As Feared, Those New Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 Ports Are Riddled with Hackers, but Activision Is at Least Doing Something About It
Activision says it is disabling select playlists and working on a fix after cheaters overran multiplayer lobbies in the new ports.
- Activision disabled select playlists in Black Ops on PS4 and PS5 on Monday after players reported widespread cheating in the recently released ports.
- Released last week, these ports are bare-bones transfers of original PS3 versions, which historically suffered from modded lobbies and progression-breaking exploits that ruined matches.
- Modded lobbies compromised Black Ops multiplayer by granting massive XP advantages or inflicting negative status effects that dropped players below level 1 and locked them out of matches.
- Activision deployed a server-side fix on Tuesday and reset affected players with negative status to level 20, restoring their access to multiplayer progression.
- Although Activision promised future mitigations, players remain skeptical given that similar exploits have persisted on legacy hardware for years despite repeated attempts at fixes.
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As feared, those new Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 ports are riddled with hackers, but Activision is at least doing something about it
The recently released Black Ops 1 and 2 ports for PlayStation 4 and 5 may cost a lot of money, and only offer the bare minimum, but that hasn't stopped the duo from becoming the most popular games across the PS Store. Unfortunately, that popularity predictably invited the sort of problems the two games have suffered for years on their original platforms. Namely: hackers and modded lobbies.
Activision Responds After Call of Duty Black Ops 2 PS5 Port Gets Hacked
Activision has responded after the newly released Call of Duty Black Ops 2 PS5 port was hacked, leaving multiplayer overrun with cheaters. The publisher has disabled several BO2 playlists while it works on a fix for the exploit. Activision Responds to Black Ops 2 PS5 Cheaters It’s only been a few days since Call of […] The post Activision Responds After Call of Duty Black Ops 2 PS5 Port Gets Hacked appeared first on VICE.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Port Deemed 'Unplayable' As Lobbies Are Filled With Exploiters
UPDATE: Activision has disabled select playlists in the Black Ops port as it investigates the issues with exploits.📢 Call of Duty: #BlackOps on PS4/PS5Select playlists have been disabled as we investigate reported issues.— Call of Duty Updates (@CODUpdates) July 13, 2026 The original story follows below.The new PS4 and PS5 port of Call of Duty: Black Ops is being called "unplayable" by fans after exploits have consumed multiplayer lobbies.Last …
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