Call of Duty now lets you destroy cheaters with your own automatic god mode

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Banning cheaters doesn't always work because they can usually make another account. Call of Duty is looking for ways to make it less fun for people to exploit their games, and the latest idea gives honest players a cheat of their own. Ricochet anti-cheat software in Call of Duty Warzone makes it possible for you to close in while the bullets bounce off of you.

You can see it in this video, roughly 13 seconds into it.

The feature only works when the server catches a cheat in real-time, and there is no chance for the game.

We will not interfere in gunfights between law-abiding community members. You will probably have questions if you see this happening when you aren't cheating.

Cheaters will be banned across the entire Call of Duty gaming franchise, not just on a game-by-game basis, and future Call of Duty games as well. It writes.

Going forward, extreme, or repeated violations of the security policy – such as in-game cheating – may result in a permanent suspension of all accounts. Additionally, any attempt to hide, disguise, or obfuscate your identity or the identity of your hardware devices may also result in a permanent suspension.

Over the past couple of years, cheating has become a problem in gaming, leaving no popular game untouched, and console players are rejecting cross-play with PC because of the prevalence of cheaters there. For fear of cheating, the update of Fortnite will not be run on the Steam Deck.

Companies like Activision have been reacting with huge new anti-cheating initiatives, but they are also fighting cheat with legal action, suing or threatening to sue their makers into the ground.

It's a fun tactic to troll cheaters. We have seen developers of League of Legends suggest that players be condemned to battle it out in cheater hell if they fight one another.