Warzone's Anticheat MUST Change For Black Ops 6

Call of Duty Warzone's anticheat, ricochet, must change for the impending release of Black Ops 6. The anticheat, is currently being overrun by cheaters in Warzone, which is causing huge problems for the game.

[@mcxios]

Anticheat, their garbage audio system, their dumbster fire servers and last but not least aim assist thats been broken for 5 years now. But there is no way they are even fixing any of these

[@iskabin]

This

[@grantdavinson3101]

I mean why do any of you want aim assist nerf’d while there’s literally a huge part of the community running free wall hacks, aimbot, 3d radar’s etc… Like you ppl who crying about aim assist are very contradicting and hypocritical, considering most of you support big streamers who literally use any cheat you can think of… Reason any big streamer agrees that aim assist is too powerful, is because even with their aimbot and walls, they still get killed at times by the average player. So of course if AA gets nerf’d and it lowers the skill set of any good controller players it’s only going to help the cheaters EVEN MORE. If anything at all, I hope they buff AA, not for myself, but just so it pisses those cheaters off even more. It’s laughable how you donuts think.

[@mcxios]

@@grantdavinson3101 you do realise that you can use controller on pc right?

[@grantdavinson3101]

@@mcxioswhat kind of reply and question is that? Did you even read lol.. I said absolutely nothing about PC players? Or anything about pc players not being able to use controller? I said any big streamer that moans about AA… absolutely nothing to do with whether a pc player can use controller or not, a r*tard knows they can use a controller pal.

[@markyh88]

The aim assist thing is such a cop out for mouse and keyboard players. The amount of advantages to movement and aim from a mouse and keyboard and they want to complain about controller players having aim assist because it is NEEDED to even try and compete with mouse and keyboard. It's ridiculous, because any mouse and keyboard player can switch to controller if they wanted.. but they don't because they like the advantages that mouse and keyboard gives. I dismiss the ridiculous conversation any time it comes up and I challenge anyone to prove that controller players have an overall advantage over mouse and keyboard.. because you all know that isn't true at all.

[@highrofellos6721]

Cheaters have basically driven me totally away from FPS. Apex, Tarkov, Cod.....its just cheat central.

[@Steve0thegreat]

It’s getting worse in pubg as well! I’m running into wall hackers and script kiddies left and right.

[@Chambo_oddoneout]

Those streamers that promoted cheating has to be blamed for this, they have to be canceled, banned for life. Legally sued for scamming kids.

[@iSmoothz]

Me too ..

[@walkerdarin2003]

Mixing pc and console on a free to play system was pure greed.

[@tmac4809]

I REFUSE TO BUY ANY COD GAMES UNTIL THEY DO SOMETHING ABOUT CHEATERS

[@wilber1982]

The engine is just dog shit in general constantly says I’ve got 15ms yet getting shot around corners every other fight using lan with good internet is actually a disadvantage that’s how fucked this franchise is.

[@thecasualgamer1457]

As a European privacy lawyer, I can't even imagine how creative and potentially illegal the legal basis of the Valorant processing is, giving acces to K0 on the basis of "less stress when gaming". Not even banks are allowed to that. No legitimate interest assessment or informed consent seems obtainable, because it is a all file no hinterances access solution. No kid or yound adult, not even reasonble adults, understand the threat it may cause, and seeing noone is talking about it - Riot Games is not informing them about it. They are getting K0 access to children. I'm flabergasted

[@Simplyeffinastounding]

