Two Call of Duty: Warzone streamers have been caught cheating and called out by Mara actress Alex Zedra. The incident led to the two Warzone streamers being banned from Twitch, despite them denying the obvious cheating scandal.
Alex Zedra has been caught up in her own little scandal as well recently following a lawsuit with Call of Duty: Warzone publisher Activision. The cosplayer lent her likeness to Mara for the very first Modern Warfare content drop in 2019, putting her face prominently in one of the most popular games out there. Photographer Clayton Haugen recently claimed that Activision stole the likeness of one of his characters for Mara, going as far as to use character concepts and Zedra as the model. Haugen filed a suit against the publisher, but Zedra is still incredibly active in the Call of Duty community.
Zedra actively streams Warzone on Twitch and when she's not streaming, she'll host other members of the community, but that recently backfired. On Twitter, Zedra showed that one of the streamers, IcyVixen, was very clearly hacking during a Warzone tournament (via PCGamer). The streamer starts to aim at a hill and her gun begins to move towards something, telegraphing the location of an enemy on the other side of the hill. She then pulls off a very impressive shot within a second of peeking over the hill. Given it was clearly a hack, it's not as cool as the Warzone player whose kill exceeded the PS4's render distance.
IcyVixen's boyfriend, BeardedBanger, is also a streamer and a cheater. He tried to flex his skill with an absurd 5.87 KD/R, which isn't exactly impossible but is insanely hard to achieve legitimately. The two have been promptly banned by Twitch but it's likely Activision will follow through with banning the couple from Call of Duty: Warzone as well. The duo play on PC, where it's much easier to hack, but it doesn't stop it from interfering with console players. Thanks to cross-play, console players can get killed or have their fun ruined by Warzone cheaters who are using PC software to gain unfair advantages.
Warzone has been a breeding ground for cheaters and Activision has been trying to combat it for quite some time. Sometimes cheaters do a good job of concealing their actual lack of skill and play the part, but streamers often slip up and it becomes incredibly obvious what's really going on. Even though Call of Duty has aim-assist, it's not going to stick to a player like glue. Hopefully, the public shaming that these streamers had to endure will be enough to dissuade others from cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone.
Source: Alex Zedra/Twitter, PCGamer