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Just don't cheat!
Now, free VPN software's from shady sites? That might get you banned. As you don't know if their software is legitimate.
In a quick google search I found these advertised gaming vpn software.
https://nolagvpn.com/en
https://sbmmoff.com/
After the review by https://www.techtypical.com/reviews/nolagvpn/. It was shown that nolagvpn to not be a true VPN. SBMMoff seamed to be of a similar design to noloagvpn. So I wasn't surprised by the Reddit post below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warzone/comments/vrdlu5/sbmmoff_nolag_vpn_can_get_you_banned_and_their/
Free or good, a VPN can cause a ban.
In the "Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy" this is the rule:
Spoofing
Any attempt to hide, disguise, or obfuscate your identity or the identity of your hardware devices may result in a permanent suspension.
Technically speaking you are breaking this rule by using a VPN cause you can disguise your real IP and hide your identity
It's supposed to allow direct contact and I can a difference in pings online when split tunneling.
I would not take the risk. Just turn it off.
No one is forcing them to play the game?
Whats the point? They dont allow it, so if it makes sense or not is pretty much on their side to decide.
Its not that hard to turn off your VPN, even if you have your entire network running through it. Is it annoying? Yes. Will they change it based on a steam thread? Probably not.
Also I guess the percentage of people using a VPN on daily use while gaming is vanishing small.
“disguise your real IP and hide your identity. “
You mean “change and encrypt” right? As that’s what a VPN does. It changes your devices IP address to the connected networks IP address to establishe a secure and encrypted connection between the device and network. So, no one can spy on the connection’s communication. (The company providing the VPN can/could spy on the communications data being sent)
I found no language in "Call of Duty Security and Enforcement Policy" that states the game must be played at the installed location.
So, by your “disguise IP” logic. I can’t take my device to a friend’s place for a LAN party, school, work, my family’s events. Or even on vacation because my device IP address will change when I connect to another network at a different location because it’s no longer my “true IP”?
your “disguise IP” logic also blows a hole in COD MOBILE. Players are going to be all over the place with that game and they will be loads of people connecting to different ISP networks so they don’t drain they phone’s data plane.
My profession is IT Networking/Servers, and my previous employer was Charter/Spectrum. An ISP (Internet Service Providers) provider in Wisconsin and other US states.
(https://broadbandnow.com/Spectrum-Internet if you want to see Spectrum USA coverage
Scroll down and click on interactive map)
First, here are some basic to ISP infrastructure and protocol.
ISP provide the IP address that’s assigned to your modem. The modem then assigns the IP address to the connected device.
Any time your device connects to a new network. Your device IP address will change to reflect the connected networks ISP assigned IP address.
Internet Service Providers offer two types of Internet Protocol addresses: static and dynamic IPs. Dynamic IP addresses are subject to change and offered to residential accounts. Whereas Static IP address is a permanent IP address assigned to business accounts.
WI Spectrum Residential Accounts modem IP address changes about twice a month.
If you’re DDos’ed you will be given a new IP address and the attacked address will be blacklisted until the attack is done. The IP address will be reassigned elsewhere after it clears quarantine policy. Most times home users don’t see these attacks because their identified quickly and managed.
If the ISP is doing maintenance on their infrastructure. Or their infrastructure is congested by peak usage. They will do a cut over/by pass. Moving active users from one line/hub/node to another less congested or open one. This process will also flush, release and renew your modem’s IP address when connected to the new line/hub/node. After maintenance or peak usage is over. The active users accounts will be moved back to their original line/hub/node. This will once again refresh the modem’s IP address. There is a 50% chance the user will get their old IP back.
Your “real IP address” statement is wrong in today ISP network infrastructure. As they’re constantly changing. That’s why IP bans are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ these days. IP bans worked better years ago because the network was smaller than today digital world.
“hide your identity”, from un-authorized third parties yes it does but, you still need to log into your COD account to play. So how is the VPN hiding your identity from COD, when you logged in with your account credentials to authenticate and connect to their servers? The game is running. Their COD Anti-Cheat Kernel running in the background. COD’s harvesting your data, reviewing your running services. Again, how’s the VPN hiding your data from COD?
I get why streamers run VPN’s. Who wants to be swatted by some weak butt hurt baby?
A VPN is an endpoint communication encryption software. It DOES NOT modify your device hardware ID’s nor modify your device MAC ADDRESSES. You would need another program for that ID change.
(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/vpn-endpoint-security-clients/what-is-vpn.html)
VPN or Virtual Private Network, is an encrypted connection over the Internet from a device to a network. The encrypted connection helps ensure that sensitive data is safely transmitted. It prevents unauthorized people from eavesdropping on the traffic and allows the user to conduct work remotely. VPN technology is widely used in corporate environments. COD DEVS = Corporate Environments. Working remotely during the pandemic.
COD or other studios and publishers were working from home during the pandemic. To get access to their work files and resources for work. They need to be VPN into their company network and stay connected to work. That means they were play testing the games on VPN.
To the thread readers
As I said in my above post in this thread. Be careful what you download and connect to your PC. People got scammed and banned because they installed software that wasn’t legit. People have been banned because they were running a cracked/pirated OS, or software. Or they flashed their device firmware wrong.
I had a friend who got banned from COD WZ for a few weeks because of an Amazon purchase of a cheap China Company RGB Mouse and Keyboard and software he installed. The COD Anti-Cheat Kernel couldn’t register what the software was so it banned him. He was able to appeal it and get the banned overturned. He returned the product after another ban in Diablo 3. Which was overturned.
The COD Anti-Cheat Kernel is watching your system when you game. They probably have a better Profile on you then the FBI, CIA, NSA, or wait. NVM they share that data freely.
Prior to the launch of COD Anti-Cheat Kernel system and after its launch I’ve had no issues with VPN.
You’re getting banned because of two reasons. The Anti-Cheat software detected a known prohibited hardware/software on the user’s PC and then banned the users account for violating the TOS. Because it caught your cheating ass. Or the Anti-Cheat software detected an unknown hardware/software occurring a false positive and Flag/Banned the users account for investigation and possible appeal. Then it’s the waiting game for replies.
Run a VPN or don’t, I don’t care, the choice is yours in the end. Know the legitimacy of the software’s you’re downloading and installing to your device. Don’t install shady software to cheat and you should be fine.
I have PIA, but I don't have it activated when I play CoD and didn't have a problem.
I played MW2019 while my son on another room was playing warzone, the only way for us to play at the same time was using a VPN cause when Activision servers see the same ip it doesn't permit you to login (most of the time) so was only same ip oer session even on different games, so the only solution was to to use a VPN for my son, he never got a ban for this, but i will not say "it's safe", i say it "could be".
I will never take the risk to use a VPN while paying cause for me it's against the rules, everyone can decide with his own brain.