A major ban wave has flooded the community of Call of Duty: Warzone. About 20,000 cheaters are said to have been banned from the game as a result. Among them is a streamer who claims his innocence.
What happened? Coinciding with the start of Season 6 in Call of Duty: Warzone, a major cheat program was detected. It was supposed to be “undetected” and not recognized by the game. Cheaters felt safe using it until they were caught off guard by the ban on Monday. As Vice.com reports, about 20,000 cheaters were banned. Among them is a college football player and a Twitch streamer.
According to insider reports to Vice, Twitch streamer Nick “Wagnificent” Wagner used the software EngineOwning. A cheat with subscription service.
Streamer says he is innocent
This is what the streamer says: On Twitter, the streamer announced on September 28, around the time of the ban wave, that he was wrongfully banned from Warzone. He would be a streamer who has thousands of viewers daily and is very upset.
As Dexerto.com reports, the streamer published another tweet explaining that he had not cheated and that his good reputation is now at stake. However, the tweet has since been deleted.
It is quite possible that the streamer was banned by mistake. After a ban wave in July, Activision backtracked and lifted some bans.
But just because he streams for thousands of viewers does not mean he couldn’t be using cheats. Some programs offer to operate so stealthily that you can even stream with them.
Another Twitch streamer thought he was cheating completely secretly with hidden cheats in CS:GO. But a small detail betrayed him during the stream.
How banned players react:
In the forum of the cheat software itself, there is a thread called “Awesome, until the ban.” Players write there that the program worked really well until they got caught.
- “I’ve been cheating in games for as long as I can remember. I got caught for the first time.”
- “Does anyone know how hardware bans work and how to circumvent them? Asking for a friend.”
- “Maybe a stupid question, but can you still use the bot?”
- “Damn, I just got home and wanted to play Ground War and bam ‘This account has been banned’. And I still have 2 months on the paid subscription.”
- “We knew the risks. It was great as long as it worked.”
- “I pre-ordered Cold War for this account and now the account has been banned. Can I still not play Cold War?”
- “I used a soft hack for just 10 games and now I got banned. Damn.”
What kind of program was that?
Aimbots, Wallhacks, and more: According to Dexerto, EngineOwning had over 50 different cheats for Warzone and Modern Warfare. Among them are well-known cheats like Aimbots, Wallhacks, and other settings that give users unfair advantages over honest players.
On the website of the cheat provider, as of now (September 30, 10:30 AM), no cheats for CoD MW 2019 can be purchased anymore. It is listed there under “detected” instead of “undetected” like with other games. They make it clear that the software has been compromised and can lead to bans.
Some Twitch streamers do not even want to hide that they use hacks. This streamer cheats live in front of an audience for 90 minutes in CoD Warzone.
