Activision initially rolled out its Ricochet anti-cheating measures in 2021 to chop down on cheaters in Call of Duty video games. Whereas the corporate has touted Ricochet’s successes, the group behind this system is acknowledging that there have been some issues with it throughout Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 1.
In a submit on Call of Duty’s official site, the Ricochet group stated, “We didn’t hit the mark for the combination of Ricochet Anti-Cheat on the launch of Season 1–particularly for Ranked Play. We perceive the promise of glory and notoriety from Ranked Play leaderboards makes Ranked Play a pretty goal for cheaters. For that reason, our groups have been particularly centered on turning the tide to ship the aggressive area our gamers search.”
To that finish, the group wrote that account bans are actually occurring hourly and investigations into cheaters have been ramped as much as embrace extra guide opinions of clips from matches along with the AI programs already in place to detect cheaters and hackers by way of the Replay software. Additionally they acknowledged that cheaters will probably be faraway from leaderboards sooner because of better synchronization with the investigations.
There have been points with Ricochet the place legit Call of Duty accounts have been mistakenly banned, most of which have been restored. Black Ops 6’s Ranked mode was suffering from cheaters upon launch, which Activision blamed on an outage that “was recognized as decreasing Ricochet’s effectivity of the AI programs used for cheat detection.”
The submit concluded with a request that Call of Duty gamers report cheaters as they encounter them. Moreover, the group famous that there are main updates to Ricochet that will probably be launching throughout Black Ops 6 Seasons 2 and three.
Activision lately dropped a brand new patch for Black Ops 6 to handle different points within the sport. Gamers additionally lately found a game-ending Easter egg in Black Ops 6’s Nuketown. Moreover, Treyarch teased a collaboration between Black Ops 6 and Netflix’s Squid Recreation.