COD Warzone Friend Invite Issue

J Mac Attack · Aug 17, 2022

Hi all,

I have an issue where I cannot invite those on my friends list who also play on xbox. I can invite PC and Playstation players, but for those on Xbox the option is faded out and locked and simply says "online services not available to invites users." I have my party privacy set to public and my NAT is open. Now what is bizarre is that I can invite these same friends from the regiment/group list. So for those who are both on my friends list and in my group I can use this as a work around, but I have other friends who aren't in my group and I simply can't invite them. Anyone come across this and have a fix? Thanks!

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[ A J ]

Hi, J! thank you for reaching out.

My name is AJ, I'm an Independent Advisor for the Xbox Community.

I'm sorry to hear you are experiencing issues with Warzone.

- May I ask which Xbox model you are using?

- Have you already tried something to fix this? if you have, could you tell me what? just so I have a better understanding of the situation.

I'll be looking forward to your reply.

Best regards.

kyle_m4496

Are you inviting them through the Xbox guide or the in-game friends menu? Fortnite and Warzone allow you to invite friends through either menu.

> When I try to join a friends game is says not available purchase modern warfare 2 to have access to everything

Sounds like your friends may be in a MW2 multiplayer lobby, not Warzone. They have to be in a Warzone lobby for you to be able to join.

Thanks,
Kyle

Frathos

This issue started happening after the Nov 16, 2022 update for COD Warzone 2 and I experienced it with my friend as well.

Here's something that you can try which my friends & I did last night & this morning to play MP & Warzone 2:

- Host presses three line button on their controller

- Press RB to switch to tab for Game Chat & Create your own Channels

- Create a Channel (you can use the default name or change it to whatever you like and you only have to do this step once)

- Connect to that new Channel if you see it say disconnected

- Press A on the channel to see the available options

- Select the option to invite players (should be Y if I remember correctly - console is turned off now)

- You may need to switch back to default Game Channel to invite friends to your COD party or use XBL invite to game

- Connect back to your new Channel when your friends have joined your COD party if you switched back to Game Channel to send them COD party invites

- Back out to the previous menu where you can select which game mode you want to play (eg MP, Warzone 2, DMZ etc) & select the one you want to play together

- Start matchmaking and now your friends in your party shouldn't be kicked back out to the COD game select screen unless some other bug or server disconnect happens although those usually happen while you are playing in a match from what I saw last night

If your party gets separated (eg sometimes one person's game may disconnect from the matchmaking server) then you may need to repeat the steps to re-invite players to your new Channel and/or the COD party.

Good luck!

BrentCornthwaite

no I'm saying its warzone thats the issue. I've heard others say it only happene on cod warzone

x Sarasaurus x

Sorry to hear this

Have you tried to create a channel and invite your friend to the channel??

And also is your friend able to add you?? Maybe you could provide your friend with your Activision ID to see if they can add you. Via the social tab

For example

Playername#1234567

I hope this gets resolved for you. You can also try logging it with Activision.

Warzone feedback and bug report

COD Warzone Friend Invite Issue