Activision says it has “disabled a workaround to a detection system” in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone that led to legitimate players getting banned by the Ricochet anti-cheat system. The company says the problem “impacted a small number of legitimate player accounts,” and all accounts affected were restored.

Activision resolved an issue with its Ricochet anti-cheat system in Call of Duty that wrongfully banned some legitimate players. The problem was due to a detection workaround, and all affected accounts have been restored.

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A number of legitimate players got banned when they did nothing wrong.

Activision announced several updates to RICOCHET anti-cheat to better protect players from cheaters in Black Ops 6.

Online shooters can get contentious, so it’s no surprise that they’re filled with cheaters and regular players whose behaviors get them banned. But some hackers were able to exploit Call of Duty‘s automated anti-cheating system to get innocent players banned,

Activision says the goal for Black Ops 6 is to catch and remove cheaters within one hour of them being in their first match. From there, the publisher says it's monitoring the progress internally and building technology to drive this number even further down.