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Original story (published on May 7, 2022) follows:
COD: Black Ops Cold War is one of the most interesting games in the Call of Duty franchise. It arrived at the end of 2020 and is available on multiple consoles (current and previous generation), and Windows OS devices.
However, currently many Cold War players are facing an issue that prevents them from finding matches. More specifically, COD: Black Ops Cold War players are getting a ‘Failed to host lobby’ error message.
COD: Black Ops Cold War ‘Failed to host lobby’ error
According to multiple reports, the COD: Black Ops Cold War ‘Failed to host lobby’ error message may appear randomly between matches. In some cases, the error message even kicks players out of matches.
It seems that the only way to solve the problem is to restart the game. However, this is only a temporary fix, as the error message will appear again, and you will have to reboot each time it occurs.
Ever since Season 3 update you can’t even keep a PS in-game party together for more than a game or two before it kicks the party leader from his own party and shoots a “failure to host lobby” notice. Even after everyone in the party restarts the app, it still boots the leader!
Can’t hardly play for long with a party and enjoy the damn game. Last update was a week ago and it’s still acting like this. Source
Have 6 friends who play Cold War, we all want to play together but every time we all get into a lobby we are disconnected with the error “Failed to host lobby” it’s been days and we’ve spent over 45 minutes just sitting in lobby trying to sort it out multiple times, each time we just get fed up and don’t even end up playing. I’m really close to just putting away Cold War for good. And it really sucks cause it’s the only game I wanna play. Source
For some players, the problem has even caused the system to think that they have not purchased the game.
Treyarch team already aware
The Treyarch team is already aware of the issue in question and is investigating. However, there are no details on an ETA for a fix yet.
We will update this story as events unfold.
Update 1 (May 20)
01:08 pm (IST): While the community manager has escalated this issue to the team for further investigation, Activision hasn’t yet acknowledged it on its official known issues page. So, its unclear when this bug will get fixed.
Update 2 (May 24)
03:43 pm (IST): One of the affected players has suggested a workaround for this issue that is applicable when you are playing with friends.
Moreover, some players say that running a speed test instead of restarting the game also works.
Update 3 (June 20)
10:47 am (IST): More than a month after the issue was escalated to the dev team, many players are still facing the ‘Failed to host lobby’ error message (1, 2, 3).
Also, the issue has not yet been added to the official Treyarch Trello board. So, it doesn’t seem to be a top-priority issue to fix for developers at the moment.
NOTE: You can also check the COD saga bugs/issues tracker.
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