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The long-awaited anti-cheat software for Call of Duty: Warzone and Vanguard has finally been detailed, but it won't come to the new mainline release until sometime after it's implemented in Warzone. Hackers currently plague Call of Duty servers, causing immense frustration in the player base. Publisher Activision and its franchise studios often ban cheaters by the thousands, but that doesn't stop many of them from subverting their bans and continuing to use hacks. It seems Activision is finally going to make cheating much more difficult and also hopefully ensure more severe punishments for those who get caught.
Activision has been hyping up its new Call of Duty anti-cheat system for a while but given little in the way of concrete details. Since the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in 2019, players and streamers have reported an influx of cheaters. This is commonly correlated with Modern Warfare's introduction of crossplay to the series, as hacking is much more easily done on PC and high numbers of console players became exposed to widespread cheating for the first time. Afterward, the problem continued to spread with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and especially Warzone, the latter of which requires crossplay to be enabled.
Activision posted a new Call of Duty blog post detailing Warzone developer Raven Software's anti-cheat system, Ricochet. Ricochet will introduce server-side tools to help catch cheaters in the act, as well as a kernel-level PC driver which monitors any apps that interact with Call of Duty games, including the players' graphics card driver. This will hypothetically detect any cheating software that attempts to manipulate Warzone. The anti-cheat system will go live in Warzone alongside the launch of its new Pacific map, and it will be added to Call of Duty: Vanguard "at a later date," seeming to confirm it won't be live in Vanguard upon its November 5 release.
With Activision noting that the Vanguard anti-cheat coming after launch, there may be reasons to be concerned. The Call of Duty: Vanguard beta had hackers running amock, causing all kinds of chaos. Not only were there pretty standard cheats such as aimbots, but players were even able to end matches. It's believed that hackers were able to crack the beta because Vanguard uses so much of Modern Warfare's code, that it makes porting cheats over relatively easy.
If the beta was cracked, it seems likely that there will be hackers when the full game launches as well. Activision has not provided a timeline for when Vanguard will get the full breadth of the anti-cheat, so players may be far more reliant on reporting those they believe to be cheating. At the very least, Warzone's new map should hopefully get a relatively cheater-free launch in November.
Call of Duty: Vanguard releases on November 5, 2021 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, and PC.
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