Episode description
Plehxify, the #2 ranked player in Call of Duty: Vanguard, was caught using wall hacks in a recent game he streamed on his Twitch channel on April 10, 2022, immediately following an almost identical situation a few weeks prior, in which Kenji, a player for Grand Canyon University in the College CoD League, was permanently banned from said league on March 29, 2022, after also using wall hacks in a low-stakes wager on the Checkmate Gaming platform, on which he was playing during his stream. Tonight, we explore the Call of Duty cheating epidemic, the Ricochet anti-cheat system's shortcomings, cheaters' ridiculous excuses, and why the matter should be addressed, as well as how to do it; the continuing problem of cheating not only affects regular players, but also serves as indirect fraud when considering situations where the other party does not know hacks are used in a wager - such as Kenji's $4,000+ worth of earnings before his ban.
Host: Scythed
Clips and articles: Twitter/@keemstar, @pplehx, @imsasukee; GamesRadar/Brittany Vincent/Future plc
Production music licensed from Epidemic Sound
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Main episode transcript
What's up, gamers of the internet, super-sucky Scythed here - which is, you know, my name is in a very family-friendly form. Because, you know, saying bad words on the internet is an absolute no-no.
- Apply directly to the forehead.
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- And welcome back to a new video on this channel, which is probably, you know, the first full length video I've uploaded here, as well as the first video I've generally uploaded here in like.... forever, or at least, you know, in the past two months or so, because, you know, unfortunately, I've been studying for exams throughout most of this time, which, you know, I have to do again, because GCSEs still exist, and they're literally going to start in like... a month and one week exactly from today, when I'm recording (April 12). Actually, let me just check. Actually, even less than that! But, you know, in the meantime, since I have at least one week of free holiday time - because, you know, I should probably spend the second week revising or something, I decided that I'd upload a few videos here and grow this epic channel on the side because, you know, firstly, I have way too much gameplay to put to waste and secondly, you know, as much as YouTube Shorts are easy to make, unfortunately, they don't donate any monetisation watch time. Third, you know, I just needed something to distract me from the world that we're currently living in. I mean, literally, on my TikTok 'For You' page, I've reported eight accounts in the past day for, you know, basically having a bunch of blurred 'passionate hugging.' I guess that's a family-friendlier term, to put it as. But yeah, you know, the videos just have some random, kaleidoscope-structured transition, and it will show everything with like the audio and everything, but, you know what.... oh my god, it's family-friendly, because it's pixelated! [sarcasm]
And then it will have some link to some spam account, and you know, I don't know why, but it legitimately disturbs me, and I need anything to put my mind off it right now. And yet, you know, this is a platform that everyone's supposedly moving to because, you know, it's better and more popular than YouTube at this point. I mean, in defense of YouTube, if you're going to start looking for naked people on YouTube, you at least have to go looking for it yourself before you find it. On TikTok, because, you know, "every video's unique on the 'For You' page," it's ridiculously easy to find these sorts of videos, because of how many accounts are following them, and you know, the majority of them are flagged; they always get marked as somehow appropriate. But then again, you know, China definitely has different ideas of what's considered appropriate. Either way, you know, today I'm going to be talking about a topic on this channel that I was going to be talking about on another channel, but I decided to move it here because, one, I'm bored, and two, you know, I'm not touching that other channel for a while, probably for various personal reasons, as well as the fact that, you know, every single account that seems to be linked to that old account in terms of names has been a target for people who want to delete all my accounts or something. I honestly don't even know why,. So yeah, you know, tonight is the Call of Duty cheating special. On December 2, 2021, Activision introduced the Ricochet anti-cheat system into both Warzone and Call of Duty: Vanguard - you know, the most latest Call of Duty games - to essentially stop the Call of Duty PC cheating epidemic, because, you know, there's crossplay now as well, so, you know, any cheating on the PC affects console players as well; unfortunately, you know, aim assist isn't enough of a cheat. But essentially, you know, it's a kernel-level anti-cheating system - you know, just like Riot Games' Vanguard. W--w--why is 'Vanguard' in everything, man? [laughter]
But, you know, essentially, it's like that - but, you know, when Riot did it, everyone was saying it was like hidden spyware - but no one has a problem with Call of Duty doing it, even though, you know, I wouldn't trust Activision with reputational stuff. But, then again, you know, Ricochet isn't enabled constantly, unlike Vanguard is, and it only really monitors the stuff that's communicating with Vanguard and stuff, so you know, if you're running, like, Geforce Experience, you should be fine, but if you're running freaking Hexus, you're not going to be doing too well, let alone freaking Synapse X - you know, my favorite Call of Duty exploit ever. But yeah, you know, this was all hyped up with some, like, trailer and everything. You know, some guy even got banned from the trailer. I think he flexed that he wasn't banned or something, and then he got his Twitter account deleted or something, I don't remember. Not deleted - he deleted it himself, but, yeah, you know, it was all hyped and stuff. I don't even know if I'm speaking English anymore; it was all hyped up and stuff and you know, that would be fair as long as, you know - it actually worked, but you know, within the past week and a half, we've had two situations where people have cheated in Vanguard and its supposed anti-cheat with, you know, one of them literally being the number two player in the world on Call of Duty: Vanguard, and for more on this, you know, we're gonna go to Keemstar's Twitter - you know, Keemstar, my absolutely favorite content creator.
