Call of Duty cheating is getting worse… again

Over the last few years, the Call of Duty franchise has seen plenty of peaks and valleys when it comes to cheating. It’s a bad time for everyone, and that’s why Activision developed Ricochet Anti-Cheat, which was supposed to be the answer to the CoD community’s problems.

After years of holding off on using an anti-cheat to create their own, Ricochet has been better, but not great. Now, cheating seems to be on the uptick again across Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer and Warzone.

New Call of Duty cheats are getting out of hand

Cheating in Call of Duty is bad right now. Especially if you’re a highly-ranked player, it feels like the killjoys are in nearly every multiplayer or Warzone match. And it isn’t just aim botters and wallhackers anymore, either. Cheaters have created new and outrageous ways to win, ones that even a backpack full of stun grenades can’t prevent. For example, this person is literally flying around Fortune’s Keep in Resurgence.

It doesn’t stop there though. Another popular Warzone streamer posted a clip of getting killed by a cheater using a fully automatic rocket launcher. Dealing with cheaters was never easy in the past, but this is getting out of control. These new and seemingly improved versions of cheating have made it downright impossible for a regular player to win. When streamers and professionals who play all day for a living are struggling, how is an average person supposed to have any fun?

Cheat creators say Ricochet Anti-Cheat is disabled

According to some cheat creators for Call of Duty, Activision’s Ricochet Anti-Cheat is currently disabled. That would explain the massive uptick in cheaters recently, and the new and creative ways they’re doing so. Take this information with a grain of salt, as the cheat creators making a claim over Discord are those reporting its tweak, but given the timing, it sure feels plausible.

It would explain a lot, however. Since Ricochet Anti-Cheat was implemented a while back, cheaters have been far less of a problem. They’ve never disappeared entirely, and they have their moments of making their rounds into matches in between ban waves, but they’ve been far less of an issue nonetheless. However, many players have reported constant cheating in their lobbies recently. So much so that many are recommended not even playing the game right now.

When some of the best Call of Duty players in the world don’t want to play ranked multiplayer, we’ve got a big problem. As a member of the professional Call of Duty League team Atlanta FaZe, you’d think aBeZy would dominate ranked multiplayer. Instead, he’s avoiding it because there are cheaters in every match. And he’s certainly not alone.