“Every major game faces this issue” – Activision intensifies PC cheaters ahead of Black Ops 7 release
Blog Andrew Joseph 11 Sep , 2025 0
Activision outlines the steps taken with Call of Duty Cheat on PC, while highlighting that there is no simple solution to solve the problem.
Call of Duty is famous for cheating (it's such a popular shooter and has a free download of battle battles). Cheating is more common on PCs (Active has confirmed so much recently that If you think you've died unfairly against the console player, they're more likely to use “Intel Advantages” than cheating). So some console players go straight into Call of Duty settings to turn off the cross-game of the entire table, just to make PC scammers ruin their day. Earlier this year, Activision added a new console-only cross-game option for regular multiplayer games, Although PC players who don't cheat say they're punished unfairly.
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Until the November launch of Black Ops 7, Activision, like EA, was used for Battlefield 6, taking additional steps to help stop cheating on PC. When Black Ops 7 launches on November 14, a PC player will be required to enable Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. “These hardware-based features will give us a stronger, more trusted basis for detecting and blocking certain cheats before they can take root.” Blog Posts.
Additional security features will be tested in the Black Ops 7 Beta to see its performance. “These tools are designed to identify and remove cheaters faster, and we will closely monitor how they respond in actual matches,” Activision said. “When all systems are online together, the full power of our protections will remain.”
But, as many other video game companies have done, Activision puts this work in the work by saying “The War of Cheaters” is a never-ending one.
“We also think clearly: there is no one-and-all solution to the challenge of cheating. Every major game faces this problem, and Cheacters keeps looking for new ways to develop systems.
“It's important that the real improvement we're seeing is the speed at which we adapt. In Black Ops 6, detection is faster, mitigation measures are stronger, and law enforcement is stepping deeper into networks trying to harm fair games. Using Black Operation 7, hardware protection like Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 and TPM 2.0 will add another layer of defense.”
Elsewhere, Call of Duty will now tell players directly in the game if they get stuck in the shadow ban state of Warzone and multiplayer.
Activision explains: “More than 75% of the LMM (Limited Docking) pool consists of users brought into the system through the parties, so this notification is important for clarifying the status of the account.”
“Remind people that being placed in a limited showdown does not mean that the account is a confirmation fraud. It means that alerts are raised that need to be checked.”
last month, Battlefield 6 developers lament security measures, such as safe start. Speech EUROGAMER“The truth is, I hope we don't have to do things like safe boot,” said Christian Buhl, technical director of Battlefield 6.
He continued: “This really makes it impossible for some players to play games. Some people's PCs can't handle them, they can't play; it's really bad. I hope everyone can play games with low friction without having to do something like that.”
Still, Buhl sounds happy with the effectiveness of the safety boot.
“We were very happy with the performance of the anti-casino. Obviously I would say we were never perfect, anti-chaichang was always a cat and mouse game, we kept moving back and forth and continued to keep the cheaters working. But from the beginning, we started very high priorities, so when we started the game, we had a very powerful anti-fuzzy program.”
Buhl continues: “Again, nothing makes cheating impossible, but implementing a secure boot and having kernel-level access makes cheating more difficult, and it's easier for us to find and stop cheating.”
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