Bad news is coming for certain Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters, although it's good news for people who prefer fair play in the online battle royale. A huge cheat creating site known as EngineOwning will no longer be an option for those who wish to use it in Warzone to cheat their way to success.
Anyone who's played Call of Duty: Warzone knows that the multiplayer FPS has its fair share of glitches and cheaters, and unfortunately the latter problem has gotten big enough that Activision is taking action by finding a way to detect EngineOwning users. Although Warzone hasn't yet rolled out a complete solution to its cheating problem, this looks like it could be a step forward in the right direction for the fanbase that prefers winning through skill and honest effort.
Infinity Ward, Raven, and Blizzard have implemented a feature that detects EngineOwning users, leading to these cheaters being banned from Warzone. While many cheaters and hackers are getting bolder with the Call of Duty games and not backing off when banned, this is a major impediment against users who wish to use cheats from this particular website, at least until they potentially find a way around the auto-detection software.
Many cheaters who made use of EngineOwning are upset by this measure, and are taking to EngineOwning's forum to voice their complaints about being permabanned versus shadowbanned for cheating in Warzone. Shadowbanning is a technique used in some games that bans cheaters from normal servers without alerting them to the ban, but ironically confines them to cheater-only servers. It's a measure that's supported by a lot of Warzone players as a way to curb cheating in the battle royale. However, these EngineOwning cheaters were apparently permabanned instead.
EngineOwning claims to advertise its software as "merely undetected," which is irking some banned cheaters who believe the site shouldn't advertise undetectable cheats if it they are, in fact, being auto-detected by Warzone servers. Some of these cheaters are also asking for a refund for Call of Duty and the cheat software.
The ban wasn't accompanied by a Warzone patch, interestingly enough, but appears to have surprised a lot of cheaters. Season 6 of Modern Warfare is coming very soon, and it looks like this cheating detection software rode in just ahead. Perhaps this measure came in when it did to clear a swathe of cheaters so everyone else could enjoy a slightly more fair game in Season 6.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available now on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Source: Charlie Intel