Black Ops 6 and Warzone Ranked Play has lastly added the choice to disable crossplay in Season 2, nevertheless it’s solely accessible for a selected phase of the participant base.
Activision admitted firstly of S1 that “we didn’t hit the mark for integrating RICOCHET Anti-Cheat on the launch of Season 01 – notably for Ranked Play.”
The dishonest difficulty turned a widespread one in Ranked, particularly as you begin reaching the upper ranges and the cheaters who’ve hacked their strategy to the highest grow to be extra prevalent.
As well as, the seasonal replace has added to Ranked Play in order that customers can keep away from cheaters on PC, and most however not all gamers are ecstatic concerning the change.
Disable cross-play possibility
It was confirmed within the patch notes: “Console-only cross-play possibility will likely be accessible in Black Ops 6 and Warzone Ranked Play on the launch of Season 2.”
That signifies that beginning on Jan 28, gamers on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X/S can change in the event that they wish to discover lobbies with everybody, consoles-only, or flip the characteristic off.
This in the end signifies that console gamers will likely be far much less more likely to come up towards hackers in Ranked Play, as a majority of them are on PC.
The power to alternate between both simply your console or between each consoles can also be a welcome however sudden change – many gamers have buddies on completely different consoles so this could make it a extra pleasant expertise.
One difficulty that would come from that is longer queue occasions, as there may be much less of a pool of gamers to select from. Not solely that however this might make PC lobbies much more irritating as hackers are concentrated into these particular matches.
In November 2024, Treyarch acknowledged that multiplayer Ranked play suffered from a dishonest drawback. In response, the Season 2 replace introduces enhanced detection fashions to crack down on goal botting and repeat offenders and reduces the quantity of harmless gamers getting banned.
We’ll higher perceive how a lot this resolution modifications when the replace goes stay. However for now, try the entire weapon buffs and nerfs in Season 2.