PC cheaters are causing all sorts of trouble in Infinity Ward's free-to-play title Call of Duty: Warzone at the moment. Earlier this week, the developer revealed it had issued over 70,000 bans within the first month and stated how it had "zero tolerance" for these types of players.
According to Eurogamer, even more Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players are now asking Infinity Ward to remove the crossplay feature from the game altogether, rather than "deploy" dedicated security updates. Some console players have become so frustrated with the situation that they've gone to the extent of disabling crossplay.
Although Warzone stops players from finding a lobby when they disable the crossplay function within the in-game settings, Xbox players have apparently had some success cutting ties with PC users via the console's system settings. An Xbox One player over on the CODWarzone subreddit has shared step-by-step instructions. There's a catch, though:
there has to be enough people doing it for it to work. Once enough people have done this, you will be able to find lobbies of only xbox players. All games have to conform to your xbox live settings, which means you can supercede Activisions requirement of keeping crossplay enabled
As the FPS and Call of Duty YouTuber JackFrags noted in a recent video, this problem is likely to keep happening as long as PC players can continue making new accounts and crossplay is enabled.
How's the experience in Warzone been for yourself recently? Have you encountered any cheaters? Tell us below.
[source eurogamer.net]
Comments 8
They could make it so that Xbox and PS players plays together.
The problem with PC is cheating is rampant. So when you get cross play you are opening yourselves up to all sorts of crap. And yes, I'm sure that legit PC gamers get frustrated when they have to play these people too.
Best way is no crossplay with PC. Console only.
I used to game on a PC back in the day. I mostly played Counter-Strike & cheating was SOOOO annoying. It’s one of the reasons I stopped playing competitive multiplayer games on PC.
And with free to play games now, it’s probably way worse because (as the article stated), people can just start another account.
@Justifier yeah I have to agree. Crossplay is cool but it needs to be limited to Console.
@Justifier I agree. I play Modern Warfare alot with my son, I own both a PS4 and an Xbox One so it's nice that I can play with him. They just need to disable cross play with PC.
Some games have anti cheat that has to run when the game starts and plays on PC. If it detects any cheats in the files the game won’t work. All they need to do is have this in the game and it should solve everything.
PC masterrace at its finest, maybe just masters of cheating^^
@Murray not everyone cheats on PC. It’s just like any platform really, cheaters are everywhere. I see cheating in Splatoon 2, gears of war, fortnite, call of duty. PC players are way smarter when it comes to files, mods, hardware, also it’s an open platform you have total control over. Unlike locked box consoles requiring it to be modded. Maybe if people would put proper anti cheat into the games that have to run when the game runs this whole thing wouldn’t be an issue.
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