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DISPATCH 2026.09 / INTEL CONFIDENCE: CONFIRMED

Bring your ban questions. RICOCHET's lead is answering.

Call of Duty says David Andrews, the Senior Director of Game Security who runs RICOCHET Anti-Cheat, is taking questions in a Reddit AMA on r/CallofDuty on September 11. The thread opens at 9:30 AM PT and he answers live from 10:00 to 11:00 AM PT. The official post names cheating, enforcement, Ranked Play, reports, PC security, and cheat developers as fair game.

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On September 10 the official Call of Duty account posted an open invitation: bring your anti-cheat questions to Reddit. David Andrews, the Senior Director of Game Security at Activision who leads RICOCHET Anti-Cheat, is hosting an AMA on r/CallofDuty on September 11. The question thread opens at 9:30 AM PT and Andrews answers live from 10:00 to 11:00 AM PT. The post lists the ground it is willing to cover: cheating, enforcement, Ranked Play, reports, PC security, and cheat developers.

Confidence

Official. The Call of Duty account posted the AMA itself on September 10, naming the host, the subreddit, the times, and the invited topics. What the hour actually produces is a separate question: a scheduled window is a commitment to show up, not a commitment to any particular answer.

That is a short window and a wide topic list, six weeks before Modern Warfare 4 ships on October 23. It also lands days after two RICOCHET stories that hit competitive players directly: a public accounting of roughly 200 beta accounts that were wrongly enforced and restored, and a seven day Ranked Play ban for scripted input devices.

Why Hardcore SnD cares

Anti-cheat policy is roster policy. In a one life mode there is no respawn to absorb a bad round and no second chance to absorb a bad enforcement call. A fifth who wakes up in limited matchmaking on a Tuesday is a forfeit on Wednesday, and the rules that put them there have never been written down anywhere a team captain can read them.

  • Thresholds Andrews has already told IGN that top end players sit closest to the behavioral lines the system watches. Competitive rosters are the population most exposed to a tuning error, and the least able to replace the account it hits.
  • Hardware Ranked Play bans for scripted inputs turn a controller purchase into an eligibility question. What counts as a script, and what counts as a remap, decides what a player can legally hold on scrim night.
  • Appeals The beta showed the review process can reverse itself. What it has never shown is how long a reversal takes, which is the only number that matters when a match is scheduled.
  • PC security TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are hard requirements now. A PC player locked out at the launcher is out of the lobby before the first round starts.

What Andrews has already said

This is not his first interview this week. Andrews told IGN that limited matchmaking, the pool players call a shadow ban, is a stopgap that isolates a suspicious account while checks finish running, chosen specifically so the account is not permanently damaged if the flag turns out to be a false alarm. He described a ladder of tools rather than a single switch: limited matchmaking, Ranked Play bans, remote play bans, temporary and permanent suspensions, and hardware bans, matched to the type of cheating rather than applied uniformly. That is useful background, and it also sets the bar for the AMA: the open questions left over are the operational ones, meaning numbers, timelines, and what a wrongly enforced player is supposed to do while they wait.

The interviews explained the philosophy. An hour on Reddit is a chance to ask for the numbers.

What is not confirmed

The AMA is on the record. Its contents are not. Nothing in the announcement promises a published enforcement policy, an appeal timeline, a hardware allowlist, or a Ranked Play integrity plan for Modern Warfare 4, and an hour of live answers is not the same thing as a documented rule a league can point to. Treat anything said in the thread as a developer comment until it lands on an official page or in patch notes.

How to use the hour

  • Ask for a timeline How long does a false enforcement take to reverse, measured from report to restoration, and is there a faster path for an account with a competitive history?
  • Ask for a line on hardware Where exactly does a legal remap end and a scripted input begin, and will that line be published before Modern Warfare 4 Ranked Play opens?
  • Ask about Ranked Play at launch Does the MW4 Ranked Play season start with the same enforcement ladder the beta ran, or a tuned one?
  • Ask for the page Will any of this be written down publicly, or does it stay in interviews and AMA threads where no team captain can cite it?

Sources to review

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Ask the question your roster actually needs answered

One hour, one thread, and a room full of players asking about skins. Show up with the enforcement question nobody else is going to ask, then come prove it when Ranked Play opens.

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