"CoD Black Ops 7 Anti-Cheat Leak/Updates: Ricochet Goes Nuclear

[briocosmic]

Hey CoD squad in the anti-cheat and multiplayer fairness thread!
Building on that generic anti-cheat leak we were chatting about last time (the one with the ML anomaly detection insider scoop), I dug deeper and found some juicy specifics tying right into Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. It's not a straight-up leaked doc like before, but Activision/Treyarch have been dropping "semi-official" bombs on their upgraded RICOCHET system – feels like controlled leaks to psych out cheaters. Early beta data is wild: nearly 99% cheater-free matches, with 97% of hackers getting the boot in under 30 minutes (or just 3 matches).
Devs are straight-up saying "bring it on" to testers trying to break it during beta.

Ties perfectly to that original leak image .
Here's the cleaned-up text from it again, now with CoD flavor:"Not every major server location will utilize the new services right away, but the plan is to have them incorporated by launch/season one across the board. Now, here is—in my opinion—the bigger bit of good news. While our services don't provide any anti-cheat software, we still have systems in place to aid demoware in the process. They will be utilizing our data in their new system. With that, we were able to get a pretty detailed breakdown of their new anti-cheat services. From what myself and others have seen, the new anti-cheat is very advanced. The machine learning tool is about as good as it gets on detecting anomalies. This isn't my department of expertise so I won't say anymore, but I could see this new system being very strong. I will try to provide you with any new changes that may come so long as I am allowed to share."



CoD-Specific Breakdown (From Recent "Leaks" & Beta Reports):Hardware Mandates Incoming: Black Ops 7 will force TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot on PC – no more easy kernel-level cheats. If your rig's ancient, you might get locked ou

ML Anomaly Hunting: Echoes the leak – RICOCHET's using machine learning to sniff out weird plays in real-time, feeding off demoware data for that "detailed breakdown." Over 136K bans already in BO6/7 testing

Beta as Cheat Trap: Treyarch's hyping it like a honeypot – cheaters jump in to test limits, and boom, instant bans. "That's exactly what we want."

My take: This is the glow-up CoD needs after years of Warzone sweatlords. But will it kill false positives for controller aim-assist mains? Or is early access rumors (possible Nov 7 drop) just distracting from the real fight?


P.S. Sourced from fresh Nov 2025 drops; if more leaks surface, I'll update. Fair queues forever!

[lukedorian]

Didn´t they already said this while the beta was up? straight up BS since i always ran against aimbotters, anyways it is dumb to think they were gonna leave rico with its current state while BF has every provider in shambles, it was gonna happen sooner than later.
DMA is the way.

[Cotto45]

The consensus of everything They've tried to say is nothing more than TALK in hopes they can frighten developers to stop developing a cheat for their game. which.. Time and time again has done nothing as Anti Cheat Teams give up far before Cheat Developers.

[TheCeriousGuy]

Originally Posted by briocosmic

Hey CoD squad in the anti-cheat and multiplayer fairness thread!
Building on that generic anti-cheat leak we were chatting about last time (the one with the ML anomaly detection insider scoop), I dug deeper and found some juicy specifics tying right into Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. It's not a straight-up leaked doc like before, but Activision/Treyarch have been dropping "semi-official" bombs on their upgraded RICOCHET system – feels like controlled leaks to psych out cheaters. Early beta data is wild: nearly 99% cheater-free matches, with 97% of hackers getting the boot in under 30 minutes (or just 3 matches).
Devs are straight-up saying "bring it on" to testers trying to break it during beta.

Ties perfectly to that original leak image .
Here's the cleaned-up text from it again, now with CoD flavor:"Not every major server location will utilize the new services right away, but the plan is to have them incorporated by launch/season one across the board. Now, here is—in my opinion—the bigger bit of good news. While our services don't provide any anti-cheat software, we still have systems in place to aid demoware in the process. They will be utilizing our data in their new system. With that, we were able to get a pretty detailed breakdown of their new anti-cheat services. From what myself and others have seen, the new anti-cheat is very advanced. The machine learning tool is about as good as it gets on detecting anomalies. This isn't my department of expertise so I won't say anymore, but I could see this new system being very strong. I will try to provide you with any new changes that may come so long as I am allowed to share."



CoD-Specific Breakdown (From Recent "Leaks" & Beta Reports):Hardware Mandates Incoming: Black Ops 7 will force TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot on PC – no more easy kernel-level cheats. If your rig's ancient, you might get locked ou

ML Anomaly Hunting: Echoes the leak – RICOCHET's using machine learning to sniff out weird plays in real-time, feeding off demoware data for that "detailed breakdown." Over 136K bans already in BO6/7 testing

Beta as Cheat Trap: Treyarch's hyping it like a honeypot – cheaters jump in to test limits, and boom, instant bans. "That's exactly what we want."

My take: This is the glow-up CoD needs after years of Warzone sweatlords. But will it kill false positives for controller aim-assist mains? Or is early access rumors (possible Nov 7 drop) just distracting from the real fight?


P.S. Sourced from fresh Nov 2025 drops; if more leaks surface, I'll update. Fair queues forever!

The tweet they made about 99% of "DETECTED" cheaters in beta being banned was just utter crap, end of the day its clearly just a publicity stunt. Of course 99% of "DETECTED" were banned if they were DETECTED. The 1000+ other cheaters who weren't detected obviously wasn't banned(including myself). However I agree internals and badly made external will continue to be destroyed and slowly rmeoved as a cheating option as time goes on.