Team Ricochet, the developers of the anti-hack/cheat software Ricochet for the game Call of Duty, has recently released some notable updates. Ricochet emphasizes a rather creative anti-hack method that can make hackers extremely uncomfortable.
Accordingly, the new anti-hack/cheat method will make honest players invisible to hackers. As a result, no matter what hacking software is used, hackers will not be able to defeat honest players.
“Hackers will not see characters, bullets, and even will not hear sounds from honest players”, Team Ricochet shared. “Of course, honest players can see the hackers and appropriately punish them.”
Providing honest players with invisibility is the latest anti-hack measure that Call of Duty has implemented. Previously, this game had deployed an anti-hack method called Damage Shield to ensure that bullets fired by hackers would not cause any damage to regular players.
Although Team Ricochet has just revealed information about the invisibility feature, it seems to have been implemented in some form in Call of Duty: Warzone since mid-February. A video demonstrating how this anti-hack method works has been posted on Twitter.
The developers of Call of Duty stated that they have banned tens of thousands of hackers in recent months. However, they still allow some hackers to continue their activities to collect necessary data for identifying and preventing hacking/cheating behaviors.
Honest players are also encouraged to continue reporting hackers manually. This will help developers improve their automated hack/cheat detection features.
The kernel-level anti-hack driver of Ricochet runs locally on computers and previously only supported Call of Duty: Warzone but now also supports the Vanguard version. According to Eurogamer, the Ricochet anti-hack system has long had server-side components for both Call of Duty game versions.
In a blog post, Ricochet also confirmed that they had banned an additional 54,000 accounts since the last major update. In that update, over 90,000 accounts were banned. Banned players will naturally be removed from the leaderboards.
The evolving technology brings increasingly sophisticated methods of hacking/cheating in games. Therefore, game companies must continually devise new, innovative methods to combat cheaters, and the methods being applied by Call of Duty are expected to become industry standards in the future.
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