According to Activision, the developer’s most recent series of ban waves banned almost 14,000 cheats from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone. Cheaters have been a major problem in many contemporary live-service games, especially with Activision’s Call of Duty series.
Recent updates indicate that the studio’s efforts to develop and improve its Ricochet anti-cheat system to address the issue may be on the correct track. There is little doubt that Activision has been stepping up its internal anti-cheat systems to enhance the gaming experience across the variety of live-service games the company offers.
With one upgrade to Call of Duty encouraging players to become invisible for cheaters, some of its most recent attempts have translated into innovative solutions around the Ricochet system.
In a previous update to its Ricochet system, players received a damage barrier that prevents cheaters from dealing critical damage should the anti-cheat identify any such activity. Of course, frequent system updates meant that more dishonest gamers would probably be detected more frequently.
Activision has announced that over 14,000 accounts have been banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone due to game cheating and hacking. It’s important to note that Activision’s improved Ricochet system discovered the 14,000 cheaters within 24 hours, even though it’s not as significant as when it banned 90,000 cheaters from Call of Duty: Warzone.
In the past 24 hours, Call of Duty has banned 14,000 cheaters:
In the last 24 hours, new detections directly targeting cheat developers at the source has led to over 14,000 account bans for cheating and hacking in Modern Warfare II and Warzone.
— Call of Duty Updates (@CODUpdates) July 28, 2023
Similar ban waves might occur in the next few days as Activision prepares for the major Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone Season 5 upgrade. The bans are not shocking in light of the developer’s recent addition of several noteworthy features to the Ricochet anti-cheat system.
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For instance, the company developed a “Replay Investigation” technology enabling the team to spot and analyze cheating activity across all its online game modes. More recently, a Call of Duty update included “hallucinations” to its anti-cheat system, making phantom players visible only to cheaters who had been caught.
In the long run, the effectiveness of these methods remains to be proven because there is always a chance that legitimate players could be arbitrarily banned. Naturally, Activision will probably try to improve things even further when the studio promotes its upcoming Season 5 content drop, which will include Call of Duty skins for artists like Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, and 21 Savage.