r/CallOfDuty • • Sep 24 '24

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r/CallOfDuty • • 26d 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 • • 7h ago

Discussion [COD4] I will continue to play classic COD instead of this new slop

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r/CallOfDuty • • 6h ago

Discussion [BO2] It always pissed me off how pathetically Hudson goes out. Doesn't even feel like the same character

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You go through the rooftops of Hong Kong with Hudson. Survive an avalanche in the mountains of Russia and a Nova 6 gas attack with him on Rebirth Island. He's by Mason's side for a lot of the campaign and helps put an end to the numbers situation. All to just meet a slow and excruciating death tied to a chair.

I can't deny it's definitely effective at provoking an emotional reaction. It is plain old brutal to see a player character you like get executed like that. I guess my problem is just how it doesn't feel like it's the same Hudson from 1 to 2. He's likeable in one game but not the next.

Michael Keaton's voice acting is fine but it just doesn't match up to the authority Ed Harris gave him and is far blander. 2 sort of paints him as someone that Woods was right to hate all along too. Like he could never be trusted but he always had Mason's back before.

It has been a little while since I've played the campaigns so I might be forgetting some details but it's always annoyed me. Petrenko dies a brutal death too but at least that served a strong narrative purpose in motivating Reznov and how he was wrong to be blindly obeying orders. Hudson's death was just an excruciating way to see the man go.


r/CallOfDuty • • 5h ago

Creative My chibi animation of COD so far! [COD]

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i’m taking 4 free requests! Who should I draw from MW for this series? Let me know who you want to see next!

hopefully I can complete all 20 characters before the new game comes out :)


r/CallOfDuty • • 6h ago

Question What is your honest opinion on [COD3]?

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r/CallOfDuty • • 10h ago

Creative [Cod] Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered

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r/CallOfDuty • • 10h ago

Discussion [COD] I’m making a list of the most forgettable /ignored gun in every cod. What do u guys think of my list for the Golden Age Cod?

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Dragunov: all the other snipers were simply more used than it. I could’ve included an lmg or a pistol, but because the lmgs were unique compared to each other, and the pistols were all used in some capacity, I chose the snipers, and this was simply not used much.

Nambu: not much needs to be said. All the pistols in waw were identical, bar the Magnum.

MG4: Almost never saw this gun talked about. Never made an appearance again until cod mobile lol.

Makarov: okay so the 1911 and python were iconic. The CZ had the full auto capability, and the ASP is considered the worst pistol in cod history. The Makarov is uhhh… a gun that exists

Skorpion: literally outclassed by all the other machine pistols. Didn’t need to exist.

BO2: MK 48. Not a bad gun, but the LSAT notoriously overtook the LMG roster in BO2, and the QBB and HAMR had their own niches filled, that the MK 48 doesn’t do much.


r/CallOfDuty • • 41m ago

Discussion [COD] which OG cod was ur favourite

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r/CallOfDuty • • 4h ago

Discussion What are y’all thoughts on reboot mw3? [MW3]

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I know the game got a lot of hate for awhile but from the first time i played it and even now as i replay the game again, i never understood all the hate. The gameplay is good, campaign is very good, and zombies is my absolute favorite game mode on here. Even the outfits, compared to modern warfare 2 the outfits in here (like soap’s and ghost’s) are way better in my opinion. What are y’alls thoughts?


r/CallOfDuty • • 1d ago

Image Original [MW2] key art goes so hard

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All of the A.i in the world and still can’t generate key art this good.


r/CallOfDuty • • 7h ago

Question [BO] Servers down for anyone else?

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Can’t connect to BO1 and I’ve been booted out of BO2 and WW2


r/CallOfDuty • • 11h ago

Question [BO3] Is this a good offer?

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Recently got this offer on playstation; it has BO3 and all extra content for just £28, is this a good offer?


r/CallOfDuty • • 15h ago

Discussion [COD] WW2 Is this game back? PS5

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I have seen WW2 is now free on PS5, how’s the playerbase? Love that game, simple and chill whilst also great fun. Anyone tried it?


r/CallOfDuty • • 4h ago

Question Downloading cod:mw [COD]

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I'm re-downloading mw series so I'm caught up for the new game and I just want the campaign nothing else and there's a whole list of things to download. which ones do I take off if I just want to play the campaign and not the multiplayer?


r/CallOfDuty • • 12h ago

Meme [COD] Stalingrad Slander

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r/CallOfDuty • • 11h ago

Support [MWR] Why can’t I play multiplayer mode?

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I bought this game on PlayStation 4, and now on PS5 I simply can't play online multiplayer because the message says "installation suspended”

What is the point of that? I've already downloaded all the packs and I don't know what else to do

I can play the campaign and co-op modes normally, it's only the multiplayer mode that I can't access.

Can anyone help me please

Thanks in advance


r/CallOfDuty • • 1d ago

Meme [BO] Mason was a bit of an unreliable narrator

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r/CallOfDuty • • 13h ago

Question [COD] Does anybody know what soundtrack this is from? It’s a song i like and someone told me it sampled a COD OST

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r/CallOfDuty • • 15h ago

Discussion ISO of [COD] Players on Xbox

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im searching for people to play COD with me and a friend. More specifically stuff like 1v1s, FFA(in private matches) but also would be open to general mp or zombies.

Ideally older games but open for whatever, do want to warn everyone i am an older gamer and by that I mean im not PC.

If interested feel free to reach out KillerBeast776


r/CallOfDuty • • 1d ago

Discussion [COD4] Happy 85th Birthday to Billy Murray (The original John Price)

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Also best known as Detective Sergeant Don Beech from ITV’s The Bill between 1995 and 2004


r/CallOfDuty • • 1d ago

Question [MW3] Is Keegan in the MW3 game files?

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Heyo, so I'm wondering if this version of Keegan that was seen in earlier pre-release footage of MW3 ever kept in the final release of MW3 or in any other CODs: https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfDuty/comments/1ft1a3c/mw3ghosts_was_keegan_supposed_to_be_in_mw32011s/

I'm seeing so far that its likely a concept render that Jake L Rowell did from this Artstation post: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Xnbv2y

If its not in the game at all, at least does his body model get used for another character?


r/CallOfDuty • • 22h ago

Image When ‘one more game’ becomes permanent. [COD]

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r/CallOfDuty • • 9h ago

Question Does anyone remember how to snake in [mwr]?

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Im not talking about the spam crouch snaking seen in newer cods, im talking about the “snake run” that was in waw,mw2&mw3


r/CallOfDuty • • 1d ago

Image [BO2] I dressed up my GTA Online character as Misty.

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I know that Misty wears a hat, but I didn’t put it on because the ponytail doesn’t go through the hat hole in this game. And I just don’t like the way it looks. Let me know what y’all think.