New Delhi, April 3: Hacking and using cheats in games, particularly the likes of Call Of Duty, Battlefield, DOTA, Counter Strike, PUBG etc is not uncommon. It is an often witnessed and unfortunate chain of events that ends up ruining the fun for other players as they get all the high class loot and equipment, get themselves invincibility, or defy the physics of the game through cheat codes. The result of getting caught for cheating usually results in a warning and then a permanent ban upon repetition of that action. In an accidental case for a Call Of Duty: Vanguard gamer who tried to prove that he was not cheating, he did the exact opposite in an unofficial tournament this week. After drawing some suspicion about his win tactics, COD streamer Kenji apparently tried to prove he wasn’t cheating by pointing a webcam at his monitor and streaming during a 2v2 Search and Destroy match. Kenji’s team won the 2v2 match, but his competitors ImSasukee and iLuhvly disputed the results with the tournament hosting service Checkmate Gaming due to note discrepancies. While reviewing Kenji’s stream, Checkmate noticed something was off. As shared in a clip on Twitter, at one point Kenji’s monitor cam plainly shows that he was using wallhacks (a common cheat that lets you see enemies through walls revealing their location and allowing you to get a faster killstreak). The stream along with the entire channel has since then been deleted by Kenji. Following the investigation, Kenji has been banned from Checkmate Gaming, where he had apparently earned nearly $4,000 since late 2020 by playing COD. If that wasn’t enough, the collegiate league Kenji competed in, the College CoD League, issued Kenji a permanent ban and disqualified his other four teammates representing Grand Canyon University in the league. The league announced its decision this morning on its official Discord server. “Kenji is permanently banned from the CCL,” the statement reads. “Grand Canyon University is disqualified from the rest of the 2022 season and post-season. All GCU players listed below that competed alongside Kenji are banned until the beginning of the 2023 Season and may return to competition in the 2023 Season.” Activision employed a new Ricochet Anti-Cheat system within Vanguard to prevent these sorts of things happening, but as any number of incredulous posts from Call of Duty players on social media are more than enough evidence, cheats can and do still show up in Vanguard. Hearing about cheaters and people getting banned isn’t uncommon by any means, if anything it is far too common. However it is far less likely to see someone incriminate themselves in this manner while trying to prove that they weren’t cheating. (UNI)
