‘Call of Duty’ uses artificial intelligence to combat cheaters in ‘Black Ops 6’ and ‘Warzone’

We’re on the final stretch of the countdown to launch. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6and the players’ expectations are up in the air. Not only because of what its campaign will offer, but also because of the multiplayer, zombie mode and integration with war zone. And Activision wants to make sure scammers don’t ruin the party atmosphere.

That’s why the company announced new protection measures through Ricochetanti-cheat system Call of Dutyespecially focused on war zone and multiplayer Black Opera 6. These include strengthening existing tools as well as introducing technologies based on artificial intelligence.

The interesting thing is that those responsible for Ricochet set themselves a rather ambitious goal. In particular, they want to find and expel fraudsters during first hour in which they connect to their first game.

Activision explains that during the first week of beta testing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Fraudsters could complete about 10 games before they were blocked from the system. Of course, this was far from ideal. In the second week, the average time during which scammers could remain active, was reduced to 5 games. But what’s really remarkable is that 25% of week two bans occurred during the first game they entered.

New measures Call of Duty drive the scammers out of Black Opera 6 And war zone

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will launch next Friday, October 25th, and will contain several new features in terms of anti-cheat technologies. First of all, both this game and Warzone will present driver optimized at the kernel leveland will have pre-existing mitigations such as hallucinations and other measures to isolate, disarm, expose and ridicule fraudsters.

Added to this are tools based on artificial intelligence. Such cases two new machine learning modelsone of which focused on behavioral systems to improve fraud detection rates; the other is responsible for analyzing gameplay to detect and combat aimbots.

According to Activision, this is just part of its efforts to use artificial intelligence to combat online fraudsters. Call of Duty. Looking ahead, the company says it is working on a catalog of additional tools based on this technology that will make it easier to find scammers, no matter how good they are at hiding.

“Cheat developers cannot hide the behavior of players. The way people play (real, fake, good and bad guys) gives us information and we use it to find ways to identify the bad guys in the game. “Quarrel,” say Ricochet’s managers.

Fight with scammers with AI

Activision explains that it uses information it collects from games Call of Duty Leaguewhich are recorded to create a database of scammers and their behavior. Additionally, this indicates that in addition to protecting multiplayer Black Opera 6, specific – albeit undisclosed – measures will be applied to war zone.

Of course, the developers know that the main goal – and the most difficult to achieve – is to prevent cheaters from getting into the games. During beta testing call of Duty Black OpsThe company claims to have blocked more than 12,000 accounts before they could connect to the game. But there is still much to be done.

In addition to the mitigation measures that are being implemented in Call of DutyActivison continues its crusade against developers cheats. In May of this year, the US justice system found that Engine ownershipone of the largest creators of cheats for shooter From the first person, he would have to pay almost $14.5 million to the company, which is now owned by Microsoft.