New Black Ops 6 feature will make all Call of Duty games far less annoying

Call of Duty’s Team RICOCHET has committed to identifying and banning cheaters within just one hour. Called ‘Time to Action’, the team will be using the latest technology combined with learnings from the Black Ops 6 beta and previous games to tackle the cheating issue plaguing the series.

Black Ops 6 goes hard on Ricochet

“Cheating is a frustrating issue across the industry. But our goal is to get bad actors out of our game as fast as possible,” reads a recent statement on the official Call of Duty website. “Our NorthStar is within one hour.”

The team initially used the beta period to refine and improve systems, leading to positive results, but the finetuning process is far from over.

“Cheaters were able to complete around 10 multiplayer matches during Weekend One before being removed,” the statement continues. “After tweaking our systems and deploying new detection methods for Weekend Two, we cut that time in half to 5 matches. That timing achieved our Time to Action goal. In fact, 25% of all Weekend Two bans happened during the first match a cheater ever played.”

On top of this, the team claim they stopped more than 12,000 cheating accounts “before they ever saw the inside of a match”.

This new drive follows years of complaints from the community that the series is being ruined by those who use cheats to gain an unfair advantage. Aimbots, invisibility and invulnerability are but a few hacks used by cheaters to win games unfairly and progress through the ranks quickly.

However, Team RICOCHET is doubling down on efforts to bring those caught cheating in Black Ops 6 to justice, as quickly as possible with developers saying: “Cheating is a frustrating issue across the industry. But our goal is to get bad actors out of our game as fast as possible. Our NorthStar is within one hour.”

Cheaters will never disappear

In the new Ricochet announcement, Treyarch admits that cheaters are a constant problem.

“We’ve had a lot of wins over the years – taking down several cheat developers completely, shutting out third-party hardware, flinging cheaters toward the ground at Mach-speed – but we know those wins don’t make you feel any better when you get beamed by a cheater from across the map,” the developer said.

The team acknowledge that cheaters will not “disappear forever” but they will use “every tool” they can to ensure it is kept at bay. They also admit that in their efforts to protect the game from those exploiting it, previous methods “came in a little hot”.

“Since we had to protect the game without those stress tests, our new technology was so eager to catch cheaters, that it came in a little hot,” the statement reads. “When we recognized those errors, we immediately made adjustments to correct course in service of our new Time to Action milestone.”

Black Ops 6 arrives on October 25, but many are already getting access via the New Zealand trick.