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Over the last few weeks, there has been an increasing number of complaints regarding cheaters in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Previously, the developers had prided themselves on the number of cheaters they catch on a daily/monthly basis but it seems that over time, cheat tools have become more resilient, which has been causing discontent amongst regular players. The developers are aware of this, so starting today, some new anti-cheat measures will be rolling out.
Over on PUBG’s Steam Community page, Bluehole posted an update on the studio’s plans for future anti-cheat measures. The post starts off with an apology to players, before promising changes as new anti-cheat tools enter the game.
“First of all, we would like to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused by the cheaters and we are sorry that you have not been able to enjoy PUBG in a safe and fair environment. Our development team is doing their best to detect and ban those who use cheats in a more proactive manner. We are aware that we still have much to do.”
At the moment, Bluehole is “in the process of adopting new tools to detect and verify users with unusual gameplay patterns”. Starting from today, these new measures will be rolling out, with permanent bans in store for those caught cheating. If an ‘unusual gameplay pattern’ is detected, then an account will be temporarily suspended while a manual investigation is conducted.
These new measures should help but the studio is also keen to point out that “the battle against cheaters will not end overnight”. Still, stronger action will be taken, with another anti-cheat update set to begin rolling out next week.
KitGuru Says: I haven’t played PUBG for around six weeks, so I’ve not had much experience with the increased number of in-game cheaters. However, if our Facebook comments are anything to go by, things have certainly got worse. Hopefully these new updates will help combat this swiftly, particularly given that the game is set to leave early access in late December.
Once China bans the game, that should significantly reduce the cheating. They really need to add in region logging and ping limits, that way all the cheaters would most likely end up on the same servers.
Nothing will happen. Chinese use VPNs to play PUBG already.
What percentage of them use vpns? All of them? I kind of doubt it, unless that is literally the only way to get to us server.
I doubt many will carry playing the game if the prospect of being thrown into prison for doing so becomes a reality. Either way, ping limits would solve this, and is something CS:S was doing well over a decade ago.
Close to all of them, yes. PUBG even showed ingame ads for VPN use in Asia. Online friends tell me that they use VPN for most games, because it is close to impossible to game otherwise (got no reliable source to show numbers though).
The downside of region logging would be that I can’t play with my US friends anymore either. While my ping is sometimes even lower than theirs.
LMAO i had a person catch up to my speeding jeep and kill me. Another time i was one shotted by someone that didnt even show up as on the player list. and also the usual shot around corners and through walls etc.
Yep a great way to help stop them or at least annoy them is to setup a few servers that are set off by them selves but not connected to the main servers. Once your caught your account & IP & user name/names are logged and you are quietly connected to these servers. See how much fun it will be when every other player is also a cheater on the server and you no longer have an advantage because your surrounded by cheaters just like you. I am sure that will be great fun for all of them. Banning them is just way to easy causing them lots of grief and annoying the hell out of them seems so much more sporting well at least for the rest of us that is…lol