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
Totowa	Online Play	22 hours ago
Columbus	Online Play	10 days ago
Broye	Online Play	19 days ago
Appleton	Game Crash	21 days ago
Suffolk	Sign in	26 days ago
Norfolk	Game Crash	28 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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  ZK (@thekhan3210) reported 2 minutes ago

  @letsgetcanceled That's actually a huge problem bo2 has as a whole It introduced so many things that plagued cod for the next decade+

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  XpertFusion (AKA MovieFusion) (@xpertfusion3) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Dreamcast_1999 @ExoGhost I know, that’s what I said. Even with slower TTK, person who shoots first IS at an advantage. But they shouldn’t be guaranteed the kill, because shooting first isn’t always necessarily “skillful”, and it would also make gunfights kind of boring and inexistent. That’s the problem with a fast TTK, the person who shoots first often gets the kill like 90% of the time, regardless of skill. I’m only talking about COD right now. Obviously this is different for other games. Fast TTK works in games like Rainbow Six Siege because the mechanics and purpose of the game is very different.

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  Frank (@recon4thID) reported 5 minutes ago

  @CedarPosts Well, Harris Teeter being bought by Kroger out of Cincinnati is the source of the problem. Lance ( HQ’d in Charlotte) merged with Cape Cod about a decade ago.

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  Richtofen grabs Dempsey’s **** (@BellyFood50) reported 7 minutes ago

  And @asha_shar thanks for basically giving cod exclusivity back to PlayStation since they won’t have the mod menu problem like old gen and xbox has. Giving us so many reasons to buy an Xbox right now 😐

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  Rizzley Bear (@ItsPryde_) reported 9 minutes ago

  @mjstxc @TheMilSimGuy08 Ive played since cod 2. Input delay on older cods is horrid unless they officially fix it

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  Barak Siera💚🇿🇦 (@BarakSiera) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ACuvell @Siyabashaya @heis_fede What benefit did that have? Because it didn't give us an advantage we were actually disadvantages cod we lost 3 points. We were gonna beat Lesotho with or without that error yet the official record says we lost 3-0 and lost 3 points. How is that cheating?

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  TheGamingRevolution (@TheGamingRevo3) reported 10 minutes ago

  Something Treyarch NEEDS to work on for their next game is making every Zombies map release feel special again. Zombies maps are dropping with very little buzz these days, even when they’re genuinely great like Totenreich. People are moving on quicker than they ever have before. I think this comes down to three main reasons: 1. Oversaturation of COD Zombies: There have now been so many maps released - and a lot of them in just the past couple of years - that a lot of people feel burnt out, even when the maps are decent to good. 2. The same/similar Zombies systems for six years straight: The core systems have remained largely unchanged for six years, which has completely killed general interest in the mode. Contrary to what a lot of vocal people say, the systems themselves are good - they just shouldn’t have stayed this similar across so many games. I loved Cold War Zombies when it first dropped because everything felt fresh and new, and that’s a big part of why it hit so hard at the time. Like anything else though, it eventually gets old. The same thing happened back when we were getting a Shield in every single map. Ultimately, Treyarch just didn’t make BO7 feel different enough to re-engage people. 3. The story needs to do something to bring people back in and attract new people: I actually think the BO7 Zombies story has improved in quite a few ways. The OG crew’s dialogue is a breath of fresh air. Despite that, interest in the story has never been lower. The main reason is that a lot of people felt let down by the BO6 story. Reckoning’s failure to properly pay off arcs (or straight-up ignoring too much of them) has left people hesitant to invest in the story again for fear of being emotionally let down. There are some absolute gems in the BO7 Zombies story, but it lacks a strong foundation. People were so hyped for the BO6 story because Cold War had laid such good groundwork to build on. Richtofen, his family, Janus, Peeks. This is made worse by the fact that the story now feels both too random and too formulaic at the same time. Things just seem to happen on a whim (Sentinel Artifact coming back, OG crew returning out of nowhere with a “Welcome to the party!”, Josiah Shem Order robes, etc.), while the overarching narrative has become fairly predictable. I genuinely don’t know how they fix this level of disinterest. I think it probably requires starting from scratch. People have gotten so lost in the story that a lot of them have no idea what’s even happening anymore. It’s full of references to old Aether lore (which only the hardcore fans understand) while dangling Chaos elements in front of us (again, mainly for us nerds), but newer fans don’t get any of it - and even a lot of the older fans end up disappointed because those threads don’t really pay off either. The fact that BO7 did so many of the things’ people were seemingly asking for - bringing back the OG crew, returning to more awesome environments, having those fantastical and whimsical intro/ending cutscenes every map - and yet people still aren’t really paying attention, shows just how hard it is for Treyarch to read the room right now. On paper they’re doing a lot of the right things but the payoff fails. It came at the wrong time and without proper build-up. They’re basically repeating BO3 (the most beloved Zombies era) and it’s not landing the same way, largely because BO6 and BO7 came back-to-back and due to it almost too much retreading on the past magic. I’m guessing a lot of BO6 content got cut or rushed to make room for BO7, which left its story feeling incomplete, lacking dialogue, and with broken/contrasting arcs and missing intros. It’s a classic case of “be careful what you wish for.” Cold War wasn’t everyone’s favourite at the time, but its story wasn’t something people were even craving by the end of BO4. However, it still managed to build an audience because it felt new and fresh, while also delivering satisfying arcs, proper payoffs, and strong undercurrents that built hype and mystery for a potential sequel. It was held back by a lack of cutscenes and a set crew, but out of all the modern games, its story had by far the most general interest. It’s still the most well-rounded story of the modern era in terms of how everything comes together. Its chapters (beginning, middle, and end) were clearly defined. The current story is just difficult for most people to follow. Jumping between eras has killed any sense of momentum. BO6 should have come out as the direct follow-up to Cold War, with BO7 coming after that. The moment they started introducing Zombies and Gods pre-Cyclotron was when things started falling apart. Going to the past with Vanguard, to the future with MWZ, then back to the middle to continue the cold war story, then going outside of time in BO7 has colossally ****** things. Likewise, the OG crew’s return also shouldn’t have felt like it came out of nowhere - it should have been slowly built up and teased throughout BO6. Making their return part of Project Janus would have been a much cleaner way to do it. Richtofen could have started by trying to bring his family back, then gradually remembered his old comrades and decided to save them too. That would’ve been much easier for people to follow, could’ve been cryptically teased through intel, and would’ve given the Janus mystery (and Janus Richtofen’s ending) way more weight and payoff. So where do we go from here? think they need to do another reboot. They need to reset things again. It’s unfortunate that it’s necessary, but I don’t really see another option. Nikolai’s plan failed. Things are a mess once more. There’s just too much baggage at this point, and Treyarch needs to try something genuinely fresh - both in gameplay and in the story.