If it meant a cheat free gaming experience I would give anti cheat representatives full permission to come into my home and sit beside me while I game and ensure I am not cheating. Hell they can bring all their friends with them. Do you know why I have no problem with Kernel Level, Invasive Anti Cheat that is Always On and monitoring, and a system that BRICKS any and ALL devices downloading 3rd party software, or plugging in third party devices designed to circumvent a systems security and "hide" from detection... ...it's a redundant question, the answer is "Because we have nothing to hide". The people most vocal against any kind of security service that actually works and gives a company the ability to hardware ban any device from accessing their services are those who have something to hide. As someone who has held "The Ban Hammer" and enacted it many times over a more than 2 decade experience in the gaming industry as a player, and as a moderator/admin, I can safely say it is always the cheaters, and cheat sellers that come into the conversation to spout the "they are taking away your privacy with the anti cheat" rhetoric as a scare tactic to get support from the uninformed, and uneducated playerbase (read toddlers being babysat by consoles and their parents PCs), and the irresponsible parents that are downloading the cheats that have more malware and system hacking programming than any anti cheat from the nefarious sites that have the power to hardware ban cheaters from their cheat selling sites and run off with all their money because they are about as educated as their toddlers. Give us anti cheat that works and the only thing we will lose is the toxic playerbase ruining multiplayer for everyone. Every gamer should have an ID like a SIN number or drivers license that identifies their system, and allows them multiplayer access, and should they cheat, they lose multiplayer access license permanently. F**k 'em. We won't miss em.

[@chrisw341]

I totally agree …. It’s to the point now I don’t play as much anymore of it -- JUST PLANE SICK OF THE CHEATERS !

[@carlthomas99]

There is no Riccochet There is no Riccochet There is no Riccochet MOM THE MEATLOAF!

[@msmith8982]

they will do nothing as long all the bots buy in the shop, they carry on. Like for years. Ricco is a Clown.

[@antsa85]

Im on a break because cheaters and server issues. I really hope they fix their shit. If not, thats it for me for good

[@grant050969]

Stopped playing a while now

[@jakewilliams8327]

The question is why activision haven't implemented a better anticheat and who it benefits!

[@jakubszulc]

I play with my friend few times a week and last month or so was really frustrating. We play in europe mostly in tge evenings and we get Cheaters everywhere mixed with server lags that make people kill you before you even have time to react. I don't mind getting killed by better player but the game just seems unfair now. We play better than ever, but it became almost impossible for us to win the game (and 2-3 moths ago we could mange to win almost every evening that we played).

[@user-gr7ui1nl4m]

I hope activision is the one who gets punished when they see that no one is pre ordering their shite game after years of us getting punished by hackers. Billions of dollars made and they still have the gonads to tell us that it’s a “slow process”

[@h1n1johnyboy37]

It has become a real nightmare for me as a MnK player to play this game, went from 1.92kd in WZ1 to 1.1KD and it's keeps going down, most people in my lobbies use some form of wallhack, soft aim, low recoil,... don't forget it's also linked to how sbmm works, because otherwise it would be random, but with this system I am garanteed to run into cheaters!! Even when I play with lower skilled friends we still get those sweaty/cheating lobbies!!! I am sick of it!!

[@eyrac6143]

Been stuck in this loop for ages and just ruins me being able to play the game.

[@corydowdy3741]

Always on anti cheat and or Console only cross play

[@eyrac6143]

Only sad part as well is people abusing the anti cheat with being able to mass report anyone they think is cheating because all the oldies don't think people can be good so they just mass report good players and we get stuck in limited match making for a week and this is just a cycle constantly and basically you can't be good at this game anymore without getting limited matchmaking.

[@tubatsimonareng3154]

There was recently a free version of EO's cheat that was released on last week Tuesday. Implement hardware bans, IP bans, MFA/2FA.

[@User57655]

They have HWID bans, but you need to get at least 2 perma bans before they HWID ban you!

[@techpriestsgaming6525]

I have stopped playing Online FPS games. Its just a chore. This comes from someone who played semi professionally COD4 back in the day. I was so into FPS games, especially online ones. I just cannot push myself into it.

[@Uplandgrooming]

Sincere question: is this just an EU problem? I play daily on console (Xbox) for 3+hrs, 300 wins, 3 kd and primarily run duos. I haven’t run into cheaters in at least 2 months.

[@User57655]

Assuming you’re not in Oceania where it’s even worse apparently I guess you are US? Genuine question, maybe you don’t notice them? As in, they are using walls with well configured aimbot and you just don’t notice? Because from what I’ve seen, the users buying these cheats are not specific to any geography, they’re everywhere

[@Uplandgrooming]

@@User57655 yeah I’m NA/US. Maybe I don’t notice or they don’t work as well as the user intends.

