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Joshua Wolens

Call of Duty gets into psychological warfare as new anti-cheat tech plagues hackers with 'hallucinations'

A player stands next to a hallucinatory clone of themself in a demonstration of Modern Warfare 2's Hallucinations anti-cheat tech.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 hackers are losing it, man. Team Ricochet, the cadre of COD devs with the unenviable task of foiling the game's many cheaters, has put out an update detailing a new bit of anti-cheat tech. It's called Hallucinations and, well, it does exactly what its name suggests.

"Hallucinations place decoy characters within the game that can only be detected by cheaters that have been specifically flagged by [Team Ricochet's] system," reads the update. They can't be seen by legitimate players, but "serve to disorient cheaters in a variety of ways".

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