Key takeaways
- Activision's anti-cheat program has issued “more than 19,000” ranked play bans since the mod's launch.
- Team Ricochet says “hourly sweeps” are now taking place to remove cheaters from ranked play.
- Black Ops 6 Ranked Play was released on November 21, but cheaters and hackers quickly took over the competitive game mode.
Activision has provided a much needed update Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Ranked Play, confirming that its Ricochet anti-cheat program has banned over 19,000 cheats since the mod's launch. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Ranked Play was released on November 21, a week after Season 1 began, but players quickly realized that the competitive game mode was already infested with cheats and hackers.
Call of Duty Developer Treyarch Studios has been developing the series' ranked play mode since 2021. VanguardContinuing to expand and tweak it throughout the reboot Modern warfare With the series and now Black Ops 6. while the latter Call of Duty The title's Season 1 update was deployed on November 14, with its Ranked Play mode not arriving until November 21, a week later. Again, this competitive game mode allowed players to test their skills against the best. Under the same rule of Call of Duty league, competing for special awards with each season. Unfortunately, it didn't go over too well with the players due to the abundance of rookies.
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Activision Bans About 20,000 Black Ops 6 Ranked Play Cheaters
After about a week, the fraudsters ran wild Call of DutyThe anti-cheat team has now addressed the onslaught of hacker attacks Black Ops 6 Ranked Play. In a new release on Call of Duty In an updated Twitter account, Activision confirmed that more than 19,000 ranked play bans had been issued since the mod's launch earlier this month. The studio also said that “round the clock sweeps” are underway for cheaters, along with improvements to its AI systems with new code optimizations to speed up the implementation of the new ban.
While this is the first time Activision has confirmed the number of bans since the mod's launch, it's not the first time the studio has addressed the issue. On November 22, Team Ricochet released a new statement about it Black Ops 6 It is said to be “adjusting existing thresholds” for ranked play, with more aggressive targeting of suspicious accounts. The team also said it is speeding up replay investigations to review suspected players, essentially meaning cheats should be banned much faster.
Team Ricochet is clearly working tirelessly to combat the game's cheaters, but the show's performance Call of DutyThe anti-cheat is far from what was promised earlier this year. Back in October, Activision was aiming for a ban Black Ops 6 Cheats within an hour of the first game. But fraudsters are constantly on the move in both Black Ops 6 and War zone Ranked play, it's clear there's still a lot of work to be done.