Activision will quickly enable Black Ops 6 and Warzone gamers on consoles to disable cross-play with PC customers in Ranked Play.
The corporate stated it was making the transfer in response to participant suggestions and “within the spirit of bettering the gameplay expertise.”
The choice to limit Ranked Play to console gamers solely is at present in testing and set to be made accessible throughout Season 2, which kicks off on January 28.
Dishonest is a major concern in Ranked Play, which launched final November and is accessible to gamers who’ve achieved no less than 50 wins in multiplayer.
In line with Activision, it has banned over 136,000 Ranked Play account to this point.
“Situations of dishonest in Name of Responsibility, significantly in Ranked Play throughout each MP and Warzone, are irritating and severely impression the expertise for our group,” the writer acknowledged, earlier than outlining a number of the measures it’s putting in to fight the apply.
These embody “new and improved consumer and server-side detections and programs,” a “main kernel-level driver replace” and a “new tampering detection system.”
Activision additionally defined why it’s determined to not make IP-based bans.
“We don’t make the most of IP-based bans for anti-cheat as a result of they have a tendency to take motion towards whole teams inside a spread that aren’t problematic,” it stated. “For instance, a university campus or web café can be swept up in an IP-based ban wave when solely a single machine was focused.”
Developer Treyarch just lately revealed a few of what’s in retailer for Zombies followers when Black Ops 6 Season 2 launches, together with a model new map known as The Tomb.
