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”.
Essentially, these hallucinations are clones of someone else in the match, “mimicking their movement to trick a cheater into believing the character they see is a real-life player”. Even more cunning, the halluci…