It’s not surprising that a person will be pit against cheaters when playing a PC shooting game, such as Call of Duty or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Some of the usual hacking or cheating tools that a cheater uses are the aimbot, which makes your target automatically lock onto an opponent’s head, and the wallhack, which reveals every player on the map, no matter where they are.
Aimbots and wallhacks are the most common forms of cheating in online shooters, allowing people who are new to a game or simply at a lower skill level to get a huge advantage over other players. Some cheats are the obvious type, where a player is flying around a map at an impossible speed or firing a gun faster than anyone else. Others, like wallhacks, are far less obvious, and often go undetected in games for weeks or even months.
Thankfully, PC game developers are not silent about this, and are constantly battling against cheaters and communities that create and sell cheats for their games.
Infinity Ward is matching suspected Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters against each other in a virtual battle of whose wallhacks and aimbots are more sophisticated. More than 70,000 cheaters have already been banned, and Infinity Ward says it has a “zero tolerance for cheaters.” Respawn Entertainment, the maker of Apex Legends, has also been struggling with cheaters and hackers recently. After banning more than 350,000 cheaters a year ago, hackers have figured out how to bypass hardware ID bans from the Easy Anti-Cheat software that Apex Legends utilizes.
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