TheCall of Dutyfranchise is an immensely popular one. There are those who play the games casually, just picking up a controller to wind down after a long day, while others make their living playing games likeCall of Duty: WarzoneandCall of Duty: Vanguardcompetitively. With tournaments that can put thousands of dollars at stake, there’s plenty to be won and lost for aproCall of Dutyplayer, which makes it all the more frustrating when a player is discovered to be cheating.Cheating is an issue in many games, and it plagues both the casual and pro scenes of a game such asCall of Duty: Warzone, which has seen hacks of all kinds from seeing players through walls to making cars fly. While Activision works toimplement Ricochet Anti-Cheat, someCall of Dutyhackers are finding ways around it, causing cheating to still exist even as countermeasures are put in place against it. While facing a cheater in a match is annoying, it proves infuriating for pro players who may lose out on big wins due to another player cheating.RELATED:Call of Duty: Warzone Player Turns into a Plane Mid-Tournament and Pros Aren’t HappyACall of Dutystreamer called Kenji, who had won thousands in tournaments back in 2020, drew suspicion from some of his competitors. To prove that he wasn’t cheating, Kenji set up a webcam to monitor his screen during a 2v2 Search and Destroy match inCall of Duty: Vanguard. Kenji won his match, with his opponents still believing he had used hacks to support himself. When scrolling through the footage of Kenji’s gameplay, his competitors ImSasukee and iLuhvly noticed something more than suspicious.
In the footage Kenji posted, a floating rectangle can be seen showing the outline of a player, a common feature of wall hacks. Wall hacks, as the name suggests, allow players to see their enemies through the environment, meaning that the cheater can plan around where their opponent is at all times. Wall hacking is one of the more common forms of cheating in games, withCall of Duty: Vanguardeven granting players wall hacksdue to a glitch.
Still, wall hacking grants an unfair advantage to the cheater, or Kenji in this case. While Activision has given playersinteresting ways to combat cheaters inCall of Duty, the pro leagues have a simple answer to hackers and that is to ban them. The league Kenji competed in has issued him a permanent ban, and his collegiate team at Grand Canyon University will not be able to compete in competitiveCall of Dutyuntil 2023.
Call of Duty: Vanguardis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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