A provider has created its own promotional clip for its cheats in CoD: Warzone. This clip has been spread on several platforms – including YouTube. Publisher Activision Blizzard did not seem to like this: the clip as well as mentions of the shooter have disappeared.
This is the situation:
- The new cheats are said to be a “world premiere” and “the new generation of cheats”.
- According to the provider, certain programs and hardware should make it impossible for anti-cheat software to detect the cheats.
- Consoles are also affected – PlayStation and Xbox are no longer “safe havens”.
- However, the corresponding promotional clip has disappeared due to a copyright violation.
What kind of cheats are these? What is being offered is actually “conventional” cheats such as aimbots and wallhacks. Specifically, it is something like an improved aim assist, which slowly but automatically directs the crosshair to the enemy.
In this way, it is harder to recognize in the killcam whether it is a cheat or a good player with the right aim assist settings. It is supposed to work with machine learning.
The bad thing is that the cheats work even on consoles. Traditionally, only the PC was considered a problem area in Warzone.
Copyright protects against cheater advertising
What happened to the advertisement? The new cheats were advertised by the provider with a clip that is about two minutes long. He even uploaded it to YouTube. If you want to watch the video now, you only get a black screen and the message:
“Video not available. This video is no longer available due to a complaint of copyright infringement by Activision Publishing, Inc.”
Copyright violations can be noted by owners of intellectual property on YouTube to have corresponding videos reviewed. If a relevant case is present, the video is usually blocked, and the uploader is penalized with a “strike”. With three strikes, the corresponding YouTube account is deleted and can no longer create new channels.
On other sources, the clip is still visible, like here on Twitter:
Usually, publishers allow all videos related to their games from content creators, as great clips are always advertising for the games. In this case, however, Activision apparently did not want Warzone to be advertised in connection with cheats.
According to the US site Kotaku, every mention of Call of Duty is supposed to have disappeared from the manufacturer’s website (via Kotaku.com).
Consoles are increasingly targeted by cheats: The provider explicitly advertises that its cheats work on every platform – including Xbox and PlayStation. Until now, the PC was mainly considered a problem, as hardware made it easier to write programs, which is why crossplay is often condemned by console players.
Meanwhile, the other platforms seem to be popular enough to explicitly expand cheats on consoles as well. Cheaters have even found a way since 2020 to gain unfair advantages on PlayStation and Xbox using special hardware:
CoD MW & Warzone: Now they are cheating on PS4 and Xbox One – And secretly
