Cheaters are the big problem of Call of Duty: Warzone. The battle royale suffers from pesky cheaters, and lately, it has even gotten worse. A clever player came up with a trick to annoy cheaters and waste hours of their life senselessly.
What is it about? Call of Duty: Warzone is a strong and fun battle royale, but it cannot seem to get a grip on one problem – cheaters and hack programs. Especially on the North America servers, the last few days have been terrible, and there have been countless reports that the cheater problem is getting out of control.
A player came up with something to get back at the lousy cheaters. He created a small “fake cheat” program, uploaded a video with instructions to YouTube, and watched what happened. And indeed, he probably gave several dozen cheaters a tiring afternoon.
Fake-cheat trick against annoying cheaters
What does the trick look like? The user “alextheloser168” presented his little trick on reddit (via reddit). He developed a small program that he posed as his “cheats.” He also produced a short YouTube video explaining how to activate the program and how the cheats work. He then had friends and other accounts comment on the video – “Thanks, it works great!”.
Everything is, of course, free and cannot possibly be detected by the developers.
When the aspiring cheaters download and try out the program, however, it does not start a next-generation aim bot. Instead, a loud siren sounds (via imgur – Warning: loud!). The annoyance can be turned off through the task manager or by restarting the computer.
Did it work? Alex did not expect much, but indeed there is a market and bold customers for this method. He reports that the video had more than 250 views within 4 days and the “cheat” reached 45 downloads.
If people swallow the bait, stage two of the trick begins. Since the video promises a serious cheat, some “users” assume they did something wrong during installation. In the comments, the unsuspecting aspiring cheaters ask what they could do – somehow, only a siren always starts:
Alex does not pose as the programmer in the comments but as a disseminator of the cheat. On support inquiries, he writes things like “the cheat website says that reinstalling helps” or “Reinstall Windows – works perfectly”.
Due to the high download rates of Warzone, some stingy cheater likely experienced a frustrating afternoon filled with long downloads and loud sirens. A satisfying thought, and Alex said he had a lot of fun with the whole thing.
Cheat trickster wants to harm no one – invites participation
Some comments criticize that the little trick does not really help against the cheater problem of Warzone. Nomadic_Sushi demands that Alex should use his program to attack and render useless the computers of aspiring cheaters.
Alex denies this and claims that he does not want to break others’ stuff. He sees his trick more as a warning than an actual attack. Nomadic_Sushi then says: “I respect your opinion and reasons. But I don’t think this will help in the long run.”.
Alex then suggests that more people should bring such tricks online to deter potential cheaters. Indeed, there are already hackers targeting Warzone cheaters to utilize their powerful hardware for their own purposes. The more fake offers are circulating, the greater the risk for cheaters to actually “catch” something.
For experienced cheaters who also spend money on their cheats, this would be no problem. However, for the inexperienced cheater who seeks to enter the cheater wonderland with a “free” program, such a lesson could be enough reason to abandon the cheating experiment. And one fewer cheater is good news.
The cheater situation in CoD: Warzone is slowly escalating. Everyone suffers, only cheaters are having fun. The problem is that you can’t always know when cheats are being used. While there are extremely obvious cheaters, many also hide their aim bots and wall hacks and want to appear “legit”.
This has now reached a point where players no longer trust large content creators and pro players – anyone could be a nasty cheater. A pro player of Warzone is now recording his gameplay with 5 cameras and despite the total surveillance, some critics continue to complain.
