The Battle Royale Warzone and Call of Duty: Vanguard will soon receive a new anti-cheat system. This has been announced for a long time, and now the developers want to follow up with concrete information soon. They are taking a combative stance and warning cheaters of their impending revenge. However, skepticism still prevails among fans.
What have the developers announced? The developers of Call of Duty have published a bold tweet. In it, they threaten the cheaters who are currently plaguing the game and promise: “Cheaters are not welcome. There is zero tolerance for cheaters. And soon you will find out what we mean by that.”
This is all rounded off with a title “See you tomorrow.” Players received an email with the subject: “Cheaters, watch out!”
Apparently, the developers are planning a major reveal of the long-promised new anti-cheat tools that are supposed to be available with the launch of Vanguard in November. The developers are reportedly set to present the specific functions to the community on October 14.
Developers threaten cheaters, but fans are not convinced
Why is the new anti-cheat technology so important? Especially CoD Warzone has been heavily plagued by cheaters throughout the year. The situation became so bad that eventually top streamers like CouRage or NICKMERCS got fed up and switched to Apex Legends among other games.
Although there are occasional server problems there, the EA BR shooter was an enticing alternative that has now surpassed Warzone on Twitch.
Therefore, it is extremely important for the CoD developers to get cheating under control.
What do we already know about the anti-cheat? In fact, the developers have not yet released anything concrete about the anti-cheat. We only know that the new technology was not deployed during the Vanguard beta.
It is possible that the new technology will be a comprehensive software solution that is intended to work similarly to the controversial anti-cheat protection from Riot’s shooter Valorant. Ironically, it is also called Vanguard.
How are the fans reacting? Since the new anti-cheat technologies have been so long-awaited and still very little concrete information is known, the fans are largely skeptical and do not trust the situation. Thus, one reads on Twitter beneath the announcement rather negative and sarcastic messages, exemplified by the following:
Yeah… you’re not doing many things right. But congratulations on managing to implement an anti-cheat engine after 18 years. Clap Clap.
Other players take this opportunity to demand that the annoying Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM) be removed from the game, claiming that it is much worse than cheating.
Even a top pro believes that SBMM should finally be removed from the game, but for entirely different reasons.
