Vanguard Operator is completely breaking the game

Andrew Highton
vanguard operators posing

Many Vanguard players are being left confused as their game is crashing when using one particular Operator. The devs are aware of the issue, and a fix is on the way.

Call of Duty: Vanguard has many different Operators to choose from including the heroic Arthur Kingsley and Lady Nightingale herself, Polina Petrova.

But players can increase their XP earned by completing challenges for all the different Operators, instead of maxing one out and sticking with them.

However, it seems like one of them is glitched, and it’s a long-standing issue that the devs are aware of and trying to fix.

daniel yatsu operator in cod vanguard

Players that are fond of the Daniel Yatsu Operator will need to be cautious about which skin they select before going into matches.

Since the game’s launch, if players opt for his alternative skins, then it will cause hard crashes of Call of Duty: Vanguard.

Despite many players knowing about the issue, not all do, and Reddit user Dxnwa sought to point this out.

Sledgehammer Games address broken Operator bug

The devs are well aware of the glitch in Vanguard and have a card on the game’s official Trello page to say that a fix is on the way.

The Trello card says: “Operators: Using Daniel’s alternative skin will crash your game.” Under the card’s labels, it says that a fix is “scheduled,” but we don’t know when that will be – possibly when Season 1 drops and the integration to welcome Caldera begins


Typically, we’ll be sure to update once this patch drops, and it should make Daniel Yatsu’s alternate skins usable.

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Image Credit: Activision / Sledgehammer Games

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