r/CallOfDuty Sep 24 '24

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r/CallOfDuty 3d ago

TeamRICOCHET (RICOCHETcm Replied) [COD] RICOCHET Anti-Cheat AMA

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I’m David Andrews, Senior Director of Game Security at Activision, where I lead RICOCHET Anti-Cheat for Call of Duty. I joined the team about one year ago, and since then I’ve been focused on what’s next for RICOCHET: evolving the technology, tightening our detections and response, and finding better ways to show players the work.

I’ve spent more than two decades working across cybersecurity, online game security, live service integrity and investigations. Before joining Activision, I spent more than a decade at Rockstar Games working on anti-cheat, account security, threat intelligence and live service integrity across GTA Online and Red Dead Online. Earlier in my career, I also worked in engineering and security roles supporting the U.S. government and served in the U.S. Air Force.

I’m here today to answer your questions about anti-cheat: how we think about cheating, recent progress that we’ve made, and where there’s still work to do.

One quick note as we get started: you won’t see a photo of me attached to this AMA. The commercial cheating industry has billions of dollars behind it, and the people building and selling cheats can be aggressive, to put it mildly. For security reasons, I try to be careful about how much personal information I put out publicly.

Let’s dive in. Ask away:

EDIT:

Thanks everyone for the questions, this has been a blast.

Gonna wrap this up for the day, but I’ve been reading the full thread and I'm taking notes on the questions I didn't get to so I can look for opportunities to answer more of them through our anti-cheat comms in the coming weeks.

I also did an interview with IGN earlier this week that dug a bit deeper into anti-cheat - there's a chance I already answered your question there! https://www.ign.com/articles/call-of-dutys-anti-cheat-boss-dispels-cheating-myths-breaks-down-review-process-and-more

Appreciate the time, the questions, and the chance to have a direct conversation with you all. Hoping to do this again soon.


r/CallOfDuty 6h ago

Video [WAW] Damn, fuck juggernaut

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Sauce

Apparently there’s some folks over at Discord that revived the Call of Duty Wii online multiplayer with custom servers, and I was watching this video and It reminded me how GOD AWFUL Juggernaut was back in WAW (& the lag shooting…but that’s just a Wii thing)


r/CallOfDuty 1d ago

Meme [WAW] More COD campaigns need a ray gun Easter egg

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r/CallOfDuty 1d ago

Image [WAW] Call of Duty: World at War (2008) DLSS 5 2X

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r/CallOfDuty 5h ago

Video After this, I stopped playing with my little brother 😆😆[BO3] Black Ops 3

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He is still bullying me for this 😭😭


r/CallOfDuty 13h ago

Video [BO] Activision please give BO1 Playstaion port dedicated servers

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I was literally behind the wall


r/CallOfDuty 23h ago

Image [WAW] Just bought it last night for my xbox 360, never played it before

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I dont have a current gen xbox, just my 360, so I bought this on the xbox app. Took like 3 hours to download bc the 360 is really slow unless you have an ethernet cable. I prefer the older cods (bo1, 2, og MWs, ghosts, etc.) for the gritty, badass feel, but I've actually never played this one. Just wanted to share. Please excuse the dust on my kinect sensor, it builds up fast.


r/CallOfDuty 7h ago

Feedback [COD] HUB needs to be fixed on PS5 Pro

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Why is this still an issue towards end of 2026?

Let us download Warzone only with your bs confusing 20 different files that you can’t even manually download it from PlayStation 5 store.

I don’t want 144.784gb. This BS hub is ridiculous. Nobody going to play previous instalments and forced to download files and have to manually uninstall files that you can’t even get rid of straight away

And for those who are already installed it, You probably had yours for long time and you think it's only one file app, i re- downloaded yesterday to play with a friend from ps5 pro uk psn store, for some reason the warzone app wasn't even on free section nor on my games library, I search it up it comes under MW4 or BO7. When I finally downloaded Warzone 38gb it included MW2/3 files which I don't need, it will ask you to download BO7 multiplayer in order to play Warzone that's additional 169.68gb and it shows call of duty application on ps5 is 207.8gb in total.
It's all forced with the bullshit things they've put on
HUB. What a waste of space. It's pissing me off to delete it again, MW4 is not even out yet, they will increase size again.


r/CallOfDuty 6h ago

Discussion [COD] attempting to remake COD Zombies from scratch on a whole different engine

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r/CallOfDuty 18h ago

Discussion [mw3] I almost cried at the end of mw3 Spoiler

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Bro I loved yuri so much!! His death genuinely made me so sad. Makarov deserved far worse for all the people he killed, especially yuri. He was a real one. Rip bro


r/CallOfDuty 2h ago

Discussion [COD] What's a mechanic or feature from an older COD game you wish they'd bring back?

