Warzone boasts the ban of a notorious cheater. But he continues to cheat in Call of Duty – despite new measures and hardware bans.
The developers of CoD Warzone (once again) declare war on cheaters. A new video even goes so far as to publicly pillory a known cheater who was caught cold by the last wave of bans. However, this declaration of war loses some of its menace, because the cheater in question simply continues to cheat.
What happened?
Cheaters and hackers have always been a serious problem in Call of Duty: Warzone, which Activision still can’t seem to get a handle on. Every few months, reports make the rounds that thousands of cheaters have once again been banned from the Battle Royale. For Warzone itself, however, this is always a drop in the ocean, as many cheaters simply create new, free accounts.
That is why Activision Blizzard resorted to more drastic measures in August 2021: At the latest from this point on, Warzone seems to rely on hardware bans. This means that the game recognises a PC and even its individual components and locks it out of Call of Duty. So it’s no use if a banned player gets a new account, because it will automatically be kicked out again.
Campaign against cheaters
With a new promotional clip, the developers show themselves confident of victory: In a short video clip, the official Twitter account promises that they will “hold cheaters accountable”. And in the process, one of the most well-known Warzone cheaters is publicly pilloried: Rushman360.
The video picks up on a clip of the notorious cheater that made the rounds on TikTok in mid-August. In it, Rushman360 revealed to his “fans” that all his CoD accounts had been hit by the ban wave and expressed cynical congratulations to Activision Blizzard.
This is not a drill: If you cheat, we are coming for you 🎯
Banwaves are ongoing, and PC anti-cheat is arriving in #Warzone later this year. pic.twitter.com/EUXc3COCIn
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) August 31, 2021
There’s a catch, though: since Rushman360 posted the original clip, he’s been brazenly cheating again. And this, of course, in Warzone. Various videos and streams can already be found on social media that have since been published by the hacker.
To be fair, it should be noted at this point that it was never entirely clear for what specific reason Rushman360’s accounts were kicked out of Warzone. Some players already suspected that it might not necessarily have been due to Activision Blizzard’s new measures, but to a bug in the cheat software.
It is also unclear whether Rushman360 was actually affected by a hardware ban: According to PCGamer, many of the most popular cheat programs have a function that protects one’s own hardware ID from being recognised. However, it cannot be ruled out that Rushman360 is deliberately trying to mislead – or that the hacker is finding new ways and means to cheat in Warzone.
Either way, it remains exciting to see how Warzone’s fight against its cheaters will continue. After all, Call of Duty: Vanguard is supposed to introduce a completely new anti-cheat system that should finally solve this problem for the Battle Royale. You can read all about it in the following article:
CoD Warzone: Free cheat actions trigger anger and helplessness
What do you think of the new anti-cheat campaign in Call of Duty: Do you think Activision Blizzard’s offensive announcement makes sense or has the publisher been a bit too full of words here? Let us know in the comments.
