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A Warzone<\/em> player recently asked why they were being victimized\u2014yet in reality, the RICOCHET anti-cheat was just doing its job and the cheater had no idea. <\/p>

Cheating runs rampant in CoD<\/em>, and the devs have gotten creative in how they deal with mitigating the issue. In June 2023, for example, a RICOCHET ant-cheat system update added a hallucination effect<\/a> that placed decoy characters within the game that could only be detected by cheaters. <\/p>

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Sledgehammer Games has enjoyed messing with cheaters in MW3<\/em>. Image via Activision<\/figcaption><\/figure>

RICOCHET added some more tricks up its sleeve ahead of Modern Warfare 3<\/em>. Sledgehammer Games took a new bold approach to combat hacking by applying AI \u201cmachine learning\u201d<\/a> to detect when a possible cheater is in the game. <\/p>

All signs point toward the new innovations paying dividends as the devs reported<\/a> on Dec. 22, 2023, that over 23,000 accounts have been banned since MW3<\/em> launched\u2014and that’s also thanks in part to another new unorthodox mitigation method. <\/p>