The latest update of the Warzone anti-cheat software Ricochet will make cheaters doubt their sanity in the future, just the way we like it.
In the past, Ricochet’s developers have shown a sense of humour by cloaking players who were attacked by cheaters, or by making sure that hackers simply couldn’t do any more damage and lost their weapons.
The latest prank of Warzone’s anti-cheat system once again takes the unfair players for a ride and gives them hallucinations.
To the psychiatrist
If you are currently seeing ghostly players in Warzone 2 who don’t seem to be there, I have some good news and some bad news for you.
The good news first: No, you haven’t gone crazy and years of playing Call of Duty haven’t softened your last brain cells. So you can cancel your appointment with the psychiatrist for the time being.
New Ricochet method: Hallucinations
This method displays extra operators in game – not AI operators, but a mimic of a current in-game player – only for cheaters to see and make them believe there’s players in areas where they are not.
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– CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) June 29, 2023
The bad thing, though, is that you’ve just been flagged as a cheater by Warzone’s anti-cheat system, Ricochet. So you might want to make that psychiatrist’s appointment and have a deep conversation about why you’re using hacks.
The bad news, though, is that you’ve just been marked as a cheater by Warzone’s anti-cheat system, Ricochet.
The latest update to Ricochet ensures that players who have been exposed by the system as possible cheaters will see a kind of ghost operator in the future. These hallucinations are only seen by potential cheaters, act like human players and even trigger the hackers’ aimbots.
The hallucination only means in the first step that the system has marked a player as a possible cheater. If this suspicion is confirmed, the account will of course be banned immediately.
In a recent (Blogpost) it is said:
Hallucinations look, move and interact with the world like a real player. This is not AI, but a clone of an active user in the game that mimics their movements to fool a cheater into thinking the character they are seeing is a real player.
The latest update was a bit of a wait. The previous anti-cheat software patch was released in April and took care of hardware cheats that are switched between the controller and the console/PC, which were difficult to detect until now.
