Fall Guys at the moment revealed that along with including the much-lauded “Big Yeetus” quickly, the favored video game will probably be implementing new anti-cheating measures utilizing Epic Games’ Easy Anti-Cheat. Rather than merely announce that it will be including this quickly, nevertheless, Fall Guys revealed simply how the group had been coping with cheaters till now, and it seems that it was primarily pairing cheaters collectively on a Cheater Island, which isn’t precisely unparalleled with multiplayer video games. But Cheater Island is gone now, leaving cheaters merely unable to log in.
Honestly, the total clarification for this, as defined on the video game’s official Twitter account, is price a learn:
At launch, we had a few of our personal cheat detection constructed into the game
We weren’t banning anybody at this level, simply gathering knowledge rigorously
We needed to be 100% positive that our cheat detection would solely catch individuals who had been legitimately dishonest
No false flags! ๐
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
Remember, at this level, we had knowledge on who was dishonest, however we weren’t performing on it
Fall Guys Cheater Islandโข had a inhabitants of 0
So, very rigorously, over time, we began to decrease the edge on the cheat detection
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
Our threshold was initially actually tolerant
Cheaters would get caught… however not be insta-banished
We hoped that they could realise dishonest kills the enjoyable ๐
Most continued ๐ฉ
We need folks to have enjoyable, however not on the expense of others
So we stored reducing the edge
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
Now, if you happen to can think about:
You want 40+ gamers to really populate a game.
Cheater Island is not a location in the true world…
Cheater Island had it is personal set of worldwide servers
You’d want sufficient cheaters in your area with a view to begin a Cheater Island game
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
I’m positive you have observed…
We attempt to be tremendous open and upfront with you in all of our communications
It’s been very tough to speak about cheaters although… as a result of the whole lot we are saying… provides the cheaters extra ammo
They had been utilizing any data to enhance their dishonest…
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
At this level…
Cheaters began to understand that they might group up with buddies who weren’t cheaters… they usually might matchmake with them…
They had been escaping Cheater Island ๐
๐จ Oh no ๐จ
We raced to patch this out earlier than all of them realised
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
During all of this time… we stored rising the thresholds on our cheat detection. We had been 100% assured that anybody being flagged as a cheater was DEFINITELY dishonest.
This was tremendous essential to us.
We did not wish to falsely ban anybody.
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
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 downside is… this LOOKS like Cheater Island however we will not be 100% positive pic.twitter.com/byJi6r0Ykc
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
We DO know that Cheater Island matches had been taking place
We simply DON’T know if that is what these movies present
For that purpose, we now have closed down Cheater Island
Instead, cheaters are actually unable to login
We are repeatedly enhancing the edge on our cheat detection too
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
Now…
Our subsequent replace is known as:
BIG YEETUS AND ANTI-CHEATUS
I’ll let you know extra in regards to the Yeetus half later
But the Anti-Cheatus half…
We’re truly including Epic’s Anti-Cheat which will probably be an enormous step ahead as we proceed to enhance issues!
COMING SOON
โ Fall Guys ๐ (@FallGuysSport) September 14, 2020
Fall Guys is presently out there on each PlayStation four and PC. It continues to be up to date, and Season 2 of the favored video game is about to launch in October. Developer Mediatonic has but to formally announce a model of the video game for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, or cell, however it will seem that it is gauging demand. It is presently unclear whether or not it’d present up on both of the next-gen consoles. You can try all of our previous coverage of the wildly popular title right here.
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