- Treyarch introduces advanced anti-cheat systems for Black Ops 6
- Seasonal updates promise a balanced and secure gameplay experience
- Developers prioritize transparency and player fairness for upcoming seasons
Treyarch and Activision have shared the updates about the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and fans are excitedly buzzing about it. As the launch of Season 2 is approaching near, developers are doing their best to make the game worth playing.
Anti-Cheat Updates and Player Protection
The latest extensive blog from COD has given detailed insights into the variety of aspects on which the team is focusing; they have taken steps to combat cheaters, one of the major issues in the game.
Treyarch mentioned in the X post,
Ahead of Season 02’s launch, we’re here to discuss what the various dev teams and studios are doing right now to address what matters to our players today:
- Cheating and bans
- Ability to disable cross-play on consoles in Ranked
- Server issues
- Quality of life updates
- Requested bug fixes
The blog post shared the stats regarding the accounts that have been banned since the launch of Ranked Play in November 2024 and also wrote down the actions the team has taken so far to deal with this problem. According to the blog:
- Updated detection models for behavioral systems, such as aim botting and other data points, including account trust and hardware identifiers to target serial cheaters
- Over 136,000 Ranked Play account bans since the mode launched
- Enhancing cross-examination tools focused on reducing the time it takes to action accounts
- New detection and warning systems for Spam Reporting by accounts
- Note: Malicious Reporting is against the Security and Enforcement Policy, which you can read online. It’s important to clarify that when a user spams the report button in-game multiple times against a user or someone uses an illegal cheat tool to spam 10,000 reports, our system does not consider more than one single report from a player versus another (despite what cheat developers are telling players when they try to sell their illegal software).
- New detection and warning systems for repeat Playing with Cheaters behavior
- Note: When a cheater is banned, our system will detect other accounts it had regularly partied up with and raise flags for investigation to combat boosting and other cheater behavior.
The team has also addressed the IP-based bans and emphasized mentioning that “We do not utilize IP-based bans for anti-cheat because they tend to take action against entire groups within a range that isn’t problematic.” They acknowledged the fact that IP-based bans result in the banning of those players who have not done anything wrong.
Seasonal Updates for a Fairer Gameplay
The developers have also provided the updates about the Season 3 along with the Season 2:
Season 02:
- New and improved client and server-side detections and systems
- Major kernel-level driver update
- Improvements to driver security ↳ Reinforced encryption process ↳ New tampering detection system
Season 03 and beyond:
- A multitude of new tech, including a brand-new system to authenticate legit players and target cheaters
Note: As we get closer to S03, we’ll dive a little deeper into these systems; however, it’s important we don’t provide too many details that could give cheat developers a peek behind the curtain
The developers are focused on making the game fairer and balanced; they said:
“We’re not slowing down in our mission to shut down cheaters whose only mission is to ruin the fun for everyone else, and we’re confident that the combination of the updates above, as well as ongoing improvements to our detection systems and Activision’s continued legal actions against illegal cheat sellers, will provide a demonstrably healthier gameplay experience going forward.”
Players are staying hopeful and looking forward to the cheater’s free gameplay, so they don’t have to worry about their matches getting ruined
