While there has been plenty of excitement over the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, there has been an equal amount of concern regarding some of the series more infamous features slipping into the next generation of the classic FPS series. Although Modern Warfare 4's developers aren't worried about competing with GTA 6 just yet, the game already has a significant head start over the competition in dealing with hackers.
With the series being infamously ripe with hackers to the point where cheats are being sold off before the full release of their newest installments go live, the creators behind Call of Duty shared an update on their project to seriously crack down on hackers, which even includes sending police to the homes of notorious cheat sellers.
In a series of now viral posts shared by the official Call of Duty X account, the latest inclusion of the RICOCHET anti-cheat has allowed the studio to not only crack down on over "375 cheat reseller operations," but also send police-escorted cease-and-desist letters to 80 hacking vendors, which included the creator behind the notorious Elocarry cheat store.
The Call of Duty X account even attached a video of the cease-and-desist letter being delivered to Elocarry's creator, which successfully managed to put a halt on all sales of cheats associated with the franchise for the time being, in addition to entirely shutting down 30 other vendors.
On top of going after cheat distributors themselves, Call of Duty has also been testing its latest anti-cheat software against players in Modern Warfare 4's early access beta, which its creators claim that "infection rates were lower, hardware bans were harder to evade, and our time to action improved."
Despite the mixed success of MW4's early beta testing and its diminishing player counts, the new changes do seem to be a step in the right direction at least for the landmark FPS series, which is long overdue considering how massively widespread the hacker problem has become for the series, especially in older entries that even put players at risk simply for playing the game natively.
With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 also a wave of controversy over its abundant use of AI, the newest entry in the series will likely be a turning point for the franchise, both for better and potentially for worse at the same time if its current direction is anything to go by.
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