It’s at all times galling to be murdered once you’re on the pot, however doubly so when killed by a cheater. The ‘DayZ but with robots and pooing’ survival sandbox Scum has (hopefully?) solved that shitty drawback over the weekend by including anti-cheat tech, which is a characteristic I’m actually shocked to listen to a high-profile murderous multiplayer game had launched with out. Known cheats for Scum included an aimbot, a wallhack with labels and healthbars over gamers, teleporting to the situation of one other participant, infinite ammo… unhealthy issues.
“Anticheat is up an running. We will continue to upgrade it, and keep Scum as cheat free as possible!” the devs stated in Sunday’s patch notes. “P.S – Also using exploits will be considered cheating and can result in a ban.”
The submit additionally notes a lot of bug and exploit fixes, in addition to the addition of server admin controls. Scum just lately removed some Nazi tattoos and all.
Scum solely launched into early entry final Wednesday, so it didn’t go mega-long with out anti-cheat, however it’s nonetheless bizarre. Ah nicely, now anti-cheat is in, and the countless arms race between cheat-makers and cheat-blockers will start in earnest.
I imagine Fraser Brown has been banged up taking part in Scum for his subsequent Premature Evaluation column, and can inform us all about it tomorrow.
Scum is out now on Steam Early Access, priced at £15.49/€16.79/$19.99. It’s made by Gamepires along with Croteam, and printed by Devolver Digital. The plan is for it to be in early entry for at the least one yr, so there’s nonetheless a protracted solution to go.
Scum has already raced up the charts to change into certainly one of Steam’s most-played games, with 30,000 individuals in-game as I write this, although DayZ was additionally successful out the gate and has since stalled. But hey, the scrappy wild west days of a multiplayer early entry game might be thrilling, a time when everybody remains to be studying all the things. It’s at all times a disgrace that these kinds of games are typically shonky throughout that section of their life, that these fleeting moments not often come when a game feels polished – or at the least runs nicely.
