48,000 Call of Duty cheaters get banned thanks to Ricochet

Cheaters beware, you’re in for a scare.

Well, it seems as though that new Ricochet anti-cheat solution for Call of Duty  is working, as thousands of cheaters got banned on Tuesday.

Activision Blizzard  has been talking about its  kernel-level anti-cheat for a while, and it appears the hype is somewhat justified. On Wednesday, the company said it’s already given 48,000 cheaters the boot across Call of Duty: Warzone  and Call of Duty: Vanguard. Considering that  Ricochet only went live last week, it’s a rather impressive statistic. 

Ricochet itself isn’t part of Call of Duty: Vanguard  yet, but cheaters should take heed regardless as a ban could be  series-wide at this point.

Call of Duty: Vanguard  even  had cheaters during its beta, which was well over a month before the game came out.

Kernel-level programs like Ricochet are becoming more of a commonality than ever before, likely due to how bad cheating is in many free-to-play first-person shooters.

Valorant  was the first big title to opt for an anti-cheat solution of this nature, and it seems the teams behind Call of Duty  took notes. Whether it’ll remain an effective solution remains to be seen. For now, anyways, it looks as though Ricochet is a success.

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