Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War status: server issues and outage reports

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.

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 (53%)
• Game Crash (16%)
• Sign in (13%)
• Glitches (13%)
• Matchmaking (5%)

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
Guayaquil	Online Play	20 hours ago
Reus	Online Play	4 days ago
Giugliano in Campania	Sign in	5 days ago
Pringy	Online Play	5 days ago
Paris	Sign in	5 days ago
Montpellier	Glitches	5 days ago

Full Outage Map

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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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  Freaky Gaming (@FreakyGamimg) reported 1 minute ago

  @InfinityWard What the hell is wrong with your server???? This beta is the worst on connection. Every lobby the server are lagging like hell. Hope this will be fixed for the second weekend.

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  Брюс (@amazingbeach) reported 2 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard what of poor shooting range did you make? Why is there no lighting? I want to look at the camouflage and get a knife, but it's just dark, what's the problem with making a normal shooting range? And how about making a separate map like in apex legends to go in there and practice?

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  ContentMachine (@ContentMachine6) reported 2 minutes ago

  @CallofDuty How do I fix the stuck on “Checking for updates…” screen?

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  JJaye (@JJayeeee_) reported 8 minutes ago

  @charlieINTEL It's alot more than that, dogshit maps, dogshit gunsmith, dogshit movement, cancer aimassist giga broken again. Everytime cod takes a step forward it takes 2 step backwards with the next title, it's disgusting how these devs make money of this.

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  Ryan (@truelemieux) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Philly_Flow @Blutman27 You could never do that in any title until bo6, was never an issue then Everybody has been replaying the bo1 & bo2 ports, no omni there.. ask anybody their favorite CoD, it didn’t have all the movement you apparently seek so bad

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  Drunkgodnumber1 (@drunkgodnumber1) reported 11 minutes ago

  @CallofDuty My Your Activision ID does not have numbers and your bot does not seem to be reading my post to get the beta stuff please fix.

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  xTurbooz (@xTurbooz) reported 13 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard FIX THE SERVERS

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  ghost6234 (@ghost62690016) reported 17 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard OH WOW THE ISO IS STILL DOMINATING THE ****** FEILD HOW IN ******** DID YALL NOT SEE THE ISSUE IN COD NEXT ALSO YOU ****** ******** THERE IS NO REASON THAT A GUN NEEDS TO BE LVL 70 NO ****** REASON YOU GUYS HAD A PERFECT SYSTEM IN MW2 WHAT ******** THE 50 SCOPES ARE ***

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  Johnny XtreaM Sangvik (@xTREAMx22) reported 19 minutes ago