[@grantdavinson3101]

@@Uplandgroomingbe prepared, engine owning now give wall hacks out for free, nobody has to pay for them.

[@MarkKidsley1989]

Doesn’t even seem to be any mitigation at the moment

[@Limozo]

Between the crashes, the bugs, SBMM and hackers I simply stopped playing and uninstalled

[@Cristinec06]

I get shadowbaned on 850 level acc created in march 2020, unlocked specialist camo for every cod from MW2019 to MW3(I also bought BO2,3 and 4 only to play zombies)

[@iJobama]

It seems like Ricochet has somewhat devolved overtime. They used to have multiple different mitigations that they'd place onto cheaters. None of which seem to be in any effect whatsoever. Things like Invisible Bots that mimic other players to catch people using walls should be compulsory in every match. Just sucks that multiple people need to have their games ruined before Rick actually does anything

[@Trying_but-failing]

If COD adopts a valorant approach to anti cheat lol I think the “pro” pool might drop to single number digits.

[@user-gz4pk7sx9q]

Doesn't matter, dma board with firmware will just bypass most a/c! Give up fps or just play for fun! Cheat industry is a Multibillion dollar industry now and it ain't going anywhere!

[@Kerasue]

good take, ranked mp crim+ is unplayable sometimes for this reason

[@rickfowler273]

It’s sad when you never know if many people are cheating or not. Even just by a little bit for a slight edge.

[@jayjohnson9729]

The worst thing is, out of all these games, COD makes by far the most money, yet has the worst anticheat, worst servers, worst update quality and by far the worst audio. Cod will never change, just a horrible company that has lost me and so many others.

[@michaelfromm4359]

Hi lachy yer I'm on ps and yer I'm am running in to cheaters doesn't matter warzone or multiplayer like invasion so I am really getting ppppd of with it so I don't play anymore the worst part of it that we paid alot of money for the game and still got nothing of what they said would happen the same when said about mw2 I playing the game but losing faith with cod it's quite disappointing the only time I like cod is when you boys play I watch you jaff westie bennie stod sorry for the spelling you boys do a fantastic job so thank you for what you do

[@jce3086]

I play on diamond and it is so disheartening to start a game by being kicked out by a team of cheaters. If things keep this way, this game is gonna be known as a Call for Cheaters

[@scottyg1834]

My man spitting Facts! Can’t argue with any points. * If you’re worried about your privacy, hot tip, Facebook / TikTok etc have all your details already. In fact TikTok would be worse than any other potential that a “zero level” Anticheat has. * Keep up the good fight mate.

[@iskabin]

It's not only about privacy, do you think your PC won't suffer with all that bloat of services running in the background? There is absolutely no reason the anticheat should be on if the game is closed

[@Errburritoes]

The game is just not fun anymore since the end of season 3 the cheaters have been out of control my last game was a week after season 4 started every game was lagging server's and cheaters everywhere, it's just shit

[@jkhkjbhjkhfhgvb]

It’s been like that for at least 2 years .. ban pc that’s sad but that’s the only way at this point

[@user-gz4pk7sx9q]

Ricochet is absolutely worthless!

[@User57655]

Ricochet is a kernel driver (ring 0), but it doesn’t load at boot unlike Vanguard. But having a kernel driver is step 1 of a solution, all the other mitigations and steps taken are where the real difference lies vs Vanguard. For obvious reasons the anti-cheat developers don’t discuss what they are doing, but to my knowledge Ricochet doesn’t attempt to identify or kick users with DMA cheats for example, meanwhile Vanguard does. Either way, I just stopped playing WZ, there’s no incentive for them to fix anything if you keep playing the game and buying bundles.

[@Manu-329IS]

Got kicked after a sniper headshot - was my first kill/headshot that round… shadow banned since. Meanwhile hackers are everywhere- I don’t get it

[@ariel_._]

I’m surprised that they’re not leveraging their parent company relationship with Microsoft to improve their anti-cheat. Cheats run on Windows, surely the operating system could be useful in reporting suspicious activity to Ricochet. This isn’t just an Activision problem, this COD cheating issue also affects the Microsoft bottom line.

