Call of Duty: Warzone has many different possible errors and bugs players may run into during their time playing the online battle royale game. One of the oddest error codes you might encounter is the Warzone Goldflake error. If you ignore the strange name for a moment, you’ll find it is a frustrating issue to deal with.
Warzone Goldflake error, explained
The Warzone Goldflake error usually pops up during one of two situations. The first is when the player is browsing through the various menus in the battle royale game. This could be while you are online, customizing your loadout with the best weapons, or looking for friends to join up for some matches together.
Alternatively, the other possibility is when you actually queue for battle royale matches. In either situation, the game will suddenly interrupt whatever you’re trying to do and knock you all the way back to the Call of Duty main menu where you log into the game. At the same time, you’ll receive this Warzone Goldflake error message:
- “A required network service has failed. Status: GOLDFLAKE”
The reason behind this error has to do with being disconnected from the game’s servers for a moment. Essentially, there is some issue between your connection and the online servers, which boots you out of the online lobby and back to the main menu to reconnect. However, this error rarely has to do with any fault on the player’s part.
How to fix the Warzone Goldflake error
There are a couple of ways to deal with the Warzone Goldflake error code, with the first being to figure out where the problem originates from you. To do this, I suggest booting up another online game on your console or PC and testing multiplayer there. If you have no issues, restart Warzone and see if you are able to matchmake again.
Should you receive this error message again, some users on Reddit report restarting their router solved the issue for them. If this doesn’t work for you, then you fall into the larger group of players where the issue is on the Activision server side. This could indicate some ongoing server problems, which happened in the past. You should always check sites like DownDetector to see if others are currently having this problem or not.
In this case, you can wait for a hotfix to address this issue and submit a report in the meantime at the Activision support site. This could speed up the process of the developer identifying this problem and fixing it for you and other players alike.