  MW4 (Beta) review So after about 6 hours with the Modern Warfare 4 beta, I think I've seen enough to form a pretty solid first impression. TL;DR: I really don't recommend buying this. Yes, it's a beta, but there are fundamental design problems here that I don't see magically disappearing before launch. Maps: 2/10 to 6/10 We've basically had 3 maps, or 4 if you count the Kill Room stuff, and they're honestly awful overall. The best one is maybe a 6/10, meaning "yeah, this is okay." The others range from mediocre to genuinely horrible. They're full of visual clutter, weird sightlines and terrible lane design. You can literally spawn, move for less than a second, and already be exposed from 4-5 different angles, sometimes including airspace. The maps also clearly aren't designed around multiple modes. TDM: Spawn nightmare. Hardpoint: Absolutely horrible. Some of the Hardpoint locations feel like nobody actually playtested them. **********: Works reasonably well on maybe 1-2 maps and horribly on another. Kill Confirmed: Probably the only mode that works somewhat consistently. I would've loved to test Search & Destroy, since that's my favorite COD mode, but of course it isn't available. Gunplay / TTK The TTK is very low. Normally I actually LIKE low TTK, but this occasionally goes too far. Sometimes you basically evaporate in 1-3 bullets before you can even react. Combine that with controller aim assist, SMGs and these horrible sightlines and you're just getting laser-beamed across the map. Shotguns are also ******* ridiculous right now. One of the maps is tiny, so naturally it turns into a semi-auto hipfire shotgun festival. Not even pump actions. Just people running around deleting everything by vaguely pointing a shotgun in your direction. Killstreaks are miserable I don't know what happened here. Old COD killstreaks had things like helicopters, Harriers, etc. You could interact with them, shoot them down and work around them. Here you have these AI-controlled murder machines roaming around everywhere, and unless you're specifically carrying equipment to deal with them, you're basically ******. The War Dog / tiny robot tank thing is probably the best example. It's AI-controlled now. You don't even drive it yourself. On the smallest map it becomes comedy. You die to it, respawn, move one meter... Oh look. There it is again. Die. Respawn. There it ******* is again. Because the map is tiny, the sightlines are horrible and the thing is basically a tank. Combine that with aerial streaks and the already bad spawn system, and sometimes it genuinely feels like you're spawning directly into a blender. The UI COD's UI has been dogshit for years. They've basically been iterating on the same general UI philosophy since MW2019, and I was actually happy when I saw that MW4 was finally going to redesign it. Somehow... they made it worse. I genuinely don't understand how. It's clunky, unintuitive and somehow feels less intuitive than the UI everyone has complained about for the last 4-5 CODs. Graphics / optimization Performance is actually... okay-ish. But there's a catch. The game looks like it's from 10 years ago. So yeah, congratulations, I guess? The game runs reasonably well while looking extremely dated. It still feels like essentially the same technological foundation they've been dragging forward for years with upgrades bolted onto it. Player models aren't impressive either. There are visual glitches everywhere, and some of the clothing physics genuinely look like someone spent 60 seconds deciding which parts of a jacket should move. It just looks rushed. And honestly, that's COD's biggest problem in general: A major release every single year. There's no room for these games to breathe. They constantly feel like products being pushed through an assembly line because Activision needs another box on the shelf every November. Sound is actually really good This is probably the one area where I'll properly praise it. The sound design is excellent. Footsteps are clear. Directionality is good. You can actually hear where people are coming from. It's probably the only part of the beta where I thought: "Yeah, this feels like AAA quality." Everything else ranges from mid to slop. The new 10v10 Gunfight-style mode This one frustrates me the most because the idea is actually really cool. It's basically an expanded Gunfight concept. 10v10. Everyone gets the same weapons/equipment. One life per round. The map changes between rounds using sections inspired by old COD maps, creating different layouts. That sounds ******* awesome. The execution is horrible. You spawn in... fade to black. You die... fade to black. Killcam. fade to black. Spectate teammate. They die. fade to black. Spectate another teammate. They die. fade to black. Round ends. fade to black. Scoreboard. fade to black. Play of the round. fade to black. Then it quickly shows you the map-section cards for the next layout, except they're shown so fast you barely have time to read them. fade to black. Spawn cutscene. fade to black. Next round. I'm not even exaggerating when I say it feels like you spend more time watching the screen fade to black than actually playing the mode. And because there isn't really an objective until the flag eventually appears if the timer runs down, everybody just ******* camps. Why push? There's nothing forcing you to. So people sit in their spawn or hold corners, waiting for somebody else to make the mistake of actually playing the game. The mode could've been fantastic. Instead, it's probably the biggest example of a great concept executed terribly in the beta. DMZ 2.0 is the only thing I'm excited about From the developer material I've seen, DMZ 2.0 actually looks really good. That's genuinely the only part of MW4 I'm excited for. But then I have to ask... If DMZ ends up being free-to-play, why the hell would I buy MW4? Warzone is already free, although I'm personally not interested in going back to Warzone anyway. That game has felt like a Fortnite crossover fuckfest for years, and I haven't properly enjoyed Warzone in probably 5 years. And even if DMZ 2.0 isn't free... Am I paying $90 just for DMZ? Probably not. Overall For me, this is currently the worst of the "new" Modern Warfare games. MW2019: Actually good. Easily the best one. MWII 2022: Downgrade from 2019, but still okay. MWIII 2023: Horrible. MW4 2026: Somehow feels worse than MWIII. That's... impressive. Yes, I know: "It's only a beta." And obviously balancing, bugs and optimization can change. But my biggest problems aren't tiny balancing issues. They're map design, spawns, game-mode design, UI philosophy, visibility, killstreak design and the fundamental gameplay flow. Those aren't things I'm expecting them to completely rebuild before release. So after 6 hours: Maps: 4/10 Gunplay: 5/10 Game modes / flow: 3/10 Graphics: 4/10 UI: 2/10 Sound: 9/10 Overall beta: 4/10 There's a decent shooter buried somewhere underneath all this ****. Unfortunately, right now they've buried it pretty ******* deep. Would I recommend buying MW4 based on the beta? Absolutely not.

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  TheThias (@TheThias_) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DatDepth @InfinityWard Take what out of the game? The thing that’s not a glitch and was always supposed to be there?