[@j1mgg]

We are again seeing what I can describe a cheat sellers selling their cheat in the chat messaging within the game (in mandarin so not 100%), and this was UK after 10pm. I wish they would just fix their servers, they are horrendous in the evenings.

[@amigopuerco]

Im glad i suck. Cheaters arent in my bracket of SBMM

[@karlcaught]

Also have issues getting 120 players on solos once crossplay is turned off on ps5.. crossplay on 120 no issue

[@punkradio5384]

I think this will be my last week until BO6

[@martinkeane9823]

European servers are basically unplayable after 8:30pm, the only time I get to play! Cheaters every game, combined with the current lag problems, I have installed this crap for the last time... As long as fools keep spending money on this rubbish nothing will change!

[@IncredibleFlyinSquid]

Logged on this evening to three successful reports (also a fourth from last night) all from quite obvious wall hackers

[@MrMakkink]

i think they also promote it with people like ayden jeewow and bifle and more of those people sorry for the bad englisch.

[@mattshergold3836]

Yeah its unfortunate that cod can't seem to get out of their own way. Bad anti cheat, bad servers etc. All my friends have moved to different games and i hadly ever play anymore because its just not a fun game with all the issues.

[@wingassassinthe1]

This engine is obsolete and old. They need to change the game from the ground up. but they’re so cheap they don’t care as long as everybody keeps paying for cosmetic, skins and celebrities they are like we don’t care we’ll give it a Band-Aid over this gaping wound that’s called shotgun blast

[@iskabin]

I hate cheaters as much as the next guy, but if the anticheat runs without the game opened I will uninstall and never play again, just like I did to Valorant and League

[@Rob-gs8lq]

I use a controller and still run into many cheaters. Trust me, your imput device doesn't matter and there are console cheaters as well who use wall hacks & soft aim. I report them not only through the game, but on the Xbox platform as well and always check to see if it's a smurf account. Unfortunately, I can't do the same if they're on Steam or PlayStation, but I do run into them quite frequently in ranked play multiplayer matches. Just yesterday, I had a guy with the Warzone nuke skin & camo, was diamond in Warzone ranked and he had 0 gamer score. I reported him countless times, but he was still playing. Ricochet isn't detecting cheaters, it just lets them run wild.

[@tuannguyen730]

Spam report must be stop too.

[@keno31186]

Just have an option for no PC crossplay on all consoles that will be a massive help. 90% of people play on console. It's a simple quick work around.

[@WhoTFisPaulFinebaum]

I'm not giving them a penny until.they clean up the mess they already have!

[@PowerGeizer]

I play on pc multi player and cheaters are not hiding their cheats unlike before in mw 2019. Sad to say but their anti cheat is useless.

[@seyrnahd]

Kernal Access... No thanks. If a games requires that level of access to my machine to play a game, well, I simply won't play. I honestly don't think a lot of people actually realize what Kernel Level Access means and how invasive that is. IMHO there should be a giant warning label that makes you read it 10 times and preform a test to ensure you understand what it means before you sign away such access. YIKES!!!!

[@ZypherGames]

Needs to happen BUT should also be Opt-Out and mandatory for playing Ranked. Anyone who knows better can disable it if they want, everyone else gets it enabled by default. That way, if you want to be ranked at all you must do it with this level on anti-cheat enabled, enforcing no rankings are from cheaters. Everyone else can live in the free for all.

[@User57655]

Can you imagine how bad public lobbies would be in that situation? Might as well remove the option because they would be unplayable

[@ZypherGames]

@@User57655 you've misunderstood my comment. It would be Opt-Out which would mean that it is enabled by default 80-90% of players will keep it enabled. Call of Duty can matchmake all these players together if they wish. Worse case scenario is that public lobbies remain in the same state as they are now except that CoD would have highly trusted users in lobbies because they have it enabled, and extremely untrusted accounts who have it disabled. I imagine that it would still be a vast improvement on today's cheating issues and gives those who don't want or trust kernel level anti-cheat an option.

[@AndyT306]

Nothing will change

[@pret0rian19761]

It's 2024!!! the devs can actually make a better anti-cheat system My guy!!

