Cheaters are CoD’s biggest plague and in recent years the problem has gotten worse because more Free2Play content is being used – like Call of Duty: Warzone 2. And against certain hardware “RICOCHET” has little chance.
The first Warzone was the absolute paradise for cheaters for a while. The incredible success of CoD’s first free Battle Royale on PC and console was not planned, and the cheat protection was significantly undersized.
For almost 2 years, those responsible at Call of Duty tinkered with “RICOCHET”, the anti-cheat system, which should at least recognize and ban software cheaters at an early stage. That works pretty well, the cheater epidemic has been contained.
However, it quickly turned out that it wasn’t just the software cheaters with their aimbots and wallhacks that were a problem. Unfair cheats are also attacking fair players in Warzone on the hardware side – and in the sequel, such devices continue to terrorize the Battle Royale.
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Cheat hardware ensures perfect playability of weapons
What is the problem? There are devices that can be connected to the PC or console via USB. You plug a controller or a mouse into these devices. This influences the inputs of the input devices.
Parts can be calibrated to help with recoil control. Although “help” might be an understatement.
They ensure that you actually have no recoil at all. It doesn’t matter how clumsy a weapon plays – with such a device even the fussiest assault rifles can be easily controlled.
More and more videos are now appearing on YouTube showing that the parts can already be used in the new games Warzone 2 and CoD MW2 without any problems. There was previously hope that it would at least take some time before the parts were adapted to the new players.
The problem is that the anti-cheat has a hard time, if any, in detecting these devices. Unlike software cheaters on PC, the cheating happens without affecting the files of the CoD games – only the input is affected, RICOCHET can hardly see it.
Personal conclusion: It scratches the confidence
Unlike Warzone 1, in Warzone 2 hardware cheaters will be the biggest problem over the next few months, if not years. I notice this every day in my work on MeinMMO.
Whenever I’m looking for new weapon setups, I only trust a handful of content creators because you almost never know for sure – “Is there cheating?”.
I know many weapons from the game, I can judge the recoil of certain weapons well. Then when I see someone land a 100m kill with the M4 without any jittering in the frame – something isn’t quite right.
The same is true for some in the community, and the tone is getting rougher, even within the creator community. There are already hunts down where creators are suspected of cheating for months.
I hope the Call of Duty security team finds a remedy for these nasty hardware cheats. It would be an important step in the fight against cheaters in Warzone.
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