A new cheating behavior has caught the developers’ attention. Now there are bans and countermeasures to make PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) fairer.
Cheaters are a problem in many competitive online games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. We regularly read in our articles about players complaining about cheaters.
The developers are aware of the issues with cheaters. While checking player data, they have recently encountered a new cheating pattern – and they are kicking all affected users out.
Undetected? Not anymore!
The new cheating pattern was noticed by the developers only recently. Afterward, gameplay data from over 10 million players was checked. Successfully!
During this process, they came across over 100,000 individual cases where these cheats were used. All cheaters will now be kicked out of the game at once.
According to the developers, this is just one of the additional measures running alongside the base detection system. Such gameplay checks will now be conducted more frequently. “Even if it means our anti-cheat team has to manually sift through hundreds of billions of data logs.”
A new method will also be introduced soon that aims to detect and ban even more cheaters.
Killcam unintentionally turns into Cheat-Cam
In their recent statements regarding PUBG cheaters, the developers advised using the killcam to identify the cheaters. After all, it shows who is cheating. However, the plan didn’t quite work out.
Due to a bug in the replay and killcam system, the actions of other players in the replay appear as if they are cheating. However, they often are not.
A popular PUBG cheat disables recoil and spread on weapons. With the Adventure Full-Auto, you can thus continuously fire at the same spot. The bug in the replay system makes it look exactly like this cheat for other players. This further adds to the confusion, as cheaters are difficult to distinguish from “normal” players. The developers are already working on a solution to this problem.