[@hyzerfl1p]

It’s like cs 2 unplayable

[@GuilhermeHolz]

There's a better solution, to create an anti cheat system based on behavior instead of tampering detection. With machine learning you can train a large model with the data from known cheaters to be able to detect this without the need of a kernel anti cheat.

[@sickranchez2023]

Engine Owning giving cheats away free and its legit too. Is there any wonder the game is DEAD. Ranked is now Hacked mode and solo is equally as bad. The only way i get a half decent game is in trio or quad when the cheats are focused on the rest of my team!

[@ZeNith94]

Activision allows cheats. A billion dollar company owned by a trillion dollar company and they can’t figure out how to punish cheaters and keep them from coming back? Game companies with a fraction of the resources solved this years ago

[@Frazierhcv]

They will never put an anti cheat like valorant, because the people that the company uses to get people's attention to their game are cheaters themselves. Some of them were invited to install the faceit anticheat on their stream, they refused it.

[@wjjohns04able]

Sorry, I don’t want some foreign software constantly running on my pc. They just need to actually ban the cheaters instead of shadow banning them.

[@griftgfx]

wuts anti-heat

[@immortaluzumaki7583]

Thats why i hate cross play you cant trust pc users anymore even tho some of them are legit but most are not legit

[@grrinc]

I assume all pc players cheat at this point. And I day that as a pc player. I’ve gone back to console. Way better for stress free gaming.

[@TheRealMrGreen]

Mate I'm looking at your gameplay and I'm wondering... Why the fuck would you need to pay for cheats when there's a built in aimbot? 😆

[@talltexan4710]

1st one to comment and like

[@Steve0thegreat]

No one is going to give you a trophy. It’s literally good for nothing to be first other than being a derp and commenting it.

[@AndyT306]

You are saying they need to invest, something they never do, just remove cross play and all the console players can be happy

[@User57655]

They will never do it unfortunately, they didn’t when Verdansk was cheater heaven and they won’t now because they need the PC player base for revenue growth. In addition Cronus is still possible on Xbox (and PS with some workarounds from what I understand), so console only won’t necessarily be 100% ‘clean’.

[@YoriKurita]

With the quality of software the CoD teams deliver, I will never have them install anything running in ring 0 on my machine.

[@ZypherGames]

Yeah, I think this should be Opt-Out and mandatory for playing Ranked. Anyone who knows better can disable it, everyone else gets it enabled by default. That way, if you want to be ranked at all you must do it with this level on anti-cheat enabled, enforcing no rankings are from cheaters. Everyone else can live in the free for all.

[@campsitez2355]

if 30% of apex top players (population ~1,000) were found to be cheating it's safe to say all of the top 250 in warzone were cheating...... OOOOR maybe they're just better than you?

[@Simplyeffinastounding]

Verified Phone Numbers are NOT "easily accessible". Where we live, our land line phone and internet costs close to 300$ per month, a cell phone costs between 150 and 600$, an extra phone bill on top of that costs another couple hundred dollars. This is absolutely not feasible for someone living in a remote location who already pays upwards of 300$ a month for fiber land line and internet. VPN blocking, and Hardware bans need to be a thing. Or enable the use of a land line phone for 2FA because not everybody can afford a cell phone just for a video game 2FA. Do hardware bans properly and it will have a positive effect. Great video, and would love to see more resources, including funding, and live monitoring humans as well as always on anti cheat implemented into the multiplayer gaming space.

[@iskabin]

Yeah and if they were easily accessible it would defeat the whole point of using it against cheaters, this guy doesn't have a clue what he's talking about

[@kiaenigma]

looked like good game sense to me, stop spam reporting its against TOS

[@TheTacticalBrit]

One of them was literally ricochet'd in the footage...

[@Steve0thegreat]

If they’re cheating, you report. Are you defending cheaters? Or are you a cheater that hates getting reported?

[@User57655]

@@TheTacticalBritthat just means they got shadowbanned (which can happen from too many user reports…) so it’s possible a user with a low trust score could get shadow banned in game even if they aren’t cheating, and it will come up as the Ricochet logo

[@YoBoyBrayy]

@@TheTacticalBrit if it says ricochet then they were shadow banned