Activision promise \u201cupgraded and improved\u201d anti-cheat to counter Warzone 2 hackers ActivisionWarzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 will have an \u201cupgraded and improved\u201d version of their Ricochet anti-cheat system on launch day, as complaints of cheaters in Warzone have started to rise again. Hacking has long been an issue throughout Warzone\u2019s lifecycle, ever since it launched in March 2020. Finally, in October 2021, Activision announced the launch of Ricochet anti-cheat, with frustrated players hoping it would finally put an end to the seemingly-endless number of hackers that trawled across Verdansk and Rebirth Island at the time. While there was a marked improvement in the issue, with the number of cheaters notably decreased, it has never completely ceased to be a problem in the Call of Duty battle royale. Warzone 2 anti-cheat details With the launch of Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2, however, Activision are looking to make it even harder for cheaters to get into the game and ruin others\u2019 enjoyment. As explained by Activision at the COD Next event, \u201cTeam RICOCHET has been working with our teams to bring an upgraded and improved anti-cheat system to Modern Warfare II, with new features and mitigations to protect the game.\u201d For the first time, RICOCHET Anti-Cheat will launch day and date with our games at release \u2013 Team RICOCHET\u2019s server protections and kernel-level driver are coming day one, globally for both Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0. That\u2019s not all Activision players have been working on to better protect players, though. On September 13, Activision confirmed that they had banned over 500,000 \u201ctoxic\u201d accounts and renamed over 300,000, saying that they had been \u201cscrubbing their global database\u201d to identify and remove \u201ctoxic\u201d users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activision promise \u201cupgraded and improved\u201d anti-cheat to counter Warzone 2 hackers ActivisionWarzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 will have an \u201cupgraded and improved\u201d version of their Ricochet anti-cheat system on launch day, as complaints of cheaters in Warzone have started to rise again. Hacking has long been an issue throughout Warzone\u2019s lifecycle, ever since it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}