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  AB (@suhkruvaba) reported 11 minutes ago

  @DanielSmidstrup Blizzard (no hope for them) Activision (still hope with new CoD) Jaguar Mercedes Google ("Don't be evil" aged like a milk) Apple (Here's the solution to a problem that we created previously that replaced something that worked fine)

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  cody (@blexcii) reported 11 minutes ago

  If 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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  Kieran (@KTiereny) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SnakeVenom3000 @Reply_Addict No it’s not. Yeah that all contributes but the reality is Xbox doesn’t make any money because they don’t sell enough games because they get them day one into a sub service that has to be subsidised by Microsoft. If Xbox wasn’t attached to Microsoft it would have been shut down years ago because the subscription business it follows is not sustainable ms has been able to foot the bill because it’s a trillion dollar corporation. They’ve already taken cod off the service why would they have done that if it was so sustainable and I’d bet my life more day one games go because they know they can’t keep the service anywhere close to where it needs to be to put Xbox into a healthy position. You’re talking utter delusional shite.

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  Man With A Stick (@bludgeonParagon) reported 12 minutes ago

  @scampylinguini1 @LegacyKillaHD Even when they went out of their way to exclude COD from the equation to paint the worst picture, they admitted that Game Pass was subsidizing their low performers. The model in service of building content had found an equilibrium, but the leadership ****** it up with price hikes

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  p🦅 (@BlackfenEagle) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ChrisO_wiki This is a problem of the computer game / CoD generation I suspect. These crappy arcade style fps games give a generation of kids a false sense of how warfare and fighting really works. (Good for Ukraine I guess)

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  COD Warf사re (@CODWarfareForum) reported 20 minutes ago

  @wllmlew but whats the problem with the backwards compatibility versions? Locked to 720p. Hackers all over the place. Had my account stolen and reset on BO2. BO2 servers barely work and when they do its empty. Xbox 360 P2P servers. COD TV which a video to get a mod menu. Input delay.

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  VACheeria (@VACheeria) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TheLoreIsWar @Activision @ATVIAssist u got a fix for that g?

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  Pneuma (@Heroine__P_) reported 26 minutes ago

  The fact of the matter is you'll never have issues like this on console because you can more rigidly do quality control and optimize for a single set of hardware. People who pretend like this doesn't happen are either dishonest or only play like, CoD and Fortnite or something.

