How Call Of Duty's Anti-Cheat Aims To Take Out Cheaters In Black Ops 6

As a seasoned Call of Duty player with years of gaming under my belt, I can’t help but feel a sense of relief and anticipation as Black Ops 6 approaches. The ongoing battle against cheaters has been a thorn in many gamers’ sides for far too long, but it seems Activision is finally taking the fight seriously.

As Black Ops 6 is set to release next week, Activision has unveiled their strategies on safeguarding Call of Duty against cheaters using Ricochet anti-cheat software. These measures encompass the game’s debut and its continuation post-launch.

Activision aims to identify and ban cheaters within an hour of their initial gameplay session. They are continuously tracking their progress and developing new technology to further reduce this occurrence.

During the beta phase of Black Ops 6, Ricochet was operational. According to Activision, these cheaters managed to play approximately 10 multiplayer games over the first weekend before they were eventually banned.

Following adjustments to our systems and introducing new detection techniques for ‘Weekend Two’, we managed to reduce the time it took to five matches by half. This timing met our objective, ‘Time to Action’. Notably, a quarter of all bans during ‘Weekend Two’ occurred during the very first match a cheater had ever played, according to the publisher.

Additionally, Black Ops 6 will launch with the following upgraded protections:

An updated version of the kernel-level driver
All mitigations, including Damage Shield, Disarm, Splat, Hallucination, and others will be live
New machine-learning behavioral systems, focused on speed of detection
New machine-learning detection models to analyze gameplay to combat aim bots
Upgrades when Ranked Play launches, which include continuous examinations to determine if leaderboard placements are accurate

In simpler terms, Activision has shared that they’ve activated special anti-cheat measures for Warzone, and they plan to provide more details about these methods in a future blog post.

In the pursuit of enhancing Call of Duty’s anti-cheat measures, Activision explains that their Ricochet team is developing a range of AI-powered tools to detect and combat cheaters. The publisher emphasizes that they already possess data from cheating incidents, but are now leveraging data gathered from professional players in the Call of Duty League to gain further insights into behavioral patterns.

The publisher asserts that it’s impossible for cheat creators to conceal player actions. By analyzing both genuine and fraudulent behaviors, they gather valuable insights which they employ to identify and isolate suspicious players from the community.

Activision emphasizes that combating cheating is ongoing work for us. In other words, we’re consistently striving to prevent and outsmart those who try to cheat, a mission we take very seriously.

Indeed, the recent findings about Ricochet were released yesterday, following Activision’s announcement that gamers had discovered a loophole in Ricochet’s detection system within Warzone and Modern Warfare 3. This exploit enabled players to aim at genuine users incorrectly, leading to unjustified bans which have since been rectified.

On October 25th, Call of Duty: Black Oops 6 will be available for play on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and personal computers. For those who wish to experience Black Ops 6 on a PC, you can find all the PC-exclusive features as well as the necessary hardware specifications here.

2024-10-18 19:39

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