Call of Duty's Anti-Cheat System Is Punishing Cheaters in a Suitably Hilarious Way

This is cool an a welcome implementation. I just hope it’ll turn out working well and don’t back fire in any way or form

Thats actually hilarious

@lolwhatno Because they will come back by making a new account or something. This will be more frustrating for them, as they may not realize immediately that they've been caught.

good! cheat all you like off line but online should be fair.

We should just feel sorry for them. They are that bad at CoD that they have to cheat to succeed. I think this is a good idea.

@lolwhatno the blog goes into this. They do ban the cheaters eventually, but they want the cheaters to stay in the game for a while so they can gather data on the mechanism they're using to cheat. This way keeps the cheater in the game for a bit longer, but doesn't ruin other people's fun.

I also suspect this way actually makes players happier. If a cheater is banned immediately you're not aware of that, you only see the cheaters who get through. This way the players get to have a bit of revenge and satisfy themselves against the cheater. They get to see the work being done to stop cheaters.

It would be even better if the cheater wasn't aware they were being penalised, for instance they do low/no damage, but on their end it looks like they're getting kills, still have weapons, etc. Meanwhile everyone else sees them armed with NERF guns, running straight past other players or breaking off engagements where they've barely tickled their opponent. I'd guess it would mean more comedy value for legit players, and the cheaters are more likely to stay on so their exploits can be analyzed.

atleast they don’t get banned now 🙂

Reminds me of a certain sex scene in Witcher 2. If you pirated the game, they changed the girl into a waterhag.

This anti-cheat only works for PC though ?
There are still cheaters on PS5 etc. Not many, but they are there.

be interested to see if this catches all the cheaters, stopped playing warzone because of cheaters, got so bad just gave up in the end

Many fond memories at playing UT2k4 back in the day and playing Instagib CTF on "Face Classic" Other maps worked but this worked best on maps that had cliff edges where you can fall to your death.

Aimbot idiot would come in: If not already on the same team as them, switch to the same then boost them off the map.

When you are a decent standard even the translocator isn't going to save you mercilessly getting shot at with an Instagib rifle from your own team and therefore off the map.

Would soon get them to quit and go elsewhere.

@lolwhatno Because they'll make a new account. Warzone is free to play.

@Lolcat even with it being f2p it's easy enough to hardware ban someone.

@nomither6 Yes they do. This just happens first.

That's pretty funny.

@GoodGame

PC is where most cheating occurs. Like 95% of it is on PC. And because of cross play, it ruins it for console gamers, who are already at a disadvantage against PC players in legitimate gameplay.

Remember discovering old infectus cheats on xbox were programed in a way that prevented enemy damage but they were sloppy and you could still do damage to yourself. If a cheater was on my team I'd block their grenades and get them killed by their own grenade damage.

@naruball
the next one should be a mod where if you're caught multiple times, your character just keeps on dying constantly.

Until they find a way to escape this too. Surprised Activision is allowing this.

@SolaceCreed that would be hilarious.
I could even picture them leaving a bad review for how "broken" then game is. Just like the people who had pirated a game, then complained about it, and the creator revealed that the "error code" they were mentioning was simply their IP address. It was glorious.