Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War status: server issues and outage reports
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Call of Duty is a first person shooter that is available for gaming consoles and PC. The game franchise includes Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Call of Duty: Black Ops and the new Blackout battle royale mode.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
June 18: Problems at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is having issues since 06:20 PM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War users through our website.
- Online Play (50%)
- Game Crash (20%)
- Sign in (15%)
- Glitches (9%)
- Matchmaking (6%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Broye
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Online Play | 6 days ago |
 Appleton
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Game Crash | 8 days ago |
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Suffolk
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Sign in | 13 days ago |
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Norfolk
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Game Crash | 15 days ago |
 Singapore
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Sign in | 22 days ago |
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Paris
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Online Play | 22 days ago |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Royal (@7eptum) reportedBo7 is the worst cod we have ever had for network and bullet reg issues. It’s 2026
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lokisbluff (@chonkyboii420) reported@tdawgsmitty How open to reception is the crew this year? Feel that’s infinity wards biggest problem! Hopefully we’re in for a good few years ahead would really like it to feel like it did when I was a kid playing cod again! Ik it’s not burnout cuz I don’t play that frequently 😭
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Jordan Firari (@jFar920) reported@xangelink @CODWarfareForum @johnnyjl96 PS3 COD games online multiplayer is broken on a technical level, I don’t know if they’d get new “better” servers but I think they would either have to fix the underlying PS3 issue or it’ll be the same crappy servers but just exclusive to PS4/5
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Kassim MB🇧🇷 🇮🇶 (@kassimmb) reported@GamingWithNuke @CallofDuty Have you solved ther problem i have same error and i did everything but nothing work
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Perkio (@sneakyentry) reported@CallofDuty @YoBlessedshot fix the Cold War issue you throw everybody parties on friends only even after putting it back to public
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the normal tweeter :/ (@Tweetythetwee) reported@RinoTheBouncer If the game is grounded in reality like games based on War (ex being cod or battlefield) The problems are the unnecessary collaborations with celebrities, popular colorful games and cartoon characters REALLY Ruins the seriousness of marine soldiers
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TheDownloadQueue (@DownloadQueue_) reported@Wildbergerrrr Gaming is more popular then ever is a correct statement. But that’s off the backs of GTA, CoD, Fortnite and sports titles. Trying to get that audience the branch out into smaller niche passion projects or even just a 007 is an entirely different issue
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The Gaming Dad (@TheGamingDad22) reported@The_CrapGamer Xbox wanting new, interesting IPs wasn't the play to attract new users to the service. Should have probably been pummeling Doom, Fallout, Halo, Gears, TES, CoD all this time, rather than a pottery game that is pretty bad and a bang average compulsion made SoM.
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fromsoftserve (@fromsoftserve) reportedKinda awkward that Xbox, the owner of CoD, isn’t mentioned here so presumably they will be stuck with a broken 360 back compat version at 720p. Or maybe this was a timed announcement for PlayStation, which is still bizarre lol
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HRBomber (@hrbomber) reported@wolfpac_101 At least for the select titles. Eventually we will see more of the CoD shuffle. Begin not releasing games into the service.
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BAAZ (@jgreenday121) reported@CallofDuty @CallofDuty fix black ops cold war on ps5, you broke the game with new update. Fix your ******* game. You are just sabotaging old games now
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Balaams *** (@xBalaamsAssx) reported@TrentJordanFan @danbickley @AZSports Dont forget they were the ones living and dying on Kylers study clause, blew up the CoD way out of proportion and were all too happy to see him leave because of "leadership issues" that werent actually issues or were standards they only put on Kyler
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T.M (@tactmedic52) reported@NoneLizard Whatever you say man, that is just a CoD bias issue that does not appeal to 99% of games. If the UAV gets removed, nobody will care. Guaranteed.
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TheHoneyG (@Thehoneyg3) reported@Victor_Lucas arbitrary awards dont pay the bills. CoD and live-service games do. candy crush
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ismael flores (@toxicmaster96) reported@imahyperlover Every studio/pub wants the next live service Game for the success that fortnite has, this has led to massive change to how Games have been made without the proper care to how a LSG develops across it life cycle. In modern times was the halo-killer, the cod-killer, so on and so on
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Atumbem Kosmos /🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 U.S. veteran (@atumbem) reported@HayboWena @hard8_times Gameass is bad for gaming period stupid. It was a dumb Phil Spencer solution. Playstation has a subscription service dumbo and so does Nintendo. What Sony and Nintendo don’t do is put AAA games like Starfield and COD on their services day and date. That’s just dumb.
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𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕪𝟚 (@shortmaneighty2) reported@Shpeshal_Nick @whocarestcg1 The problem is how do you rectify it... I think if MS came out and said that no games were day and date going forward and did the same as with COD (12 months minimum) people wouldn't be happy with that. If they did that though their sales would improve massively so it's tricky!
