Warzone\u2019s latest anti-cheat measures are finally getting hackers angry ActivisionThe Call of Duty Warzone cheating community is livid following recent efforts by Infinity Ward to crack down on hackers with shadowbans and two-factor authentication. In what is one of gaming\u2019s most cathartic experiences, the hackers who have been ruining Warzone lobbies have finally gotten what\u2019s coming to them, and they\u2019re furious about it. While sharing the sites in which hacks are sold is forbidden on the official Warzone subreddit, users have begun sharing reactions of cheaters who now find themselves shadowbanned from the BR without any recourse. With Infinity Ward now requiring two-step SMS authentication for all new PC users, the most popular tool for circumventing punishment has now been slashed. This, in combination with IW\u2019s implementation of shadowbans for hackers, has broken the spirits (and the pockets) of the cheating community. \u201cNow I can never play Warzone again because the account that had my phone number on it is shadowbanned!\u201d an anonymous but confessed-cheater said. \u201cAnd you have to have a valid phone number to play the game! By far worst service I\u2019ve bought and a big regret of mine.\u201d Security Update: We have initiated two-step SMS authentication for new #Warzone PC users, who log in as free to play as another step to provide an additional layer of security for players. \u2014 Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) May 12, 2020 Turns out that there are many reactions similar to that one; these guys are \u201cvery, very displeased\u201d and those tears, salty as they may be, are music to the ears of those who play the game fairly. In the past, cheaters could receive a ban after ruining lobbies and then comfortably just swap to a new free account. Already breaking bank on codes, those desperate for cheesy kills now need to throw ducats at new phones too. In another instance, grabbed by \u2018berdxD\u2019 on Reddit, a hacker complains that \u201cobviously online disposable numbers aren\u2019t helping out, and detaching my actual number and attaching it to multiple accounts doesn\u2019t work either.\u201d They finish their whining rant by asking if there is \u201cany way to bypass this?\u201d No word yet on if anyone has responded that the only remaining way to bypass their issues is to get better at the game, fairly. Infinity Ward have generally tried to remain unpredictable in their efforts to curb hackers, as that\u2019s typically the best way to protect against punishment. They caught a lot of players by surprise when they recently implemented a change that put suspected hackers in the same lobbies together. And this move, banning phone numbers instead of accounts, was no exception, as they dropped it suddenly without anyone knowing what was coming. For now, continue to report these cheaters while they slowly but surely realize they\u2019re shadowbanned by spending hours in queue looking for a match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone\u2019s latest anti-cheat measures are finally getting hackers angry ActivisionThe Call of Duty Warzone cheating community is livid following recent efforts by Infinity Ward to crack down on hackers with shadowbans and two-factor authentication. In what is one of gaming\u2019s most cathartic experiences, the hackers who have been ruining Warzone lobbies have finally gotten what\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}