Cheaters have always been a problem in the shooter genre. Activision is now relying on the help of the community for Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare – and wants fraudsters to compete against each other.
Activision should be more than happy with the development of its shooter, since Warzone’s release, over 50 million players have plunged into the Battle Royale battles. But it is not everything rosy in the world of Verdansk: Many players – including well-known streamers such as Maximilian ‘HandOfBlood’ Knabe and Jaryd ‘summit1g’ Lazar – complain about the number of cheaters. There’s a trend to see console players turn off crossplay, so as not to be matched with PC gamers – Cheating is easier on the computer. Over 70,000 fraudsters have already been banned, with a new update Activision announces the fight – and wants to beat them with their own weapons.
Whoever meets cheaters often quickly loses the desire to play – the end sounds plausible so far. Activision now uses exactly this mechanism against the cheaters themselves: Suspicious players should be put together in a lobby and thereby lose the fun of the game. A funny idea, which certainly does not solve the cheater problem, but should provide satisfaction for all other players. It could be more helpful that suspicious players will be reported in spectator mode and in the kill cam can. In addition, players will now receive an in-game notification when an opponent they have reported is banned. A fair process is also being carried out in the background: security updates are intended to make fraud more difficult, and further resources are provided for technicians and enforcement teams.
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