The new battle royale game “Call of Duty: Warzone” has a cheating problem. Many big streamers are noticing this at the moment. Tournament organizer Daniel “Keemstar” Keem even says: This problem will kill Call of Duty Warzone in a very short time if they don’t get it under control.
This is the situation: Call of Duty: Warzone is actually the hit that Activision Blizzard expected. Activision’s plan was to bring something new to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with a “new expansive multiplayer mode,” one that has never been seen before.
The innovation was supposed to be so extraordinary, that it would change the gaming experience after launch. Activision Blizzard spoke about this as early as February 2019.
Warzone makes Modern Warfare a hit on Twitch
With the release of Warzone as a “standalone” free-to-play title on March 10 it worked:
- Warzone is very successful and had already surpassed the mark of 30 million players after just 10 days
- On Twitch, it helped CoD: Modern Warfare shoot up to 3rd place among trending games: In the last 30 days, CoD Modern Warfare has grown by 962.5% on Twitch. That’s almost 10 times larger than in February.
This is now the problem: Although the game is so popular, it has faced harsh criticism in recent days. Because Call of Duty: Warzone is plagued by hackers and cheaters.
Especially aimbotters seem to be prevalent, but there have also been reports of players seen in god mode.
This is the criticism: On April 1, Daniel “Keemstar” Keem held a tournament to which he invited some of the hottest streamers. It became clear here how much cheaters harm the game and ruin the fun.
Under these conditions, a fair tournament was not possible, causing frustration among the players and the organizer.
At the end of the tournament, Keemstar stated on Twitter: “It is clear that hackers have taken over Warzone. […] CoD needs to get the issues under control, otherwise, Warzone will be dead in a week.”
With this criticism, Keemstar is in good company. Many streamers and players are voicing exactly this criticism of CoD Warzone.
CoD veteran Jack “Courage” Dunlop says: Warzone is a great game that people should be playing, but Activision Blizzard must get the cheating problem under control.
He reported dying to cheaters and hackers in 70% of his games over 6 hours of playing Warzone.
Other big Twitch streamers like TimTheTatman show their experiences and express frustration over what has happened to them in the game.
The streamer “ThePreacher” shows a player who killed him, and whom he watched afterwards. The cheater apparently uses aimbot and wallhack. At the end of the match, the cheater had 34 kills and the streamer lost his faith in Call of Duty: Warzone.
CoD explains cheat protection
This is what Activision says: The criticism was so loud that the “Call of Duty” team reacted in a blog post on March 31.
It was stated that they have security teams monitoring the game around the clock. Furthermore, they are working to improve in-game systems and have already banned 50,000 cheaters.
Leader of esports clan says: Protection is not sufficient
This was the response: This blog post from Activision Blizzard triggered further criticism. Because 50,000 cheaters are not all that impressive among 30 million players.
Matthew “Nadeshot” Haag, the head of a major esports organization, explained why this response is so problematic in his opinion.
He said he couldn’t believe that someone would create and launch a free battle royale game without anti-cheat software.
Call of Duty: Warzone’s solution is that a team manually checks the hackers. He considers this to be an inadequate solution for such a large game from such an important game brand.
According to Nadeshot, Warzone urgently needs a solution for the hacker problem. The manual review by a security team is not enough.
If you want more success in CoD: Warzone despite all the issues, check out our article on the best weapons in CoD Warzone with setups for your personal loadouts.
