In a new blog post, the developers behind Call of Duty’s Ricochet anti-cheat system outline a new “hidden” measure that makes legitimate players invisible to cheaters. It effectively makes it impossible for cheaters to compete in the game, regardless of any illegal software they may be using.
“Characters, bullets, and even voices from legitimate players will not be detected by cheaters,” reads the blog post. “However, legitimate players can see that cheaters are affected by disguise…and can be punished in-game.” The new stealth feature comes alongside an anti-cheat measure previously known as “damage shields,” meaning cheaters bullets will not cause any damage to other players.
Although Team Ricochet has only now detailed the stealth feature, it appears to have appeared in some form in Call of Duty: Warzone Since at least mid-February, when videos of anti-cheat measures were posted to Twitter.
RICOCHET seems to have another trick to combat cheaters #warzone
As you can see in this video, Anti-Cheat seems to make “legitimate” players completely invisible to confirmed cheaters. pic.twitter.com/T5H53HL8Bs
— Modern Warzone (@ModernWarzone) February 19, 2022
The developers of Call of Duty have banned tens of thousands of cheaters in recent months, but its blog post suggests that allowing cheaters to continue the game in this compromised state means it can “[collect] Data critical to identifying cheating. It also encourages players to continue to manually report cheaters in order to improve its cheat detection features.
The Ricochet kernel-level anti-cheat driver running locally on the PC was previously available for war zonebut is now rolling out pioneeraccording to the blog post. European players Note that the anti-cheat system also has a server-side component, both have been available for a long time call-of-duty game.
In a blog post, the Ricochet team confirmed that it has banned 54,000 additional accounts since the last major update, in which 90,000 accounts were banned. Banned players will be removed from the leaderboard, it said.