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Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War players are having trouble connecting to the server

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It's available worldwide now. Well, it should be.

The launch of a game as popular as Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War was never going to be entirely smooth, but it seems like players on PC are having trouble even connecting to the game, getting a message that tells them, "The Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War server is not available at this time." When they restart, they're put in a queue, and the subreddit is full of complaints like, "Well it put me in a queue for 40ish seconds. Then it just [went] up to 77000 minutes wait time. Guess I'm not playing it today" and "The estimate to play time is going up not down lol".

Though full game should be an 82GB , or 125GB with "ultra graphics". Which is positively svelte by Call of Duty standards.

If you're in a queue with nothing to do, can I interest you in the weirdest cameos in Call of Duty, ranked?

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he re having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.