Meant to launch later this year alongside the Pacific Update to Call of Duty: Warzone (will be implemented in Call of Duty: Vanguard later on), Ricochet will likely be a welcome addition to longtime Call of Duty players. Known as 'Ricochet Anti-Cheat,' Activision is making a big deal out of the announcement of its new system. This is where Call of Duty's new anti-cheat software comes into play: Activision is implementing a two-fold approach to anti-cheat on consoles and PC that involves a similar level of security access with kernel-level drivers, among other features and a new anti-cheat development team hoping to address cheating in Call of Duty further.

Vanguard used to be a bit overactive when Valorant's beta was released (disabling computer monitoring and controller software), but in 2021, Vanguard is not nearly as disruptive to players' rigs as it used to be. Valorant's Vanguard kernel-level drivers and OS client function at the same level of security access as most hack software do anyway, the highest level of administrative access on PC.

In practice, it's not nearly as detrimental to PCs as it may sound.

The source of contention for players was that this kernel driver basically meant Vanguard had top-level security on players' PCs, potentially stopping other driver processes that it deemed problematic for Valorant.

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