A new anti-cheating technique in Call of Duty: Vanguard makes it so that other players are invisible to the cheaters when playing online. Ever join a lobby in a game and think ‘this server is dead?’ That might now be because you’re a cheat, as a new anti-cheat system called Ricochet that’s been added to […]
In a new blog post, the developers behind Call of Duty’s Ricochet anti-cheat system have outlined a new “cloaking” measure that makes legitimate players invisible to cheaters. It effectively makes it impossible for cheaters to be competitive during a match, regardless of any illicit software they might be using. “Characters, bullets, even sound from legitimate […]
Mitigation Spotlight In our previous anti-cheat progress report, we outlined how #TeamRICOCHET uses in-game mitigation techniques to reduce the impact of cheaters, while also collecting data that’s essential to identify cheating behavior. While the team is hard at work testing and deploying a variety of new mitigation and detection techniques, we wanted to highlight something […]
Call of Duty: Warzone pro Shifty is being accused of hacking, once again. After getting the streamer to use a new anti-cheat, the community is convinced that his recent performance is evidence of previous cheating. Up-and-coming Warzone pro Shifty has been accused of hacking multiple times, most recently during a $100,000 tournament in early-March. While […]
The hacking problem in Warzone is one that has been ruining games for years, and Activision have consistently struggled to do much about it, even with their RICOCHET anti-cheat system. Is FACEIT anti-cheat really the solution some players think it is? Despite numerous ban waves and the implementation of RICOCHET, hacking has run rampant in […]
Call of Duty is dropping another ban hammer, with 90,000 more accounts removed in a Warzone & Vanguard RICOCHET ban wave. Cheaters beware, Activision has your number. That said, the publisher is often a little slow when it comes to getting rid of malicious accounts. Thankfully, it’s time for another RICOCHET ban wave across the […]
Call of Duty Ricochet Anti-Cheat has removed 90,000 accounts in banwaves this week, Check details – With the global rollout of the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat kernel-level driver on PC, Call of Duty: Warzone saw a significant drop in in-game cheat reporting, according to internal data. #TeamRICOCHET was able to catch and disable accounts quickly, bringing cheating […]
Cheating and the use of hacks has been a constant problem in Call of Duty: Warzone. Players have seen all kinds of cheats – with common ones including aimbots that give perfect accuracy and wall hacks that allow the cheater to see, and sometimes shoot, through surfaces. But the team behind the game have rolled […]
Cheating has been a huge problem in Call of Duty: Warzone, but a new anti-cheat measure will now give non-cheating players a “Damage Shield” that will prevent ne’er-do-wells from inflicting critical damage on them. In a new blog, the team behind Call of Duty: Warzone shared details on new updates coming to its RICOCHET Anti-Cheat […]
Call of Duty’s anti-cheat software Ricochet has a new feature that turns on a god mode of sorts when a cheater is identified, allowing victims to destroy the miscreants. As exhibited by YouTuber TimTheTatman in a viral video, Ricochet grants players a Damage Shield that repels all of an identified cheater’s bullets, letting their victims take […]
