A new feature in Call of Duty has the potential to be distracting for players found to be cheating.
According to Engadget, Activision employed a whole new set of tactics against cheaters in Call of Duty, ranging from rendering them invisible to targets, all the way to disarming them.
The latest anti-cheat measure is one of the first steps game developers at Activision are taking, aimed at combating hackers who are targeting Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 with fraudulent programs. cheating, such as hacking walls (seeing through walls)
As for how it works, when Activision’s Ricochet anti-hacking systems detect or suspect a player of cheating, a “hallucination” feature is immediately deployed to disorient the hackers. The remarkable thing about the feature is that each “hallucination” is actually a replica of a real player in the match. The “hallucination” has the ability to move, look, and interact just like a real player, and cheaters will be trapped.
The Ricochet development team said it would be difficult for players using the hack to tell the difference between “hallucinations” and real players. The “hallucination” will emit the same kind of hidden information that cheaters often get from legitimate players through cheat tools. The feature will also be turned on when in close contact with a player suspected of cheating, if they react they will be detected.
On the other hand, Ricochet has removed another anti-hack feature called Quicksand, which will potentially slow down or make cheaters unable to move. The company promised to update it in the future, but it has been discontinued for now