Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 has been experiencing a significant spike in cheaters, with the game’s crucial Ricochet anti-cheat seemingly malfunctioning over the past weekend. The developers have now issued a statement saying they have fixed the anti-cheat.
The developers issued the statement through the official Call of Duty Updates account today, July 30, on X (formerly Twitter). “Ricochet Anti-Cheat resolved an issue with a detection system over the weekend,” the statement reads. This fix “resulted in a spike in cheater reports” as players finally had a tool on their hands that could be used to help detect potential cheaters. The developer also encouraged players to use the reporting system and reiterated how it “remains committed to combating cheaters” and “shutting down cheat vendors.”
As reported by Charlie Intel on July 28, Warzone saw an increase in cheater presence following the release of the season five update in normal and ranked play. It didn’t take long for the developer to react, and it seems the anti-cheat itself was the root cause, not an increase in raw cheater numbers that some linked to the game’s addition to the PC Game Pass. The season five update also gave rise to some speculations that the CoD developer added bots to Warzone, which might be connected to the faulty anti-cheat rather than a ploy by Activision.
All first-person shooters have been having trouble with cheaters as hack developers and vendors become more skilled and use more advanced technologies to create their cheating tools. From root-level access to the cheater’s PC to using AI for undetected hacking, the anti-competitive crowd will only become more challenging to combat. When our only line of defense, the anti-cheat, fails, all hell breaks loose, so it’s good to see developers stepping in quickly to resolve the issue.
