Heya, thanks for the long and kind reply. Just some quick responses to that, but first off VPNs will not get you banned unless it is being used in conjunction with something else. For instance, if you are using a VPN and some third party software that could trigger a ban, but it wouldn't be because of the VPN itself.

The in-game mechanics aren't at fault here, so even if people are abusing them to try to get someone banned via mass reports it isn't something we would punish them for. However, the way we look at that is seeing how someone might be trying to abuse that functionality and then adjusting or changing that functionality to prevent further abuse. That's currently being done in relation to some of these examples.

Just reach out to us on a community update or on your own thread (our PMs are flooded so don't try that route) and we can forward it to our security team to double check. All we can personally do ourselves is just see if it is true or not, but the security team can look into it further and essentially make a second judgement.

There isn't an official way unless you consider that going through in-game support. However, our support agents, similar to our team here, can only verify that a ban is legitimate or not without any additional details shareable. We do often check threads here though and forward them to the security team to check as long as those basics are there with UID or username (or something identifiable that allows us to lookup your account).

We would also prefer there at least be given some basic reason given, like "glitching" or "third party software", but the security team prefers to have it be non-decrypt in order to prevent people from circumventing their bans by knowing what they were banned for.

Also, in our PC/Console titles of COD we do often have small reasons like that but ban appeals are still very frequent, so not too sure if it would greatly reduce those requests. Regardless, our community team agrees and we hope we can push them to change that in the future.

Hello! It's a bit complicated, but in Ferg's case and in some regular players we've reversed bans after investigating them and finding them to be false. In the screenshot above we checked specifically to see if that was the case for that player too, but it was not. We are always happy to check and verify a ban is legitimate though. However, after doing these checks for 2 years now the odds are that it will be legitimate.

This is some next level thinking and we would absolutely love to do something like this for April Fools haha. If only it was so easy to make and implement hilariously OP but fake scorestreaks and operator skills just for the sake of a short one-off joke mode. Someday...

As amusing as that is, how often has that happened to you? That's a very odd bug to say the least haha. If you've had it happen multiple times have you seen any common occurrences, like it is always when you are actually in first?

It shouldn't really matter if people are reporting you unless there is something for our teams to find once they check those reports. In this instance (the OP), we checked the account and confirmed it was not anything automatic and must have been done by manual review. Sorry OP, but it looks very legitimate on our end. We can't share the specifics of the ban and why it happened, but did try to double check on your behalf just in case and unfortunately we don't see any reason to doubt the ban.

Hey, we actually did a bunch of statistics back during our 2nd Anniversary but it didn't include modes on purpose. We originally wanted to do modes too, but they weren't interesting enough as a single statistic (like each one in the 2nd anniversary example) unless we did it as a whole separate image dedicated to the top modes.

As you might expect, depending on how you filtered it, the top MP modes were mostly TDM, S&D, and Kill Confirmed. However, there were a lot of ways to filter that based on Ranked, Limited Time Modes, Seasons, the number of times those modes have been available, and MP or BR.

So you are referring to from datamined or early versions of that weapon? The final version of that weapon should not have any special spoken sound effects like that. Was it advertised anywhere by us? If so, we'd like to correct that.

Hey, so we were looking into that a bit after all of the comments here about Lightweight and we can't tell exactly when it become something folks here disliked. We see some old posts, some new posts, and quite a bit of discussion to the point where not everyone seems to think it is too weak. Anyways, happy to push that up to the team as feedback but any extra context about that would be lovely and appreciated!

Also, for Quick Fix that is intentional for balance reasons to try make it too not powerful. We aren't aware of any plans to change that, but as with any feedback please feel free to share and voice that feedback anytime (just like this), and we'll always try our best to make our teams are aware of that.

Heya, thanks for the questions!

1. Yes, if they are both using the "default" voice then that is normal. However, neither of those operators have the default voice or the same voice actor. Sounds like a bug or just weird similarity? Is that the only specific time you are hearing the same VO overlap for them?
2. No news on any Aether camo changes at the moment. Sorry.
3. Soon hopefully! We have some changes coming to this system and more ways to choose what is manual/automatic in the future. However, some aspects of the "automatic" side of things will always be there, but we agree that it is a little wonky at the moment and needs some improvements.

Hey there, thanks for bringing this to our attention! Just for clarity do you mean the unique firing sounds of the weapon? We will ping the team to see if that is intended or not, and if not get them working on a fix. Just so they have all the info, when did you first notice its missing sound? From the moment you got it? Also, is the sound missing across all graphical settings for you? Thanks!

Hey there! Hmmm, yeah we had reported a ton of missing VO last season, sorry to hear there are some stilling missing their voices. We'll ping the team to let them know these two still need a fix, thanks for the callout! Also, appreciate the feedback about the default look option, the team is always looking for ways to make our weapons look great while integrating with various blueprints so I'll pass that along.

https://preview.redd.it/v4xk2cjtl9h81.png?width=975&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e187cdfa96d35564ca24db29645c22d744b7d70

Greetings Call of Duty: Mobile Community and welcome to the mid-season Community Update for Season 1 – Heist. Hopefully, you are enjoying all of the new content this season has to offer as much as we are! At this point in the Season, the majority of content and modes are live which we will touch on below. But before that let’s look ahead to Season 2 -

In case you missed it, we had a couple of Season 2 teasers go live last weekend across our ...

How dare you u/Majestic_Solid_1880 hahaha, but seriously well done u/LiShDranthon! Fantastic all around .

Thanks for the report and feel free to report these people whenever you see it (either through in-game or in the community). We've looked into it and taken enforcement action.

We actually tried to push up exactly that quite some time ago (back in 2020) to have some ban related info given, or even an appeal button, but in the end it was essentially against what the security team wanted. The appeal button had a lot of caveats to it, but for the information it is kept specifically vague because of the concern that if someone knew why they were banned they could circumvent it the next time or with a new account.

For instance, we would never want to say "we detected you were using X software and given a ban" since that would make it relatively easy for someone to alter their behavior and cheating software they are using to get around detection. It's surprisingly complicated, but for the community here we wish there was still some basic info given to help explain.

Found them! Thanks for the report OP and for the video. The team is checking the account manually now.