

The EngineOwning devs then updated their cheat, thinking they would be able to bypass the anti-cheat system this time. In the last month, the company's anti-cheat team banned more than 20,000 players who were allegedly using cheats, including a popular one made by EngineOwning. (Image: Motherboard)Īctivision has been hard at work against cheaters. Black Ops Cold War runs on a version of the Black Ops III engine, using tools from the engine that powers Modern Warfare.Ī screenshot of someone identifying themselves as a customer of x22cheats, describing how well the new Black Ops Cold War cheat works. It's not clear, however, that that's necessarily true: Modern Warfare and Warzone are developed by Infinity Ward, and Black Ops Cold War is developed by Treyarch and Raven Software. Another cheat provider, x22cheats, is not advertising the cheat on its official site, but forum posts suggest the cheat developers are giving existing customers access to their new cheat for Black Ops Cold War. Someone who only goes by "RP" and says he is a customer support specialist for the cheat seller Rival Cheats, told VICE that the new game is "basically the same" so his company is already selling cheats for the upcoming Black Ops Cold War. You can contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 9, OTR chat at or email sellers are already posting YouTube videos showing functioning ESP cheats in the Cold War beta and offering them for sale on their websites, though it's difficult to tell who in the industry is posturing and who will actually be able to drop a cheat soon after launch.

"When the game drops I’ll to probably update it," he said, "but that shouldn’t take no more then a few hours unless they surprise us all and update their anti cheat but even then a few days tops."ĭo you develop cheats for games or reverse engineer anti-cheat software? Or do you work on anti-cheat software? We’d love to hear from you.
