Activision reports the initial success of the Ricochet anti-cheat software during the first week of Ranked Play.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been out for a month, and multiplayer is, of course, where cheaters are doing their best to ruin everyone else’s fun – but Activision is doing its best to catch them with an increasing emphasis on using AI.

Complaints about Call of Duty cheating have ramped up recently with the launch of ranked play in Black Ops 6, and Activision has responded to outline the steps it’s taken to fight back. In a tweet, Activision said that Team Ricochet,

Black Ops 6 Ranked Play, confirming that its Ricochet anti-cheat program has now banned over 19,000 cheaters since th

Call of Duty's Ricochet anti-cheat is active in Black Ops 6 and Warzone, but unsavory players were still managing to flood into Ranked Play mode. Activision says this is partially due to an outage that was identified as lowering Ricochet's efficiency of the AI systems used for cheat detection.

Black Ops 6 has had the biggest first month in franchise history, with more players and more multiplayer matches than ever before.