In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a cheater is currently making the servers unsafe. The problem: he makes the rounds unplayable and evades every ban. The players are really mad.
What kind of cheater is he? It concerns a player known in the community by the name Straiyan. According to reports on reddit, he has been cheating blatantly in the Ground War mode on Australian servers for over two weeks.
What does he do? The players have even provided evidence of his use of cheats or hacks. In videos, his victims have recorded the killcam, which clearly shows that Straiyan is cheating.
The videos show how he inhumanly quickly transitions from one target to the next and mows down opponents with a light machine gun in continuous fire. He doesn’t even hide that he is cheating.
The PKM that he uses is indeed the strongest weapon of its type, but normally that’s not even possible with it.
Cheater ends games single-handedly
The problem is: Cheaters are already a big problem in online games as they rob honest players of their enjoyment, and there have been blatant cheaters in Modern Warfare before. In this case, the cheater can end entire rounds in a short time, whenever he wants.
In Modern Warfare, you receive a nuclear bomb as a killstreak after 30 kills without dying yourself. This ends the round with a win for your team. For achieving such a feat, you should even receive rewards in the future.
In this case, however, that is a problem because Straiyan can accumulate the 30 kills in a short time without even having to see opponents. The above clip shows him at one point with 74 kills to 0 deaths and at the end with 127 kills to 9 deaths – a K/D of over 14.
He has the nuke within minutes and can end the round whenever he wants.
Community demands ban
That’s why players are so mad: Such players should actually be banned within a short period of time. The report function in the game ensures that such cases are automatically forwarded and dealt with by the support or otherwise penalized.
However, Straiyan evades this function and bans. He has been terrorizing other players for over two weeks now and, according to thread creator Notoriousrb, is said to have said: “Good luck banning me.”
He even mocks the victims and is not even a one-off occurrence. The reddit user BurntIQ has identified another cheater and also posted evidence of this online:
What does Activision say about it? A staff member from Activision’s official support has also commented on reddit. Under the name ATVIAssist, he thanks the players for showing the evidence and bringing attention to it, and he will forward it to the team.
Usually, such “witch hunts,” in which players’ names are publicly posted, should not take place in games. However, in this case, the players apparently see no other way to help themselves as reporting does not work.
But the importance of not immediately exposing someone publicly is demonstrated by this clip:
