Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games has issued an announcement outlining its plans to deal with cheaters within the sport, following the discharge of a community-made video that seems to point out how prevalent dishonest in Tarkov is.
On Saturday (February 25), a video titled ‘The Wiggle That Killed Tarkov‘ confirmed content material creator g0at utilizing cheats to work out what number of cheaters seem in raid. To achieve this, g0at wiggled to gamers his cheats highlighted by partitions and flooring – different gamers ceaselessly wiggled again, outing themselves as utilizing cheats by exhibiting they may additionally see him.
The content material creator claims to have investigated 125 raids utilizing cheats and though he by no means encountered anybody utilizing the likes of fly-hacking or invincibility, he said “there were obvious cheaters in about 60 per cent of my raids.”
G0at’s findings prompted an outcry from the Tarkov neighborhood. Many posts within the Escape From Tarkov Reddit alleged that Battlestate Games doesn’t do sufficient to stop hacking, with a number of days of backlash main to steer developer Nikita Buyanov releasing an announcement on Sunday (February 26).
“Every time for a long time, unfortunately, one way or another, a problem with cheaters pops up. And people immediately start blaming us for not caring,” wrote Buyanov. “We have always been concerned about this problem and the work to catch cheaters is always going on. They usually come in waves. Right now we ban several thousand cheaters a day and usually most of them are blocked after playing a little.”
Buyanov added that the sport’s third-party anti-cheat software program, BattlEye, “continues to improve” and has been up to date 4 occasions within the final week. Additionally, Battlestate Games will replace its anti-cheat “soon” and plans to “start working on a new hacker detection methods to automate it and improve the overall quality and speed of cheater detection and banning.”
Finally, Buyanov shared that gamers will quickly be notified if gamers they report are banned.
However, the assertion has been criticised by gamers who don’t imagine tangible modifications shall be delivered. Others have identified that Buyanov’s assertion is much like one he launched a number of years in the past, and declare dishonest has grow to be even worse since then.
Last 12 months, Battlestate Games mentioned combating hackers is “one of the most prioritised tasks” on the studio, with Buyanov claiming he’s “constantly” requested about bettering the sport’s anti-cheat.
Earlier within the month, Escape From Tarkov began utilizing neighborhood volunteers to crack down on dishonest.
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