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Online fighting games have different developments each time because they fight real players on the other side of the screen instead of fighting computer opponents whose behavior patterns are programmed, and it is fun to never get tired of.
However, on the other hand, when the game becomes popular, cheating, that is, the increase in the number of players who commit cheating, is inevitable. Cheetahs who do not have the ability to falsify the game to make it easier to attack, where it would be possible to advance to the upper ranks by improving the game, and try to beat the opponent by cheating.
When cheetahs become infested, people who play the game seriously may seem silly, and people may gradually move away from the game. Therefore, game makers are required to continue to take effective measures against cheetahs.
Activision’s FPS game “Call of Duty” also continues to respond to the existence of cheetahs. In a blog post released last week, the unusual cheetah countermeasure mechanism by the “RICOCHET Anti Cheat” system introduced by the countermeasure team in “Call of Duty: Warzone” last fall is the lowest ever for the appearance of cheetahs during the year-end and New Year holidays. It was reported that it succeeded in keeping it to the standard.
“RICO CHET Anti Cheat” is a mixture of cheat detection using the kernel level driver of the PC and real-time monitoring of the server, and one of them has a function called “Damage Shield”. increase. This means that when the game system recognizes a cheetah, the attack by that cheetah will be powerless against other players.
In other words, the cheetah will not be able to deal any damage even if he hits the opponent with a gunshot, and he should feel free to knock down the opponent with a slur and immerse himself in pleasure, but on the contrary, he is in a situation where he has no choice but to be made into a kotenpan.
The Damage Shield function has already been tested, and by acquiring and collating information about the system used by the account recognized as a cheetah, there is almost no possibility of accidentally certifying a legitimate player as a cheetah. That. In other words, even if a cheetah is mixed in with a match, only that cheetah is weakened so that regular players can normally enjoy playing against other players.
In addition, Activision will extend the policy adopted by Call of Duty: Vanguard to the entire series, and for malicious players who repeat cheating, not only simple account BAN but also hardware identification Hardware BAN using information may also be applied to the entire series. This may be a stricter response, as players who have taken measures such as hiding or disguising hardware information may also be subject to permanent suspension.
However, it should be noted that there are still some cheetahs that are not recognized by the system, so the cheetah damage is not completely zero. In addition, it is said that new cheetah measures are under development, but if you encounter a cheetah during play, the developer is calling to notify the operation from the in-game reporting tool as before.
Activision states that the RICOCHET Anti Cheat system will be applied to the entire CoD franchise, including future releases.
By the way, as a cheetah countermeasure for online battle-type games, in 2020 Mediatonic, the developer of the obstacle racing game “Fall Guys”, prepared a server called “Cheater Islands” where only cheetah-certified players were thrown in. It became a hot topic. In the video released at that time,A tragedy that can be called “cheetah hell”Can be confirmed, but MediatonicIt looks like some players aren’t cheating, He said he closed the “Cheater Islands” after testing for a while, saying he couldn’t be sure that everything was a cheetah. Since then, Fall Guys have given a penalty that prevents cheetah-certified players from logging in to the game.The cheetah hell-style measures used to beIt was also considered in Apex Legends of EA / Respawn etc.。
Source：Call of Duty
via：The Verge