After inflicting them with hallucinations, vanishing guns, and 'quicksand', Call of Duty will now name and shame banished cheaters mid-game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 season 5 is here, bringing with it new gear, new maps, and an unkillable German shepherd that lives on your belt. But it's also brought an update to the game's anti-cheat system. No longer content with plaguing cheaters with bizarre torments like hallucinations and disappearing weapons, COD is turning to the most potent motivator of all to deter evildoers in multiplayer matches: shame.
In a post on Twitter (or a tweet on X), COD's Team Ricochet anti-cheat squad announced that «starting in Season 05, the kill feed will notify lobbies when #TeamRICOCHET and its systems have removed a problem player from the game.» In other words, the game's anti-cheat will throw up a message in the bottom left of the screen to tell you when it's turfed out a hacker in much the same way it tells you when someone has scored a sick headshot.
RICOCHET has entered the chat
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