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 (52%)
• Game Crash (20%)
• Sign in (14%)
• Glitches (9%)
• 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
Zürich	Online Play	11 hours ago
Totowa	Online Play	9 days ago
Columbus	Online Play	18 days ago
Broye	Online Play	27 days ago
Appleton	Game Crash	29 days ago
Suffolk	Sign in	1 month 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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  Matt (@i_SmexX) reported 4 minutes ago

  No wonder CoD is so broken, this ****** cares more about Love island than fixing his broken *** game

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  Jay Carnage | ᛃᛖᛁ ᚲᚨᚱᚾᛁᛞᛃ ᛗᚢᛋᛁᚲ (@JayCarnageMusic) reported 5 minutes ago

  only way to stop the cheating problem in cod is to stop playing it then they will be forced to find another game to ruin

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  RJK (@RJKIV_) reported 5 minutes ago

  @PrayFPSHub @Prenadess Your pc isn’t unstable he’s just trying to get u to buy a useless opti lol it’s a glitch in the game bc cod sucks either tab out when loading or unplug controller when loading into game it’s a well known glitch

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  Shiv (@shivsthirdeye) reported 8 minutes ago

  @EndersFPS These guys wanna be CoD but don’t even release half the content BO7 has released in its live service, Asian lobbies are filled with bots getting 100-200ms latency on Fiber. When I’m around 50 on CoD. It was genuinely fun in the BETA. BTW first battlefield after bf4

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  Challengers Intel (@CDCIntel) reported 20 minutes ago

  @MisfitsArena @Foxxyy_COD They basically don’t want cod people involved with challengers to prevent bias having an impact. I understand their logic why they wouldn’t want someone like me for instance since I have personal relationships with players and they could see that as an issue to decision making.

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  Wraith Michael (@WraithMichael1) reported 21 minutes ago

  @BattlefieldInte Keep it!! COD is almost here. After the **** show BF6 has been. KEEP IT!! You can’t fix the game or maps you have now. So who should we care? Now people can’t get credit for kills. I watch bodies disappear after killing them NO CREATE! I TAKE THEIR TAGS NO CREATE FOR EITHER!

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  YourMaster 🍀💚🍻 (@YourMaster3000) reported 21 minutes ago

  @XboxTimdog Gamepass needs to be an add-on service and the base service needs to start at $9.99. Want day and date? You're gonna pay for it. Want CoD day one on Gamepass? You're gonna pay for. Etc. Also make a marketing deal with Netflix and make that apart of your next dashboard/Gamepass combo.

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  ItsMeTheBrokeboi (@wllmlew) reported 23 minutes ago

  Public Service Announcement for all of those people who played Black Ops 6 on Xbox under the COD HQ game launcher. This may work for PlayStation as well but not positive as i didn't play the game on that platform Download the newly separated game from the COD HQ and launch the game. It will kick in the achievements that you got previously. After launching, popped 35 achievements for 735 gamerscore. and the achievements when it was in the COD HQ don't go away. Your playtime on black Ops 6 does not transfer.

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  Blue Jay (@BlueJay_42) reported 23 minutes ago

  @chyld989 @HazzadorGamin Well to be fair Halo and Gears are different MP experiences compared to Forza or even COD. They’re not exactly live service (barring Infinite) MP experiences so I almost wonder if you could get away with making them exclusive.

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  Vincent (@Horror_Film_Fan) reported 24 minutes ago

  @davidscottjaffe You just keep simping for that awful sub service. It has ruined the Xbox brand and even AFTER you said to wait for the “big games” to arrive (COD being 1 of them) it didn’t move the needle. **** gamepass. BUY games, don’t rent…

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  Claw (@_Claoo1) reported 24 minutes ago

  @FoolyCOD @JRob54527 @HBIDHP Why would someone be against it bruh, just get good and use it, u must be bad at modern cod If FOV slider is a problem for u

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  Otunba Fizo (@OtunbaFizo) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Bigstorm555 @emmyx4pf Na work rate problem, he just wan sing good song con go back house go play COD, he no wan compete with anybody.

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  Swaguley (@swaguley) reported 27 minutes ago