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Rose 🇫🇷 (@red_rat__) reportedThis is a genuine question btw. I have no idea what this laptop can do in terms of gaming but if I find out it can run any COD game from like 2007 to the present that would be cool. I like to hope that the problem comes from my emulator and not my laptop's limited capacities
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Much4Less (@Much8Less) reported@coldwright @VictoryRiderMO @blacknredtext What if Hunt ran on long-running dedicated servers like DayZ? Would the tense 20–40 minute “drop in, hunt, extract or die” loop survive, or would players naturally start expecting persistent worlds, base-building, ongoing player factions, stash systems, or multi-day survival elements that Hunt was never designed around? What if matchmaking disappeared and players just joined whatever server they wanted (like DayZ community servers)? How would the entire risk-reward structure of bounties, extracts, and PvPvE change when you could repeatedly queue into the same low-population or high-skill server instead of being thrown into random, balanced lobbies? What if progression (hunter levels, perks, weapon unlocks, prestige) was handled entirely client-side like older CoD titles? How do you stop players from simply editing their local save files to give themselves every trait, max-level hunters, and unlimited Hunt Dollars on day one — completely destroying the intended grind and power progression curve? What if the in-game economy was “a non-issue” because the game is offline or shut down? What new systems would you have to invent from scratch for item persistence, preventing duplication, handling trades between disconnected servers, and stopping players from just hex-editing their money or items? What if there was no central skill-based matchmaking? How do you rebalance weapons, traits, and compounds when a server could be stacked with coordinated veterans running meta loadouts while another server is full of new players or casuals? The original tuning assumed a certain distribution of player skill and loadouts. What if private or community servers allowed custom rules, mods, or admin commands (like DayZ)? Would the game stay “Hunt,” or would it fragment into dozens of wildly different experiences where balance has to be completely redone for each ruleset? What if the game wasn’t built with proper server authority from the start? How much of the netcode, hit registration, movement validation, extraction logic, and AI behavior would need to be rewritten or heavily modified so a dedicated server can actually enforce rules instead of trusting the client (the way many always-online games do)? What if anti-cheat had to work without Crytek’s centralized backend? Wouldn’t you need to build (or reverse-engineer) robust server-side validation and anti-cheat from the ground up, since the original design likely offloads a lot of security to official matchmaking servers? What if you actually wanted functional LAN or small private servers for a handful of friends? How do you handle the sound design, boss spawns, compound layouts, and player-count assumptions that were tuned for full 12-player matchmaking lobbies rather than tiny predictable groups? These questions show that the suggestion in the post isn’t just “spin up a server binary.” It’s asking for a major redesign of how the game thinks about persistence, fairness, progression, cheating prevention, and player interaction. Games that were built from day one around dedicated servers and modding (DayZ, many older titles with proper dedicated server support) have these systems baked in. Hunt: Showdown was not. That’s why community requests for private servers have gone unanswered for years and why simply “patching the game to look for local servers” doesn’t magically solve the deeper design and technical problems.
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K-Med (@K__Med) reportedExactly this. They bought these studios for their creative expertise, not to pump out DLC for CoD and now they're shutting them down, because they're in financial trouble with the brand.
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Pheonix (@Pheonix__ttv) reported@geralt_of_rivi @synaesthesiajp but we want those established IPs. thats the problem. They hold less power over time, but look at the most played games. People dont want new ****. They want more CoD and Fortnite, because that's what they like
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Hunter of the Six (@AnthonyRivera88) reported@JackmoveJohnny Xbox will never give us the whole truth but if Gamepass was so successful they wouldn’t have pulled future CoD titles off of the service. People just don’t want to see the truth. They treat it as it’s their own creation instead of just being consumers of it.
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FXMLDR the Hyper Agent (@HyperAgent_MLDR) reported@MissBarbatos Well, yeah, CoD has essentially ruined the industry with the selling the same dlc maps every few years thing. The more likely problem is that internal memo from a few days ago that sounded like "Xbox Brands has bloated beyond manageability and we gotta start cutting studios"
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BAAZ (@jgreenday121) reported@Treyarch @CallofDuty fix black ops cold war on ps5, you broke the game with new update. Fix your ******* game. You are just sabotaging old games now
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kingscottt1 (@The_Most_Epic) reported@ATVIAssist @Activision @CallofDuty please fix it I really need this game to work I wanted to play pc cause I have too much storage on console those whole bios firmware everything is on I checked but I still can’t play thanks…
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Shadow Stokes (@Shdwstokes) reported@CODUpdates yo game stuttering and hitching is insane right now…1gig seriesx should have no problem but it’s been terrible for the past few days…even MP is bad wth is going on please @InfinityWard fix this nightmare server issue please
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FRAGSTAR (@Fragstar00) reported@XBOXGamePass Just remember, this is the same service that released COD WW2 and then removed it due to hacking issues and havent bought it back since.
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cody (@blexcii) reportedIf u have friends who cheat on cod and u don’t call them out for ximming and ai aimbotting u r part of the problem, its socially ok to cheat now back in 2017 u woulda got kicked out the group and bullied
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marc (@ThrowawayMarc) reportedThere’s zero reason I have 2GiG internet and constantly lagging and packet bursting in the big 2026 on cod. Fix it pls. @CallofDuty @BLouu
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Branson Cole (@1889gameboy) reported@lordkawzu I'm more than excited to see him returning next year. But I hope that it's successful enough to help Toys for Bob potentially own both him and Crash if things get messy. Admittedly, I think Activision might actually survive the purge thanks to Cod alone.