Call of Duty uses copies of real players to tackle cheaters – Activision Blizzard

The latter action is one of the first steps developers take to combat hackers in Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0, who use forbidden tools (for example, Wallhacks) to learn additional information and gain an unfair advantage over others.

When Activision systems detect or suspect a cheater, the system may create an “illusion”. This will not affect casual players at all as it is designed to distract hackers. This is the really clever part of the scale: each illusion is a clone of a real player in the match, according to Ricochet’s anti-cheat team. Illusions move, look, and interact with the world just like a human player who tricks a rogue into thinking they’ve encountered a real opponent.

Ricochet’s team says that cheaters won’t be able to tell a delusion from a real player at first glance (the team notes, in the image above, that there’s a delusion and a real player). Fantasies emanate from the same types of hidden information that “cheats” obtain on legitimate players through their illegal tools. Illusions will also appear near suspicious players. If a suspicious player interacts with a chimera, it is immediately revealed as a cheat.

On the other hand, the Ricochet team has closed down a piracy containment measure. It was called Quicksand, and surprisingly, it slowed down the Call of Duty cheat or froze it in place. An updated version of Quicksand may be added in the future, but the app is currently not working

“While Quicksand was a fun measure to deal with malicious players, it could also be very annoying to anyone in the lobby,” reads a Call of Duty blog post. “Imagine you’re encountering a snail-paced enemy in the middle of your drive outside a place of great interest. It can lead you to adventures.

Meanwhile, Ricochet gave an update on its efforts to crack down on the use of XIM-style console crossover devices used by cheaters. “Within the first two weeks of testing, we saw a 59% decrease in any use of these devices in Modern Warfare II and Warzone,” Team Ricochet wrote. Of these users, 57% never use the device again. The well-known anti-fraud group pointed out that those who own such a device and continue to persist will be punished.