Season two of Call of Duty Back Ops 6 and Warzone kicks off January 28th. Over the past few weeks Activision has heard the feedback concerning players circumventing the RICOCHET Anti-Cheat system. Various teams across the development team have come together to address how they will deal with issues within the franchise title. At the top of that list is cheating and bans.
Activision has acknowledged that cheating in ranked play is frustrating and severely impacts the experience of all players. Here’s how they plan to address the issue in 2025.
- – Updated detection models for behavioral systems, such as aim botting, and other data points, including account trust and hardware identifiers to target serial cheaters
- – Over 136,000 Ranked Play account bans since the mode launched
- – Enhancing cross-examination tools focused on reducing the time it takes to action accounts
- – New detection and warning systems for Spam Reporting by accounts
- Note: Malicious Reporting is against the Security and Enforcement Policy, which you can read online. It’s important to clarify that when a user spams the report button in-game multiple times against a user, or someone uses an illegal cheat tool to spam 10,000 reports, our system does not consider more than one single report from a player versus another (despite what cheat developers are telling players when they try to sell their illegal software).
- -New detection and warning systems for repeat Playing with Cheaters behavior
- Note: When a cheater is banned, our system will detect other accounts it had regularly partied up with and raise flags for investigation to combat boosting and other cheater behavior.
Activision has stated they don’t use an IP banning system as multiple consoles often use one IP, such as a college campus. In December, major upgrades were done to the currently active kernel and server-side upgrades in 2025. For Season 03, Activision says players can expect a multitude of new tech, including a new system to authenticate real players versus cheaters.
