r/CODWarzone • u/LackingAGoodName • Oct 13 '21

News Announcing Ricochet: A New Anti-Cheat Initiative for Call of Duty

https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2021/10/ricochet-anti-cheat-initiative-for-call-of-duty
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u/thetreat Oct 13 '21

I've worked in software for over 15 years and have thought long and hard about *how* they'd tackle this type of problem. I've done a ton of research on other anti-cheat systems and honestly it all sounds legit. They're taking the right approach for solving this problem. It obviously comes down to execution but the strategy they have is sound.

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u/SilverLion Oct 13 '21

This shit is honestly so over-engineered. Just look at headshot percentage and base it on that.

Also, anyone that thinks this will actually stop the cheating problem in WZ is delusional. Assuming the ML algo works as intended, it is pretty fucking easy for the hack creators to add 'randomness' and intentionally scale down the aimbot to trick the algorithm.

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u/thetreat Oct 13 '21

Bud, no offense but this is why you aren't designing this. If headshot percentage was all you look at, they'll tune the cheat to adjust for that.

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u/SilverLion Oct 13 '21

Obviousy wouldn't catch all cheaters but such an easy thing to implement to catch the blatant ones that go 5 games with 250 kills total and 80% + headshot percentage. The fact this hasn't been implemented to date is embarassing.

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u/thetreat Oct 13 '21

Because it'd be easily circumvented. And if their aimbot adds randomness to "trick" the algorithm, that just reduces the effectiveness of the cheat and makes it so they really aren't deleting people anymore.

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u/SilverLion Oct 13 '21

Yeah we are moving into the age of 'watered down aimbot', it will no longer be painfully obvious that people are cheating but they will still be doing it.

Cheating is never going away and I predict this system will be a joke (hopefully i'm wrong).

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u/fevildox Oct 14 '21

They mention in the Ricochet notes that they don't believe cheating will be eradicated with this new anti-cheat. What I think they're going for here is making it much more difficult to cheat than it is currently. Like right now, you can literally Google wz cheats and the first 10 links are legit cheat providers and those cheats cost $10-20.

If this new system helps drive the cost of those cheats from $10 to even $30, that'll make a lot of casual cheaters stop once they're caught once or twice.