Call of Duty: Warzone hacking has made headlines once again after a plethora of high profile players stopped cheating.
The BBC reported on YouTuber Vikkstar’s decision to quit Activision’s free-to-play battle royale after releasing a video saying Warzone was “in the worst shape it has ever been.”
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Vikkstar, whose real name is Vikram Singh Barn, has more than seven million subscribers on YouTube. His video stating that he decided to quit has been viewed over 1 million times.
“Activision does not state how many hackers are involved,” said Vikkstar. He revealed that he ran into a hacker who was live-streaming himself and actively hacking into Facebook Gaming. “The game’s player base is now so saturated with hackers that you can find them in every lobby.”
Vikkstar’s decision to leave Warzone comes at a difficult time for the game. Prominent players have questioned Activision’s supposedly ineffective anti-cheat, with some casting doubt on the viability of tournaments in which hundreds of thousands of dollars are up for grabs.
“Unfortunately, authentic Warzone tournaments without an anti-cheat are simply not possible anymore,” said FaZe member Nicholas “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff. Twitter recently.
Twitch streamer Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar did it too Twitter to complain about cheating in Warzone, although he later apologized for questioning the developers’ commitment to fix the problem.
Call of Duty YouTuber Drift0r, which has more than 1.5 million subscribers, recently published a video entitled “Hackers KILLING Warzone! Why Not Anti-Cheat !?” In it, Drift0r reveals that he regularly encounters hackers in the game.
Since Warzone came out in March 2020, it has faced a cheater issue with some console players disabling crossplay with PC gamers to avoid running into hackers.
While Activision has issued bans in the past, saying it has zero tolerance for cheaters, now, nearly a year after launch, Warzone doesn’t seem to have brought its reputation as a hacking game any closer than it was nine months ago. .
In fact, the problem has grown in recent weeks, and stories on mainstream news websites such as the BBC are putting Activision under increased pressure to announce new anti-cheating measures.