Following the euphoric reception to the return of Verdansk to Call of Responsibility battle royale Warzone, acquainted complaints have begun to resurface, chief amongst them dishonest.
Call of Responsibility has a status for dishonest (it comes with the territory of being such a vastly standard shooter and having a free-to-download battle royale). Cheating is extra prevalent on PC (Activision just lately confirmed as a lot, to the level the place it stated for those who consider you’ve died unfairly to a console participant, it’s more likely that they’ve used ‘intel benefit’ than cheats). So, some console gamers head straight into Call of Responsibility’s settings to show off crossplay throughout the board, simply to take the potential for PC cheaters ruining their day trip of the equation. With the launch of Season 3, Activision even added new console-only crossplay choices for normal multiplayer, though PC gamers who don’t cheat stated they have been being unfairly punished.
Activision, as IGN has reported, has spent thousands and thousands of {dollars} in the battle in opposition to Call of Responsibility cheat makers, cheat sellers, and cheat customers, with a quantity of current high-profile successes. In March, Phantom Overlay introduced it was shutting down, with followers reacting in disbelief that such a distinguished Call of Responsibility cheat supplier may fall by the wayside. Additionally in March, IGN reported on 4 cheat suppliers that have been shut down forward of the hotly anticipated return of Verdansk to Warzone.
It had been hoped that Warzone’s dishonest downside would enhance following Verdansk’s launch, however the honeymoon interval has properly and actually come to an finish, with gamers reporting that cheaters are again in power.
“Geegees Cheaters…it’s your sport now. Get pleasure from,” declared redditor Patient-Author-2960. “Massive congrats to all the cheaters for lastly conquering the sport once more and donkey punching Verdansk. You guys actually caught with it, grinding these partitions and aimbots to perfection. It should really feel wonderful to dominate lobbies with none precise talent. Welcome again.”
Amid this recent wave of negativity, Activision has revealed an anti-cheat replace from its Ricochet workforce, recapping what’s gone on with Season 3. Activision failed to handle this obvious rise in Warzone dishonest, however did define the work it has been doing to handle the downside of dishonest typically throughout Warzone and Black Ops 6.
“Our dedication is to maintain cheaters out of the sport and, for many who make it previous our preliminary methods, establish and take away them as rapidly as attainable,” Activision stated.
“The Ricochet Anti-Cheat workforce is tough at work taking up would-be cheaters all through the sport, together with these seeking to steal leaderboard glory.”
Activision stated it had shut down 5 extra cheat makers since its final progress report (that is on prime of the 20+ it’s shut down since Black Ops 6 got here out final 12 months), and had “disrupted” over 150 cheat sellers in the identical interval.
It stated it had protected over 10,000 accounts that had a possible suspicious account hyperlink in Season 03 (Activision just lately pressured gamers to confirm they’re in management of an account if somebody makes an attempt to hyperlink a brand new PC account to an Activision ID). It’s additionally added Replay Tech Preview, a brand new tech that helps look at replays for quicker investigation, and added new components to the Dying Widget, making KillCams clearer for gamers.
“The Season 03 replace has made a robust influence in opposition to cheat makers and resellers,” Activision insisted. “For instance, as we introduced just lately, Ricochet Anti-Cheat rapidly detected a cheat supplier that got here again on-line after weeks of downtime, ensuing in a large-scale ban wave in opposition to its buyer base, forcing it offline as soon as once more.
“We’ve continued to trigger chaos in the cheat market and have hit a milestone of disrupting over 150 cheat resellers – shutting them down or rendering their software program ineffective. And we’re not slowing down.”
A message from #TeamRICOCHET:
Earlier this week, we detected a cheat vendor that was offline was making an attempt to return. At the moment, we shut them down (once more) by issuing a large-scale ban wave in opposition to their clients.
We have shut down over 20 cheat makers…
— Call of Responsibility Updates (@CODUpdates) April 25, 2025
Activision highlighted new account creation, which is a tactic cheaters use after they get booted from Warzone. This, Activision stated, is “a actuality” for all free-to-play video games like Warzone, but it surely’s concentrating on new accounts and is now seeing “sturdy” outcomes. On common from the interval between Season 02 via Season 03, new accounts are banned inside 4 matches after they cheat, Activision stated.
New anti-cheat methods and upgrades are coming all through Season 03 Reloaded – particularly with Ranked Play on-line in Call of Responsibility: Warzone – in addition to upcoming seasons, Activision continued.
“Our workforce’s dedication stays the identical. Whereas threats live on, we’re centered on strengthening the boundaries to make dishonest in Call of Responsibility a idiot’s errand, eliminating as many cheaters as attainable earlier than they will influence a match, and searching down and eradicating any dishonest account that makes its method into the sport as rapidly as attainable.”
In the meantime, Activision stated it has issued stop and desist calls for to a number of firms that create and promote third-party {hardware} used to cheat in Call of Responsibility video games.
“We’ve got already seen compliance from some of the firms we’ve contacted; nevertheless, we’ll proceed to pursue different machine makers in the market, globally, in addition to people who create scripts to control Call of Responsibility sport code,” Activision warned.
“These gadgets and scripts used to cheat in our video games usually are not welcome. Call of Responsibility doesn’t endorse the use of these merchandise. Any account that makes use of these gadgets on PC or console for the goal of dishonest shall be completely banned.”
“No anti-cheat system can remove all threats, however we proceed to ship updates to take the legs out from underneath cheat makers by banning their customers, forcing them offline, and decreasing the time to detection for accounts that make it into the sport,” Activision concluded. “At the moment and into the future, the Ricochet Anti-Cheat roadmap continues, with new updates being developed and deployed regularly.”
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