Honest players lose out in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 beta. (Image source: Activision)
In the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 beta, players can try out the new shooter on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. However, reports of cheaters are already piling up. Publisher Activision promises improvement.
Release: 10/28/2022
Platforms: Windows PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
Call of Duty: Fans are complaining about cheaters
The Call of Duty series has had a huge problem with hackers and cheaters for years. Publisher Activision has been fighting against it for a long time and blocks corresponding players. In the case of CoD: Modern Warfare 2, the hated cheaters don’t even wait until the release of the shooter in October. Nice during the last beta phase there have been numerous reports online of wallhacks and aimbots.
The honest players are of course not at all enthusiastic about this. After all, there is anti-cheat software that is supposed to prevent exactly that. Gamers with Xbox or PlayStation are also already planning Turn off crossplay with PC, since it is much easier to activate cheats there. Of course, this also means there are fewer players to gamble with, which could result in longer wait times between rounds. This is also only an emergency solution (source: Reddit).
Check out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay here:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | First game play
Infinity Ward declares war on cheaters
The developer Infinity Ward also speaks out about the cheater problem. On Twitter he explains that last beta weekend already Measures against cheaters and hackers have been undertaken (source: Twitter). A few weeks ago, Infinity Ward proudly announced that the Ricochet anti-cheat software for Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0 had been significantly improved (source: Infinity Ward).
Activision and Infinity Ward aren’t just fighting cheaters either. Also Harassment and toxic behavior are punished. For this purpose, a new code of conduct was specially designed for Modern Warfare 2. In addition, 500,000 accounts have already been blocked for illegal behavior.
