Call of Duty: Vanguard isn’t out until Nov. 5, but cheaters are already gearing up to ruin everyone’s fun in it. Not only are cheating platforms are offering lifetime access to cheats well ahead of Call of Duty: Vanguard’s release date, but players are already running into cheaters during the open beta, Waypoint reported Tuesday.
Reports of cheating during the open beta began pouring in almost immediately. Most commonly, wall-hacks and aim-bots, among others that give cheaters massive advantages over people playing legitimately. How can this start happening before Call of Duty: Vanguard is even out, you ask? Well, it’s because Call of Duty’s back-end software has been the same for years.
“The core of the [Call of Duty] engine hasn’t changed much during the life of the franchise, so porting a cheat from one game to another has always been very easy,” an anonymous source said via Waypoint. “Cheat developers have extra incentives to get that working during beta: it’s good publicity for them to be the first, and that allows them to capture screenshots and videos for marketing. Most usually give the cheat free to their existing customers. Some even go free for everyone.”
Check out a clip of aim-bot cheats in Call of Duty: Vanguard’s open beta for yourself below.
Dudes are hacking in the #Vanguard beta…. pic.twitter.com/N7xI8N3ybf
— Eight Thoughts (@BennyLongStroke) September 17, 2021
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone that plays Call of Duty: Warzone, as that game is rife with cheating. However, Activision is rolling out a new anti-cheat system for Warzone and Vanguard to alleviate the cheating problem. Here’s to hoping that’s the case, anyway.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
