It seems part of the human condition for the actions of a few to ruin an entire experience for the many. It’s because of this that any time a new multiplayer online experience comes along, a far too-large number of people will immediately try to find a way to take advantage any way they can.

Activision’s latest release, the gaming juggernaut Call of Duty: Black Ops is no exception, and it’s likely that some reading this have already witnessed cheating firsthand. Luckily, one crusader for online justice has given information on how to spot the cheats, and how to go about reporting them to the authorities at Treyarch.

The Call of Duty franchise hasn’t been immune to players using glitches or hacks to exploit weaknesses in the game environments or modes, all in the name of XP. Experience doesn’t represent a sign of hours dedicated, or skills mastered to these gamers. Rather, experience is merely a currency that is to be gathered in the easiest way possible, whether honest or not.

While many would simply claim that ’no system is perfect’ and that cheaters will exist forever, one gamer has decided to explain to all of us how to go about finding dishonest Black Ops players, and how to report them to the game’s developers. The team has already made it clear that taking advantage of the game’s glitches will not be tolerated, so now you can do your part to provide them with good leads.

The following video by youtubedude will provide just about everything you need to know to identify, verify, and report players who are boosting their experience points unfairly. You may want to take notes:

  • Look through the Multiplayer Leaderboards for top players with incredibly high Kill-to-Death ratios. Open up any suspicious players’ Recent Games records. Look to see if the ‘heat map’ shows that all of the kills have taken place in one area, particularly spawn zones. If the blotches of red are clumped together instead of spread over the map, it’s a good sign that the players has been taking out dummy opponents. Also look to see if the player has been killed at all during the match, or has ranked up kills without dying once. To confirm the suspicion, view the match in Theater Mode. Once the user is confirmed to be boosting/cheating, click their name on the Leaderboard, and select ‘Report Player.’