In Fall Guys the developers secretly created a place where they let all cheaters play against each other. This worked well for a while and there are shocking videos of it. But since the cheaters are too clever, Fall Guys is now getting help from Epic.
What is the deal with the cheater place? The colorful battle royale Fall Guys has a cheating problem. Time and again, it happens that cheaters zoom through the map incredibly quickly or even fly over obstacles. To prevent cheaters from ruining the fun for everyone, the developers secretly collected data and banned all players who exceeded a certain threshold of evidence to a server called “Cheater Island” without their knowledge.
Cheater Island – The Hell on Earth!
This is how Cheater Island works: Cheaters who landed on Cheater Island were initially complaining because the server population was too low to facilitate matches. Since the character was stuck in a loop falling down on the loading screen for a round, many players complained that they would “fall forever”. This was not a bug, the developers say now. Those were all cheaters who couldn’t find a match due to the low server population on Cheater Island.
This is what the rounds looked like: Later, there were apparently enough players on Cheater Island and the rounds were all a nightmare. There is a video in which EVERYONE is using a speed hack and the round ends in a crazy tangle of tangled Fall Guys right before the finish line.
In another round, it seems that a single player is not cheating and not even a second after the countdown to the round start is the game over, because everyone else was as fast as The Flash.
The developers state that the two videos cannot be proven to come from Cheater Island, but it is to be assumed.
By the way, how cheaters are prevented from the regular lobby, you can find out here.
That’s why Cheater Island is gone again
Why did it ultimately not work? In a post by the developers, it is further explained how things went with Cheater Island. Because even though it was a lot of fun to let the cheaters compete only against each other, the cleverness and persistence of the cheaters were underestimated.
The cheaters exchanged ideas in cheating forums and soon they circumvented the ban on Cheater Island. Among other things, by playing together with compliant people who were not cheaters. This way, they could get back into the regular playlist. Others used Steam Family Sharing to create new accounts for free and continue cheating there.
Developers bring in Epic for help: The developers realized that the cheaters did not learn their lesson when confronted. Instead, they were eager to leave Cheater Island to be the only cheater in the match again. No remorse or improvement was in sight.
Therefore, the developers have had enough. To win the arms race against the cheaters, they have now enlisted Epic Games for help. The Fortnite developers already have experience with anti-cheat, and thus the new update for Fall Guys will also be called “Big Yeetus and Anti-Cheatus”.
Epic has at least achieved some success against cheaters in Fortnite, but the fight against cheaters is an eternal arms race. Therefore, a game will probably never be completely free of cheaters. However, Fall Guys might soon have entirely different problems. According to top streamer shroud, something urgently needs to change so that Fall Guys does not die.
