Anticheat in Warzone Gives Regular Players ‘God Mode’ Against Cheaters

Call of Duty creators Infinity Ward announce they have a new way to piss off cheaters in their battle royale game Warzone. Sometimes they can hardly do any damage and can therefore be mercilessly killed by ordinary players.

Infinity Ward calls it Damage Shield. This ensures that the cheater cannot do “critical damage” to others, but he can still do some damage on his own. Not only would this method ensure that the cheater is creatively penalized and regular players are rewarded in the same way, but it would also have a technical advantage: “[de anticheat] can thus gather information about the cheater’s system for longer’.

The battle between cheaters and anti-cheat makers is one that always heats up. That ensures that anti-cheat makers sometimes go very far. For example, methods have been developed that work at the kernel level; that is the case with Warzone, but also Valorant, for example. A kernel-level anti-cheat is drastic because it can continue to run outside of the game and has the most rights of any software. That requires a lot of trust in the developers of the software.

A YouTuber managed to capture the new anti-cheat method in a video. Another creative method of dealing with cheaters is to just link them together at the matchmaking stage so that everyone in a match is a cheater.

Video is limited to the Damage Shield demonstration