Ricochet’s anti-cheat tool has set to work -apkrig

For two days now, Call of Duty: Warzone has been under the protection of the new Ricochet anti-cheat system. The people from Activision and the studios responsible for the Call of Duty series have worked for a long time to help improve the unsatisfactory reputation of multiplayer or the aforementioned battle royale regime, and at least the first wave seems to have pleased the honest player. After previous modifications on the Activision servers, the appropriate drivers needed to run the game on the part of the players were finally released, and everything went together after months of preparations. However, Ricochet cannot be imagined as a wall from which all evil is reflected, he reaps success mainly by the speed with which he distributes bans to dishonest players and the sensitivity with which he judges what art is and what “support” software already causes advantage.

The situation in Warzone is monitored, for example, by the community portal Modern Warzone, which quotes some complaints from banned players and mocks them from a distance. For example, one player asked what he should do to join the game if he had probably been given a hardware ban before. “I tried to set up new accounts, but everything was blocked. I let it go for almost a year, yesterday I bought a brand new computer, I tried to start Warzone and my account was immediately blocked again, “he describes his sad the story of a man who probably can’t carry through his heart that someone could be better than him and that not all matches have to end with the words “Victory”. The other discussants mention with a smile that the person in question apparently forgot about the router, which is most likely the stumbling block in this case, and add that Ricochet, resp. its driver in the kernel – could already do well to mark and new computer hardware.

Another who was interested in the “captivating” stories of the cheaters is the Reddit user nicknamed jamcowl, who decided salt the popcorn with the tears of the cheaters from the discussions. They express disappointment that, regardless of the VPN used and other (un) reliable ways to hide their identity from Activision, they immediately receive permanent or at least hidden banks. “Hi, I’ve been using EO Spoofer for a month and I haven’t had a problem. But from yesterday, newly created accounts are immediately banned after 1-2 games. If I don’t use a spoofer, I get a hardware ban, “writes another of the cheaters and doesn’t understand what exactly is going on. But players without cheats obviously don’t mind, and they don’t believe other stories in which they swear that they’ve never used a cheat and that bans just come.

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But in order not to offend the players, no anti-cheat is one hundred percent and it is quite common for them to mark a player who has not really done anything wrong. The second extreme is the successful circumvention of all protections when using cheats, as evidenced by the video that appeared on YouTube yesterday, at a time when Ricochet was already fully implemented in Warzone. If the video was not taken before and purposefully created to look like December 15, then the player nicknamed MaxYtv presents a pure view of the cheaters, including support for aiming and the ability to see the enemy despite solid obstacles. “I sincerely doubt that Activision has put on any anti-cheat at all. Maybe they only released a part to uncertain the cheat provider, “MaxYtv wrote, and maybe that revealed the whole” mystery “. The developers did not hide the fact that they would implement Ricochet gradually, and it is therefore possible that at the time of recording the video, it did not fall into the region or server that was already communicating with the kernel driver at that time. On the other hand, anti-cheats always deal with the consequences, they do not work as 100% prevention, and it is therefore very likely that similar videos will appear constantly and what percentage of cheaters speak to matches will remain really important.