Cheating has long been a bane for manyCODplayers, but withCall of Duty: Warzoneit became particularly unbearable, spreading from PC to console and negatively impacting everybody’s experience no matter the platform. The sizeableWarzoneplayer base contains a proportionately sizeable number of cheaters, and the problem has become so bad that popularstreamers have predicted thatWarzone’spopularity will “fall off,”openly mocked Activision’s dubious anti-cheat measures, and even quit playing the game entirely.
In August,Raven Software announced a new PC anti-cheat system forCall of Duty: Warzone, although not much information was provided about what players could expect or how it would work. But additional details will be made available in the weeks preceding the release of the 18th game in the series,Call of Duty: Vanguard, on November 5. While it may seem like Raven and Activision aren’t being active enough in thwarting cheaters, Charlie Intel estimated that by August 2021 a total of roughly 800,000Warzoneaccounts had been banned for cheating.
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Charlie Intel shared some additional welcome news via Twitter forWarzoneplayers fed up with cheaters. Gamers who were planning to continue their undesirable behavior inVanguardshould perhaps make other plans, because hardware and account bans will carry over fromWarzoneinto the new game, which is good because nobody enjoys facing off with aCall of Dutycheater wielding five gunsat once. As stated in the tweet, the reason should be fairly obvious, but it’s apparently not for someWarzoneplayers.
A number of the responses to Charlie Intel’s post are from players who claim to have been erroneously banned fromCall of Duty:Warzone, for example due to a hacked account, and are now angry that they won’t be able to playVanguardthrough no fault of their own. It’s inevitable with any anti-cheat trawl that a few innocents will get caught in the net as well, and Activision’s new policy seems to have done just that. One disappointed player banned fromCold WarandWarzonehad already preordered the ultimate edition ofVanguardwhen the news dropped.
Call of Duty: Vanguardwill be released for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on July 05, 2025.
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