Call of Duty switches to a hardware-based anti-cheat system with Ricochet. Ricochet, activision’s new Call of Duty anti-cheat software announced earlier in the day, will be added to the game with the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard— November 5th. Call of Duty: Warzonewill be added later this year, in December.
Call of Duty anti-cheat software will only work in online mode
Games using the hardware-based anti-cheat system include Valorant, Doom Eternal and Genshin Impact. The Vanguard anti-cheat system used by Riot for Valorant, one of the companies that fought the most serious against cheaters, is software that was active during the course of the game, which disturbed some players.
Activision claims ricochet will only work when Call of Duty: Warzone is on and will only monitor call of duty-related activities. Of course it’s up to the player to believe that. Ricochet will be mandatory to play Warzone online, but ricochet will be disabled when you close the game.
“Ricochet was developed to fight the use of cheats in a multifaceted way. The system will examine whether games are being cheated with advanced review methods, brand cheaters and bring updates to improve account security,” activision said in a statement. A player fed up with the use of cheating in Warzone said of Ricochet:
“I don’t like the idea of giving Activision system access to the core of the system, but I’ve been killed so many by cheaters, frankly, I don’t really care about that,” he said.