Released in May 2016, 'Overwatch' is team-based shooter game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. (Photo : YouTube/Play Overwatch )
Blizzard's legal scuffle with a notorious bot-making company will resume as they are filing another lawsuit for selling cheats to be used by "Overwatch" players. Reports suggest that the company has been raking in a huge sum of money through that cheat and this caused Blizzard to sound its alarm yet again.
The Zwickau-based company that operates through the name Bossland has been sued once again by Blizzard for devising such software and being sold to players of the first-person shooter. The German cheat maker is currently making quite a buzz as they released a cheat dubbed as the "Watchover Tyrant" that made legit players very much enraged.
The cheat enables unfair players to see other players' hit points (HP), current location in the map, and other information that will be helpful to cheaters in winning the match, according to SegmentNext. In addition, the cheat may well seem to be a tough nut to crack as Blizzard's anti-cheat program simply known as "Warden" cannot thwart its rampage into the game.
Blizzard's move in shutting down Bossland could reportedly be a long battle since the company's operations are in Germany while the case was applied in the United States. Such legal proceedings will be quite a Herculean task not to mention other legal technicalities.
In July 2016, the game developer filed a lawsuit against the aforementioned cheat maker for rolling out another program for Blizzard's MOBA title, "Heroes of the Storm." Blizzard lost the case and the developer was ordered by the court to pay Bossland's legal fees, Polygon reported.
Just recently, thousands of Korean players were banned from playing "Overwatch" as they were caught using a cheat known as nuking. The cheat is done by sending a deluge of "junk data" to the opposing team's server forcing it to disconnect from the game thus making the cheating team win the match.
Meanwhile, Blizzard is keeping their end of the bargain as they have promised to release more updates this 2017. The developer has put up visible health bars on top of each player while on spectator mode. Through this, those who got killed off early in the game will have a better view of their teammates and opposing players' status.
Watch a couple of videos about Blizzard's health bar update and the lawsuit filed by the developer:
