Warzone Mobile is mere days away from being released, and Activision Blizzard’s teams are busy preparing to welcome a community of tens of millions to the game. It’s one of the most highly-anticipated mobile games to emerge in years, sitting at around 100 million pre-registrations following months of marketing. Recently, Activision’s representatives took an opportunity to warn players about messing with the game ahead of launch.

On the official Discord server, Activision took a moment to warn players against altering their game files, specifically those concerning the field-of-view setting in-game. It was recently revealed that Warzone Mobile will have a locked FOV feature that’s designed to ‘level the playing field’, but there are third-party tools that can alter this. It was stressed by Activision that efforts to alter this setting may result in a ban or other punitive action being taken against a player and their account.

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Call of Duty’s cheating problem runs deep, and at this point, it’s obvious that no game is immune. From COD Mobile to Warzone and from Modern Warfare to Black Ops, every franchise and spin-off has been hit substantially by waves of cheaters in the past. While Activision is working hard to keep up with its anti-cheat platform, RICOCHET, it’s often seen as the team fighting a losing battle.

On March 21, COD Warzone Mobile will be released globally. In an instant, millions of players will drop back into Verdansk for the first time since December 2021. That alone should have been enough to pull a huge audience into the community, but the fact that the game looks and runs brilliantly on mobile devices is another huge win for all involved. It’s a perfectly authentic experience that’ll see more players than ever before drop into Verdansk, one of the best Call of Duty maps ever made.

However, Activision was quick to throw a warning into the heart of that community recently, addressing those with intentions of altering the game’s files:

‘We’ll be updating our security policy closer to launch, but generally that’s not going to say explicitly we will ban you for modifying FOV files. However, it will likely say that it is possible to be banned or enforced on for modifying any game files, especially any that may give any kind of advantage.’

Given that having a higher field of view is often seen as being a sizeable advantage in Call of Duty, altering these settings would fall into the realms of that warning.

If you’re interested in Warzone Mobile, you can pre-register for the game now. It’ll unlock globally on March 21 – just remember to leave those game files as they are.

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