Call of Duty Warzone and Vanguard have been in the eye of the storm for some time due to the games' issues with cheaters. Despite beefing up Ricochet in recent times, the cheating issue still remains.
Earlier in the day, a Vanguard player named "pplehx" was caught as a cheater, shocking the entire community. He is the number 2 ranked player on Vanguard, but an accidental turn of events revealed that he uses cheats in his game.
pplehx was reportedly streaming when the incident occurred. A story broken by CDL Intel showed the player's stream going through a lag. The lag caused the stream to freeze, which showed red boxes that seemed like wallhacks.
The incident occurred while the player was playing Tuscan Hardpoint, and it's pretty evident that the incident was unintentional. However, the community has expressed their shock and dismay over the incident.
Since news of the incident broke, both casual and professional players have shared their reactions. The gravity of the situation makes it worse as pplehx isn't a casual player by any means.
His rank is now debatable, given there's no knowing how much of it was achieved with the help of cheats.
Professional Warzone player JGOD claimed in his tweet that players are ready to go to any extent to win.
The recent revelation has been embarrassing for his earlier teammates. One of them has publicly apologized, but has stated that they had no knowledge of any wrongdoings.
Another player stated how pplehx had told them that they wouldn't make it as a streamer. The tables have definitely turned now, with pplehx now facing all the heat related to streaming of Call of Duty Warzone and Vanguard.
One player took a shot at Ricochet and its functioning. The player stated that there could be more
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