Call of Duty: Warzone has carried out a brand new requirement for free-to-play gamers that ought to reduce down on the variety of cheaters.
Following the instance of CS:GO and different free-to-play games, Call of Duty: Warzone now requires two-step SMS verification for its free-to-play gamers on PC.
This mainly means anybody who doesn’t personal the complete game should tie an lively cellular quantity to their profile, which they’ll be receiving a SMS message on, just like how two-factor authentication works over electronic mail.
For now, that is solely a requirement on PC, but it surely ought to make the method of making new accounts a lot tougher for cheaters, since they’ll even have to purchase a brand new line each time they get banned.
Security Update: We have initiated two-step SMS authentication for brand spanking new #Warzone PC customers, who log in as free to play as one other step to offer a further layer of safety for gamers.
— Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) May 12, 2020
This is clearly not a completely foolproof resolution, as burners exist, and so do websites that generate short-term cellular numbers. But, it’s a step in the appropriate course for a game that’s been struggling a bit with cheaters.
Just final month, Warzone began matching cheaters with other cheaters in separate lobbies. Infinity Ward additionally lately up to date its player-reporting instruments to permit everybody to report cheaters by means of the spectator view and killcam.
