Developer Raven Software recently pushed out an update for Call of Duty: Warzone to fix a bug that was placing players lower than they should’ve been in Season 4’s Ranked Play. But while the fix did what it was supposed to, it also accidentally messed up the leaderboard system in a pretty big way.
Season 4, which launched on May 29, 2025, brought in a ton of new content—but it also came with a bunch of stability issues that frustrated players across the board.
To address those complaints, the Warzone devs released at least two patches aimed at improving performance.
One of them, which dropped on June 2, tackled a bunch of annoying problems like constant crashes and in-game stuttering.
That patch also fixed several map exploits, including collision glitches that let players sneak into areas they weren’t supposed to reach.
Then, on June 11, Raven rolled out a Ranked Play update meant to fix a bug where some players had started Season 4 at a much lower rank than they should have.
The fix gave those players the missing Skill Rating (SR) they were owed, on top of any SR they’d earned since the season began.
To help ease the transition, they also got three matches of demotion protection, just like what usually happens with tier changes.
All of that sounded good on paper—until it didn’t.
Turns out, the update unintentionally gave players massive SR gains, with some reports showing jumps as high as 5,000 SR.
That kind of boost catapulted a bunch of players straight into the Top 250 leaderboard, completely skipping the grind.
That obviously didn’t sit well with the community.
The sudden shift raised a ton of questions about the integrity of Warzone’s Ranked Play. Critics like CharlieIntel quickly flagged the issue online, and a wave of players voiced their frustration. One even pointed out how people who were reset to Bronze suddenly landed in Diamond or Crimson, calling the fix a “horrible” solution.
Outside of the ranking mess, it didn’t take long for players to once again drag Warzone’s anti-cheat efforts back into the spotlight.
Comment sections were filled with complaints—some claiming that the Top 250 is flooded with cheaters and boosters.
One player even suggested they’d be happy to pay for the game if it came with a working anti-cheat system.
And while Warzone and Black Ops 6 are still wrestling with lingering issues, attention is already shifting to what’s next—Black Ops 7. Now that it’s officially been revealed, it’s looking like more of the dev team’s energy is heading in that direction.
In the meantime, Warzone players are left dealing with the fallout from a Ranked fix that ended up breaking more than it fixed.
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