  EA fumbled their biggest opportunity to steal players from COD and retain them with BF6. Allow me to explain. When BO7 was first announced, I believe many classic COD fans were frustrated with Activision and chose BF6 because they wanted an arcade military shooter that: 1) Looked like an actual military game (no goofy skins) and 2) Had normal, boots on the ground movement Both of which are things modern COD largely abandoned chasing Fortnite and other games. Skins and movement are also hot topics in the COD community. These disgruntled COD players saw the announcements for BF6 and thought that Battlefield, a franchise historically known for being authentic, would at least adhere to its identity since Call of Duty would not. On first glance, the marketing seemed to bear this out. The backlash to BO7's announcement was the tipping point where COD players as a whole were finally open to giving Battlefield a serious look. BF6's marketing and beta then gave them the impression that it was going to be EXACTLY what they were looking for and expecting: a grounded, arcade military shooter that looked the part without the crackhead movement. That's why skins and clips of crackhead movement are the two things that blow up more than anything else with BF6. These were the two most important features to get right, funnily enough. Battlefield fans and classic COD fans actually converged in these areas, as they really wanted the same thing. EA then made jabs at Call of Duty: "No Nicki Minaj skins" and blew up Zac Efron to drive the point home. Battlefield was in a prime position to capitalize and finally steal the market from Call of Duty. However, once everyone bought BF6 and played it for a little while, they began to realize what it actually was: A cheap, more plasticky feeling copy of modern Call of Duty, just with GI Joe vs Cobra skins and its own version of crackhead movement. I think it's fair to say that both COD and Battlefield players alike felt rug pulled. Little did we know that while poking fun at Call of Duty with one hand, EA was literally copying COD's failing homework with the other. It seems that EA believed fundamentally that COD players just wanted a 1:1 copy of what "modern" Call of Duty was (they didn't) and told Battlefield Studios to make exactly that, with yearly releases planned in the future. They didn't understand the fundamental reasons why COD players were disgruntled with modern COD in the first place and why the franchise was going downhill. Battlefield 6 was not an attempt to be a classic Battlefield game. It was designed to be the "perfect COD substitute". To avoid backlash from Battlefield players by being upfront about this fact, they did everything in their power to evoke BF3/BF4 nostalgia instead of letting everyone know they were actually trying to build MW19/MWII just on the back of 2042's garbage version of Frostbite. The kicker here is, I think most COD players actually DID want Battlefield to simply be Battlefield, and they expected exactly that, just like your average Battlefield fan. Back in the day, these players may have dabbled with BF3, BF4, or BF1 and were now finally open to giving the Battlefield franchise a real chance because COD had repeatedly abused their loyalty over the years. It's actually quite interesting to see COD fans being completely spot on about what Battlefield's identity is or should be, even when some Battlefield players forget. Shortly after BF6 released, these COD players quickly became wise to what was actually going on, and put the game down when they realized that BF6 was not trying to be Battlefield, they were just trying to be what modern COD had become, even down to things like the menus and the overpriced store; the funny part is they couldn't even do it any better than Activision. These COD players didn't want Battlefield to just be a copy of modern COD, but EA didn't get this. When 2042 crashed and burned, EA just said screw it and applied a blanket approach to their copying because they didn't actually understand what COD players wanted, so they thought by copying everything they could, maybe something would stick. They even placed COD developers in charge to make sure of this. EA could've been the good guy here and used this opportunity to be the antithesis to what modern Call of Duty had become, but instead they misunderstood the assignment and just became little bro bad guy. It only took 18 days for them to bring in the stupid looking skins to their poorly designed customization system and boosted slide jumps became the meta. This is why BF6 ultimately had such a steep player drop off a month after release and why those hundreds of thousands of players won't come back no matter what updates come. Once the positive first impression was dashed by the reality of what BF6 was, these COD players didn't have a problem dropping the game and not looking back. Meanwhile, we Battlefield fans are now stuck with a Battlefield game that is really just a cheap copy of Call of Duty with some Battlefield lipstick applied and Battlefield Studios is having to go back and slowly put the toothpaste back in the tube to please the Battlefield players that are masochistic enough to stick around. Tiny changes to the gameplay aren't enough to change the overall flavor of the game, they need to drastically change it. Even after all the updates, it still tastes the same way it did at release. But the damage is already done, these COD players aren't coming back and EA has simultaneously pushed away a ton of Battlefield players in the process. It seems we did hold onto a few of the COD players, judging by the amount of people that instantly skip their revive when downed. You might say, "Well BF6 was best selling Battlefield of all time" and while that is true, because of the reasons I've stated above, Battlefield 7 will NOT come close to the sales of BF6 because COD players are now wise to what EA is doing and so are many Battlefield players. I question if I would even buy BF7 if they take the same approach again. I will certainly be looking at BF7 much more critically than I did BF6. EA's metrics for live service games rely heavily on daily active users and monthly cosmetic spend. That was the real goal and why they wanted all of those COD players. With the immediate player drop off, there's a high likelihood they missed their lofty internal revenue goals with skin sales, which is probably why Battlefield Studios saw a couple rounds of layoffs. Funnily enough, EA may also have inadvertently revived the COD franchise because the hype cycle BF6 produced scared Activision into making real changes that players were asking for, and now Activision actually listens to feedback from the COD community. So COD fans may now be eating good with MW4 and won't need Battlefield anymore and we Battlefield fans are stuck with Codfield 6, maybe even for a couple more years based on the announcements from today. Will EA learn from this? Probably not. I'm not confident the new leadership coming here in a couple of months will be any better, especially since they have $20B in debt to make up for when they bought EA. If EA had marketed Battlefield 6 as what it really was, I don't think I would've purchased it. You might disagree with my opinions here, but I think they are borne out. Here are a couple of community polls I conducted over the past several months on my YouTube channel:

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  snowcone (@snovcome) reported 31 minutes ago

  @JadeReallySucks Yes and no I think it's probably the same issue cod had where its trying to load your steams friends list but idk I'm no dev

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  Austin (@EssentialFPS) reported 33 minutes ago

