Activision Addresses Call Of Duty Black Ops s Ranked Play Cheaters

Call of Duty's competitive Ranked Play arrived to Black Ops 6 multiplayer earlier this week, and the mode is already plagued with cheaters. Activision has now addressed the frustration of the playerbase in regards to all the hackers in Ranked Play, and fixes are in the works to improve the game's anti-cheat.

Call of Duty's Ricochet anti-cheat is active in Black Ops 6 and Warzone, but unsavory players were still managing to flood into Ranked Play mode. Activision says this is partially due to an outage that was identified as lowering Ricochet's efficiency of the AI systems used for cheat detection.

The publisher reveals that the anti-cheat team is working behind the scenes to improve the game's hacking situation. The outage has been fixed, and other measures are being taken to combat the cheating. This includes "aggressive targeting of suspicious accounts" and accelerating the replay investigations to review suspicious players.