As much as Activision wants to persuade players that Season 2 of the Pacific update is different, Call of Duty: Warzone is still going through a period of trouble. The technical issues aside, Call of Duty: Warzone is struggling with a diverse wave of cheats that even its new Ricochet kernel-level anti-cheat drivers aren't detecting. The hits keep on coming, too, because a new exploit that's giving PC Call of Duty: Warzone players no recoil is just the latest to be discovered.
A Youtuber named Rara shared a video on Saturday claiming that there's a simple exploit for Call of Duty: Warzone that could be allowing players on PC who use a controller to have nearly no recoil for their weapons. Further, Rara says the exploit is so widespread that many people may be using it without even realizing it - including many popular Twitch streamers. Rara also says that it's possible the exploit is being used maliciously by these same players without it being obvious.
The exploit stems from a piece of third-party software named DS4. DS4 is an application that allows PC gamers to use controllers for their favorite games, whether it's Nintendo Switch JoyCons in Apex Legends or similar. The short story is that DS4 allows players to customize the way gyroscopes work in controllers in surprising ways, including in a way that effectively erases all recoil for Call of Duty: Warzone players. Players just have to tilt their controller downwards while shooting and the gyroscope settings respond by accounting for recoil.
Rara claims that he's able to completely get rid of recoil for all Call of Duty: Warzone weapons via this exploit, and shows it in the video, to an extent. He claims that once the player calibrates it to a certain degree, the same settings will mostly work for any weapon. Further, Rara provides instructions on how players can do this themselves.
For those wondering whether Rara tested out the exploit on live servers, he absolutely did. In doing so, he may have opened himself up to being punished by Activision. Rara's not only actively used cheats on Call of Duty: Warzone servers, but has also propagated the process for cheating. He even went so far as saying he hopes his video "low-key blows this up" and is so widely used that Activision is forced to respond.
Activision claims that since the roll-out of Ricochet, there's been a "significant drop" in in-game cheat reporting and that cheating overall on Call of Duty: Warzone was at an "all-time-low" over the holidays. It does acknowledge that cheating is rising more recently, but claims it's still less prevalent than it was during the era of Verdansk. Thus far, no official comment has been made on Rara's anti-recoil exploit.
Call of Duty: Warzone is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.