Frustrating Warzone 2 bug causes players to get shadow banned after 10 kills

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Call of Duty Warzone 2 has its fair share of unfortunate in-game glitches and bugs that hinder the gameplay experience. The most recent problem that has been plaguing the entire player base is the shadow ban, which kicks players out of the lobby when they score more kills.

Shadow ban is a new method where suspected cheaters are not directly banned from the game itself. Instead, they are quietly moved to different lobbies, which consist of other flagged players, and get a taste of their own medicine. This is done primarily because cheaters tend to simply create a different account and log in to free-to-play games like Warzone 2.

To minimize the number of cheaters and prevent new accounts, Activision employs a shadow ban where flagged players can still play the game but leave out the innocent players from their crosshairs.

Players have reported being shadow banned for playing to the best of their abilities and securing double-digit kills in the game. Shadow ban is an interesting approach to maintaining lobbies clean and free of hack tool users. Any form of external assistance that can provide players with an unfair advantage over others in the lobby is heavily discouraged.

However, these features are only lines of code and can sometimes malfunction. This results in Warzone 2 shadow-banning innocent players who are just having a good day or genuinely playing the game well.

Let us take a look at the most recent shadow ban problems arising in Warzone 2.

One of the biggest hurdles for online multiplayer game developers for companies like Activision is to minimize the number of cheaters that inject themselves into different lobbies. Anti-cheat systems are ingrained in most titles like Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 which can get