The latest anti-cheat update for Call of Duty is promising

Cheating will always be a thing in a competitive setting, but Activision is doing all they can to push back. Ricochet is their answer, and while it hasn't solved the problem for some time, the intensity is being addressed to force hackers out of the game we love. The latest update is promising, even though we need to see it in action, but Season 3 will tell us all. Check out all the intel below from the Call of Duty Blog.

Season 03 is around the corner, bringing new content to Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6 and a little-known map called Verdansk back to Call of Duty®: Warzone™. For the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat™ team, the focus remains on our commitment to taking down cheat makers, banning bad actors, and ensuring a great player experience. Our roadmap for anti-cheat extends beyond this season, but in the latest Progress Report we’ll focus on recent results and security-focused updates coming in Season 03.

Progress Report: Season 03 Agenda (Read on for details)

• Shutdowns and Action
• Season 03 Security
• Reporting and UI Updates
• More via this link

Shutdowns and Action

You may have heard that a few cheat developers and resellers are closing up shop. Since Black Ops 6 launched, our roadmap has been to go on the offensive and disrupt the cheating marketplace. In that time, over 20 cheat makers and dozens of cheat resellers are out of business due to these efforts. And we’re not slowing down.

Team RICOCHET has issued over 228,000 bans since Black Ops 6 was released. We removed 23% of cheaters before they played their first match. These are strong wins for the game, but there’s always more we can do to get better in both speed and efficiency.

Season 03 Security

As an additional layer to existing anti-cheat processes, we’re launching brand-new systems in Season 03. For security reasons, we can’t give away too many details; however, we will publish another RICOCHET Progress Report in the release window of Season 03 Reloaded to detail results from next week’s update.

Several of our current systems are getting big updates this season, too, including our aim bot detections and the Machine Learning system that analyzes game replays to identify suspicious gameplay for human-validated enforcement.

Reporting and UI Updates

Reports made by players in-game are important to our anti-cheat efforts. However, we've found that many of these reports have been inaccurate in situations where the killing player might have had an intel advantage – such as when using Perks like Recon Scout or when having the advantage of a Spy Cam live ping. Over 60% of received cheater reporting in Call of Duty: Warzone have been against console players, for example. Console cheating is possible, but our data has consistently shown it represents an extremely low population of detected cheaters when compared to PC, which means that this large volume of cheater reports are inaccurate even if the KillCams may have made it seem like the player was cheating.

To help resolve this, the team is making critical updates to the KillCam to help demystify gunfights and increase the accuracy of player reports. In Season 03, our studios are bringing a big update to the UI of KillCams to better recap the gameplay elements an attacker had active at the time of the engagement.

Current and new recap details in the KillCam widget include:

• List of attackers who dealt damage with their username, weapon, damage, and hits
• Affected by Live Ping: If the enemy had you pinged via line-of-sight
• Affected by UAV: If the enemy had you pinged on the minimap via UAV, UAV Tower, or Advanced UAV
• Affected by Unsuppressed Weapon: When firing your weapon revealed your location on the minimap to nearby enemies

During the upcoming Season, this widget will get more updates to callout even more gameplay elements like equipment, killstreaks, field upgrades, contracts, perks, and more to help players report with greater accuracy and confidence...

Read more at the Call of Duty Blog here.

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