In a few days, the beta version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be available on console and PC platforms.This will be the first time players have had the opportunity to experience this upcoming first-person shooter.At the same time, this will also be the first opportunity for hackers and cheaters to make trouble in this game.Activision not only expected this to happen, but even hoped it would happen.
On September 29, Activision and the team behind Call of Duty anti-cheating technology released a long blog explaining the measures they have taken to stop cheaters from destroying the game.As previously announced, this time, the PC platform's Call of Duty players must enable "Secure Boot" on their devices to play Black Ops 7 and the upcoming beta version.This shouldn't be a big problem for most players, as newer PCs running Windows 11 systems are likely to have Secure Boot enabled by default.But this can become a conundrum for players planning to run the game on older PCs or devices that don't support secure boot.
We have seen similar situations in Battlefield 6 and its open beta, and the game also required secure boot to be enabled at the time.The original intention is that this additional security level will help prevent some PC cheating tools, but some players complain that enabling secure startup will be very troublesome if you are not familiar with the computer BIOS settings.Some people also said that this measure had little effect on preventing hackers and cheaters, and pointed out that there were reports that cheaters appeared almost immediately after the beta of Battlefield 6.In any case, Safe Boot must be enabled for playing Black Ops 7 and beta.Even though cheaters ignore the safe start and still try to play the beta version of "Black Ops 7", Activision and its anti-cheating team Ricochet team are on high alert and are ready to ban them permanently.
"Checkers will try to push the limits during beta. That's exactly what we want to see, because the Ricochet team (#TeamRICOCHET) is here to monitor closely, learn continuously, and clear them immediately when they appear," the team explained in the above blog. "Any account that was permanently banned for cheating during beta will be banned in all Call of Duty series - from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to new future releases."
The studio further explained that all its anti-cheating technologies (including machine learning tools, etc.) will also help improve the security of Activision's free battle royale game Call of Duty Warzone to prevent cheaters.They added: "All the technology we created for Black Ops 7 will also provide protection for Call of Duty: Warzone."
I still expect cheaters to break through Activision’s defense and create trouble in the beta and full version of Black Ops 7 – the game will be released on consoles and PC platforms in November.But it sounds like the team that created the game's anti-cheat tool is not only ready to deal with this "battle", but is even proactively "welcoming" its arrival.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta will be opened on all platforms through Early Access on October 2, then open to all players on October 5 and end on October 8.
