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Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after 'the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history', brags '99% of matches were cheater-free' and warns that every day they get 'faster'

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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat; Black Ops 7 says it's nailing cheaters, and that's that.

Fresh off a humblebrag earlier in the beta, Activision-Blizzard's Team Ricochet has returned to provide some more stats on dirty rotten cheaters that, on the surface at least, make for some impressive reading. "We’ve crunched the numbers for Black Ops 7 Beta, and Ricochet Anti-Cheat achieved the strongest Beta results in Call of Duty history," says a message from Team Ricochet on X. "Each day, our cheat detections got faster and your matches got cleaner."

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This does raise a few questions. Only one in 100 games featuring a cheater is an impressive stat, but such a claim also depends on Ricochet having 100% confidence that it's detecting all cheaters… which may not be the case.

Secondly, a median time to detection of three matches seems… a little high? Far be it from me to cast aspersions on a piece of anti-cheat software that is clearly catching an awful lot of scoundrels, but if it's taking three games (and obviously with a median value in some cases that means many more) then maybe there's yet room for improvement.

Ricochet addressed the secure boot and TPM 2.0 requirements earlier this month, claiming that in concert with the software's automated systems even "those who did manage to slip through didn’t last long. Most never made it into a match." Grumbles persist about allowing this software kernel-level access to our machines, which as PCG's hardware writer Jacob Ridley says "is like administrator [mode] on steroids." But sadly it's not going anywhere.

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