{"id":25599,"date":"2021-12-07T20:19:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/warzone-s-anti-cheat-won-t-be-ready-for-caldera-launch"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:48:16","slug":"warzone-s-anti-cheat-won-t-be-ready-for-caldera-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/call-of-duty\/warzone-s-anti-cheat-won-t-be-ready-for-caldera-launch","title":{"rendered":"Warzone’s anti-cheat will miss launch of Caldera map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans of Call of Duty: Warzone<\/a> are gearing up for the launch of Warzone Pacific, the biggest update the game has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Integrating the recently released Call of Duty: Vanguard into the game’s arsenal, the battle royale is getting its second new map since the launch of the game, named Caldera<\/a>, it takes the players from the previously drab surrounds of Verdansk and transports them to a tropical pacific island.<\/p>\n

Another major addition coming to both Vanguard and Warzone is the much-requested anti-cheat system. Originally announced back in August of this year, amid a growing furore over the game’s cheating problem, the kernel-level anti-cheat (similar to that used with much success, and controversy, in Riot Games’ Valorant) was supposed to give Warzone something it never had… an actual anti-cheat system.<\/p>\n

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Players are hoping for a more tranquil experience on Caldera. (Picture: Activision Blizzard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, it seems that it has not been all plain sailing for the anti-cheat that has come to be known as Ricochet. When it was revealed back in August, it appeared that it would arrive with the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard, and it did in some respect, but only on the “server-side” and not, as it would need to be truly effective, a kernel-based driver that runs on players machines. Those server-side additions are also active in Warzone.<\/p>\n

The kernel drive was supposed to go live with Warzone and then later with Vanguard, as per an October announcement<\/a>, but delays to the release of Warzone Pacific pushed it back further.<\/p>\n

Now it appears players will have to wait even longer after an official announcement revealed that Richochet would not be released globally<\/a> with the release of Warzone Pacific but instead rolled out gradually across regions, with Asia-Pacific being the first region to get it.<\/p>\n

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For some, the full version of Ricochet will launch on 7th December. (Picture: Activision Blizzard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This will come as a bitter blow to many who are looking at the launch of Warzone Pacific as a time to get back into a game that many fell out of love with as the cheating problem spiralled out of control.<\/p>\n

When Ricochet will be coming to all Warzone players is not yet known but if this is truly a technical roll-out and not another delay in disguise it may well be that by week’s end we are all playing fairer games. Here is hoping.<\/p>\n