During the year 2021, Call of Duty: Warzone experienced a massive wave of cheating. Many players, using third-party programs, thus ruining the experience of others, leaving them no chance during the games thanks to triggerbots, aimbots and other cheat software of all kinds. To counter this, Infinity Ward, Raven Software and Activision set up last October their anti-cheat system, RICOCHET. Just at the end of 2021, so these are approximately 48,000 accounts that have been banned, and many others must have been since. Recently, a new feature has been added to it, making players almost invincible against cheaters.
This is on the official Call of Duty website that we learn this news on February 18, RICOCHET now has a new feature, named Damage Shield. This new addition to Warzone’s anti-cheat will prevent cheaters to do critical damage to honest players. The game developers describe this Damage Shield as follows:
When the server detects that a cheater is altering the game in real time, it disables the cheater’s ability to inflict critical damage to other players. This mitigation makes the cheater vulnerable to real players and allows #TeamRICOCHET collect information directly from a cheater’s system.
From now on, the players who will face the cheaters will not be able to no longer be defeated by them. This news therefore comes to delight the Battle Royale community of Call of Duty. Non-cheating players should now have the right to a much more pleasant gaming experience, without risking being destroyed by the first cheater that comes along.