Yesterday, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta began in earnest, welcoming in untold thousands of eager players to try the game out before its proper launch on the 14th November. However, a number of cheaters also seemed to let themselves in and get up to no good.
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta requires both TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot enabled on your PC to play, which Treyarch stated was needed to “create a more secure environment that catches more cheating.”
Within hours of the beta starting, however, clips started appearing on social media showing off wall hacks and aim bots working in the beta. Take the below video posted to X, which shows the same old cheats in action.
Now, this account was later banned manually as confirmed by Treyarch on X, but why are old cheats working on a new game so soon after it was in the player’s hands? Well the updated version of Activision’s kernel-level Ricochet Anti-Cheat has not yet come to the game. Instead, players will have to wait until the full launch to get additional cheat protection.
This is but the latest blow in the ongoing fight between FPS game developers and cheat manufacturers. A continuous back-and-forth where cheats run amok until an updated anti-cheat solution bans a vast selection of these cheaters. Then, after a little while, the cheaters learn how the anti-cheat works and it circles round and round. This particular cycle has been a fixture of the Call of Duty series for years.
There are other options available to players who want to curb cheating. Activision announced earlier this year that it’ll allow console players to turn off crossplay to avoid cheating, admitting the majority of cheaters are playing on PC.
It’s worth noting that this year’s current Call of Duty competitor Battlefield 6 has also suffered at the hands of cheaters during its open beta, with EA’s anti-cheat shutting down over 300,000 cheaters during its run.
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