Shrewd viewers managed to find a livestreaming cheater by the name of CPTBALDY, with notable immediate action from Activision afterwards.
Popular Warzone streamer CPTBALDY was tricked into revealing his hacks live on stream, prompting an immediate ban from Activision.
While live-streaming a recent Call of Duty: Warzone session on 17th August, viewers began to suspect that CPTBALDY might be cheating. Popular Warzone content creator and streamer JGOD also picked up on the suspect nature of some of CPTBALDY’s kills, calling him out on Twitter.
This led to many in the twitch chat spamming CPTBALDY to prove he isn’t hacking.
In a strange turn of events, CPTBALDY opted to oblige, hoping to open task-manager to prove their legitimacy, but their teammate tricked them into opening the control panel for EngineOwning, their hacking software which was providing wallhacks, aim bots and more.
“Nah, use control, alt, delete.”
Famous Last Words
Hitting the delete key opened the control panel, exposing the cheater live on Twitch for all to see.
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In an act of swift justice, CPTBALDY was banned by Activision before the session ended, and he was banned from Twitch a few hours later. But this remains indicative of the uphill battle Activision has when dealing with cheaters. This ban only took place due to a slip-up from the cheater, and it is unclear if they would have been detected by Activision if not for this mistake.
Hacking has proven to be an ever-growing problem for Warzone, with many streamers and players abandoning the game until Activision has managed to tackle the problem. The recent announcement of that Warzone will no longer support Windows 7 points towards changes in the pipeline that are likely to come with the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard later this year, with a more rigorous anti-cheat solution.
In an effort to provide better PR and visibility to their efforts in tackling the hacking problem, Activision has recently made an in-game change that will show banned players as “Banned” rather than simply “Disconnected” when they are detected and booted out of a game.
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