Call of Duty down updates — Warzone & Modern Warfare 3 servers hit with outage as users report being ‘kicked’ from games

Fans poke fun at outages

People are poking fun at the outages that have taken place between yesterday and today with AT&T and Call of Duty, respectively.

Reports have declined

The reports of issues with Call of Duty have tanked, meaning that the issue is currently being resolved.

New Call of Duty was on best-seller list

The monthly records from indicate that the best-selling game in January 2024 was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which Warner Bros. claimed didn't live up to expectations, landed in third place, followed by Tekken 8.

In order to arrive at these figures, Circana examined sales information from December 30, 2023, to February 3, 2024.

Call of Duty game titles, part two

Here are the rest of the Call of Duty games released:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II (2012)
• Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)
• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015)
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016)
• Call of Duty: WWII (2017)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
• Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023

Call of Duty game titles, part one

Here are all of the Call of Duty games released:

• Call of Duty (2003)
• Call of Duty: Finest Hour (2004)
• Call of Duty 2 (2005)
• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
• Call of Duty 3 (2006)
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
• Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)

More about Call of Duty, continued

Call of Duty has sold more than 400 million units as of April 2021.

Guinness World Records attests to the series' status as the best-selling first-person shooter game series.

In addition, it is the highest-grossing video game franchise ever made, the fourth best-selling video game franchise worldwide, and the most profitable video game franchise developed in the United States.

A line of action figures produced by Plan B Toys, a card game made by Upper Deck Company, Mega Bloks sets made by Mega Brands, a comic book miniseries published by WildStorm Productions, and a feature film in production are among the other goods in the brand.

More about Call of Duty

World at War (2008) was Treyarch's final World War II game until Black Ops (2010) and the succeeding Black Ops subseries were released. Black Ops II (2012), Black Ops III (2015), Black Ops 4 (2018), and Cold War (2020) are the other four installments;.

The latter was created in collaboration with Raven Software. In addition to co-developing Modern Warfare 3, Sledgehammer Games has created three more games: Vanguard (2021), Call of Duty: WWII (2017), and Advanced Warfare (2014).

The third game in the Modern Warfare reboot subseries, Modern Warfare III (2023), was being developed by them as the primary developer as well.

About Call of Duty, continued

With Infinity Ward creating Call of Duty (2003), Call of Duty 2 (2005), and Treyarch producing Call of Duty 3 (2006), the series initially concentrated on the World War II scenario.

The breakout game for the series, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), established a modern setting and gave rise to the Modern Warfare sub-series.

A remastered version of Modern Warfare was published in 2016.

There were two more entries: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) and Modern Warfare 2 (2009).

Modern Warfare in 2019, Modern Warfare II in 2022, and Modern Warfare III in 2023 marked the return of the subseries.

Two other games that Infinity Ward has created are Ghosts (2013) and Infinite Warfare (2016), which are not part of the Modern Warfare subseries.

About Call of Duty

Activision launched the Call of Duty video game series and media property in 2003.

Initially, Infinity Ward produced the games, followed by Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games.

Several developers created a number of portable and spin-off games.

On November 10, 2023, the most recent game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, was made available.

Is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 the worst yet?

With the game still experiencing issues, read our review for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 below.

"The worst thing about CoD:MW3 is it's replacing an actually good game," wrote reviewer Georgina Young.

Summary of Call of Duty issues

Thousands of Call of Duty players continue to experience issues with the game.

The issues reported by players on social media and Downdetector include:

• Multiplayer, Warzone and Zombies server issues
• Rank, weapon levels and classes have been reset

Call of Duty outage continues

Players are still experiencing a wide range of issues with Call of Duty.

The game released a statement shortly after 3pm today, saying it is "working on a fix".

However, no time frame was given for when the issues will be resolved.

Activision's website still shows that Call of Duty's servers are up and running, despite many players reporting issues with both MW3 and Warzone.

Call of Duty clamps down on cheats

Call of Duty banned 6,000 accounts this week following a spike in cheating reports.

“As part of ongoing security updates, a single telemetry system was taken offline for upgrades over the weekend,” the game said. “This action resulted in cheat developers claiming RICOCHET Anti-Cheat was offline. It was not.

“As a result of monitoring activity over the weekend and the purposeful reactivation of this upgraded system, #TeamRICOCHET was able to identify and ban over 6000 accounts for cheating and hacking from February 16 – February 20.

“Our team continues to work on security updates for issues across various modes in Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare III.”

Thousands report issues

Thousands of Call of Duty players across the globe have reported issues with the game.

According to Downdetector, 63 per cent of the reported problems related to server connection, while 22 per cent was about game play and another 15 per cent had issues with login.

Here is a graph of Call of Duty outages reported in the last 24 hours:

More rage from fans as game issues continue

Call of Duty fans have continued to be left in the dark amid widespread issues with the game.

Both Call of Duty and Activision have yet to comment on the outage, which is seemingly impacting players across the globe.

"Call of duty is a joke," said one fan on Twitter. "The only reliable thing on this game is the store."

"Why is all of our stuff gone and reset??? What is happening?" asked another.

Everything you need to know amid today's outage

X user ForwardLeaks has compiled a list of the affected areas amid today's Call of Duty outage.

These include:

• All Event Progress Reset
• Battle Pass Tab Broken
• Blackcell Purchase Reset (You’ll still have the skins, just prompts you to repurchase)
• Weapon Levels Reset
• Level Reset
• Equipped Emblems and CCs Reset

Are Call of Duty servers down?

Unlike most outages, the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 servers are not completely down for most players.

Some users have been able to enter matches but face long load times.

Others are reporting that their accounts have been reset back to level one.

Players baffled amid CoD outage

Players have flooded social media with questions about today's CoD server outage.

Many players are finding their accounts have been reset back to when they first started playing.

Activision say servers are fully operational

Activision's website shows that Call of Duty's servers are up and running.

Despite this, many players on social media are still reporting issues with both MW3 and Warzone.

Outage impacting players across the globe

Today's CoD outage is seemingly global.

As per Downdetector, thousands of players in both the UK and US have reported problems.

Many are unable to connect to the game's servers, while those who can are finding their gear and items missing.