Call of Duty war zone is now giving players God Mode in case it detects cheaters in the lobby. As per the details shared by the developer in the official blog post, the anti-cheat team had been testing a Damage Shield that stops a player from cheating during a match.
A Damage Shield a mitigation technique in Call of Duty War zone’s new Ricochet anti-cheat software disables a cheater’s ability to ‘inflict critical damage’ on other players
“RICOCHET Anti-Cheat™ relies on data to identify cheating behavior and make our ban waves more impactful. As we collect data from machines determined to be cheating, our goal is to ensure they aren’t taking wins from our deserving community,” the post explains.
“Going forward, extreme, or repeated violations of the security policy – such as in-game cheating – may result in a permanent suspension of all accounts. Additionally, any attempt to hide, disguise or obfuscate your identity or the identity of your hardware devices may also result in a permanent suspension.
Permanent suspensions for security infractions apply to any infractions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare®, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Call of Duty: War zone, and Call of Duty: Vanguard, as well as future titles in the Call of Duty franchise,” the developers mentioned under its unified security and enforcement policy.
While cheating is spreading like wildfire in major games, developers are working round the clock to mitigate this unpopular affair. The issue has extended to the fact that pro players including the console ones are rejecting cross-play with PC due to the ever-rising cheaters.
Hacking has been a severe problem in war zone, and Activision has been implementing anti-cheating initiatives like original kernel-level drivers for PC.
"We will never interfere in gunfights between law-abiding community members," Activision added. So if you see this happening when you're not cheating, well, you'll probably have questions.
The company's also putting cheaters on notice that it'll begin banning them across the entire Call of Duty gaming franchise, not just on a game-by-game basis, and that bans will extend to future Call of Duty games as well.
Cheating has increasingly become a scourge on gaming over the past couple of years, leaving no popular game untouched, to the point that pro gamers wound up abandoning some titles and console players are rejecting cross-play with PC because of the prevalence of cheaters there.
The new Damage Shield in Call of Duty war zone's new Ricochet anti-cheat software makes a cheater's bullets bounce right off you, so you can close in while they hilariously flail around and then destroy them yourself.
In a blog post announcing the feature, Activision said it only activates "when the server detects a cheater is tampering with the game in real-time," and that there's "no possibility for the game to apply a Damage Shield randomly or by accident," in case you're wondering about that.
Activision is also putting cheaters on notice that it'll begin banning them across the entire Call of Duty franchise.
A few months back, Activision introduced Ricochet to the game - a state-of-the-art anti-cheat system to weed out cheaters. However, the performance of the anti-cheat has been less than satisfactory, with players often criticizing the ineffectiveness of the software.
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