Anthony Palma's stats in Warzone.

The DeanBeat: Chasing away the cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone

Nobody likes cheaters. I was playing Call of Duty: Warzone recently with my friend Anthony Palma, and he took down another player. That player was completely dead, not wounded. And then the player auto-rezzed, got up, and escaped. Another time, I was hiding in a building, and then I got shot through the walls. This happens frequently. Some players are extraordinarily good at getting headshots.

You can never tell if someone else is just good or cheating. But in Warzone, you can watch players who kill you. And when you see them succeeding by shooting through walls and getting kills, then you know they’re cheating. You can report them, and Activision will ban them. You can also block players, and you’ll get notified if blocked players are in the same lobby as you, so you can vacate that match.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.