Call of Duty Announces RICOCHET, a New Anti-Cheat System with Kernel-Level Driver

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Cheating is about to get a whole lot harder in modern Call of Duty titles. Activision announced a new anti-cheat system called RICOCHET today, one that partially leverages a kernel-level driver to better assess what’s running on a player’s PC. RICOCHET’s backend anti-cheat security features will launch alongside Sledgehammer Games’ Call of Duty: Vanguard on November 5 and be added later this year to Call of Duty: Warzone, while the kernel driver will debut in Call of Duty: Warzone later this year.









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The RICOCHET Anti-Cheat initiative is a multi-faceted approach to combat cheating, featuring new server-side tools which monitor analytics to identify cheating, enhanced investigation processes to stamp out cheaters, updates to strengthen account security, and more. […]In addition to server enhancements coming with RICOCHET Anti-Cheat...
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Hmm. How are they implementing anti-cheat on consoles? (Don't kid yourself that it doesn't occur there too, it just isn't as prevelent)

Ok I get that it might be easier to monitor a user's PC for cheats/hax. But I think they should be throwing their investment into being able to detect this stuff server-side. Sure, you can't see what is running behind the scenes on a PC, but you can train some AI to detect things like movement that is too precise, or exceeds typical parameters, etc.

That, or get in bed with the anti-malware folks and start flagging that stuff as malware using a tool that already exists at the kernel level and is already scanning for things similar to this.

I wouldn't ban people who wouldn't agree to run the malware that you teamed up with, but I'd make the "official" servers and events require it. That way all the cheaters can go play with each other.
 
Brian_B said:
Hmm. How are they implementing anti-cheat on consoles? (Don't kid yourself that it doesn't occur there too, it just isn't as prevelent)

Ok I get that it might be easier to monitor a user's PC for cheats/hax. But I think they should be throwing their investment into being able to detect this stuff server-side. Sure, you can't see what is running behind the scenes on a PC, but you can train some AI to detect things like movement that is too precise, or exceeds typical parameters, etc.

That, or get in bed with the anti-malware folks and start flagging that stuff as malware using a tool that already exists at the kernel level and is already scanning for things similar to this.

I wouldn't ban people who wouldn't agree to run the malware that you teamed up with, but I'd make the "official" servers and events require it. That way all the cheaters can go play with each other.
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Don't fool yourself. Cheating on consoles is as easy as going to your local gamestop, walmart or best buy and buying a cronus zen. Don't like recoil? No problem. Aim assist turned up to 11? You got it!

Unless they are polling the USB ports for these devices they'll never get rid of cheating of console.
 
Good for them I guess. Battlefield needs something like this too.
 
Yea because this won't negatively impact the user experience at all. Oh and anti virus programs won't freak over a new unknown kernel level driver nope that won't happen.
 
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