Ricochet’s tools catch cheats using software hacks to see through walls (Activision Publishing, Inc)Ĭheat software has become big business, worth more than $100,000 (£79,000), according to anti-cheat experts. In February, Valve, the company behind the PC gaming platform, Steam, mass-banned more than 40,000 players of its popular eSports game, DoTA 2, after identifying them through ‘honeypot’ code that was only visible to players using cheat software. Sadly, it had to be pulled from the game because the effects were too distracting.Ĭall of Duty’s maker, Activision, isn’t alone in playing mind games with the cheaters. One recent mitigation, Quick Sand, slowed cheating players’ movement and muddled their inputs, making them easy targets for other players. Previous mitigations have cloaked other players to make them invisible to cheats or protected them with a damage shield to make them invulnerable to trickster players. If a player follows them or tries to shoot them, they identify themselves as a cheat. Team Ricochet can add Hallucinations near suspected cheaters who are only visible through cheat-software packages. In fact, Hallucinations don’t just spoil the game for wrongdoers, but act as a cheat-spotting test. Hallucinations are the latest in a long line of mitigations - anti-cheat measures designed to befuddle fakers and stop them winning, but also give Team Ricochet the chance to study their behaviour and their software. Spot the difference: Real player and hallucination in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Activision Publishing, Inc)
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