Explaining Call of Duty: Warzone’s Hidden Name Hack

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Despite hopes that the Ricochet anti-cheat system would stop cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone, recent weeks have seen hackers returning with a vengeance. Unfortunately, a new cheat is allowing Call of Duty: Warzone hackers to disguise themselves, which has unsurprisingly led to a lot of concern from the game’s community.

Obliviously, this is a big deal, as players need to be able to report the cheaters that the Ricochet anti-cheat system does not automatically catch. If this trick becomes more prevalent, more cheaters could evade bans, which means hacking could become even more prevalent inside Call of Duty: Warzone. With several bugs and glitches impacting the game currently, as well as some balancing issues, the last thing that gamers need to be dealing with is an increase in cheating.

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A series of images posted by Call of Duty: Warzone player @DoomProdigyTV showed that some cheaters essentially have their own streamer mode now, hiding their names from other players in the match. Whenever these disguised cheaters pick up a kill, the killfeed will say that their victim committed suicide, something that is obviously not true. Unfortunately, though, this completely disguises them, with even the killcam shown by @DoomProdigyTV displaying three enemy players with fully invisible names.

A follow-up Tweet saw @DoomProdigyTV showing that the cheater had a 50.0 Kill/Death ratio, an absurd stat that makes it clear that they are not playing by the same rules as anyone else. While gamers can usually report players like this so that they can be added to Call of Duty: Warzone’s massive ban list, the Twitter user clearly did not have that option