Blizzard forgot to turn off x-ray vision in World of Warcraft's new prop hunt mode, so you can imagine how fair the matches are right now

The last thing you want in a game mode where players disguise themselves as furniture in a World of Warcraft city is free access to x-ray vision. There's no fun to be had when you're just chasing after dots on your minimap instead of studying a suspicious table that you could've sworn moved a little.

Unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened to Decor Duels, Blizzard's new prop hunt-style mode that uses housing decor. It didn't take very long for players to realize that the "track humanoids" ability isn't disabled when you're in the mode, according to Wowhead: Hunters have it for free, but anyone can activate the ability with a Blackened Worg Steak consumable item. With it flipped on, it's no longer hide-and-seek, but a game of tag.

That is a critical oversight if I've ever seen one, which is surprising considering Blizzard put in extra precautions to keep Decor Duels fair. The mode seems to have an invisible AFK timer for the hiders if they sit in one spot too long, preventing them from receiving any rewards, for example. But someone on the development team must've forgotten about an ability that's been in the game for as long as I can remember.

It also appears that some players have found ways to slip past the invisible walls around the arena to plant themselves in unreachable areas. This is actually something Overwatch players do in that game's prop hunt mode as well, so I'm not particularly surprised. You challenge people with hiding in map geometry and they're inevitably going to figure out how to break into out-of-bounds areas. It's WoW we're talking about here: Players have been squeezing themselves through cracks to reach forbidden areas for years.

I'll cut Blizzard some slack, given that it's only been a day since the patch with Decor Duels came out. It's also never made a mode like this before, so it could still be figuring out all the variables it needs to lock down. But it's still a bummer that it's not really fair for anyone at the moment. Hopefully a patch is incoming because I know how WoW players get when there are housing decor rewards involved.