{"id":124833,"date":"2022-04-28T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124833"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:16:47","slug":"call-of-duty-update-blinds-cheaters-to-opponents-and-incoming-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124833-call-of-duty-update-blinds-cheaters-to-opponents-and-incoming-bullets","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty update blinds cheaters to opponents and incoming bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/call-of-duty-vanguard-ricochet-report-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> anti-cheat driver updates for Call of Duty (COD): Vanguard that blinds cheaters to other players and incoming bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The update also prevents cheaters from hearing any sounds from legitimate players&#8217; interactions within the game.<\/p>\n<p>The team behind COD\u2019s anti-cheat systems, Team Ricochet, calls the new feature \u201ccloaking\u201d and added that cheaters will still be visible to non-cheating players.<\/p>\n<p>The security driver improvements have already rolled out globally to COD: Vanguard and will come to Warzone next.<\/p>\n<p>Activision has also confirmed that players who are caught cheating and subsequently banned will be removed from global leaderboards.<\/p>\n<p>Team Ricochet stated that this recent security improvement has already banned an additional 54,000 accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we do not announce all bans as they happen, [players should] know they occur both daily and in waves,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cloaking update follows after February\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/call-of-duty-warzone-ricochet-anti-cheat-season-two-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Damage Shield<\/a><\/strong> cheating mitigation feature, which prevents cheaters from dealing any critical damage to opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Activision also acknowledged that cheaters are actively working on new ways to exploit the gameplay systems and bypass new anti-cheat advancements.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, players are encouraged to use the in-game reporting tools to help in the ongoing efforts against unfair play.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/124829-playstation-sets-up-game-preservation-team\">PlayStation sets up \u201cgame preservation\u201d team<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision&#8217;s Team Ricochet have announced updates to its firmware-level anti-cheat drivers to even out the odds for legitimate players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26078,587,17847,25696,25697],"class_list":["post-124833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-teamricochet","tag-activision","tag-anti-cheat","tag-call-of-duty-vanguard","tag-call-of-duty-warzone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}