The developers of Call of Duty are rolling out a new method to try to thwart cheaters. The newest mitigation technique is called "Hallucinations," and here's how it works.

With Hallucinations, "decoy characters" are deployed in the game environment. They can only be seen by players believed to be cheating, and they do not impact a legitimate player's experience in any way, Activision said in a blog post. Instead, they "serve to disorient cheaters in a variety of ways," Activision said. "Hallucinations can be deployed both as a method of mitigation for verified cheaters or, in secret, as a detection for suspicious players."