Call Of Duty Launches New Way To Thwart Cheaters, And It Involves Hallucinations
Activision is trying to trick and detect cheaters with a «hallucination» system.
By Eddie Makuch on
The developers of Call of Duty are rolling out a new method to try to thwart cheaters. The newest mitigation technique is called «Hallucinations,» and here's how it works.
With Hallucinations, «decoy characters» are deployed in the game environment. They can only be seen by players believed to be cheating, and they do not impact a legitimate player's experience in any way, Activision said in a blog post. Instead, they «serve to disorient cheaters in a variety of ways,» Activision said. «Hallucinations can be deployed both as a method of mitigation for verified cheaters or, in secret, as a detection for suspicious players.»
As a mitigation technique, Hallucination-based soldiers look, move, and act like a real human player, Activision said. They aren't AI, but instead a clone of an active user in a match, with the aim being to trick a cheater into thinking they are squaring off against another human.
«Hallucinations also trigger the same information that cheaters would have access to using nefarious tools, revealing unique data to make them appear legitimate,» Activision said.
Hallucinations can also be used for the purpose of detecting cheaters. As an example, Activision could deploy a Hallucination character close to a person believed to be cheating. A player who engages with a Hallucination character will then reveal themselves to be a cheater.
Activision said one of the aims of creating the new Hallucination technique is to target «non-rage» hackers, or those who cheat by way of using software that gives them access to other in-game information in real time that provides an unfair advantage.
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