"Call of Duty: Warzone" Cheaters Have Evolved Since May, a new type of cheat in Warzone has been slowly gaining steam, and examples of its use can be seen all over YouTube and the game's subreddit. The cheat is called Silent Aim, which, when turned on, allows you to kill your opponent by looking in their general direction and pulling the trigger.

As far as I can tell, Silent Aim is basically an advanced version of the traditional aimbot hack, where all shots land perfectly on-target as long as the cheater is within the same zip code. The server reads those bullets as hitting the targeted player, even if they appear to hit 10 feet to the left or directly on the ground.

As Reddit user notbilbo points out in the clip below, cheaters using silent aim can aim with perfect accuracy even if their sights are not down.

Yikes, Silent Aim's main advantage over the traditional Warzone aimbot seems to be its ease of use. Not only is it easier to hide your misdeeds because the gun isn't artificially snuggled up to the target's head, but the clips of cheats I've seen seem to be much more consistent than with other tools. I've seen traditional Aimbot have trouble dealing with recoil and falling bullets at long distances, but Silent Aim seems to have no problem making a skydiving player no-scope at first sight from any distance. The most popular Warzone cheat sites have recently started offering hacks that eliminate recoil and bullet spread, so that may have something to do with it.

As for anti-cheat measures, Activision continues to play whack-a-mole with a number of game-busting hacks. We learned in May that Activision has banned over 500,000 accounts for cheating since the game's release. On the surface, this would be a significant portion of the likely total number of cheaters (PC players who cheat are a relatively small subset of Warzone's 100+ million total players), but in reality we are likely talking about thousands of repeat offenders who return to the game with new accounts Highly likely.

Last I checked, the most popular cheat engines are able to spoof a user's hardware ID so that Activision cannot issue a more permanent hardware ban against their machines. And when one of their accounts is discovered by an Activision moderator or called out by a streamer and eventually banned, they probably have four or five other accounts in their back pocket.

This problem is not limited to Warzone; free-to-play games (most recently Apex Legends) are particularly vulnerable to cheaters who have nothing to lose by getting banned and creating new accounts.

What I feel is unique to Warzone is how thoroughly the cheat creators have compromised the game, and how little Activision can do to make these programs obsolete. The list of individual cheat tools provided for Warzone is staggering and unfortunately, continues to grow.