Treyarch Investigating Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Bricking Xbox Series X Consoles

Some Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War players on Xbox Series X are reporting that the game is bricking their consoles and it's worrying plenty others.

[SullysCigar]

Bricking them? Is it really though?

People seem to through this term around these days when the system crashes and you need to hard reboot, so I hear it and shrug it off these days.

Anyone aware of if this is actually true or is it just more nonsense for clicks?

[StoneyYoshi]

Yeah there are multiple videos of people saying their PS5 is broken/bricked when it's just making a noisy buzzing sound.

But its nice to see there is news about the XSX having similar issues that everyone has been up in arms about with the PS5 saying the XSX is perfect and doesn't have launch issues like all consoles experience. I hope this isn't a large issue and gets fixed fast!

[Gunstar75]

I've not heard anyone say the series X launch consoles are perfect.... nobody.

There has been more reports of faulty ps5's but that may likely be because they started production earlier and have significantly more units in the wild

Time will tell

[Darthpaul84]

You must have missed vids of all the disk drive failures day one on the series x and the loose screws in the box. I’ve honestly not heard a bunch about the ps5 having issues. All things considered with how 2020 has been both consoles have done well quality wise. With how hard these things are to get I wouldn’t wish one breaking on anyone . Because it could take months to get a new one

[InUrFoxHole]

"But its nice to see there is news about the XSX having similar issues". Spoken like a true troll. No man people worked actual hours of their life to save up money for the product they preferred. You find it nice because it saves your feelings? SMH

[SmokinAces]

There's definitely issues with series x there's just a lot less articles about it.

[oof46]

@DarthPaul: I've seen a ton of people post videos on reddit and twitter that others have said to be a GPU problem.
https://twitter.com/Forest_...
https://twitter.com/snareki...
https://twitter.com/ricardo...
https://twitter.com/creece9...
https://www.reddit.com/r/PS...
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https://www.youtube.com/wat...
https://twitter.com/WolfOfD...

And, no. This isn't a "hahaha ps5 sux!" comment. Been keeping track of both consoles and any problems that arise.

[Rude-ro]

Yes. Reports of consoles bricking
Yes. Reports of crashing
Yes. On all hardware per crashing. Pc, PlayStation, and Xbox.

Take it with a grain of salt, but people are complaining about their Xbox series x consoles going full on locked up.
Warnings are going out, if your cod bops is crashing... you might want to take a break from it because several people have said their systems will not boot anymore.
Could be 3 people... but the news is going around many sites, not just the filtered n4g one offs due to reporting on anything Microsoft more than once is a “duplicate”

[Omegasyde]

If anything this makes we want to wait for revised hardware models from Sony and Microsoft or get really good warranty.

[Teflon02]

Omega, if software is bricking a console waiting for a revision doesn't change the situation. That revision would get bricked too because it's software related not hardware lol

Mind you this isn't on MS or Sony if these are happening because a games software. This is the stuff they should have been able to catch in the testing phase, but just got through unfortunately

[Rude-ro]

@Teflon02

Yeah.. no clue.
Luke Smith had his PS5 brick while playing darksouls.. so no clue what is going on.
They could be over clocking to make the games look their best for launch.
That is what would brick a pc if you push it too much. But you can usually walk that back on pc. Console we can not.

[Redlife2g]

I wouldn't dismiss it.. This game has been plagued with crashes on pc since release and treyarch has done jackshit about it. Just check the forums.

[RememberThe357]

PSA: Stop buying COD.

[Profchaos]

Yeah bricking means it's reduced your console to a paperweight never to be turned on again. Articles have just been trying to make spicy headlines and have reduced the value of news so much that black Ops cold war causing some consoles to freeze requiring a reboot just won't get clicks.

[Seraphim]

my bet is coincidence. just a bad console out the box & they happened to be playing CoD. be it not enough thermal paste, a bad component or perhaps something else. Electronics have, what, at best, like a 4-8% [sometimes more] failure rate. Not sure where consoles lie in terms of percentage. I'd put money on it just being coincidence though.

If I recall these stories popped up last gen and probably even the gen before that.

[Bender6502]

S/W doesn't brick H/W. With maybe the only exception being firmware which can, but these days there's usually a way to revert the H/W back to factory settings and recover.Usually! But a game 'bricking' a system? Don't think so. I think the term is misused on many occasions

[GamerRN]

Software can brick a system of it makes it so something out isn't supposed to do and hard crashes in a unique way that makes it unable to recover

[dougr]

I disagree. Grand Theft Auto IV bricked my launch PS3 within moments of starting to play it when it came out. Sony even replaced my system out of warranty for no charge.

