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Ban Wave hits Call of Duty: Warzone 2 in Season 2 Reloaded

Tahmid Shihab

Published: 14:26, 08 March 2024

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Ban Wave hits Call of Duty: Warzone 2 in Season 2 Reloaded

RICOCHET becomes stronger with the Season 2 Reloaded update in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.

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RICOCHET anti-cheat is active in Warzone 2, but cheaters continue to ruin gameplay experiences.
Ranked Play mode has been particularly affected by cheaters.
RICOCHET has deployed aggressive countermeasures and a ban wave with the Season 2 Reloaded update, banning 26,000 players.
RICOCHET has improved third-party device detection, making it easier to detect devices like the Cornus if used in Warzone 2.
The updates hope to mitigate the cheater plague in future Call of Duty titles.

RICOCHET becomes stronger with the Season 2 Reloaded update in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 cheaters have received a ban hammer alongside new Ricochet anti-cheat measures with the Season 2 Reloaded update.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2 has recently been plagued by cheaters using wallhacks, aimbots, flying vehicles, unlock tools and third-party software. Moreover, console players are also facing the same issue due to third-party external devices that allow cheaters to use macros.

While Ricochet anti-cheat is up and running in Call of Duty: Warzone 2, the game is still filled with cheaters ruining the gameplay experience for other players. Moreover, Ranked Play mode has suffered the biggest hit with cheaters running around in every other match.

After countless complaints from the community and professional players, the anti-cheat team has deployed aggressive countermeasures and a ban wave in Call of Duty: Warzone 2 with the Season 2 Reloaded update.

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Ban Wave hits Call of Duty: Warzone 2

In a recent tweet following the Season 2 Reloaded update, Team Ricochet shared their seasonal update on the cheater fiasco alongside their plans for the upcoming season 2. Ricochet has banned 26,000 players with the release of the

The team has addressed the flying vehicle situation where cheaters were using vehicles to fly around the map and kill other players easily. Now as a part of Ricochet's cheating countermeasures, any vehicle that is not meant to be airborne will explode if stays in the air for a certain amount of time. So, any ground vehicle with excessive airtime will randomly explode once the system detects the use of cheats.

As for Call of Duty: Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 3's Ranked Play, Ricochet will now be more effective in these two game modes thanks to new kernel-level changes to the anti-cheat.

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The good news for console players is Ricochet's upgraded third-party device detection which means all devices such as the Cornus will now be easily detected if used in Call of Duty: Warzone 2. Hopefully, the new updates to anti-cheat will help mitigate the cheater plague in all future Call of Duty titles.