A group of alleged cheaters cornered a man behind a riot shield. The alleged cheater, seen in the video below, kept firing at the shielded man's head. Tired of this, he finally tried to run at him with a thermite grenade, but the shield prevailed. This is a nice little schadenfreude, as the mob shield guy won the cheating. In the end, the rest of the squad finishes him off.

Infinity Ward worked to address the cheating problem in Call of Duty: Warzone earlier this year with a massive ban wave and a new reporting feature, but many players don't think it's enough. even though a strict anti-cheat warning was issued at the end of July Despite the strict anti-cheat warning issued at the end of July, Warzone players continue to report cheaters with superhuman aiming and the ability to see through walls.

"I have played 12,000 games of Fortnite in 3 years. Cheetahs have killed me 3 times," former Call of Duty pro player and current Warzone streamer Jack "CouRage" Dunlop said in a tweet. I played Warzone for 4 hours today. Cheetah got me 6 times.

While it is difficult to find concrete evidence that a player is cheating, Warzone fans claim they can tell by a player's behavior. If they seemingly randomly shoot into buildings to get kills, or seem to know where their enemies are before they can see them, it is considered evidence that they are using third-party software.

Cheetah encounters and odd posts like that of someone named AlejandroH, who according to leaderboards has 661,568,246 wins, are common on Reddit and Twitter. Highly ranked lobbies are particularly affected, as cheaters can rack up dozens of kills per game, sometimes killing more than a third of the 150-man lobby by the last few circles.

"We were in the final 15. I was behind the counter and my friend was in the corner. Suddenly I was shot through the wall and killed, and my friend was dead soon after," said Redditor krFrillaKilla. 'We were watching the guy and he walked by our building, looked at the exact spot where I was and shot through the wall, killing me. It is sad how he can apparently be the largest rank in Damascus Weapons and still be active in this game while hacking."

"Cheetahs are in almost every game," said Redditor BerdxD." There are even complete squads of cheetahs. Break kill records. They ruin games. If Infinity Ward doesn't get it together by season 5, their association with Call of Duty is over.

Cheaters stream and post their misdeeds on places like YouTube and TikTok. YouTuber Jamain-Matton, in a cheat streamed on July 17, said, "I stream this shit every day on the same account. 'He thinks I'm going to get banned. I've had [this account] for over four months."

Infinity Ward was eager to fight cheating after "Warzone" was released in mid-March. The developer banned more than 70,000 players by April. In addition, they pitted players who were cheating against each other in the same lobbies and made them suffer the pain they deserved.

"This is really high on our list," Infinity Ward multiplayer director and design director Joe Cecot told US Gamer in an interview in May.

"We have a team at Activision that is dedicated to anti-cheat and finding cheaters, but it's an arms race.

Infinity Ward has added a player reporting feature that notifies players when their reported accounts have been banned. They also added a block feature that warns players when they enter a lobby with someone they have blocked. However, it is clear that these efforts alone are not enough to instill a sense that Warzone is relatively safe from cheaters compared to competing shooters.

Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have similar reporting tools, two-factor authentication, and anti-cheat software (Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye). Riot Games, on the other hand, uses an even more aggressive (and more intrusive) anti-cheat program called Vanguard for its team-based shooter Valorant. The program uses a "kernel-mode driver" that runs as soon as Windows starts up; Vanguard is controversial: many players believe that games should not have that much access to their computers. The battle between game developers and cheaters is also a conflict between privacy and security.

Infinity Ward has not announced that it will introduce a countermeasure like Vanguard or make any major changes to its strategy. The developer said in a July statement that "cheating will not be tolerated" and that "more ban waves are coming."

"Do not use unauthorized third-party software to mod or hack. This includes, but is not limited to, aimbot, wallhacks, trainers, stats hacks, texture hacks, injectors, hex editors, or any software designed to intentionally alter game data or memory."

In the Warzone subreddit, players softly mocked this statement as ineffective. One subreddit wrote: "If you don't stop, we will be very angry."

We contacted Activision to see if Warzone had any new anti-cheat measures in the works, or if a promised wave of bans would be coming soon.