If you tried to take the laaads on one other Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds stag do over the weekend however discovered the sport stumbling and crashing even earlier than the Jägerbombs began to fall, know that it was attributable to a wonky replace to the sport’s cheat-blocking expertise. Developers PUBG Corp launched a brand new anti-cheat replace on Friday morning however, after two days of complaints about crashes and poor efficiency, determined to undo the replace. The trigger was… hazy. The devs say plainly having sure different packages open whereas taking part in brought on bizarre interactions with the anti-cheat however they weren’t certain which, what number of, or why.
At first, the devs tried to establish causes with the replace nonetheless stay, asking gamers to file reports. But evidently it grew to become clear that the issue was large enough to warrant hitting Ctrl+Z.
The sport’s Twitter help account tweeted on Sunday morning that “despite its effectiveness in blocking cheats, we have decided to roll back our latest live server update.”
If this replace was more practical at blocking cheats, that’s encouraging to listen to, however clearly not if it comes at the price of random crashes and stuttering framerates. Though I suppose a sport you may’t play is a sport that may’t have cheaters.
Not all gamers had been hit by the issues, however these affected did embrace the sport’s builders. Lead group supervisor “poopieQueen” (the Internet, yeah?) on Reddit earlier than the rollback:
“Some of us within the workplace have skilled the identical issues ourselves, and after some troubleshooting we’ve decided that varied packages are interfering with our anti-cheat answer, and that there’s a whole lot of tweaking we have to do on our finish to repair that.
“The program that was causing interference for us was a Text Expansion app that automates and makes easier some repetitive communication tasks. We’re not sure why it’s interfering with the anti-cheat solution, but we closed it and it immediately solved the problems we were having. Our assumption is that many of you are experiencing issues because of other types of programs interfering. We’ve seen reports that some antivirus solutions are causing problems, automation and productivity tools are as well.”
I noticed a number of gamers reporting that OBS, the favored livestreaming and recording software program, was inflicting issues for some.
The devs say they’re engaged on fixing the issue, now the patch has been rolled again, so fingers crossed that it returns quickly to dam cheaters with out wonking it for the remainder of us.
Anti-cheat expertise is a quick and countless arms race between sport builders and gits. Anti-cheat updates are greatest launched as a shock, not giving cheatmakers any time to arrange. That mentioned, Plunkbat’s anti-cheat modifications do usually appear to have teething issues. Only a number of days earlier final week, false positives slapped some noncheaters with temporary bans. The sport does use take a look at servers for sport updates, and possibly it’s time to think about using them for anti-cheat updates too.
