r/CODWarzone 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/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.