  I’m sorry but yall have got to fix the crashes with the 8k overlock for dualsense edges and other controllers. Crashing every few games and losing SR For no reason is unbelievable. Down over 500 SR now because of this. What’s the plan? @Treyarch @TreyarchCM @ATVIAssist

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  NaavmanGaming (@NaavmanGamingYT) reported 34 minutes ago

  I've unlocked both of the universal camos for completing Prime Target Glitch Fracture in BO7 Endgame. And the camos are mid in my opinion and these 2 camos doesn't glow in the dark either. * End of Daze Static Universal Camo - Looks clean but doesn't glow in the dark - 5/10. *End of Dayz Animated Universal Camo - Looks mid its a copy and paste from the previous Glitch Fracture but with teal blue and some animation on the skulls - 4/10. #CallofDuty #BlackOps7Endgame #YouTubeGaming

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  Operation Detachment Gaming (@ODGactual) reported 35 minutes ago

  @SgtDangerCow I don’t even want that… that would cause the main title to have less resources, attention, and content… it would cause the same issues that CoD has had, causing the IP to become stagnant, loss whatever depth it has, etc… I think 1 BF game every 2-3 years is better for BF

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  dr pepper diva - tenmocorp ™️ employee (@L0W_TIDE_) reported 36 minutes ago

  @formativegay i’m Scared i already have a cod problem

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  MAHIBANNA (@MAHIBANNA9) reported 36 minutes ago

  Meesho is the worst shopping app I got an order (Cod) which I or my family never ordered.Some one else ordered it.Meesho raised a issue and they arranged pick up and it was done on 4th june.I still didn't get refund and they closed issue after picking up. @meesho_support

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  Angel (@DiscoInferno41) reported 39 minutes ago

  @MinModulation They don't think how any of this works and the scale of things and how the **** they try to trend chase like the call of duty audience when they made halo 4's multiplayer for that crowd it doesn't work because the cod players have ******* cod for their fix

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  Nef (@nef3rdfleeter) reported 41 minutes ago

  @susquon @Stealth40k He wanted Xbox to be for everyone and that was his problem. He wanted to emulate Nintendo's family friendly vibes...while running the company that makes the COD machine. He did not understand Xbox.

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  Gavin Yu (@GavinYu56529327) reported 41 minutes ago

  @DrSammyD @SteveChillGame That would be nice but the problem is, even Halo 3 got it's players eaten up by CoD. Also, those chars don't show the massive numbers of weekends even 3 bowed before CoD. Halo lost the momentum already and was unlikely to ever recover it regardless direction.

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  𝘊 𝘳 𝘶 𝘻 ⛄️ (@lilthumbtackz) reported 42 minutes ago

  @CallofDuty @Activision @Treyarch i’m going out of town august 1st and i stg if y’all drop the black ops ports the day before i leave for vacation im gonna crash tf out. please just drop them already

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  Wolvermeen (@1meen1) reported 42 minutes ago

  @McGregorMX @IGN You're just talking to be talking. PC gamers had Gamepass, it was a great deal. The problems were that they couldn't keep users, not that people didn't use it. Xcloud isn't as good as GeForce Now, CoD and Halo haven't been at their best , the price increase, etc.

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  Lane Rust (@lanerust96) reported 48 minutes ago

  @ATVIAssist my friend and I have hundreds of hours into black ops 6.. a lot of money too. I redownloaded mine just fine from the call of duty pack. My friend went to redownload his and it’s saying he needs to purchase it. Please help fix this.

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  PedoPuncher (@PedoPanderer) reported 50 minutes ago

  @BlackBurai Money. that's why. Hardcore gamers don't spend money like Live Service gamers do. You can have 300 Physical games, and still not equal the money someone spent on Genshin Impact, Fortnite, Minecraft, or CoD.

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  rgx2 (@ogrgx2) reported 53 minutes ago

  @FiragaFox I had a friend ask me to teach him how to play fighting games. **I booted up SF4** **trying to teach him about high-lows** "ok, jump towards me and hit any attack button on the way down" **he hits up, then forward...to jump towards me** "it's not working" **I boot up COD**

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  Racing Games Music (@racinggamesmusi) reported 58 minutes ago

  I just got the whole cod experience with modern warfare Went to install it, 110 gb After 3 hours it ends installing, try entering Gotta login with Activision, no worry, I do it Update requires an restart Restart the game, went to play the campaign Campaign is not installed

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  Vitaly Axe3y (@axeyFN1) reported 58 minutes ago

  @frankbaronsaint @kaydfnr @PabloWingu but just because of the meta with broken smgs 3 but epic needs to do smth to make controller more useful in comp, it’s literally impossible for us to keep up with kbm it just better overall but if u watch like cod roller is better so input its not the problem it has to be buffed

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  FL | ASG | Maxler 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇾 (@Fl_Maxler) reported 59 minutes ago

  @workernetZX this is also an incorrect equivalency problem. they're comparing baseline knowledge in other games (for arguement's sake, lets say CoD) Vs. midgame to lategame knowledge in Fighting games. you can absolutely get a BnB up and running just by ******* around with friends, too.