Fall Guys is the battle royale game we did not assume we would have liked, however it’s the one which captured our hearts anyway. With its Mario Party-style minigames and cute (but additionally barely terrifying) jelly beans, it is easy to see why this on-line title took the crown within the gaming group. Unfortunately, like with many on-line games, cheaters are an issue and the devs over at Mediatonic had a artistic resolution for them till all of it crashed down into an enormous heap of confusion.
While the crew is including the identical in depth anti-cheat that Fortnite makes use of within the coming weeks, the battle in opposition to hackers did not come out of nowhere. Since launch, a plethora of cheaters have taken over the battle royale game, and the in-game anti-cheat system underwent a number of main evolutions. With the adjustments made to how the devs approached anti-cheat, Mediatonic took to Twitter to disclose among the options they’ve give you prior to now, together with a Cheater Island that sounded nice in idea.
After we confirmed that it was working – We secretly launched
Fall Guys Cheater Island™
It was a magical place the place cheaters might fortunately compete in opposition to themselves for the Cheater’s Crown*
*Literally only a regular crown however tainted with a hole feeling of guilt and remorse
— Fall Guys 👑 (@FallGuysRecreation) September 14, 2020
According to the studio, Cheater Island was a “magical place the place cheaters might fortunately compete in opposition to themselves for the Cheater’s Crown.” Sounds like hilarious karma, proper? Well, positive – in idea – however it did not fairly work out that method in actual life.
The above Twitter thread continued into what was dubbed “the Rise and Fall of Cheater Island,” stating that they’d sufficient information to detect who was dishonest, however the information wasn’t translating accurately over into this created hacker limbo. Because the Cheater Island participant depend continued to learn zero regardless of the quantity of hackers rising, the crew continued to decrease the brink regarding their in-game cheat detection.
Due to the lowered threshold in an effort to keep away from mislabeling a participant as a cheater, there weren’t sufficient gamers being detected to fill a complete Cheater Island server, which means that these caught can be caught in an infinite falling loop that’s the game’s load display screen. This registered as a bug, not a function, and chaos adopted.
For any participant that “crossed the brink,” they have been then labeled as a cheater, giving them an opportunity to see what bought them tagged and to inform different hackers and to keep away from detection sooner or later.
So…
If you have been tagged as a cheater… you’d be capable to end the game you have been in
Then, the following time you tried to matchmake… you’ll ONLY be capable to matchmake with different Cheaters (Without realising)
You have been there…
You’d made it…
Queuing for Cheater Island™
— Fall Guys 👑 (@FallGuysRecreation) September 14, 2020
Cheaters, as soon as conscious, started to pool collectively to override this detection instrument. Some would discover workarounds with the family-sharing options launched into the game, whereas others would bury themselves in a bunch of non-cheating buddies. This induced the dev crew to tweak their Cheater Island thresholds as soon as extra, and that gave the impression to be the ‘third time is the attraction’ second.
Until it wasn’t.
Many gamers appeared to search out themselves in conditions that regarded like Cheater Island with out with the ability to inform for positive. Fall Guys lovers have been taking to the Reddit boards to share clips of bizarre matches that appeared to be Cheater Island with out precise affirmation. This induced the game’s boards to develop into aflame with confusion as gamers tried to discern in the event that they have been enjoying the vanilla game or caught in a hacker hell.
Eventually, the confusion turned an excessive amount of and Mediatonic shut Cheater Island down for good. Now a extra conventional system is in place for these tagged as cheaters, as an alternative disabling their skill to login to the game in any respect.
Somebody truly uploaded this video to Reddit with the title:
“Ever performed a spherical of Fall Mountain the place all of the gamers are dishonest?”
The drawback is… this LOOKS like Cheater Island however we will not be 100% positive pic.twitter.com/byJi6r0Ykc
— Fall Guys 👑 (@FallGuysRecreation) September 14, 2020
The anti-cheat detection is there at present, however it’s not doing sufficient. This is broadly obvious on Reddit and Twitter alike as an increasing number of clips exhibiting velocity hackers making their method shamelessly to the crown are being revealed.
Luckily, there’s a large replace coming quickly that can revamp their whole method to those who can not seem to simply play a game usually. Coincidentally, this replace can be launching alongside a brand new function referred to as the Big Yeetus, which is truthfully simply poetic at this level.
Yeet the cheaters into the solar, simply not on Cheater Island. The replace referred to as “Big Yeetus and Anti-Cheatus” is about to reach right here within the subsequent few weeks.
