Activision Has Finally Responded To BO6 Cheating Complaints, Console Players Now Have A New Feature To Help Keep Cheaters At Bay

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Activision has issued a sweeping response to the ongoing complaints of widespread cheating in . More so than in previous games, cheating has run rampant in. Almost every player claims to encounter cheating constantly, which is frustrating at best and downright unethical at worst. After months of calling for a fix, Activision has finally responded to players who express concerns over cheating, offering a suite of new options and future updates to improve the cheating epidemic.

In the most recent community update, Activision outlined a multipoint plan for the prevention of cheating in. On the player's side, there's a new, easy way to avoid encountering cheaters in online modes: players on PlayStation and Xbox consoles can now turn off crossplay with PC. Since cheating is more common among PC players, due to the relative ease of deploying cheats on the platform, this should prevent console players from encountering most cheaters. PC players, however, will have to come up with an alternate solution.

So that's one potential solution, if not a one-size-fits all. Turning off crossplay is all well and good, but all that does is contain the problem in the PC player community — it doesn't actually reduce the number of cheaters. Thankfully, that's not all Activision is doing to address the cheating issues. It's got quite a plan in place, and that begins with updating its detection methods for common forms of cheating, like aim botting. It'll use behavioral systems, account trust data, and hardware identifiers to find cheaters.

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will also ramp up its reporting and banning system, in an effort to act more quickly on player reports. If players are repeatedly detected as queuing up and playing games with cheaters, their accounts may also be investigated. On the other side of the same coin, it'll also improve its detection system for spam