Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Is Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War down?

Problems detected

Users are reporting problems related to: online play, game crash and sign in.

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.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Outage Chart 03/18/2026 17:05

March 18: Problems at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is having issues since 12:40 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.

  1. Online Play (50%)

    Online Play (50%)

  2. Game Crash (21%)

    Game Crash (21%)

  3. Sign in (14%)

    Sign in (14%)

  4. Matchmaking (7%)

    Matchmaking (7%)

  5. Glitches (7%)

    Glitches (7%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
GermanyBuxtehude Online Play
GermanyWiehl Online Play
FranceParis Online Play
MexicoHeroica Matamoros Game Crash
FranceSérignan Glitches
FranceValleiry Online Play
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • PNGEtrades Lord FAANGquad P.E. (@PNGEtrades) reported

    @Mani71278435 @CallofDuty Why you guys are playing Call Of Duty Mobile with BR issues? If you don't care for the BR game then kindly remove it from your phone. They are facing so much issues please let them work.

  • anomaly831 Amy DeWar ™️ (@anomaly831) reported

    @CallofDuty I want to know why I don’t have my cod points I had before update?!?!? I had over 2,000 now I have only 150. Fix it!!!!

  • alfboy_94 Alfie (@alfboy_94) reported

    @CallofDuty how about every time you do a update you also sort the servers out constant lag after updates

  • ice33277713 ice (@ice33277713) reported

    @BoriMorenito @ATVIAssist When I sign in to my activision acc on my phone it says both acc are linked when I try to unlink the ps4 one it says error when I try the Xbox one it says 12 month wait. When I made the new acc and try to sign in it said I have to unlink the acc before Signing in but I can’t

  • PancakeAftaLoud King Pancake™ (@PancakeAftaLoud) reported

    @CallofDuty That's cool and all, but fix them camos and Deadshot 😡

  • josugamer_ Josué. (@josugamer_) reported

    @CallofDuty I do not know if it is my problem, but it makes me silly that each season reset my settings are also reset (sensitivities, sound, vision) everything and it is frustrating, can it be solved?

  • reallysmoogs K33PS (@reallysmoogs) reported

    @CallofDuty @Activision @RavenSoftware y’all want me to two factor authentication, but yet can’t fix your ******* game huh? Lolol goddamn whattajoke, i laugh every time.

  • hugo_biscotte TBK a.k.a Navi (@hugo_biscotte) reported

    @Treyarch @CallofDuty Ok but please fix BO3 PC

  • Platform1_nc Platform one (@Platform1_nc) reported

    @ATVIAssist I keep getting dev error 6465 every time i open the game and I have tried everything accept uninstalling cause it will take me forever to reinstall it. any advice

  • waykinbake Waykinbake (@waykinbake) reported

    Another new season and another broken update and boring update. Idk how I ever even played cod

  • roger7105 roger710 Fortnite Live// Gameplays Live (@roger7105) reported

    @callofduty Cold War is a waste of money please fix it. #xbox #callofduty

  • Specter882 Specter (@Specter882) reported

    @ATVIAssist My Activision account is using an incorrect email that I don't use to login and that I do not have access to.

  • JamesDlED James DIED (@JamesDlED) reported

    @RavenSoftware @CallofDuty Since the update the game crashes instantly on the warzone main menu on Xbox Series X..do you have a fix for this? Never had a problem before. 😥

  • WillyKaled william nickols (@WillyKaled) reported

    @Treyarch Yo @Treyarch I cant gift the battle pass to my friend. I have the 2fa already and the 1000 COD points but it gives me an error on both in-game and the companion app. Please help!

  • aCoDplayer007 Matthew (@aCoDplayer007) reported

    @ATVIAssist Still getting VIGOROUS code after uninstalling 3 times, reinstalling 3 times and updating 3 times. Are you going to fix this issue????

  • Basheer99232689 Basheer Khan (@Basheer99232689) reported

    @ATVIAssist so I’m hop on warzone to play the new season and I’m shadow banned for no reason what did I do and I’m trying to join a game but it only says 350ms ping so I don’t know what I did but I wanna play and I can’t fix my account pls lol

  • GravityDropYT GravityDrop (@GravityDropYT) reported

    @RushinOnYT NOOOO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THIS IS THE GREATEST COD OF ALL TIME IT WAS MADE DURING A PANDEMIC WITH ALL SORTS OF ISSUES THEY DID THEIR BEST DONT HATE FOR NO REASON THIS GAME IS BETTER THAN BLACK OPS 2 AND 3. ITS NOT LAZY WE'RE JUST UNGRATEFUL MORE CONTENT THAN ANY GAME EVER😤😤

  • dudeshatter ---- (@dudeshatter) reported

    literally every WZ YouTuber today and tomorrow "NEW LMG Mg82 IS THE MOST BUSTED BROEKN GUN IN COD HISTROY!!!!!!! "NEW NAILGUN HAZ FASTEST TTK OF ANY GAME EVER *SO OP* (BUSTED) -BROKEN----!!!!!"

  • FVCK_LEW lewis (@FVCK_LEW) reported

    @ATVIAssist any danger of you resolving the issue of timing out everytime I try to pull out my heart beat sensor?

  • IIIIUNKNOWNIII ResourceTaco (@IIIIUNKNOWNIII) reported

    @ATVIAssist Hi, I’m having issues unlinking my Xbox account from call of duty Cold War. Every time I try it says “System error please refresh the page and try again.”

  • Samifish11 Invited™ | Samifish @ CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE (@Samifish11) reported

    @Koryuken id have to take a look at it. My Multiplayer experience out of FGs is games like COD and DOTA, where, for some reason, this has NEVER been an issue

  • GryphonAMX GryphonAMX (@GryphonAMX) reported

    @DarthVandigo TO BE FAIR.... Battlefield 4 still has an invisible glitch. So it happens. This is my one defense of anything modern CoD for the year, ;)

  • BoriMorenito Cupid (@BoriMorenito) reported

    @ice33277713 @ATVIAssist you most likely did the same mistake as me and instead of pressing log in you pressed sign in and it made an automatic Activision account linked with the xbox account you started the game up with

  • aCoDplayer007 Matthew (@aCoDplayer007) reported

    @ATVIAssist Still getting VIGOROUS code after uninstalling, reinstalling and updating 3 times. Are you going to fix this issue????

  • ice33277713 ice (@ice33277713) reported

    @BoriMorenito @ATVIAssist I got both of my account linked on accident cause I wanted to bring my ps4 acc to Xbox but now they are both linked and it says error code when I go unlink my ps4 acc then it says 12 month wait for my Xbox acc and when I signed in on the game my acc was reset with 1 gun and 1skin

  • RAL1AM Raliam (@RAL1AM) reported

    @ATVIAssist The worst support service in life ... Incredible

  • ULTIMATEBOURNE2 ULTIMATE_BOURNE2 (@ULTIMATEBOURNE2) reported

    @CallofDuty Fix the lag when you drop in warzone getting annoying

  • tasty_husband Subterranean Homesick Gigas (@tasty_husband) reported

    @TGDefinition thats the problem with older cod games, thats the only type of player left. no fun guns or setups allowed

  • aCoDplayer007 Matthew (@aCoDplayer007) reported

    @ATVIAssist Still getting VIGOROUS code after uninstalling, reinstalling and updating 3 times. Are you going to fix this issue????

  • Almighty_h33n Shaaheen Johnson (@Almighty_h33n) reported

    @PlayStation that new cod update keeps giving me an error please help