A new blog post by Activision has revealed the publisher’s anti-cheat initiative for Call of Duty has issued over 228,000 bans since Call of Duty: Black Ops 6‘s release, with 23% of cheaters removed before they could even play their first match.
These are strong wins for the game, but there’s always more we can do to get better in both speed and efficiency. Several of our current systems are getting big updates this season, too, including our aim bot detections and the Machine Learning system that analyzes game replays to identify suspicious gameplay for manual enforcement.
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Over 60% of received cheater reporting in Warzone have been against console players, for example. Console cheating is possible, but our data has consistently shown it represents an extremely low population of detected cheaters when compared to PC, which means that this large volume of cheater reports are inaccurate even if the KillCams may have made it seem like the player was cheating.
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 was released in October 2024 for PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One, with Season 3 of the shooter set to kick off in April and includes the return of Warzone’s original map, Verdansk.
[Source – Activision Blog Post]