The free Battle Royale Call of Duty: Warzone attracts cheaters like a warm light draws in bustling insects. This leads to absurd gameplay scenes in the game. The latest cheater trend involves flying cars.
This is the situation:
- Large, free shooters attract many cheaters – including Call of Duty: Warzone
- A new anti-cheat system has been developed and implemented – RICOCHET
- Despite this, there are still cheaters, and they are now flying vehicles across the map
- MeinMMO shows you clips of the flying fortresses and explains why cheaters can still pull off such feats despite RICOCHET
A bird, a plane? No, a super cheater!
In principle, planes are reserved for the Vanguard modes of Warzone. However, that doesn’t stop cheaters. They zoom through the regular Battle Royale with their special home-built flying models.
We are embedding 2 clips from Twitter about this:
What is happening there? Two different perspectives of the same situation can be seen. A squad of cheaters flies over Caldera and fully utilizes their high ground.
“The car is flying and there is a cheater on top!” – it screams in the chat. Both players in the clip have no chance against the flying car, which leisurely circles the Pacific island. Cheaters have also flown in Verdansk before, by the way.
What do the players say about it? The comments on the clip on Twitter are actually rather mild, almost calm. Basically, there are 3 directions:
- People explaining that Warzone will soon be dead because of such actions
- Players who find it incredibly funny and draw comparisons to “Harry Potter” or “Back to the Future”
- Jokers linking “Xbox” or “Bill Gates” after the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision
Overall, the mood is quite good because the clip itself is pretty funny. The slowly flying car along with the screaming “WTF” voice of the streamer makes many laugh:
- @Zebraliife on Twitter: “I can’t even say if I would be angry if that happened to me. I would probably just lose it laughing”
- @primaryfever8 on Twitter: “A crossover with Harry Potter that no one asked for xD”
- @ConnorCoddnn on Twitter: “I’m sorry, but this is really so funny lmaooo”
- @MasonGomez_ on Twitter: “I can’t believe what I’m seeing!!!”
But not everyone is so cheerful. Many are asking how such a thing is possible with the new anti-cheat system.
RICOCHET is an analysis tool, not a banning machine
Why are there still cheaters in Warzone? The Battle Royale relies on RICOCHET, a kernel driver on the PC that examines interactions between CoD programs and other software with high system permissions.
However, the developers have explained that this driver is an analysis tool.
This driver is officially not meant to actively ban players. The program examines cheater PCs, determines software interactions, and the identified processes on a caught cheater’s PC can help to discover other cheaters.
However, the developers are not entirely transparent about their anti-cheat strategies. Any detailed information about how the system works helps cheaters find ways to circumvent measures.
More questions and answers about the anti-cheat RICOCHET can be found here:
Unfortunately, cheaters continue to be a problem in Warzone. Many players notice an improvement compared to the time before the new anti-cheat system. Others say it has hardly improved or not improved at all.
The developers state that the system gets better every day. It learns more about cheating software with each captured cheater and also helps catch brazen cheaters in flying vehicles.
The expectations for the system were high, and unfortunately, the new approaches in anti-cheat have not always convinced. Whether RICOCHET can finally solve the cheater problem remains to be seen in the coming months.
