Call of Duty Publisher Activision claims to have made adjustments to the game’s anti-cheat system after falsely banning legitimate players.

The franchise uses a system called RICOCHET to monitor its titles and detect players using gaming software to give themselves an unfair advantage. However, over the past two weeks, RICOCHET has wrongly banned players from Modern Warfare III and Warzone due to a “detection system workaround,” Activision said from the CoD account on franchise noted that the ban “impacted a small number of legitimate players.” player accounts” and that all affected accounts have been restored.

Among those affected was Twitch streamer BobbyPoff, who had denied cheating accusations after receiving the ban. The streamer announced earlier this month that his account had been permanently banned.

“Perma banned on cod?!” I have never cheated for a single second in over 90 days of playing Warzone,” Bobby wrote on X, sharing a screenshot of the ban. “I won’t tell me why either, but we keep grinding!” »

Bobby initially said that the ban could have been because he allowed people to use his account to upgrade their weapons. As first reported by Dexerto, he then hired a third-party PC checker to go through his computer. Bobby told his audience on a Twitch stream that the verifier confirmed the device did not contain any harmful software, shared in a video captured by HacksGrandpa and shared with X.

Although Bobby’s account was reinstated, the streamer responded to Activision’s announcement on X to express his frustration over the lack of a public apology. “Imagine getting your name in the dirt for 2 weeks for something you never did and being offered no explanation,” Bobby wrote.

On Friday, Activision shared a progress report on changes to RICOCHET, detailing its plans to overhaul the system ahead of Black Ops 6’s October 25 launch. The publisher said it is working to reduce the window between when cheating occurs and when the system responds. It also revealed some of the methods used to identify cheats, such as using machine learning to detect anomalies and using third-party software detectors.

The main goal of RICOCHET in Black Ops 6 is to “remove cheaters within an hour of their first match,” Activision said in the report. The publisher then explained that it was testing the new technology on PC players when the fake bans arose.

“Since we needed to protect the game without these stress tests, our new technology was so eager to catch cheaters that it got a little hot,” Activision said.

Activision claims to have managed to detect over 12,000 confirmed cheating accounts before they even entered a match, although in the process it appears streamers like Bobby were caught in the crossfire.