Call Of Duty Rampant Cheating: Activision Finally Responds

High-level Call of Duty players have consistently complained about cheaters infiltrating Call of Duty's Ranked modes in Black Ops 6 and Warzone, and Activision has now responded to tell fans what's being done about it.

In a blog post, Activision said it understands players are feeling frustrated over issues that "severely impact the experience" and is taking steps to improve the quality of matches.

Now live in Call of Duty are "updated detection models" that aim to seek out things like aim-bots and hardware-level cheats. Activision never goes into depth about the efforts being undertaken through its anti-cheat software, Ricochet, because doing so, the company says, would give cheaters essential information to circumvent Activision's measures.

In terms of bans, Activision said it has banned more than 136,000 Ranked accounts since the mode launched. It is also "enhancing" its tools to help reduce the time it takes to implement action on accounts displaying bad behavior, Activision said. Additonally, Activision said it has a new system that, when one cheater is banned, can detect the person's other accounts for investigation.

Activision also addressed the questions about why the company doesn't utilize IP-based bans. It said that's because it would take action against entire groups, including people who aren't cheating. As an example, Activision said a cheater on a college campus might be using the same IP as numerous other people who aren't cheating in Call of Duty.

Here are some further updates for how Activision aims to address Call of Duty cheaters going forward:

• Season 02:
  • New and improved client and server-side detections and systems
  • Major kernel-level driver update
    • Improvements to driver security
    • Reinforced encryption process
  • New tampering detection system

• Season 03 and beyond:
  • A multitude of new tech including a brand-new system to authenticate legit players and target cheaters
    • Note: As we get closer to S03 we’ll dive a little deeper on these systems; however, it's important we don't provide too many details that could give cheat developers a peek behind the curtain

Overall, Activision has said it continues full steam ahead to fight against cheaters who want to "ruin the fun for everyone else." The work is never done, though, and Activision has always maintained that it will never be able to stop cheaters completely because they will always find new ways to do bad stuff.

In other Call of Duty news, Activision also announced it's delaying some Warzone content as it instead looks to improve the game, while Ranked play is finally allowing players to disable cross-play.