Here’s A Workaround To Invite Friends

If you’re having the same issues I’m having with Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2 today, I guess we can console ourselves in an old saying: Misery loves company.

Season 1 of Modern Warfare II and the launch of Warzone 2.0 kicked off a bunch of new content this morning, but also a suite of new problems.

One of the most irritating and potentially fun-ruining of these is the breaking of the social menu. When I click on the top right corner to access my friends and party, it starts to load and then kicks me back to the main screen. I can’t access any of my friends, recent players, parties etc.

The same bug has been impacting my squad-mates all day as well (after some matchmaking issues confounded us after last night’s update as well).

There is, thankfully, a simple workaround here. The update has added new Voice Channels to Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0. These function kind of like Discord. You can have a voice channel set up just for your party, or one that people can access persistently across many matches, similar to a Discord server.

By going into Voice Channels (the tab at the top right of the screen that looks like a headset) you can invite people to your party, kick or promote within your party and so forth. Basically you get most of the functionality of the Social menu, but it’s within the voice channel menu instead.

You have to make sure to enable voice chat to make this work, of course, but it’s a quick and simple workaround to what hopefully ends up being a very brief problem. A more persistent problem will be the general clumsiness of the menu designs more broadly. That’s going to take some real time and effort to make right.

Read all about today’s launch right here.

Oh, and I got my first Warzone 2 victory today!