Soumi Sarkar
Jul, 10.2021
This week there was some news for Call of Duty: Warzone but it was slightly controversial. The actions
of a popular Call of Duty: Warzone steamer was questioned and a certain section believes that he was
indulging in unfair play. The spotlight was on Charlie "MuTeX" Saouma, the former Call of Duty pro
player. He holds the world record for the most Warzone kills in a solo squads match. The precise
accusation was that he was using third-party hardware, software, which allowed him to cheat.
Saouma offered a quick response and denied the incident. He was determined to prove that there was no
nefarious hardware or hacks at work. Hence, he went on stream yesterday with a rather peculiar panoptic
five-camera setup. There was one to watch his controller and another one for his monitors. The third one
for his PC and the fourth one was for his entire desk. The fifth camera had a standard facecam. He was on
stream and he dared anyone to call him a cheater now. This was a live stream he conducted on July 9th.
He went to the extent of abusing people who called him a cheater.
His integrity was challenged just in the bygone week only and it came from none other than YouTuber
BadBoyBeaman. His role is to analyze clips of streamers, who he thinks are indulging in cheating. He had
released a video calling for the ouster of Saouma and says that he had the program Cronus Pro installed
on his PC. We would like to simplify Cronus Pro by saying that it is a companion program that plugs into
a PC. It allows users to laid controller scripts for mods and specific games. This technology can recoil in
your guns or track targets better on-screen. It is a perfect example of hardware-assisted cheating
Saouma quickly responded to this video by uploading a video on Twitter explaining his side of the story.
He had to say that his program on his PC is a holdover from the days he used a Cronus device at
professional Call of Duty: WW2 LAN events back in 2018. Saouma went on to say that the program was
spotted on his outdated streaming PC and he longer uses it to play games. He promised everyone that he
is not cheating.
BadBoyBeaman countered back with another video stating that Saouma's PC lists the Cronus Pro
program install date as March 2021. This is significant because it is just before his world record, which is
set in June. Saouma countered it with issues such as automatic program updates and Windows updates but
could explain the install date. Hence, the issue just seems to drag on for some time more.