Cheaters have unfortunately been a major problem since the launch of Call of Duty: Warzone, which is a big issue in the battle royale genre. A small streamer recently demonstrated how casually some take their cheats by streaming 90 minutes of hacker gameplay on Twitch.
What was going on? A player who had just started his first few streams on Twitch raised eyebrows on the second day of his “career”. He openly and shamelessly entered the game with activated hacks, and all his viewers could see it.
Initially, he went in solo while some of his friends watched him. In the voice chat, one of them asked, “Why are you cheating? For what?” His dry response: “I set it up today and want to see what it’s like.”
Brazen cheater casually gets 2 Warzone victories
What did that look like? His channel and the entire stream are still online at the time of the article’s publication. Check out the Twitch channel of “truegatter” if you want to see more of his brazen gameplay. We’ve included a short clip of his nasty deeds and his attempts to explain here:
In his solo round, he instantly achieves a relaxed victory. He goes to the Gulag briefly but then plays the game casually and racks up a total of 40 kills.
One of his friends seems unfazed by the cheating. After the match, they go in together and “truegatter” calls out all the enemies he recognizes even through walls. They are starting a BR trio and thus have one team member less than the rest, but fairness looks different. With 45 kills, he can also secure the second match.
Will the cheater face consequences? He could lose his Twitch channel and his CoD account through this action. Although he often emphasizes that he just wants to try it out and that it should be a sort of demonstration. But if Twitch or CoD catches wind of this, it is likely that he will lose his accounts.
Such demonstrations are allowed on YouTube. The German streamer and YouTuber “TarKoffeL” once published a YouTube video where he showed the perspective of a cheater in Warzone. For this, he was also hunted by hackers for a while. On Twitch, however, live cheating is prohibited, and the channel might get deleted.
Why is cheating in Warzone such a problem? This is partly because Warzone is a free-to-play title, and the opportunities to get a new account are pretty good. At one point, a cheating website offered new accounts for $2.
On the other hand, the battle royale unfortunately does not use anti-cheat tools that can detect this type of cheating. The security team of Warzone is solely reliant on their data and player reports. Sometimes, a cheater also shows off their hack gameplay live on Twitch – such actions can also lead to bans or suspensions. Yet unfortunately, you still see hackers repeatedly, either as opponents or live:
- CoD MW & Warzone: Streamer caught live cheating – “It was just a joke”
- Player cheats on Twitch thinking no one sees his hacks
- CoD Warzone: Streamer boasts about skill and accidentally reveals he is cheating
In all 3 examples, the Twitch accounts are no longer reachable. The streaming platform takes a hard line here, and when such things become public, the accounts disappear quickly.
Call of Duty takes a different approach to the issue. While they ban many cheaters, they also go after the major providers of such cheats. They tracked down a website owner who offered cheats for CoD MW & Warzone and sent a private detective after him, who put some pressure on him. The CoD cheats disappeared from the site, and the provider even issued an apology.
