Damage Shield How Activision Fights Game-Damaging Cheaters

Call of Duty is now constantly looking for ways to make cheaters unhappy. (photo: unsplash doc)

JAKARTA - In honest and fair games, blocking cheaters doesn't always work. Those cheaters can usually create another account and break the game again. So, games like Call of Duty are constantly looking for ways to make it less fun for people to exploit their games. The latest idea came up by giving players their own honest, cheat.

The new “Damage Shield” in the new Ricochet anti-cheat software from Call of Duty Warzone has cheater bullets bouncing straight off honest users, so users can get close while they're merrily banging and then destroying themselves.

This anti-cheat software can be seen by YouTuber TimTheTatman who showed it off some time ago.

In a blog post announcing the feature, Activision said the anti-cheat feature only activates "when the server detects a cheater breaking the game in real-time," and that "there is no possibility for the game to apply Damage Shield randomly or accidentally."

"We will never interfere in a firefight between law-abiding members of the public," Activision added, as quoted by The Verge. So if the user can see this happening when they are not cheating.

The company also notified the scammers that game operators will begin banning them across the Call of Duty game franchise, not just on a game-by-game basis, and that the ban will extend to future Call of Duty games as well.

Subsequent, extreme, or repeated breaches of security policies – such as in-game cheating – may result in the permanent suspension of all accounts. In addition, any attempt to hide, disguise or obscure the identity of the user or the identity of his hardware, may also result in permanent suspension.

Nowadays cheating has become more and more a scourge in online games over the last few years, even popular games that are left untouched are being tampered with, to the point that pro gamers end up abandoning some titles and console players refusing cross-play with PC due to the prevalence of cheating there. . Epic will also not be updating Fortnite to run on Steam Deck for fear of cheating as well.

Companies like Activision have now reacted with major new anti-cheat initiatives, including their own native kernel-level drivers for PCs, but they're also fighting fraud with legal action, suing or threatening to prosecute the creators.

Trolling cheaters is also a fun tactic. In addition to the new Call of Duty shield, the game world has seen developers League of Legends and Apex Legends suggest that they have the con artists fight exclusively against each other. Even they are condemned to fight it out in the hell of swindlers.