Another 136,000 ranked play accounts have been banned for cheating across both Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone.
In a detailed update shared on social media, developer Treyarch said it recognised cheaters “are frustrating and severely impact the experience for our community” but insisted it was addressing the issue, and will continue to do so “throughout 2025”.
Part of these efforts include “new layers of security and protections”, as well as updated detection models for behavioural systems like aim botting, and “other data points”, including “account trust and hardware identifiers to target serial cheaters”.
Players can also expect new detection and warning systems for spam reporting and enhanced cross-examination tools to reduce the time it takes to review reports.
Ahead of Season 02’s launch, we’re here to discuss what the various dev teams and studios are doing right now to address what matters to our players today:
• Cheating and bans
• Ability to disable cross-play on consoles in Ranked
• Server issues
• Quality of life updates
•… https://t.co/O6traEfwwG— Treyarch (@Treyarch) January 17, 2025
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From Season 2, players can expect to see new and improved client and server-side detections and systems, too, as well as “major” kernel-level driver updates that not only improve driver security, but also reinforce the encryption process and introduce a new tampering detection system.