CoD Warzone: Update 1.50 brings anti-cheat for PC today – are cheaters history now?

On By Garmin Philip

Call of Duty: Warzone rolled out its major update 1.50 today, introducing the PC driver for its new anti-cheat system “RICOCHET” worldwide. There were also bug fixes and a few balance adjustments. MeinMMO shows the patch notes and answers the question: “Are there still cheaters?”.

The essentials in brief:

  • The free battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone recently went with the Pacific update on a new map and wanted to introduce a kernel driver on the PC at the same time as part of the new anti-cheat system “RICOCHET”
  • The community had high hopes for the new PC driver and was disappointed when the program only went online for the release in the Asia / Pacific region
  • With the new update 1.50, the kernel driver for the PC went online worldwide

CoD Warzone: Update 1.50 am 15.12. – Patch Notes

When is the update coming? The new update 1.50 is already online.

How big is the update? The update has gotten pretty big – on PC and on Xbox and PlayStation consoles. Calculates with 15 to 17 GB.

It is possible that content from the Christmas event came into play. There should be another update for this on the morning of December 17th.

What does the update change? The highlight is the activation of the kernel driver on the PC. This is a small program that now runs while you play Warzone on the PC.

The driver examines the interactions of programs on your PC with Warzone and tries to identify suspicious behavior and to recognize patterns that help in the detection of cheaters. You can find an overview with answers to the kernel driver here:

CoD Warzone now has a new anti-cheat system – this is “RICOCHET”

What else is changing? There were also two handfuls of bug fixes and a few balance adjustments. We’ll list the changes for you:

Update 1.50 – Bugfixes

  • Removed further collision errors on the Caldera map
  • Players can no longer duplicate their weapons
  • Fixed a bug that caused players to be on the map earlier at the start of the match
  • Frame rate drops related to business cards and player titles have been fixed
  • The audio output for voice chat should no longer constantly reset itself to the standard device
  • Fixed a problem with the Season Challenges – they were sometimes not displayed and counted correctly
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the EM2 recoil change from a previous patch
  • The large Scout 10x sight of the Kar 98k now has the correct movement speed in the sight
  • Removed an issue that sometimes accidentally targeted the player

Update 1.50 – balance adjustments

  • Typ 100 – Buff
    • Magazine 1 – Nambu-20-rounds now has 30 rounds
  • Robot – Nerf
    • Recoil increased
    • Sakura 75-round magazine: 2% less movement speed / 3% less movement speed in the sight
    • Klauser 50-round magazine: 2% less movement speed / 2% less movement speed in the sight
  • Bren – Nerf
    • Neck multiplier decreased from 1.5 to 1.4

If you want to look at the changes again yourself, you will find the complete patch notes in English here (via ravensoftware.com).

Kernel driver is online – are there no more cheaters?

The cheaters will not completely disappear from the game with the new kernel driver on the PC. The driver is not a cheat detector that immediately detects and reports every suspicious program.

Think of it as just another diagnostic tool. Together with the server-side measures of the new RICOCHET system, CoD would like to discover more cheaters, but there is still no guarantee that they will discover all of them.

If a cheater is caught as a result of the measures, the developers now have the opportunity with the new kernel driver to better understand the processes on the cheater PC and to clarify important questions:

  • How do cheat programs interact with Warzone?
  • What abnormalities can you discover in other cheaters?
  • How do cheat programs hide from detection?

This allows those responsible to recognize patterns and apply them when discovering other cheaters. However, even with the kernel driver, it is not possible to fully discover all cheaters in one fell swoop.

Call of Duty continues to ask for your help:

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  • Reports suspicious behavior in the game
  • Protect your accounts with 2-factor authentication
  • RICOCHET gets better the more data comes together
  • Security measures are constantly checked and updated

Soon there will be more details about the new anti-cheat system in Warzone. Possibly with an appointment for the introduction to the multiplayer mode of CoD: Vanguard. We’ll keep you up to date on MeinMMO.

“RICOCHET” is finally completely online and it will be exciting to see whether the new kernel driver on the PC will provide the desired relief for the cheater problem.

At the moment, however, there are also some weapons in the game that provide a powerful advantage even without cheats: New Sniper gives you easy kills in CoD Warzone – experts find them “massively overpowered”

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