Call of Duty®: Black Ops

It looks like you can be so good at Call of Duty, the game thinks you're cheating.

That's what a developer at Battlefield maker DICE reckons after he was banned from playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Florian Le Bihan, who works on core gameplay design on Battlefield 5 at DICE in Stockholm, Sweden, took to Twitter to bemoan an unexpected ban he received from playing Treyarch's game.

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Call of Duty®: Black Ops

Treyarch has issued an update to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's tiered progression system to make it faster.

The time-limited Black Market, which is live now on PlayStation 4, challenges players to progress through 200 tiers, unlocking a raft of cosmetic items such as sprays, emotes, outfits and characters as they go. Progression is based on time played, as opposed to performance, so you simply unlock items as you play.

But progression since launch has been painfully slow. Players investigated how long it would take to hit level 200 in the 52 days the Operation: First Strike event runs, and worked out it would require an average of around 23 games played a day. That's about eight hours a day - until the contraband event ends.

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