Activision’s battle on Call of Duty hacking continues, with 4 extra cheat suppliers reportedly shut down forward of the hotly anticipated return of Verdansk to Warzone.
Call of Duty content material creator LunchTime took to social media to reveal the 4 Call of Duty cheat suppliers confirmed to have shut down this week. Activision has but to make a press release on the purge, nevertheless it comes as half of the corporate’s general bid to enhance Black Ops 6 and Warzone’s poor popularity amongst its core group for dishonest.
4 extra Call of Duty cheat suppliers “GCAIMX”, “Suave”, “ZZ’S”, & “MoneyMan” have been shut down
One step nearer to hacker-free COD
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— LunchTime (@LunchTime_YT) March 20, 2025
The mega writer has spent hundreds of thousands of {dollars} creating its anti-cheat know-how in addition to pursuing cheat makers in the courts, with a quantity of latest high-profile successes. Earlier in March, Phantom Overlay introduced it was shutting down, with followers reacting in disbelief that such a distinguished Call of Duty cheat supplier would fall by the wayside.
However Activision has additionally admitted missteps in its battle on Call of Duty hacking. The corporate stated its Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 anti-cheat efforts “didn’t hit the mark” on the launch of Season 1, notably for Ranked Play after initially pledging to kick cheaters out of the sport inside one hour of them being in their first match. It did, nonetheless, guarantee gamers it now routinely bans cheaters due to elevated “velocity” from a number of Ricochet Anti-Cheat techniques.
The obvious prevalence of cheaters is taken into account by some to be ruining aggressive multiplayer, and Activision had come below hearth for failing to handle the issue. Issues received so dangerous that with the discharge of Season 2, Activision let console Ranked gamers disable crossplay with PC gamers.
Dishonest isn’t distinctive to Call of Duty, of course, nevertheless it has change into extra problematic for Activision because it launched free-to-download battle royale Warzone again in 2020. The hope amongst gamers is when Verdansk goes reside in Warzone on April 3 alongside Season 3, dishonest will not be fairly as massive an issue because it as soon as was.
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