Cheating is as outdated as gaming, and it’s much more irritating with multiplayer video video games the place we belief in computer systems to maintain everybody following the identical guidelines. While cheaters would possibly by no means be stopped — particularly now it may be a profitable enterprise for cheatsmiths — we should nonetheless combat them and do what we will. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds can do extra to fight the rapscallions, the builders have conceded, and at this time they’re rolling out extra anti-cheat measures. Another cheat-fighting replace will comply with subsequent week, and PUBG Corp. say that usually they intend to take stronger actions. If we can’t climb and vault yet, not less than allow us to Plunk in peace.
Today’s statement explains the plan:
“As we announced before, we are in the process of adopting new tools to detect and verify users with unusual gameplay patterns and today, we will be rolling out additional measures. We will continue to permanently ban those who are using cheats. When unusual gameplay patterns are detected from an account, that account will be temporarily suspended and investigated.”
Then subsequent week will carry “yet another patch related to cheat detection.”
Known cheats for Plunkbat embody aimbots, wallhacks, labels and well being bars hanging above gamers’ heads, and speedhacks. While a few of these may be tough for different gamers to definitively establish, there’s no mistaking speedhacks. I’ve seen variety of speedhackers trolling fashionable Twitch streamers, zipping round to distract them and chasing after their automobiles. The youth of at this time, eh?
Don’t count on these updates to repair all the pieces, thoughts. This is an ongoing battle.
“Although we hope to bring about a safe and fair environment in PUBG as soon as possible, our battle against cheaters will not end overnight. We will continue our research and development to establish a better system for combatting cheaters. We will take stronger actions to find and ban cheaters, while at the same time taking good care to not harm innocent players.”
I don’t count on Plunkbat will ever be cheat-free. Cheatsmiths are all the time toiling to counter countermeasures. It’s an arms race with no seemingly finish. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for instance, nonetheless has cheats after 5 years of labor from Valve combating them.
The scale of Plunkbat implies that, after 170 hours, I’m nonetheless not totally sure if I’ve encountered cheaters myself. There was one one that appeared to have unnaturally good purpose at huge distances, selecting off a great deal of gamers, however possibly they had been expert and had good elevation and canopy? Ah, I don’t know. I attempt to cease myself from leaping to accusations of dishonest as a result of that suspicion eats away at an individual. Or possibly I’m so safely in scrub-tier matchmaking that cheaters are whisked away to the higher echelons earlier than I actually get an opportunity to fulfill them.
The solely time I’ve cheated on-line was approach again in Quake 2, having a high-ping Ratbot duel towards a pal who was additionally botting. The bot made us worse, if something, as a result of it couldn’t lead pictures to compensate for modem pings. Innocent days!
