All articles tagged with #third party hardware
The author has lost faith in Google's smart home ecosystem due to the company's directionless approach, constant feature cuts, and poor user experience. Google's recent decision to kill support for third-party smart displays was the last straw for the author. The author is gradually phasing out all Google hardware from their home and urges others to look elsewhere as well.
Activision's Call of Duty Ricochet anti-cheat team has introduced new measures to reduce unfair play, including a system to detect third-party XIM-type devices and a replay investigation tool. Cheaters will face measures ranging from mitigations up to permabans across all Call of Duty titles. The company has also revealed new in-game mitigations, such as Damage Shield, Disarm, and Cloak. Activision's anti-cheat measures implemented in 2021 led to a "significant" drop in cheaters, but the company expects players to create new ways to get around existing measures.
Activision has released new anti-cheat tools for Call of Duty that can detect when third-party hardware devices are attached to a player's setup, which can give an unfair advantage. The new hardware detection update has been deployed in Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0. Anyone suspected of cheating by way of a third-party hardware device on PC or console will see a warning page before potentially more serious action is taken. Additionally, Activision has created a new "Replay" tool that allows its development teams to watch any completed match as part of their investigation into potential bad behavior.