Well-knownCall of Duty: Warzoneplayer Aydan “Aydan” Conrad claims he’s been shadow-banned from the game. TheCall of Dutystreamertook to social media earlier this week to express his confusion over the recent development.
Activision has been dealing with quite a wide swath of “cheaters” inCall of Duty: Warzoneover the last few months. The company did a wave of bans in early February in order to rid the title of those it found to be cheating or using exploits. In total, Activision claimed it swept more than 60,000 players out. However, if Aydan is correct, it’s possible the sweep caught up some who might not have been cheating at all.
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Aydan announced his issue on Twitter, though he didn’t offer a follow up on why he might have been shadow-banned. He tweeted out, “I got shadow-banned onWarzone… wtf?” After several followers commented in the thread that it showed that perhaps he hadn’t been as “clean” as he claimed, the streamer issued another tweet, this time claiming people had the wrong idea. Aydan claimed someCall of Duty: Warzoneplayersaccused some of the bigger streamers were banding together in order to cheat. He called those making those allegations, “delusional.”
As Dexerto pointed out, some believe that all it takes to get banned from the game is to have multiple people report a player. With Aydan claiming he’s seen his followers claim the bigger players are cheating, the site believes it’s possible that’s what happened in this instance. As of now, Activision hasn’t made an official statement on why the well-known pro is banned. Aydan hasn’t issued an update on any progress in getting back onto theWarzoneservers either.
Call of Duty: Warzone’s massive “cheater” sweep isn’t the only issue those in the community are pointing to as a rather major problem. Some players have reported that when they get into the game, they cannotchange whatWarzoneoperatorthey want to be from one round to another. Others have pointed out a variety of different problems that they believe came alongside the most recent patch.
One of the glitches that several in the community have reported running into more than once is a bullet hit registration. This is an issue that first surfaced whenCall of Duty: Warzonereleased, though developers had been able to fix it in subsequent patches. However, it appears the problem returned with the latest update, meant to fix other glitches that popped up in the last few weeks.
Call of Duty: Warzoneis free-to-play for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
