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 "Under Review" 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 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 account.
    
4. 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. But this guide isn't for that. You shouldn't go that route over just a shadow ban that will likely lift.
    
5. Once your shadow ban lifts, play legit for one day. This will test if you are in a SB loop but will also even out your stats a little and raise your trust slightly. If you are SB again during this day, you are in a SB loop. Read below to find out what to do if you are in a SB loop.
    
6. After one day has passed of playing legit, go really easy with your cheats for 7 days. During this 7 day period, you should be playing as legitimate looking as possible. Follow every step of this guide, and make sure that no one has any reason to report you. Do not be the star of the show. You can still have fun, but you should not be "killing it" during this week. The purpose of this is to raise your trust score.
    
7. Think long term. You want a high trust score so you can closet cheat in peace. I know you want to closet cheat right now & get away with it, but with SBs comes low trust score. Or, if you are on a new account, you start with low trust score so you need to raise that. Think long term. Many PO users have used the same account since PO launched. Go easy on your account for weeks, even months. Then, you should be able to closet cheat following this guide without any shadow bans at all.
    
8. 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.
    
9. If you are shadow ban looped... intense account healing. 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 play legit until the next one. No cheating. It's not that the cheat is detected, but rather that you are better with the cheat. You are more likely to hit stat limits or kill limits. Play legit for a week or more until the game stops SBing you. Then, ease back into cheating.
    
10. If that doesn't work & you have a very low kill limit SB loop, then wait for the SB to lift, wait an additional 7 days, then play legit for 7 days before returning to closet cheating.
     
11. 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.
     
12. Your shadow ban turned into a perma ban... fuck. WAIT! 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 30-60 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. PO has never been detected & we will tell you if that changes. 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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