The Warzone 2 lag switch cheat has been blamed as a reason behind the game’s laggy servers. Players allege that they have been kicked from lobbies and matches due to cheaters using a device to give them an advantage in matches. Evidence of this happening is difficult to confirm, but regardless, laggy servers remain a substantial problem with this Call of Duty variant.
How would cheaters use a Warzone 2 lag switch?
A lag switch is a physical Ethernet device that allows a user to temporarily halt the flow of traffic to create artificial latency. In effect, this makes the user’s character seem to teleport around the map and immune to any bullets targeting them, because they are actually somewhere else.
When a game like Warzone 2 detects that a player is experiencing lag, it will attempt to reconnect to the user, thinking that the user’s internet is down. Since this can happen naturally, the game doesn’t kick the player out. But when the lag switch is turned off after a brief amount of time, the player can appear like they are moving around the field erratically as the server tries to update the player’s position.
Twitter user ModernWarzone reports that cheaters are indeed using lag switches in Warzone 2, and many users replying to it also say that it is happening. A part of the reason why there’s a lack of concrete evidence is because they don’t want to be a part of the problem by spreading how to use the lag switch and where to go to purchase one.
At any rate, we’ll have to see if developers Infinity Ward and Raven Software are able to address this problem (and whether it really is a problem) sooner than later.
