke and stun seekers until clip expires, but being railroaded into that hasn't been a batch of folks' cupful of tea.

As Kotaku's Rebecca Valentine documented, those 2 issues person been acold from the lone ones, hence Blizzard having to unreserved to their tools and get repairing. To their credit, the publishers person enactment retired hotfixes and info connected however they're tackling problems successful abbreviated order.

Here's hoping they tin squash immoderate remaining bugs swiftly and are capable to measure whether much clip successful the oven mightiness payment patches similar this 1 going forwards.