[earraped laughter]
But yeah, you know, we're gonna start with the #2 Vanguard player, because, you know, I have quite a lot more to say about it than the one that happened last week., which likely isn't as much of a serious situation. So yeah, you know, on April 11, 2022, Keemstar tweeted out: "The #2 ranked Cod player Plehxify caught cheating as glitch in game reveals wall hacks" - you know, "glitch" - it had some amazing excuses in it, but, yeah, here's the clip.
[game chat obscures voice chat]
- Damn, why is my game always crashing?
- And as for the guy's response, you know, this is what he said in his absolutely amazing Twitlonger. At least, you know, we've gone past the stage of Google Docs and 25-hour videos.
"I'm sorry for disappointing the community, but I have to start by saying I made a mistake last night on-stream. Yes, those were blatant boxes and I did get caught, but as dumb as the excuse sounds, I honestly started getting the hacks for camos. I started playing challengers and had a team after getting rounded up in almost every Challengers Cup. I didn't have enough pro points to be playing with players that I thought were my skill level" - but, you know, they clearly weren't your skill level, they were clearly better because you had to use hacks to get to their level.
"I grinded my [butt] off when ranked play came out and screwed up my sleep schedule and grinded 10-15 hours a day to show who I actually was. I know none of y'all are going to believe me, but I just want to say I'm sorry to the people I played with. I didn't want to ruin anyone's rep. I didn't wanna ruin mine, obviously. In the clip, you can clearly tell I had just got the cheats; I was very naïve with the software/hacks. As most of you know, you're allowed to hide the boxes from your stream if you're a good hacker. I'm in loss of words of the actions I had done..." And then, he also posts this email, as well as a bank statement, essentially showing that, you know, he just did actually buy it recently on April 8, 2022 to help verify that his story is legitimate, although by keeping the name of the freaking cheating software, you know, on one hand, Activision might be able to try and work on fixing it, but, on the other hand, more people are probably going to buy it as well - you know, a very smart man. But, you know, cheating so you can get Call of Duty skins isn't really the most believable story. I mean, you know, with someone as supposedly good as you at the game, I'm pretty sure you could easily get a half-decent streaming career, and then, you know, buy a few skins even though you know, I wouldn't recommend buying skins in any game. I mean, you know, I've just been playing the free trial for, like, the last two weeks and, you know, I'm happy with most of the skins I've got, but then again, he probably thought that he could hide under this because, you know, I literally have more Twitter followers than him on my main. Allegedly, though, it was this guy's second time subscribing to the cheating service, and someone found another one of his accounts through his IP or something. I'm not sure about how legitimate that is, though, so, you know, I'm not going to say anything, but yeah, you know, here's my response to all of this, you know, minus the evil, racist AAVE. First of all, if you were number two in the world in Call of Duty: Vanguard, I really don't think that you would need to cheat in order to get camos, although, you know, probably anyone in the world could beat me at any first-person shooter, definitely. You know, I love how, just like he doesn't know what to say in the video clip, he doesn't know what to write in the Twitlonger, hence why he's making crappy excuses, and third, you know - this is also a good point that I've actually been seeing made by a few other YouTubers, including one who has me added on Discord; I'm so happy a famous YouTuber has me added - and that's essentially this point, which i can also apply to the other story I'm going to talk about in like a minute: even if you don't feel guilty cheating in the game, because, you know, to be completely fair, it's still a game - it's freaking Call of Duty - not only are you stealing attention and followers from people who are actually good at the game; I mean, you know, my personality is literally being at every game though - by cheating in a competitive tournament, especially at the stage that this guy is at - you know, he could compete in actual professional tournaments if he's number two worldwide - you're essentially stealing the actual money from people who could win these like money wagers and tournaments without cheating, so, you know, even if you don't feel guilty by getting a few extra kills and ruining some guy's K/D ratio, I think you should at least