When their software isn’t asking for controversial kernel-level access to players’ PCs, they’re playing around with ideas like trapping cheaters in separate matchmaking islands.įor its part, Activision routinely bans tens of thousands of cheaters from Vanguard, Warzoneand other recent Call of Duty games. Read More: Call Of Duty Cheat Caught Hacking While Trying To Show He Wasn’t Hackingĭevelopers have tried to get creative in fighting the scourge of online cheating. Activision has also threatened to ban cheaters indefinitely from every future Call of Duty ever made. One called Damage Shield prevents those caught tampering with the game from dealing critical damage. This latest attempt to discourage cheaters with extreme prejudice comes on the back of similar mechanisms. “Legitimate players, however, can see cheaters impacted by cloaking (generally, they’ll be the players you see spinning in circles hollering, ‘Who is shooting me ?!’) and can dole out in-game punishment,” Vanguard‘s development team wrote in a blog post Thursday. Even bullets will be hidden, and all sounds of gunfire muted. The online shooter’s anti-cheat tech now includes a new “mitigation technique” called Cloaking that will make everyone but the cheater invisible, a punishment worthy of Black Mirror.īasically, once Call of Duty‘s RICOCHET anti-cheat security detects someone is cheating through the use of aimbots or other illicit means, everyone else in the game will be rendered as invisible to them. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Call of Duty: Vanguard has added a new tool to its arsenal of methods for trying to humiliate cheaters. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue.
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