Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has lengthy struggled with cheaters, popping up from nowhere to headshot you from throughout the map and probably by means of some partitions. For 16 months, the builders have been posting weekly accounts itemizing what number of gamers they’ve completely banned for dishonest – a quantity that now provides as much as over 13 million. That’s about as many individuals as stay in the entire nation of Greece, for reference.
The numbers have been crunched on Reddit by a consumer referred to as sjk045, utilizing data from the Official Korean Plunkbat blog. They even created a graph to assist visualise the variety of bans, together with a obvious spike that represents 1 million bans (concerning the inhabitants of Cyprus) in a single week. After that, although, the speed of bans appears to have been dropping fairly steadily.
However, as they level out, this doesn’t essentially imply that there’s a decrease ratio of cheaters to sincere gamers; probably it’s simply reflective of falling participant counts typically.
With the game having hit 50 million copies bought in June, 13 million cheaters is a reasonably excessive share – although it’s possible that many of those people merely purchased the game once more after having their accounts banned.
Meanwhile, the latest update brings in a brand new anti-cheat system, which is at present voluntary to choose into. Doing so will assist “refine” it for when it turns into obligatory, in response to the builders. That patch additionally introduces a ranked system, area locking, and brings again map choice, although as Alice describes, it’s nonetheless a bit messy. Only time will inform if it’ll assist to curtail the continuing dishonest points.
