For a long time, the developers of Call of Duty worked on a new anti-cheat system that encompasses all of the brand’s games. Now is Ricochet
Active on the server side and promises improvement in the Cheaster-plagued CoD Warzone. But the new Call of Duty: Vanguard, which is celebrated by fans, should also benefit from the technology. The rollout of Ricochet is still at the very beginning.
Why we think the multiplayer mode of the new CoD is good, but calculate deductions in the story and in the zombie mode, you can read in the current test with evaluation:
On the subject
CoD Vanguard in the test with evaluation
Ricochet is supposed to keep matches clean
Vanguard developer Sledgehammer Games announced the release of Ricochet via Twitter. Here it becomes clear that the makers of the new Call of Duty want to fight hard against cheaters and hackers:
Link to Twitter content
The technology is now used on the server side to make life difficult for cheaters. With this ricochet only develops half its strength. A client update for Warzone and finally also Vanguard should follow in December. Then it should be even more difficult for cheaters, also because Ricochet, like many effective anti-cheats, relies on kernel access to recognize the cheats.
Why kernel anticheat is currently the best method to put an end to fraudsters in online games, we explain together with anticheat professionals in the big report:
Artificial intelligence
The next generation of cheats
Threatened tough measures
Ricochet developers state that extreme or repeated violation of guidelines
can result in the ban of the CoD account. Under extremely
In this case, cheating and the use of exploits are excluded. So if you play unfairly in Warzone or Vanguard in the future, you have to expect the loss of your account. Thanks to the hardware ID ban, it should remain effective over the long term.
By December at the latest, it will become clear how effective ricochet is in practice. Because the fight against cheaters is not won with the release of an anti-cheat tool – it only begins then. It will be exciting to see who will stay ahead in the inevitable arms race between cheat and anti-cheat developers.