feel a little bit guilty from cheating people out of money. But yeah, you know, I don't think this is your time to be acting innocent. Anyway, you know, here's the second story, published exactly two weeks ago from April 12, 2022 - a date which I have no idea of. Thank you so much, Brittany Vincent, for this absolutely amazing information. But to be fair, I'm only really using the GamesRadar article because out of all the articles I read in my original recording, this one has the most information, and, you know, since we've basically finished the video at this point, I guess we can just use this. On March 29, 2022, a relatively famous Twitch streamer on Call of Duty: Vanguard called Kenji, whose follower count I haven't been able to find because, you know, he's basically deleted every single social media he has - was wagering on Checkmate Gaming, a tournament wagering website where, you know, you can earn prizes as large as $2.32, which, you know, is an oddly specific number. I swear, you know, that's probably some guy who donated his entire Twitch... what? I mean, his entire PayPal wallet, or something. At least, you know, he didn't give it to Pokimane, but, then again, he also didn't give it to me, so, you know, he still sucks the same amount. But yeah, like I was saying, it was essentially a 2v2 on this wager website called Checkmate Gaming and yeah, the two players he was playing against suspected that he was cheating, and since he was live on Twitch, his two teammates, ImLuhvly and ImSasuke - oh... oh my god, they're a big hard man - I mean, you know, he's an anime viewer anyway, but yeah, I'm not gonna make any comments. They essentially asked him to show his screen on the live stream and you know, I think this guy forgot, but although on OBS you can hide the hacks if you're smart enough, software modifications don't apply to real life, so you know, when he switches his camera, he essentially gets exposed and you know, here's the clip, posted by Sasuke, out of everyone.
And, you know, in most other articles, they didn't mention what happened to the teammates, because, you know, I'm pretty sure they would have had some responsibility in knowing the guy was hacking, but wouldn't say anything for their own sake. So yeah, you know, essentially, Kenji got a permanent ban from the College Call of Duty League; look, I don't know why people get scholarships for playing games, but I guess they do - whilst the rest of Grand Canyon University's team are eliminated until the following year (2023), because obviously, although they weren't the ones hacking, there's no proof that they weren't, like, aware of him hacking, so I think that could be sort of fair. And then, you know, he seems to have deleted every social media account he had. And look, you know, since late 2020, he's earned over US $4,100 from this, and, you know, let me just say this in response to all of this drama, although, you know, this guy basically deleted everything, as far as I know. I don't understand what's with all these pro players who think that cheating is good, especially if they want to compete in official pro tournaments. As far as I'm aware, you know, like the first guy wasn't necessarily, uh, what... what.. what word am I even trying to think of? [...] participate and play tournaments, he just plays League Play and stuff, but, you know, for this guy who's earned over $4,000 playing in professional tournaments and is on his college's Call of Duty team: firstly, we've already covered the scamming money part, essentially. As for, you know, the competitive scene, you know, I don't see why he would continue doing that, especially since your computer can be checked mid-tournament like some CS:GO player in, like, 2018 or something, there's literally no point in cheating because, you know if you're gonna aim for like a high level, you're eventually gonna get caught - either by being the crappiest player on the team, or by being caught with hacked clients on your computer, so, you know, either way, it's not gonna end up well. But, you know, I will say one conclusion is probably slightly better than the other, and yeah, you know, it's like 9:30pm at this point. You know, I should, uh, probably go to sleep instead of recording any other videos, so yeah, you know, here's my social media. My twitter is @scythedtwt, my TikTok and Instagram are @scythedcreates, but, you know, I haven't uploaded anything on both of them in a while. I'll probably work on that if I'm not still traumatized by all the TikTok stuff I've seen, and everything else should be at solo.to/scythed. But anyway, you know, uh, I'm done for tonight. Hopefully, there's a video out tomorrow, and until next time, bye, my epic gamer friends.
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