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Call of Duty: Vanguard has added a new tool to its arsenal of methods to try to humiliate fraudsters. Online shooter anti-fraud technology now includes a new “mitigation technique” called Cloaking, which will make everyone but the scammer invisible, a punishment worthy of the Black Mirror.
In principle, once RICOCHET’s anti-fraud protection of Call of Duty finds that someone cheats by using aimbots or other illegal means, everyone else in the game will be made invisible to them. Even the bullets will be hidden and all the sounds of gunfire will be muffled.
However, legitimate players can see fraudsters affected by cover-ups (usually they will be the players you see spinning in circles and shouting “Who’s shooting me ?!”) and may impose a penalty during the game, “the development team said. of Vanguard of Vanguard. wrote in a blog post on Thursday. Brutal.
This latest attempt to discourage fraudsters with extreme prejudice comes at the back of such mechanisms. One, called Damage Shield, prevents critical damage to those caught falsifying the game. Activision also threatened to ban fraudsters indefinitely from any future Call of Duty ever made.
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The developers have tried to show creativity in the fight against the scourge of online fraud. When their software doesn’t want controversial core-level access to players’ computers, they play with ideas like catching scammers on individual matchmaking islands.
For its part, Activision routinely bans tens of thousands of fraudsters from Vanguard, Warzone and other recent Call of Duty games. Along with companies such as Bungie and Riot Games, he also went to war, trying to sue the fraudulent manufacturers in oblivion.
Outrageous scams are often blamed for why live gaming games bleed players. One of the latest examples of this is Halo Infinite. But Vanguard is struggling for a number of other reasons, usually failing to attract the mega-popularity of Call of Duty’s spin-offs such as Modern Warfare and Black Ops. The new Modern Warfare 2 is rumored to be the latest game in the series, with possible unveiling in May and possibly launching in 2022.
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