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  𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕪𝟚 (@shortmaneighty2) reported 28 minutes ago

  @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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  Zekkoz (@LordZekkoz) reported 28 minutes ago

  @lueademon Skylanders was great, the issue was they tried making like cod where it felt like a new game was coming out every year instead of just adding to the orginal or one game. It got a point you were going to be spending so much money just to even play it

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  samarz 🇨🇦 (@samarzQC) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Herodownunder I could see them adding tiers and having "Premium" experiences like Fable, Horizon 6, cod, ES6, whatever, in the top tier only. The $70+ games. Then all the rest on a lower tier. Killing day and date for everything would kill the service.

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  PivotForge (@PivotForge) reported 31 minutes ago

  The whole thing with subscriptions is that you need to scale it. Almost every subscription service either starts with loss for many years while they build up the service. We know Xbox aimed for 100 million subs or something, but are now around 30 mill or so (?) So they're far from their target, yet claimed to be profitable. But with expensive annual games like CoD it's probably different and not a good fit.

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  Purudate (@datepuru) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Meesho_Official @meesho_support Greetings ! Order #281988392110164928_1. fradulent order on COD was placed by someone when I was not a Meesho customer. Issue raised on 8th May. refund was promised. but now, told that I shud hv contacted within 10 days. But I did contact.

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  Manav (@Manavpod) reported 44 minutes ago

  An Indian foundation called Kesakambali engineered a solution to river pollution using something most people throw away. Human hair. Hair absorbs oil up to nine times its own weight. Kesakambali processes it into felted mats and places them in polluted drains before waste reaches the Yamuna river. The mats trap grease, chemicals, and heavy metals before they ever reach the water. *** and COD levels reduced by 40 percent. Once saturated, the mats are recycled into agricultural mulch. Each kilogram conserves up to 20,000 litres of water annually. Started in 2023. Over 1,000 kg of waste recycled already. The answer to one of India's biggest environmental problems was sitting in a barbershop floor. #Kesakambali #YamunaRiver #CleanIndia

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  YesImNick (@YesImNick_) reported 48 minutes ago

  @dkdynamite1 Emblems are returning no doubt. Its a port. Cod TV ain't needed. I hope ps3 data stays. Hope there is no crossplay. If ps3 data saves this isnt a problem. Idk about this one.

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  V (@Fruilaa) reported 48 minutes ago

  Surely they fix up the servers for Bo1 and Bo2 for Xbox as well? Would be really strange if they didn’t when CoD is owned by Microsoft

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  kharyxx (@kharyxxu__u) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Brawlhalla why can i run cod on near max settings perfectly fine but the second i que into a ranked game on ur game i start lagging immediately? i think i can come to the safe conclusion that its time to fix ur servers instead of adding new characters to the game

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  Siege (@SiegeKnives) reported 49 minutes ago

  @spooky_bees What you consider "games" and what I consider "games" are not the same. Ladies just aren't interested in what we're interested in generally speaking. My ex used to get pissed off with me playing games in front of her, then in an ironic twist, I ended up helping her and her new boyfriend with a place to stay while they got their **** together. I know I know, I'm amazing, for putting up with it. Anyway, she had zero issue watching this guy sit on his arse and play COD all day on my console. This had nothing to do with gaming or me, or my work ethic, and everything to do with her childish spiteful attitude. If you don't like us men telling you how ******* mean you ladies can be, I don't really care. It's a fact. Cry harder. I don't care about your feelings. Get another hobby or ******* boyfriend and leave us to enjoy our time in peace.

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  Adan (@xigodkid) reported 49 minutes ago

  @Treyarch @CallofDuty @IronGalaxy Will it still allow us to do the lag switch glitch 😭 I really wanna still go thru the map on zombies

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  TRICKER (@TrickerTheDon) reported 50 minutes ago

  @x3Sophiie @charlieINTEL peopel use input lag, wall hack, aimbot, AI cheats and XAIMs, Cronus Zen on PS5, XBOX AND PC on the LATEST Call of Duty release and you think for one minute @CallofDuty is going to go out of there way to make sure this doesn't happen on a game 15 and 12 years old, delusional.

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  Kevin (@__gnaA) reported 50 minutes ago

  @CODLeague @CallofDuty Let go LAG

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  larry (@larryongodd) reported 57 minutes ago

  @raratoman @IronGalaxy What do yall not understand about it being a port. Since this leaked it’s been “add this” “add that” “are you going to fix this”. It’s just going to be a port of the same ******* game and it’ll probably play like **** and be full of hackers in a couple hours from cod tv.

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  Dragon Master (@drache_meister) reported 58 minutes ago

  @AG3Hero @LordofCinder24 That's the problem. Women DON'T follow the rules. They actively lobby and protest to get them changed. Cod lobbies, and the banter within, were literally made a bannable offense BECAUSE of women being unable to handle it. Women in gaming is an objectively bad thing for gaming.