Published 18:37 IST, October 20th 2020

Cold War beta console players are turning off cross play to avoid PC cheaters

Cold war beta is currently in play before its full release on November 13th. Even in the beta stages, the console players are forced to turn off cross-play.

Reported by: Saurabh Sabat
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 upcoming FPS is currently in its beta sts across all gaming platforms which include PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. But every since  crossplay feature was enabled between generations and platforms (as it is one of game's big features) it also brought a wave of hackers who made use of cheating software for cold war beta PC to ruin game for everybody else on console.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War console players were forced to turn off cross-platform play functionality this weekend to avoid PC hackers. To be clear, shooter isn't actually out until vember 13 - this was just a beta.

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This weekend re was a major rise in PC cheaters in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta. Due to this, console players were forced to turn off functionality of cross-platform play to avoid se PC hackers. full release of this shooter is yet to be seen on vember 13, which means that progress in beta won't carry over into full release. 

Despite this, re are cheaters on PC which also means that y weren't using cheats for getting ahead but just doing it for cheating. Call of Duty: Warzone was also suffering from same issue and company Activision had to update game's matchmaking so that cheaters would be able to play only against or cheaters, along with issuing thousands of bans.

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Download Cold War Beta PS4

Below are steps to download Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War open beta on PS4:

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  • First, go to PlayStation Store on home screen of PS4.
  • Next, search for Black Ops Cold War and re will be an option labelled as “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Open Beta”.
  • Find  download option and it will take a while to finish.
  • Finally, you will be able to launch and play game.

Download Cold War Beta Xbox One

Below are steps to download Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War open beta on Xbox One:

  • On Xbox One home screen, press on store icon.
  • w search for Black Ops Cold War and re will be an option for “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Open Beta”, select it and download will begin.
  • After installation finishes, you will be able to play game.

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18:37 IST, October 20th 2020