Warzone cheaters harass lobbies with teleporting helicopters

Cheaters continue to plague the Warzone player base, with their latest exploit involving helicopters that teleport out of the planet’s atmosphere, making them impossible to deal with. As the latest cheat takes hold, fans have voiced their frustration with the lack of action from devs.

Cheating in Warzone is nothing new. The battle royale has been beleaguered by the problem for some time now. Warzone players have seen aim bots, spin bots, wall-tracking, and even immunity to stuns and flashes.

Now, in the latest exploit to hit the servers, cheaters are piloting helicopters outside of the planet’s atmosphere, and somehow still managing to eliminate entire enemy squads from the edge of the earth. Without any ability to target the helicopters, rule-abiding players are left to suffer defeat.

Warzone’s anti-cheat system, Ricochet, is supposed to detect and punish cheaters — but players feel it’s not doing enough to tackle the problem of late. One player recently shared footage of their own encounter with the teleporting helicopters to Reddit, asking the question, “How is this even possible with Ricochet?”

Cheaters in Warzone are literally teleporting helicopters out of the atmosphere – how is this even possible with Ricochet?
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“Ricochet is one of the worst anti-cheats on the market!” Reads the top comment on the thread. It also claims there is older anti-cheat functionality that could address the problems faced by Warzone. “It often doesn’t have to be some fancy kernal level anti-cheat.” The user said, expressing their frustration with the reoccurring problem.

Ricochet did implement a wave of account bans recently. But it seems this hasn’t deterred those willing to purchase and run cheats in the game.

“I just think cheating has gotten too big to fail now,” one player said. Adding cheaters are able to hack for months before “even catching a shadow ban.”

“At some point this game is just going to be software fighting other software and the “player” will be holding the controller pretending they’re playing the game…” another lamented.

While others were more cynical: “Cheaters buy skins and battle passes, why would they ban them?”

“They could stop cheaters right now if they actually wanted to, but they don’t.” Another agreed.

While Activision and Infinity Ward have said they’re committed to dealing with cheaters, it seems the fans don’t have a lot of faith they’ll deliver on that promise.