Call of Duty anti-cheat will now detect people exploiting aim assist

The latest update from Call of Duty teams has revealed that their RICOCHET anti-cheat will now detect players that are using aim-assist exploits like software and hardware spoofing to play on mouse and keyboard.

“Our security detection systems now target players using tools to activate aim assist while using a mouse and keyboard. The Call of Duty application will close if detected. Repeated use of these tools may lead to further account action,” the team said in its official update.

For those who do not know, many players exploit the controller aim-assist through various software or hardware. Many games like Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Siege, The Finals, etc. are available cross-platform.

They also provide a cross-play feature to increase the player matchmaking pool. However, Players on consoles have a slight disadvantage against mouse & keyboard players in terms of response.

How do they exploit aim assist?

To combat the unfair environment, controllers are often provided with aim assist. These include slight aim snapping and generous hits. However, many players take advantage of this and use devices that can hide their mouse & keyboard to make it look like a controller.

Using these exploits, they also gain the same aim assist as controller players. Hardware like XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 are quite popular among cheaters. One in particular, ‘XIM’ is quite popular among players.

It became so popular that anyone using these forms of exploit is called Ximming, regardless of what they were using.

Many other games also do not allow Ximming.

Rainbow Six Siege will introduce input lag for players using these devices, Destiny 2 also does not allow it, although it is hard to tell in that game. Most recently, The Finals developers reduced aim assist for controllers and revealed that aim assist will stop if external modifiers like Xim are detected.