Call of Duty: Warzone" Bans 50,000 More Cheaters Last Week

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Call of Duty: Warzone" Bans 50,000 More Cheaters Last Week

More than 50,000 cheaters were banned from Call of Duty: Warzone last week, developer Raven announced Friday.

Posting a brief anti-cheat update on Twitter, Raven revealed that this latest group of cheaters was banned in two separate waves. These waves were primarily (but not exclusively) targeted at accounts that Raven had already caught cheating and habitual offenders.

Warzone has long fought cheaters, and this mass ban is only the latest effort to combat them; in May, Raven banned over 30,000 accounts in a single day, bringing the total number of bans at the time to over 500,000.

That hasn't stopped cheaters from trying even harder to break Raven's battle royale. Last week, Activision stepped in to crack down on "undetectable" and "unstoppable" aiming assist cheats that use machine learning and third-party software to hijack controls whenever an enemy player appears on screen.

Warzone players' complaints about cheaters have spilled over to legitimate players. One Warzone world record-holding pro was forced to use an absurd five-camera stream setup to fend off allegations of cheating.

Another wave of bans, while welcome, may provide a brief reprieve. However, the replies to Raven's post represent a community fed up with the occasional mass ban and eagerly awaiting a more permanent solution to Warzone's cheating epidemic.

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