Call of Duty creator YouTube personality and London Royal Ravens co-owner Vikram ‘Vikkstar’ Singh Barn has announced that he is leaving Warzone and revealed that only a significant update to the game can convince him to return.
Call of Duty: Warzone took the Battle Royale scene with its release on March 10, 2020. In almost a year since its debut, the game has reached impressive milestones, including 80 million downloads and millions of hours watched on platforms like Twitch and YouTube.
Warzone started off strong, but has suffered from a number of problems since its launch. Various errors and exploits that break the game, along with an increasing number of cheaters, have led to more and more criticism from professional gamers and game content creators.
The latest breeder sharing his concerns is the powerful YouTuber Vikkstar. Previously one of the best players and content creators in the game, he announced his departure from BR and confirmed that it will take a long time to bring him back.
Vikkstar’s video shows images of another player hacking and broadcasting on Facebook Gaming at the same time.
In a recent video, Vikkstar started explaining the decline in Warzone-based content on his channel and confirmed that hackers are the reason for his move from Verdansk. “The game is in the worst state ever,” he noted, calling attention to the infestation of hackers who took control of Warzone.
“Activision really isn’t addressing how many hackers there are in the game,” he continued. In addition, the streamer reported that while playing Warzone earlier in the day, he encountered a hacker who was broadcasting his gameplay – hacks and all – to more than 100 viewers on Facebook Gaming.
“They are a Prestige 2 account with many hours in the game, and they sit there hacking and nothing is done about it,” he said. “There are always more and more hackers,” he continued, echoing the sentiments of many other creators when it comes to the sheer number of cheaters in the game.
“It is in a terrible, terrible state. This is sad for me, ”said the creator, recalling his time as a competitor and host of his own Warzone tournament. He also expressed frustration at the failure to resolve Warzone’s cheating problems and reiterated that “the game’s player base is now saturated with hackers.”
“You either laugh or cry at how sad it is, that this is the state of a game that we loved and loved every day,” he continued. Vikkstar then plunged into his relationship with Activision, and how he hoped this video could help to draw more attention to cheating issues.
“Even as a CoD Partner, this is a way to contact Activision and say, ‘This needs to be addressed. It really needs to be fixed ‘, ”he confirmed. The creator also shared his gloomy view of the cheating situation and warned that “it will really be the death of the game.”
With no anti-cheat in sight, some of the #Warzonethe best can stop competing 😬
Best players @Symfuhny, @TylerTeeP and @jukeyz are, or have considered, taking a break from WZ tournaments – with Sym recently explaining why the broadcast. pic.twitter.com/oGL7OCQRpp
– Call of Duty DEXERTO (@DexertoIntel) January 29, 2021
Like Mason ‘Symfuhny’ Lanier’s recent reviews, Vikkstar revealed that playing with so many hackers was just too stressful for him to keep creating content on Warzone: “Maybe if there’s a new update for the game, we’ll have some new things to cover, a new map that will bring me back, but until then it is very painful to play. “
“I hope you guys enjoy me talking and using my platform for this, and we can kind of come together, amplify this and really send a message to Activision and Raven,” he continued. After showing his viewers the footage of the hacker broadcasting to Facebook, Vikkstar simply commented “What an absolute joke”.
YouTuber is far from the first creator to voice their concerns about the state of cheating in Warzone, but as a CoD Partner and co-owner of a Call of Duty League team, Activision will likely pay close attention to your criticisms as the problem of cheating in Warzone continues to grow.