Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty Warzone players will soon be given the option to disable Cross-Play in Ranked matches, publisher Activision has announced.
The feature is currently being tested ahead of its rollout in Season 2 on January 28, 2025, and comes amidst concerns over cheating in Ranked Play, as has been the case for many Call of Duty games in the past. Ranked Play launched last November and is available to those who have notched up at least 50 multiplayer wins.
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“Instances of cheating in Call of Duty, particularly in Ranked Play across both MP and Warzone, are frustrating and severely impact the experience for our community,” it said. Among these measures include “new and improved client and server-side detections and systems,” a “major kernel-level driver update” and a “new tampering detection system.”
We do not utilize IP-based bans for anti-cheat because they tend to take action against entire groups within a range that aren’t problematic. For example, a college campus or internet café would be swept up in an IP-based ban wave when only a single machine was targeted.
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 was released for PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One in October 2024. You can read our full review here.