Team Ricochet has come up with a new way to detect and punish cheaters in Call of Duty - now they will experience hallucinations

In their latest blog post, the Call of Duty Anti-Cheating team has announced a new punishment for dishonest players - they will experience hallucinations with imaginary opponents. These measures are aimed at forcing cheaters to spend their time and attention on fighting the game, while other players enjoy the game without interference.

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Instead of completely blocking cheaters, Team Ricochet uses "amortisation", which allows them to analyse the actions of a cheater and the software they use to learn how to combat it. The new depreciation, known as "illusion," places decoy dummies in the game that only the cheaters can see.

According to Team Ricochet, these decoys "cannot be detected by legitimate players and do not affect their objective, progress, match statistics, or overall gameplay, but serve to disorient cheaters in a variety of ways. They look, move, and behave like real players and elicit the same response that fraudsters would expect from their fraudulent software, making them appear legitimate. These illusions are placed next to a suspicious player, and if the player interacts with them in any way, they are "revealed as a fraudster themselves".

Team Ricochet claims that the illusion method can be applied to known cheaters to avoid distracting them during further analysis, or to suspicious players to see if they interact with the illusion and are, in effect, "revealed" as cheaters.

The team also removed another depreciation method known as "quicksand". This method slowed or froze cheaters in the game, making them vulnerable to attack, and also made it difficult for the player to control by changing the keys or analogue joystick controls.

Source: VGC