Activision Black Ops 6 and Warzone Ranked Play has finally added the option to disable crossplay in Season 2, but it’s only available for a specific segment of the player base.
Activision admitted at the start of S1 that “we did not hit the mark for integrating RICOCHET Anti-Cheat at the launch of Season 01 – particularly for Ranked Play.”
The cheating issue became a widespread one in Ranked, especially as you start reaching the higher levels and the cheaters who have hacked their way to the top become more prevalent.
In addition, the seasonal update has added to Ranked Play so that users can avoid cheaters on PC, and most but not all players are ecstatic about the change.
Disable cross-play option
It was confirmed in the patch notes: “Console-only cross-play option will be available in Black Ops 6 and Warzone Ranked Play at the launch of Season 2.”
That means that starting on Jan 28, players on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S can change if they want to find lobbies with everyone, consoles-only, or turn the feature off.
This ultimately means that console players will be far less likely to come up against hackers in Ranked Play, as a majority of them are on PC.
The ability to alternate between either just your console or between both consoles is also a welcome but unexpected change – many players have friends on different consoles so this should make it a more enjoyable experience.
One issue that could come from this is longer queue times, as there is less of a pool of players to pick from. Not only that but this could make PC lobbies even more frustrating as hackers are concentrated into those specific matches.
In November 2024, Treyarch acknowledged that multiplayer Ranked play suffered from a cheating problem. In response, the Season 2 update introduces enhanced detection models to crack down on aim botting and repeat offenders and reduces the amount of innocent players getting banned.
We will better understand how much this decision changes when the update goes live. But for now, check out all of the weapon buffs and nerfs in Season 2.
