What to Do If You Get Shadow Banned // Chapter 003

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What to Do If You Get Shadow Banned // Chapter 003

 

1. First, you need to check that you are actually shadow banned & don't just have high ping due to shit servers. Please go to this website, sign in with your Activision account, then see your status. If it says "Limited Matchmaking" then you are shadow banned. You can also follow this guide if you have a "Temporary Ban".
    
2. Do not play in shadow ban lobbies. This is the ultimate cheater trap. Shadow ban lobbies are just lobbies filled with cheaters. So, you'll enter one of these lobbies, need to cheat hard to have any form of fun, then boom your SB situation is worse now. It can always get worse. Just check the ban appeal website linked above every day until your shadow ban has lifted (green status saying nothing detected).
    
3. Do not make a new account or play on another account while shadow banned. Stick to your one account. They are watching your account and HWID. The other account will just get SB too & make your situation worse. Watch the ban appeal website (linked above) & wait your SB out. You want to focus on building trust & age on your one main account and HWID.
    
4. Do not spoof and make a new account either. I understand that spoofing and making a new account will work. Spoofing and using a different existing account also works. But when it's time to go back to your main account, you will have a new HWID. If you repeat this process a lot, your main account will have many fresh HWIDs surrounding shadow bans. Your trust score is linked to your account and your HWID. The more aged your account & HWID are together, the less likely you will have low trust. Their system is actually really smart because it prevents people from successfully spoofing and hoping accounts & it also prevents people from buying aged accounts for trust.
    
5. Do not use a cleaner or reinstall Windows. It's a myth that helps. They are tracking your account & HWID too. That stuff will only make you more suspicious. If you want to use a spoofer + make a new account that's one thing (not recommended). But this guide isn't for that. You shouldn't go that route over just a shadow ban that will likely lift.
    
6. Once your shadow ban lifts, closet cheat as best you can. Use this guide to closet cheat as best you can. You may need to tweak your playstyle or config according to the guide if your current playstyle/config keeps getting you SB.
    
7. Make a ticket to get time compensation during shadow ban waiting periods. Make a ticket with PO to get some days added to your key (if you are not lifetime) so that you can get compensated for waiting while you are shadow banned.
    
8. If you are shadow ban looped... here is how to get out. If you keep getting shadow banned as soon as your last one lifts, you have immensely low trust score. To resolve this you just need to wait out each SB, & once it lifts closet cheat as best you can (guide) until the next one. Repeat this process over and over until your account age on one HWID has reached a point where you stop being SB looped.
    
9. Understand that sometimes getting shadow banned is easier than other times. When Ricochet updates their server side, they will start getting more false positives at first. Meaning they will start to shadow ban a whole lot more legit players than normal. Ricochet is always shadow banning non-cheaters, but at these times, more legit players & more cheaters get shadow banned. In the weeks following these updates, Ricochet will tweak their server side to get less false positives. Once that is done, you should find closet cheating properly won't get you shadow banned. Shadow bans also occur more often during holidays & after new exciting modes are implemented into the latest COD (e.g. ranked).
    
10. Your shadow ban turned into a perma ban... read this. This is unlikely to ever happen if you only used Phantom Overlay, but I will still go over the possibility in case you used something else. First, go here and make sure you are actually perma banned. Sometimes the game will give you a perma ban message over a temp ban or exploit warning, but it's a false message & you aren't actually perma banned. You can also try waiting 24 hours to see if the ban is reverted & try to appeal if as well. If none of that works & you remain perma banned, something you used in the last 14-60 days was likely detected. I say 14-60 days because typically the game will never ban you right away for using something detected unless it's been detected for awhile. New detections are usually banned slowly & in small waves. If this happens to you & you use PO, it is likely not from PO. Maybe you used a detected/outdated spoofer & you are HWID banned, maybe you used a detected cheat, unlock tool, UAV tool, or some tool/service that got you banned. In any case, please remove the detected software/service from your PC & follow this guide.

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