[Sirk7x]

Bad code can certainly brick hardware. At least to the level where the average user can't fix it. Hell, even if a game makes you have to recover your new console/restore it, that's still completely unacceptable. I've had this game shut down my Xbox multiple times, and I refuse to boot it now. Uninstalled until the matter is addressed, explained why it's happening, and fixed.

[VersusDMC]

You guys have to take that "best played on playstation" tagline seriously... :)

[Darthpaul84]

After watching the digital foundry video and a few other graphical comparisons videos it’s pretty obvious that statement is a lie. Don’t feel bad though the whole ps5 is better thing lasted a few days that’s more than I got last gen on the Xbox one

[Babadook7]

This is false. Might want to check the update. The ps5 has a bug that sometimes can briefly lower performance, but otherwise it’s the better version.

[Darthpaul84]

Babadook
Bugs are present in the retail version of the game and there’s no guarantee they will be fixed so things are judged as is. I promise u nobody is cutting the series x any slack in that department. Heck digital foundry isn’t even testing all modes available on next generation consoles. For those playing on hdmi 2.0 TVs so the majority turning off ray tracing gives you the option to run the game at a native 4k 60 FPS and only one system gives u that. Little hint it’s not the ps5 and it’s 1892 p 58 FPS. I doubt it’s an accident though Alex is a Microsoft hater and doesn’t mind to fudge things s bit to give Sony an edge. In the 120 FPS mode the average FPS is less that a quarter frame per second difference so I don’t see how that’s some huge victory

[Tzuno]

How can you brick a brick?

[RememberThe357]

How can the godhead be and object of it's own knowledge?

[Babadook7]

Trinity?

[Father__Merrin]

a bricked console is where its now broke and full free replacement will be given. tbh i dount any consoles just brick like that

[SullysCigar]

I thought the same until I saw Treyarch have acknowledged it and issued a statement.

Here's one user:

"My Cold War had been crashing my Series X a bunch over the weekend, but it was only every 4-5 games or so. So I’d just reboot and move on, well when It happened this morning it was for good. Xbox will not boot back up.

I keep it sitting out on my living room floor with space to breathe too.

So if you’ve been having this issue I’d say take a break from COD and play something else until there’s a patch because I’m out of commission for 10 days now."

[kayoss]

My PS5 was bricked while playing Mile Morales. I mean it was literally bricked. My wife found out i bought a PS5 and threw a brick at my PS5.

[The_Sage]

Lol

[RedDevils]

Was the brick an XSX?

[Sirk7x]

Did you get a new one? Wife, I mean.

[BenRC01]

Resetting ps5 too, don't pretend this only xbox

[SullysCigar]

There have been a few reports of the game crashing on PS5, but it's not bricking them like it is Series X.

Treyarch have even acknowledged the problem and issued a statement suggesting turning of ray tracing on Xbox until they work a solution and release a patch.

Hopefully it won't take too long.

[boing1]

True. I've had a hard crash in Miles Morales. Had to unplug the console as nothing else worked, even when holding the power button. Happened only once, though.

[Kakashi Hatake]

Buh buh I thought only PS5s were having issues...

[RaiderNation]

I wouldn't call that a glitch. Id call that justice.

[whateverman]

Why is something that people enjoy and support "justice" when it is damaged through no fault of their own??? Ya know, not all of us live in some childish "console war" bubble... People like me own EVERY console, and numerous ones of each at that (kids etc.)

[RaiderNation]

Thank you for taking the bait. Lmao!!

[Nephesh]

It’s also crashing my PS5

[Destiny1080]

developers only got the final development kits, 6 months ago

which is why all games are half broken on xbox

[jznrpg]

Xcuse Box

[DJStotty]

Looking at the trello board for known bugs, there is literally no mention of console crashes in the known global issues.

[anast]

These CoD games are boot

[InUrFoxHole]

When are you going to start kicking cheaters?

[GusBricker]

Wondering if it's the quick resume bug. If your game freezes, it might turn off the XSX and when you restart it, the quick resume tries to resume and gets caught in the freeze. If you either quit the game from the menu or eject and put the disc back in, it fixes that issue. I know that happened to me with Yakuza.

[mechethegoat]

This game crashed my series s and my ps5. Idk whats goin on. Doubt its bricking consoles though

[Charal]

So, you have the same game on serie S and PS5???
If this is by any length true, it make no sense at all.

[mechethegoat]

My cousin bought it on xbox and i gameshared. I paid for my ps5 copy. and yes its true. both consoles crash and reset every once in a while.