Call of Duty builders are turning to more and more artistic methods to discourage cheaters in on-line matches. Eurogamer notes Activision is rolling out its kernel-level RICOCHET anti-cheat system to Call of Duty: Vanguard, and has concurrently revealed that the countermeasure punishes cheaters with “Cloaking.” Any detected cheaters will discover themselves unable to see or hear opponents, even right down to incoming bullets. They’ll be those at an obstacle — and, hopefully, annoyed sufficient to depart the sport.

Cloaking joins different “mitigations” for cheaters that embrace Damage Shield, which prevents cheaters from touchdown crucial harm on rivals. Activision additionally made clear that anybody banned for dishonest will probably be faraway from the leaderboard for a given sport, and that it bans customers each each day and in waves. Its most up-to-date crackdown culled 54,000 accounts.

RICOCHET reached the multiplayer-only Warzone in 2021. Unlike the anti-cheat expertise in Valorant, the kernel-level driver for Call of Duty titles is just lively whereas these video games are working. That theoretically minimizes vulnerabilities and potential issues with different software program. 

Anti-cheating measures like Cloaking aren’t assured to work. Provided RICOCHET spots a cheater within the first place, it additionally assumes their hacks cannot auto-detect enemies. This nonetheless makes it tougher for cheaters to prosper, and is likely to be sufficient to discourage all however probably the most decided spoil-sports.