Since the integration of the Ricochet anti-cheat system, Activision Blizzard has shown that it wants to manage the phenomenon of cheating on Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone with an iron fist. For example, this week alone, over 90,000 sneaky people have been banned, a truly impressive number.
The confirmation, as usual, came via the official Twitter profile of Call of Duty, which published the inevitable joking clip, with the soldier armed with a hammer with the word “ban” superimposed, thus simulating the famous “ban hammer”.
The phenomenon of cheating is now a real plague in the panorama of multiplayer titles. There are sites that sell full-fledged subscription packages that include cheats like wallhack (to see enemies and loot through walls and any surface), aimbot (auto-aim), and so much more.
#TeamRICOCHET update: 90,000 accounts were removed in banwaves this week. Happy Friday. pic.twitter.com/4dTxQP0HZi
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) March 19, 2022
Those in possession of similar tools obviously have a significant advantage over other players, thus compromising the multiplayer experience. This is especially the case in a free-to-play game like Call of Duty: Warzone, which, given its free nature, is more likely to attract dishonest players.
In any case, in the comments to the tweet, mostly there are those who congratulate the developers for this wave, or rather a tsunami, of bans, which makes the multiplayer experience more livable and healthy.
However, there are those who claim that Ricochet also affects innocent players in the pile and indeed there are some users who claim to have been unjustly sanctioned. Undoubtedly on so many banned accounts, there will certainly have been a very small percentage of false positives. In this sense, Activision suggests unjustly sanctioning users to contact official support.