What turns a doubter into a believer? The Warzone scene, and more specifically the Warzone content creator scene is full of doubters.
People who doubt there is cheating among the top level of streamers, pros, and YouTubers. People who doubt that “The Whitelist” exists, or even if they acknowledge it, doubt that it offers any benefit to creators who are on it. People who doubt that people who make insane amounts of money from Warzone would ever jeopardise this income by cheating.
Rara was one such doubter. For the last 18 months I have spoken with Rara over a number of issues ranging from Warzone gameplay to top level content creators using aimbot or wallhacks, and the existence and/or purpose of “The Whitelist”.
Our conversations have not always been friendly, in fact there have been levels of mild hostility at times, there is after all a bit of a back story, he even made fun of me in a diss track he made about BadBoyBeaman who if you weren’t aware, is my brother.
Overall, though, most interactions between us have been at the very least, amicable. We often have disagreed on some of the topics mentioned above. He has been a strong advocate that though cheating is rife within Warzone, it wasn’t at the top level.
I have disagreed, and one argument I made to him was that if we consider how easily accessible cheats are, consider how easy it is to hide them and then take the top 100 Warzone earners and look at them. What is the probability that at least a handful of them are using cheats? Its not a question with a tangible answer because it is based purely on speculation, but it does make you think.
The argument that pros would not cheat because they have too much on the line has always made me laugh. I am huge sports fan, and, having been involved in athletics as a child, I am a massive fan of athletics. Why is this relevant? That is obvious, athletics is the sport that has the most examples of top-level competitors using illegal methods to gain an edge over their rivals.
Ben Johnson was one of the fastest men on the planet in the 1980s, he broke the world record in the 1988 Summer Olympics 100m final running 9.79 seconds, however, 48 hours after running this race and leaving everyone in his wake, Johnson tested positive for Stanozolol, a water based steroid similar to testosterone that could increase muscle mass and therein enhance an athletes performance.
Johnson is not the first nor the last sports person to use PEDs to increase their chances of winning and earning money, the list is incredibly long and includes some very high-profile people such as Lance Armstrong, Tyson Gay, Maradona, Anderson Silva and Roy Jones Jr. All from different sports, all at the top of their field regardless of performance enhancing drugs.
Why did they use them? We can’t answer why they as individuals chose to cheat, but we can look at the competition within their sports. In some cases, such as cycling there was doping on a mass scale that went undiscovered for decades before becoming public knowledge, so in the case of Lance Armstrong you could argue that if everyone he was competing against was using PEDs he couldn’t win if he competed clean. For other sports like Boxing or Football you could argue that the skill gap at the top level is so small these athletes thought they needed an edge to stand out above the rest.
In each of the cases 2 things are abundantly clear:
1. There were huge coverups hiding the use of PEDs that in most cases included the sport’s governing bodies and the agencies employed to police the use of PEDs.
2. It took a long time to uncover that these celebrity athletes were using PEDs, with some to this day still denying or justifying their use.
So how does this apply to Warzone? It doesn’t specifically say he is cheating, or she is cheating, but it shows the idiocy of arguing that people would not cheat at the top level of gaming because they have too much to lose. Not one of these competitive Warzone players earns a fraction of Lance Armstrong’s income before being caught, yet he cheated anyway with a whole lot more on the line.
So, what has this got to do with Rara?
Recently, Rara’s content on his YouTube channel has been almost exclusively centred around drawing attention to methods of cheating that have rarely been mentioned or theorised thus far and he is asking questions of top-level Warzone players.
He recently showed how DS4 Windows, a programme used by most Warzone “pros” to overclock their controllers, can be used to manipulate recoil to the point of virtually eradicating it, he didn’t specifically point any fingers that “pros” are using this feature of the programme but he acknowledged that if they were using it to this point, we would never have known.
In his latest video, Rara explains, with the help of Drift0r and Faze Bloo, how a lot of the top-level content creators are either using software or hardware to manipulate the level of their in-game opponents, or they, as “Whitelisted” Warzone players are being placed in easier lobbies as a benefit of their “Whitelisted” status.
This is a theory that has been presented by some creators such as BadBoyBeaman in the past. If “The Whitelist” can be used for giving Warzone pros easier lobbies, it is not a stretch to see that it could be used to prevent the same players being banned, shadow banned or even investigated for cheating. Does this mean that all pros are cheating? No, it is just a theory, but it is a theory that gains slightly more weight in the light of Rara’s video that boasts an in-depth investigation into the level of lobbies these players are competing in and is supported by at least 2 popular and skilled content creators in Faze Bloo and Drift0r.
I leave you with my concluding thoughts on this, and a question to ask yourself.
Questions have been asked of top-level warzone content creators, some have been answered, some have been answered with what has later been discovered to be lies (The Whitelist’s existence being one such example), and some have been wholly ignored.
Creators like BadBoyBeaman who have asked questions of these creators have been mocked, attacked and labelled as conspiracy theorists by content creators, gaming news journalists and fans of the people they question, but little by little, many of the theories and opinions they have presented have been proven to be true or at least based in fact.
So, ask yourself this. What is more likely?
Unlike athletes and sports persons, competitive gaming is clean and free from performance enhancing aids because content creators have too much to lose if they’re caught.
People within the Warzone competitive scene are cheating and hiding it and those around them, the people they play with and against, the sponsors they represent, and the developer of the game that they advertise to 10s or 100s of thousands of people just by playing it, are either ignoring it or actively covering it up.
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