A Call of Duty exploit has surfaced online, revealing that the RICOCHET anti-cheat has falsely banned thousands of players.
How the exploit works was uploaded by X (formerly Twitter) user @zebleerpo, which revealed how the RICOCHET anti-cheat was being abused by people who wanted to get others banned. The TL;DR is that the words “Trigger Bot” sent to users as messages or even as a part of an online ID in a Friend Request will activate RICHOCHET and ban innocent players.
Activision apparently learned of the exploit before it was uploaded to X and announced that it had “restored all accounts” to a “small number of legitimate player accounts.” It’s currently unclear how many accounts were legitimately affected.
One such account was that of popular streamer BobbyPoff, who has now been unbanned and has been a punching bag of accusations and abuse for the past several weeks.
One issue that the original poster points out is that legitimate cheaters might also be unbanned depending on how RICOCHET is unbanning players. “Real cheaters who were caught by these signatures will get unbanned,” they said.
RICOCHET has said that it will have a new blog up later today on the Road to Launch ‘Progress Report’ of its anti-cheat system, so we’ll update readers later today.
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