"Call of Duty's Innovative Anti-Cheat Update Introduces Hallucinations to Deter Cheaters"

Call of Duty's anti-cheating team has introduced a new method to combat cheaters by deploying a "hallucination" mitigation. This mitigation places decoy characters in the game that only cheaters can see, disorienting them without affecting legitimate players. The decoys appear as real players and trigger the same information in cheating software, making them appear legitimate. Interacting with the hallucinations will self-identify a player as a cheater. The team has also removed a different mitigation called "quicksand" as it infringed too much on normal players' experience.