Call Of Duty: Warzone is dying the same way it lived: amidst a plague of cheats-GameCentral-Entertainment – Metro

Call Of Duty: Warzone – it never changed (pic: Activision)

Warzone 2.0 is out next month but the original is still causing frustration amongst fans, as it suffers a new wave of cheaters.

The most common reason for a sequel to be made is that the old game has simply become too outdated, or the developer has a big new idea that needs a whole new entry to do it justice. The reason Warzone 2.0 is coming out next month though is very different, and most of it has to do with cheats.

The original Warzone also has a serious problem with bugs, and everyone is sick of the Second World War setting, but the main issue has always been cheaters, which seem to come and go in waves and are currently at epidemic levels.

The Season 5 Reloaded update has brought what many fans have described as a ‘plague’ of cheats, although nobody can quite agree on why exactly it has happened now.

Although it’s hoped that Warzone 2.0 will stop this problem, and Activision has certainly implied it will, it’s not clear how it will achieve that as it will use the same Ricochet anti-cheat software as the original Warzone.

Hopefully Ricochet will be getting an upgrade, but on the same Reddit thread that coined the term ‘plague’ of cheats there’s endless reports of people using aimbots and wallhacks (making them either see-through or something you can shoot through).

‘The past few weeks, playing Caldera, I’ve observed what I believe to be a noticeable increase in average to below average players using wallhacks,’ says Redditor purplepenguin67.

‘There is a certain hack maker (I won’t name it) that has had wallhacks for free for the past couple of months. We’re seeing the effects of that,’ suggests I3ULLETSTORM1.

‘The cheating never stopped. People just got smarter,’ adds Roooffuss.

There’s little optimism that the problem will be solved any time soon, with most blaming the easy availability of cheat websites and many resenting the fact that you cannot turn off cross-play for just the PC, where it is easier to install cheats.

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