Summary
- A new Black Ops 6 Zombies bug is causing the game to crash on Citadelle des Morts.
- For whatever reason, using the Void Sheath augment for Aether Shroud in tandem with the new swords breaks the game.
In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s newest Zombies map, Citadelle des Morts, you can unlock four different elemental swords, similar to Der Eisendrache’s bows. However, a glitch caused the Void Sheath augment for Aether Shroud to reduce the damage of these new weapons, making them less effective.
Treyarch quickly rolled out an update to address the issue, but now players report the augment causing the game to crash. This was highlighted by Reddit user InsanelyRandomDude, who noted that their game crashed three times in a row when using Aether Shroud.
Void Sheath makes it so that kills with your dedicated melee weapon keep you in Aether Shroud for longer.
Others in the comments claim to have run into a similar issue, with parz2v alleging to have even lost a round 65 run thanks to the bug. Lukezordz, on the other hand, ran into a “big freeze spike”, not a crash, and they claim that the ability also isn’t stopping enemy aggression as it’s supposed to.
Disabling Void Sheath Seems To Fix The Issue
Since Void Sheath is at the root of the problem, removing it allows you to use Aether Shroud freely. So, if you don’t want to run into any crashes on Citadelle des Morts, swapping out the augment is the safest bet right now.
Knautical_J tested as much — their game crashed twice while using Void Sheath, so they removed the augment, tried using Aether Shroud with the sword again, and the bug “went away”.
It doesn’t appear to be an issue for any other map but Citadelle des Morts, either, so if you want to use Void Sheath on Liberty Falls or Terminus, you should be fine. It seems to be tied to the swords rather than dedicated melee weapons in general (jimothyjppickens noted that they used it with the cleaver and had no issues).
It’s unclear why this is happening, and Dry_Molasses7718 even claims to have run into the same problem with Frenzied Guard, but hopefully Treyarch irons out this new bug soon. Crashes are certainly worse than lower damage.
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