Warzone will now make sure cheaters plummet to their deaths as comeuppance for their crimes

Modern Warfare 3 has arrived, and with it, a new update to Ricochet Anti-Cheat, Activision's ever-evolving watcher. The team behind it has revealed some of the new tools being deployed on the backend, and a few delicious new additions to the ever-growing list of tricks the game can use to torment cheaters.The developer is calling this new punishment Splat, and it will be available in Warzone (where it makes sense) when the battle royale mode launches in early December with Season 1.When the game discovers a cheater in Warzone, Splat is one thing that can be triggered. Splat simply disables the player parachute, ensuring that they end up, well, splatting on the ground the next time they need to parachute. It also ups their velocity to absurd degrees, making a simple bunny hop deadly when their feet touch the ground. Read more