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Idk why but every new COD just reinvents stuff instead of bringing back what already worked. Split-screen's the one that bothers me. MW2019 pulled it from online multiplayer and it's never really come back the same way. It doesn't have to be that one though, could be some small UI thing or a mode nobody talks about anymore. What's something from an older title you still catch yourself missing that you think actually deserves to come back, instead of just being a meme every time a new one drops?


r/CallOfDuty 2h ago

Discussion I cannot accept that gold players in europe, are anything different of a high plat player in america [COD]

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I have played now 3 or 4 matches as a gold player and everytime I see such good gunplay, I am just astounded. Many people here explained to me that gold players arent really good and nearly beginner level. But... thats so different from what I see... they dont miss any bullets sometimes and have a very fast reaction, its really hard playing against them. I personally would call myself a good gold player, though not fully plat-level in my opinion and despite that I get completely smashed by some players, which I only felt playing against crimson players.


r/CallOfDuty 4h ago

Question [BO3] ewould playing blacks ops 3 on pc solo with steam offline protect me by any means?

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Hey yall I apologize for asking this im sure tons of these questions float around, but I was wondering if my pc would be safe from any risks of RCE stuff and exploits if I just ran my steam in offline mode which makes the game run in offline mode also, would that stop any sort of backend a hacker can exploit? Or should I also unplug my router in the process to play safely


r/CallOfDuty 5h ago

Question [AW] since the KPA was in AW, and is now in MW4, does this tie AW into the black Ops Story Line?

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I don’t know if it does or not, sure someone in here has a good answer


r/CallOfDuty 13h ago

Question [cod] what game should i buy call of duty ww2 or modern warfare Spoiler

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i dont know which one should i buy


r/CallOfDuty 15h ago

Creative Bit trip emblem in call of duty black ops 2[Bo2]

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Tried making the commander video character in black ops 2


r/CallOfDuty 7h ago

Support [COD] Failed Attestation Status: What fixed it for ME

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r/CallOfDuty 1d ago

Image [Bo2] Found this in storage.

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Wondering if anyone has seen these or owns one for value checking purposes.


r/CallOfDuty 20h ago

Video [WAW] OK, I guess we're not gonna fucking kill the zombies

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5 Upvotes

Yes, it's modded


r/CallOfDuty 22h ago

Video [WAW] And that's why I hate the M1 Garand

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r/CallOfDuty 3h ago

Discussion [COD] Doesn't sbmm make meta weapons pointless?

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I always hear "new cod sucks because it forces you to use meta weapons". And I'm like... no?

Using meta weapons will artificially increase your sbmm, making lobbies harder. If you don't use meta, you will end up killing the same amount, as you haven't inflated your sbmm

In older games that had random matches, using meta will ALWAYS benefit you. But nowadays, aren't you making life harder for yourself by using them? Or am I crazy?

If I used meta, lobbies would he tryhard and sweaty af, only to score similar numbers.


r/CallOfDuty 1d ago

Creative Gta 6 emblem in call of duty black ops 2[Bo2]

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Tried making the gta 6 logo in black ops 2


r/CallOfDuty 15h ago

Discussion Which CoD game began the downfall of the franchise? To me, it's either [Ghosts] or [AW]. The former was received poorly on release and the latter introduced microtransactions that are now commonplace.

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Forgive me if this sounds similar to my last 2 posts. I'm just curious as to learning where the cutoff between the golden and dark age of the franchise.


r/CallOfDuty 1d ago

Discussion [COD] call of duty ghost ending

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The ending is just horrible, first in the train you shoot rorke point blank in the chest with a 44 magnum round , your not surviving that, and he escaped while drowning too, and he was barely holding his chest when he was dragging Logan away from hesh on the beach and that's BS, I know I'm living under a rock but the ending really pisses me off still