The German YouTuber and streamer “TarKoffeL” was the victim of brazen cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone for months. But the saga ended for him with a happy ending. After he had clearly eliminated a hacker in a duel, the attacks finally subsided.
What was going on? The German YouTuber and streamer “TarKoffeL” found himself repeatedly the target of malicious hacker attacks in recent months. After he published an anti-hacker video on his YouTube channel, the attacks gradually intensified.
MeinMMO spoke with the YouTuber, and “TarKoffeL” mentioned that he faced various harassments:
- Stream sniping and lobby stalking
- A barrage of view bots and fake subscriptions on his Twitch channel
- Chat spam during matches
- Pizza orders after the hackers leaked his address
The streamer did not let this get to him and continued to play. He painstakingly removed the fake subscriptions from his channel and had to have the occasional heated conversation with a pizza delivery person.
But the twist in the story is simply brilliant. When he was once again pursued and eliminated by a cheater, he received the greatest satisfaction in a match: He managed to eliminate the hacker with an MK2 Carbine without a scope in the open field. The DMR is not exactly among the best weapons of the Battle Royale, and it is even more difficult to use without a scope.
Not only was he able to secure the kill: Since the incident, the attacks on him have significantly decreased, and thus the story has taken on a sort of happy ending.
German streamer pursued on Twitch, but revenge is sweet
What did it look like? You can find the video with probably the most satisfying kill of his shooter career here:
“TarKoffeL” first shows a few scenes of how hackers made his life difficult lately. According to him, many of the cheaters pursuing him came from a specific hacker forum. They often chose the same clan tag, so “TarKoffeL” and his community eventually dubbed the group “the fan club.”
Then came the duel in the farmland. “TarKoffeL” was only equipped with a cheap, green MK2 Carbine, took cover, and opened fire on an enemy who also started shooting from the other side of the field.
With a few precise shots, he sent the enemy to the gulag. It didn’t take long for him to realize that the opponent was one of the hackers. He felt immense joy over the kill as he managed to take down the cheater despite the hack tools in this situation. Although the guy returned from the gulag and shot “TarKoffeL” with machine-like accuracy from his SUV, the good feeling remained.
Who is TarKoffeL? He is a small German YouTuber and Twitch streamer who has been a huge fan of the franchise since the start of the CoD series. On his YouTube channel, he currently publishes gameplay and tips for Warzone and covers CoD topics. He has already gathered almost 9,000 subscribers, and his Twitch channel already has over 1,000 followers.
He really regrets that the PC has such a bad reputation in CoD MW & Warzone right now. In his opinion, there aren’t that many cheaters, as he plays a lot and rarely encountered a hacker in the lobby before all this happened. However, the cheaters who are out there ruin the reputation of a strong platform, which is actually best suited for competitive shooters, he says.
Why are hackers such a problem in Warzone? It is the curse of free-to-play games. The threshold for cheat-prone players decreases with the financial investments required to run a hack securely.
The introduced 2-factor authentication helps somewhat, as the cheating soldiers need a new phone number again and again to replace a banned account. However, accounts are now available for a bargain price of around 2 dollars, and unfortunately, many of the current hacks on the PC are not detected by Warzone’s anti-cheat system.
Sometimes, however, the unfair players expose themselves. A Twitch streamer called himself one of the “top Modern Warfare players” until it was revealed that he was using hacks. He kept his stream running and forgot to hide his cheats. After the video went viral, his account disappeared from Twitch.
