Activision originally introduced its Ricochet anti-cheating measures in 2021 to curb cheaters in Call of Duty games. While the company has praised Ricochet’s successes, the team behind the program admits that there were some issues with it during the first season of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

In a post on the official Call of Duty website, the Ricochet team said: “We didn’t hit the mark with the integration of Ricochet Anti-Cheat at the launch of Season 1 – especially in ranked play. We understand the promise of fame and success.” The popularity of ranked games makes ranked games an attractive target for cheaters. That’s why our teams have been particularly focused on turning the tide to create the level of competition our players are looking for.”

To that end, the team wrote that account suspensions are now occurring hourly and cheater investigations have been stepped up to include more manual reviews of clips from games in addition to the AI ​​systems already in place to detect cheaters and hackers via the Replay tool. They also stated that fraudsters are removed from leaderboards more quickly thanks to greater synchronization with investigations.

There were issues with Ricochet where legitimate Call of Duty accounts were accidentally banned, most of which have been restored. Black Ops 6’s ranked mode was riddled with cheaters at launch, which Activision attributed to an outage that “impacted the efficiency of Ricochet’s AI systems used for cheat detection.”

The post ended with a request for Call of Duty players to report cheaters if they encounter them. Additionally, the team noted that there are major updates for Ricochet that will be released during Black Ops 6 Seasons 2 and 3.

Activision recently released a new patch for Black Ops 6 to fix other issues in the game. Players also recently discovered a game-ending Easter egg in Black Ops 6’s Nuketown. Treyarch also announced a collaboration between Black Ops 6 and Netflix’s Squid Game.