Respawn’s Easy-Anti-Cheat software has stopped over a third of a million PC gamers from playing Apex Legends dishonestly.
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They say cheats never prosper but in video games they often do, especially as anti-cheat software is usually ineffective at best.
But Easy-Anti-Cheat seems to be different, with Respawn boasting that they’ve got rid of huge numbers of cheaters from the PC version of Apex Legends.
‘As of today we’ve banned over 355K players on PC through Easy-Anti-Cheat’, said community manager Jay Frechette on Reddit.
‘The service works but the fight against cheaters is an ongoing war that we’ll need to continue to adapt to and be very vigilant about fighting. We take cheating very seriously and care deeply about the health of Apex Legends for all players.’
‘We are working on improvements to combat cheaters and we’re going to have to be pretty secretive about our plans’, he added.
According to Frechette the company has a three-point plan for dealing with cheaters going forward:
- We are reaching out and working directly with experts, both within and outside of EA, in this area that we can learn from.
- Scaling up our anti-cheat team so we have more dedicated resources.
- We are adding a report feature on PC to report cheaters in game that goes directly to Easy-Anti-Cheat.
In the same Reddit post, Frechette promised that Respawn is looking into a fix for players spamming the character select screen and then disconnecting shortly after, but warned a solution would take a while.
He also indicated the company was working on fixing crash bugs and slow server performance but said that the Respawn is not planning to add a ‘reconnect to match’ feature. Some fans have requested such a thing but apparently Respawn feel it will be too open to abuse.
Apex Legends was the most watched game on Twitch last month, unseating Fortnite from its throne, and its popularity shows no sign of slowing down.
Like Fortnite, much of its success depends on a constant stream of new features and tweaks, with the latest rumours – based on data-mining by fans – suggesting non-player characters, remote turrets, and flamethrowers might be added to the game in the future.
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