Number Two Ranked Vanguard Player Caught Cheating On Stream

Here lie the fallen memories of a Call of Duty: Vanguard anti-cheat. The ghosts of the Activision promises have continued to haunt the Vanguard graveyard as the vultures circle overhead of a game filled with so much promise but plagued with illness. Despite Vanguard's best efforts to self-revive the title with an update to the ranked playlist to feature the top 250 players' leaderboard and a range of bug fixes, the ladder has only brought to light just how much the game needs a proper anti-cheat to survive as the second-highest ranked player in the world has been found to be a hacker.

The ladder, designed to champion players who grind the game, is meant to give those top-tier players something tangible to play for. However, it appears that some players are using unfair means to get their names in the lights.

Vanguard Ranked 2 Player Caught Using Hacks

After grinding to be the second-highest ranked player in Call of Duty: Vanguard, with a total of over 5,500 SR, "pplehx" has been caught using wallhacks, as the player's stream overlay glitched out of focus and revealed his true POV.

During a Hardpoint match on Tuscan, the player's stream, and game, crashed momentarily, which revealed the player had red boxes on his screen where enemy players are located. The clip in question shows three players grouped in the Church building while another box can be seen revealing a player on the left side of the map, presumably on the jump-up to top Church or rotating through Rooftops to the next Hardpoint.

Pplexh's stream quickly flashed back into focus without his notice, although eagle-eyed spectators were quick to notice.

Previous clips have also surfaced of the player mocking the hacks that he uses, with one specific video showing him shooting a player through a window and saying, "Oh my god I'm hacking, no bulls**t".

Having seen the clip go viral, Call of Duty pros such as Martin "Cheen" Chino took to social media to express their aggrieved annoyance, saying, "I'm actually enraged that he would legit say 'GGs' after every game I played him."

Cheating Vanguard Ranked Player To Using Using Wall-Hacks With Hilarious Excuse

With players flocking to his stream, the player has admitted to using the hacks, although for a hilarious reason. "I got it for Diamond camo g, didn't know how to turn them off," he said on stream in response to being called out - a presumable hint towards him only using the hacks to unlock the diamond camo on all weapons. 

Despite this, other players have been rather sceptical, with one Call of Duty fan saying, "He doesn't know how to turn them off but knows how to set up the shadow overlay to stream while hacking," inferring that the extensive efforts to cover his own back are only further damning to his cause. 

As of writing, pplexh has not been banned by the Call of Duty dev team, although he has now taken down his social media accounts and will likely be facing an account expulsion once the team see the evidence.