Popular games like PUBG, Destiny 2, Valorant, and many other titles have been experiencing high levels of cheating recently. I Spectated a Cheater in Warzone Who Sucks at Cheating, I Thoroughly Enjoyed Watching Them Fail at the End! fromĬheating isn’t a problem that’s unique to Warzone. There’s been a vague promise of “additional security updates and added backend enforcement tools,” but many players feel there isn’t enough being done to combat the problem. By October, Infinity Ward revealed it had banned more than 200,000 accounts for cheating across Warzone and Modern Warfare, and Activation says it’s now banned 300,000 accounts as of today. Activision made it clear it has “zero tolerance” for cheaters in Warzone nearly a year ago, when it moved to ban thousands of players. The response from Activision and Infinity Ward has lacked urgency. This latest round of outcries follows months of issues with hacking in the game, where players have regularly spotted people using aimbots and wallhacks and sharing clips on Reddit and TikTok. Prominent Warzone players Nickmercs and YouTuber Drift0r have also both been highly vocal about the rise of cheating in Warzone. It led to a situation where a member of the esports organization 100 Thieves searched through the computer of the accused player live on Twitch, in an attempt to find cheating software.
A $250,000 Warzone tournament was rocked by accusations of cheating last month, when rival high-profile players accused a Canadian player of using an aimbot, which the player denied. Vikkstar isn’t alone in his frustrations.
A cheater streaming live on Facebook Gaming. But since the company did not ban them, the streamer continued with blatant wallhacks enabled just hours ago. Facebook has now demonetized the cheater. The cheater was even part of Facebook’s Level Up program, so they were able to freely stream game cheats and actually make money doing so. YouTuber Vikkstar123 quit the game last week, after a cheater was blatantly using wallhacks and aimbots and streaming to Facebook Gaming.
The world’s biggest PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackersĬheating has reached a breaking point for some who primarily play Warzone.
In battle royale games, which ask players to spend sometimes between 20 to 30 minutes playing a single match, losing to a cheater can be especially frustrating. Wallhacks expose everyone on a map, so cheaters get a huge advantage by knowing where their opponents are at all times. Aimbots automatically lock onto opponents’ heads, making it easy to wipe out waves of players.
Developer Raven Software is also promising to communicate frequently about the situation, offering “monthly updates at a minimum.”Ĭheating in some of the world’s top PC games has been getting worse over the past year, and aimbots and wallhacks are now increasingly common in the industry’s most competitive shooters. Today, that frustration boiled over to the point that the companies decided to take action, banning 60,000 accounts in a single day, and issuing an official blog post that, once again, promises zero tolerance for cheaters. Game hacks and cheat software are being widely used in the battle royale hit, and it has left the community of millions of players feeling frustrated with the lack of attention from publisher Activision and developers Infinity Ward and Raven Software.
Cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone are ruining the game and forcing professional players to abandon it.