With the hacker drama of Call of Duty: Warzone showing no signs of slowing down, a Facebook streamer explained how he is able to comfortably cheat and endure Activision’s countermeasures.
Passing through ‘Boricua Rage Gaming’ on Facebook, a streamer, who considers himself a “modder” instead of a “hacker”, gained popularity by showing viewers the point of view of someone who uses cheats. Promoting transparency, he revealed precisely how he cheats on Warzone and is able to continue to do so despite the efforts of the developers.
Warzone debuted in March 2020 and the biggest wave of banning the Infinity Ward title occurred on September 28, when around 20,000 accounts were permanently suspended due to the detection of unauthorized hacking software. Now Treyarch and Raven Software have joined the group along with the integration of Black Ops Cold War, but cheaters continue to prevail.
In an interview with YouTube’s Rara, who previously revealed what Warzone’s competitors were like reverse-boosting in bot lobbies for farm content, Boricua Rage shared his perspective on how easy it is to hack in CoD Battle Royale.
Noting that he started hacking after dying for one and started broadcasting his cheats live in August, Boricua Rage explains that he is “just a normal player like the rest of us”. Furthermore, he prefers to be called a modder rather than a hacker, because “he didn’t break the game.”
As for the specific process of hacking – or as he prefers, modding – Boricua Rage found a website with which he felt comfortable based on analysis and ease of process. He then opted to buy a hack that “falsifies” (hides his IP address) and allows both Aim FOV (control over the field of view and distance of the aimbot) and ESP (Extra Sensory Perception, which reveals information from other users – capable of including location through walls and even weapons in use).
After purchasing the hack, the next step is to avoid bans. In the September ban wave, which Boricua Rage calls “the big, big, big, big, big, big ban wave”, he lost a total of 80 accounts. But that was only a small obstacle, as he says he can continue using new ones weekly because he has “a friend who connects them”.
Typically, hackers are not seen with high-level loadouts like this, as they often need new accounts.
As Boricua Rage explains, continuously creating new accounts is a way to avoid Activision’s efforts and, on the hackers’ side, updating engines is another. While the new accounts circumvent hidden and permanent bans, the creators of the engine will also update their software as soon as the developers’ anti-cheat detection programs discover their current hacks.
In short, he explains the efforts to curb hacking like a tug-of-war between software engineers on both sides: “There are a lot of smart people out there at that accountant. It’s just an endless war, you know? When they do something, it takes a while for the other guys to understand. “