Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has seen an influx of cheaters since it was released on Xbox Game Pass.
That’s according to Call of Duty X handle (formerly Twitter) CharlieINTEL, who has reported that an influx of cheaters has been spotted following the game’s debut in Game Pass. As CharlieINTEL points out, most cheaters appear with an Xbox logo in the game lobby.
Activision is yet to comment on the increase in cheaters, but given the game’s debut on Game Pass, which would offer the game to potentially 10’s of millions more players (34 million users as of February 2024), it isn’t difficult to see why there could be an influx of cheaters. The task now, though, is banning and preventing them from returning.
Before the release of Modern Warfare 3, Activision announced that its Richochet anti-cheat system was using machine learning and client—and server-side systems that continue to evolve and grow to combat cheating. In the lead-up to Modern Warfare 3, Richchet banned over 80,000 accounts during Monder Warfare 2 (80,000 accounts banned in 12 months).
We wouldn’t be surprised to see a blog post from Activision in the coming weeks about the issue, what they are doing to combat cheating, and how many more players have since been banned.
For now, though, players of Modern Warfare 3 will have to endure the influx of new cheaters.
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The cheaters are present well before gamepass, their flow in the Ranked of Warzone for example is present since season 3, here in the lobbies of the SA most of the top250 non-streamers are cheaters, the ranked for example unplayable with cheaters in all matches above the carmesin, I had never seen so many tranpaceiros since from Verdansk.
Hey don’t worry, they won’t actually ban the cheaters but God forbid you find yourself in my situation where someone hacked my account and cheated on it. Turned it in immediately, and basically got the “Not our problem, but since you were the account holder we will ban you instead.” I personally will be boycotting all COD games. Saves me 300gig of space. Hope they go bankrupt.