Call Of Duty Cheaters Face Sweet Blind Justice In Activision's Latest Ricochet Update
A new “PC kernel-level anti-cheat security driver” from #TeamRICOCHET was released a few days ago for Call of Duty: Vanguard. The most interesting aspect of the update is the new “cloaking” feature. Players who are cheating will suddenly be blinded. According to Team Ricochet, “Characters, bullets, even sound from legitimate players will be undetectable.” However, legitimate players will be able to easily spot these cheaters and are encouraged to “dole out in-game punishment.” It was also noted that any player who is banned will be removed from the leaderboards. This particular update is currently only available for Call of Duty: Vanguard, but it will soon be applied to Warzone “after a period of examining how these updates are functioning with today’s global rollout.”
Why not just eliminate the cheaters in the first place? Team Ricochet purposely places cheaters in this sort of purgatory in order to collect “data that’s essential to identify cheating behavior.” However, they implement strategies such as Cloaking and Damage Shield to “reduce the impact of cheaters” on other players as they collect this data. Brilliant!
Activision also noted that an additional 54,000 accounts have been banned since late-March. This is on top of the 90,000 accounts that were banned around March 18th. Activision remarked in the latest update post, “While we may not announce all bans as they happen, know they occur both daily and in waves.”
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