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  The Commish (@TheCommish_25) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Speros_OG Looks like COD is back and a good future for Warzone…Just have to fix the CHEATERS!

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  Noct (@808sbound) reported 27 minutes ago

  @kale471 @milsim020 the problem is cod has always been SLOP, even in the golden age, every problem people have now was an issue back then yet they don’t see it

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  ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) reported 28 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard This is a good start but is there anyway we can get cons removed from red dot sights and 1x scopes altogether? There’s lot of problems with the attachment system and its pros and cons but I think making red dots and 1x scopes have no cons could be a quick and easy fix?

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  Mr.Cadaver (@Artistic_Amoeba) reported 29 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard Fix the spawn system, over blood splatter, and GS50 for kill block; couldn’t kill anyone even if it was right to the temple.

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  astn👑 (@radiusirl) reported 34 minutes ago

  @McNasty And that right there is the reason I’m never touching another cod until they fix there ****. And they’re charging $90?!?!?! For that bullshit

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  RoKe (@R0KeM) reported 34 minutes ago

  @TheGhostOfHope That’s the issue. All these complaints and toxicity when we are already looking ahead in 9 months for the next COD. We are the braindead idiots

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  Kaladin :3 (@KaladinOW) reported 34 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard can you fix the constant stuttering on pc man

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  Godshot (@Cx2m___) reported 34 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard Network issues need fixed it’s unplayable

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  Erik Garcia (@Epik128) reported 37 minutes ago

  @xPinkSmoke @InfinityWard i'm having the SAME issue

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  João Freitas (@Jfrevolution95) reported 37 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard Footsteps are fine, but I get it. Map voting was a normal thing I guess now it’s a feature. Fix the matchmaking and stop taking your community for fools. The game is actually fun, minus the matchmaking and the UAV spam make that 5 kills or nerf its health

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  Kehmical 🌴 (@KehmicalGG) reported 39 minutes ago

  My three issues for MW4: TTK is WAY too fast, even for infinity ward standards. Team footsteps are too loud, but a fix is coming. Tac-sprint. Get rid of it. It makes the pace on already smallish maps too fast. Or, keep it to dedicated melee only as a compromise. @InfinityWard

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  Zempi (@lilzempp) reported 44 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard FIX THE ******* ATTACHMENTS HAVING ALL THESE DOG **** NEGATIVES. YOU CAN BARELY RUN ARs.

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  Edyn (@1Edyn1) reported 45 minutes ago

  @Brandon00220486 @fromsoftserve COD I sincerely hope Splatoon4 will have a decent enough Netcode that players in their local region won’t have any issues anymore Currently these endless lags & input-delays bastardise those great games to be unplayable

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  Nurfless (@Nurfless) reported 46 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard The attachments need reworked, the sprint to fire is terrible especially while in tac-sprint, the headshot multiplier is the biggest problem with ttk at the moment, the slide to ads animation is hideous, the weapon bob/ visual recoil needs reduced by 50% minimum, sbmm is awful

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  ~Jinx~* (@itsjinxyyy) reported 55 minutes ago

  @CallofDuty Xbox Pc vault edition skins are still locked umm please fix this like cmon

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  Tree0L (@Tree0L) reported 55 minutes ago

  Cod is so bad with ******* campers with snipers and uav’s game is broken

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  Itsdabapes (@Itsdabapes) reported 55 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard So no TTK increase for the base of all guns? That’s the biggest issue imo

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  SAV4G3 GR1M36 (@TheShape1995) reported 58 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard Can’t access my vault edition stuff on Xbox pc launcher everything is installed you guys gonna fix that?

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  🐢🇫🇷φ FALLAIT VOTER CHONCHON φ #JLM2027🇲🇶🐢 (@Melenchon4Ever) reported 58 minutes ago

  @CODUpdates It's always the same ****. Every year we get perfect audio during the beta. People who are too stupid to understand that Ninja needs to be unlocked to fix the footstep problem start complaining. Then they nerf the audio, and we end up playing the entire year with ZERO footsteps. COD definitely has the dumbest community in the entire FPS genre.

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  NOM4D (@DKasumovic12) reported 60 minutes ago

  @InfinityWard @CallofDuty Guys please the bobbing is one small issue but im running an AR and it feels like i have rocks in my shoes, the slide doesnt response quick because im moving slow with the AR