Well, yeah, that didn't take very long.
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta is about five hours old, and there are already videos popping up online showing cheaters using wallhacks and aimbots, despite several extra layers of RICOCHET Anti-Cheat deployed for the beta specifically.
A Twitter/X user on a throwaway account posted a video of someone today, assumedly them, using cheats and absolutely decimating opponents online. That's likely just the first clip of many to pop up over the next few days. And so we continue on this course of players ruining PC gaming, as has been the case since forever.
Just days ago, Activision posted a blog about how RICOCHET Anti-Cheat would be buffed by TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot being a requirement to play the game on PC, where the overwhelming majority of cheats originate. The company said it would deploy machine learning during the beta with smarter aimbot detection, faster wall-hacking detections, and a layered defense to keep things fair. And, well...
"These detections, and other systems, will be dynamically scaled – activated, tested, and monitored – throughout the beta as we prepare to deliver the strongest protections that have ever launched alongside a new Call of Duty title," Activision said.
The hope for Activision, and anyone trying to play games online these days, is that the beta will help this machine learning better catch cheaters in the act and get them off the game as quickly as possible.
With the learnings from the beta, Activision said the "full force of RICOCHET Anti-Cheat's upgrades will go live when Black Ops 7 launches this November," but for now, don't be surprised if you get absolutely beamed by a cheater in the beta's first few days.
Activision says "every report, every flag, and every removal during the beta feeds directly into stronger responses" for launch, and that the beta is "a critical test for the systems we have online under real player conditions."
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