Call of Duty Anti-Cheat Confiscates Weapons & Puts Players In Time Out
The RICOCHET Anti-Cheat software, used to combat hackers in Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone, can actually punish cheaters by taking away their weapons mid-match. The beloved first-person shooter franchise has long been plagued by exploiters, with the series' various developers working to create a more fair environment over the years. The CoD: Vanguard and Warzone anti-cheat RICOCHET was added to both games last year, and developers recently shed new light on how the system works.
Before the launch of the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat system, Call of Duty Warzone and Vanguard were rife with hackers giving themselves an unfair advantage. The cross-platform nature of the battle royale shooter Warzone, in particular, made it very easy for PC users to hack the game and frustrate the game's entire community. Several attempts to stop exploiters failed, so the RICOCHET system was created and launched alongside Call of Duty: Vanguard in November 2021. The system has server-side tools that help catch cheaters, and a kernel-level PC driver can detect any cheating software launched alongside the games. The RICOCHET anti-cheat program leaked ahead of its official launch, but it has still been effective at curbing the number of in-game hackers.
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A new Call of Duty blog post delves into several features of the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat program, including the Disarm technique. Alongside preventing hacks and catching their creators, RICOCHET also contains a number of mitigation techniques that make life difficult for those who play the games dishonestly. The Defense Shield mitigation gives players damage resistance to help them take down cheaters, while the Disarm function
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