If you've been keeping up with Black Ops 6 and the current Call of Duty scene as of late, you'll probably have noticed quite a bit of negativity in the community. Over the holidays, it seems that plenty of issues have cropped up regarding online servers, cheaters and the likes - and developer Treyarch has now tackled these concerns head-on.
In a new community blog post, the team has outlined what changes are being made as Black Ops 6 moves over into Season 2. With cheaters, the anti-cheat team says that it has "updated detection models for behavioral systems, such as aim botting", and has implemented new warning systems for players that regularly party up with cheaters. The team also says that 136,000 accounts have been banned since Ranked Play launched.
"In December, we announced that we’re implementing major upgrades to the currently online and active kernel-level driver for Season 02, as well as upgrades to server-side systems in early 2025."
If you've been having server issues in Black Ops 6 as well, the team hears you. It has been "monitoring match activity closely" and the folks at Demonware have implemented "new improvements to Call of Duty’s server infrastructure this week to reduce targeted cases of malicious activities on our infrastructure and players". The team has also solved some server issues in regions where connection instability has been a common concern.
Finally, the COD team is also making changes to crossplay - a hot topic that we discussed recently in a Pure Xbox feature. For Ranked Play, Treyarch will be "enabling the ability to disable crossplay for console players who want to compete only against other console players" - basically filtering out PC players. This appears to focus on Ranked Play for now, but we'd like this to come to all online playlists in future.
These felt like the most important notes in this big COD community update, but there's lots more too, including more detail on the above issues, some high-level bug fix breakdowns, and what else players can expect from the game in future. Feel free to check out the full blog post if you'd like to know a little more about the future of Black Ops 6 on Xbox!
Go ahead and talk to us about your recent Black Ops 6 online experience down below.
[source callofduty.com]
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I'm done with Blops 6. Played for 2 hours the other night and the last 3 games I played were unplayable. Was a jerking stuttering mess.
@Nexozi Really? I play online most evenings and it's always a great connection. I've never had any issues with it.
@RetroMan71 It's doing my head in, other games are working fine.
Predictably I lost interest in this are playing this after playing for most nights for a month straight on release debating whether to just delete the game now!
the game is majorly not fun, to me. former cod fan
BO6 just has bad MP maps. You can do whatever you want to the gunplay, servers, movement, etc., but when the maps suck, the game sucks. I bought BO6, but went back to MW3. The maps are of a way higher quality and there's a bajillion of them.
@wildcat_kickz My thoughts exactly. I was always skipping half the maps. Most of the time people were choosing "Classified" in map voting because the other two choices were terrible. That shows how bad BO6 maps are.
I've an ethernet connection 1Gig connection, says 18ms ping, no broken packets, yet constant stuttering...
@Gabrielmpf I really enjoy some of the new maps, but it is often very subjective as to whether you enjoy them I think.
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