Activision introduced the “RICOCHET” anti-cheat system.
After months of cheating on Call of Duty: Warzone and other franchise entries, Activision has unveiled its upcoming anti-cheat system called "RICOCHET".
RICOCHET is an anti-cheat system developed by Activision specifically for CoD. “It will help identify cheaters, strengthen and strengthen overall server security.” It will launch with the Pacific update coming to Warzone at the end of 2021 and will eventually come to Vanguard as well. RICOCHET will bring a "core-level driver" for Warzone on PC, as well as a "broad enhancement to security" of CoD.
“The RICOCHET Anti-Cheat initiative is a multi-pronged approach to combating cheating and includes new server-side tools that monitor analytics to detect cheats, improved investigation processes to eliminate cheaters, updates to strengthen account security, and more,” said Activision. “RICOCHET Anti-Cheat's back-end anti-cheat security features are bundled with Call of Duty: Vanguard, and the Pacific update will be coming to Call of Duty: Warzone later this year.”
Activision said the kernel-level driver will be released on PC, not console, but “by extension, console players playing via cross-play against PC players will also benefit,” Activision said. By its very nature, the driver will “control software and applications that attempt to interact and manipulate Call of Duty: Warzone, providing the overall security team with more data to improve security.”
Warzone is particularly popular, probably due to its free-to-play nature. cheaters has been a challenging target. Activision has issued hardware bans and countless waves of bans in the past, but this has only stopped the wave of hackers cheating in-game. This new, extra step should be the biggest salvo ever in the war against scammers.