Cheating in online games has been a scourge since ancient times, but the way developers deal with malicious players continues to evolve and innovate. deadlock, Valve’s hero shooter quietly takes over Steam in closed betais the latest multiplayer game to push the art forward by giving innocent players the chance to turn cheating opponents into frogs.
Although he hasn’t debuted yet, barely even announced, deadlock‘s community has had to contend with an online backbone Early test invitees include cheaters. But the MOBA-themed shooter is still in a wildly experimental stage, with regular updates and balance changes. The latest patch is testing a novel anti-cheat detection system for issuing bans:
“When a user is detected cheating, during the game, the opponent will have the option to ban the user immediately and end the game, or turn the cheater into a frog for the remainder of the game before banning them,” Read the patch notes from developer “Yoshi”. “As we are developing a broader v2 anti-cheat system, the system is set to a conservative detection level. We will enable user bans within a few days of the update being released. When a match ends in this way, The results of other players no longer matter.
Anti-cheat magic has found in the wild. Once the cheater is transformed into a frog, all he can do is jump around helplessly while the other team shoots him. This is very similar to the situation where the cloud and companies turn into frogs Final Fantasy VII Reborn. Fortunately, this is not required. Anyone who is tired of it or just wants to move on and start a new match that actually makes sense can refuse to be shamed and thus become a possible cheater. I’m not sure there’s a voting system where all the players on the team have a say, that would be interesting too. This is a 6v6 game, so who knows how the tiebreaker will be calculated.
Deadlock, meanwhile, still doesn’t have a full release schedule or even an official public beta. I’ve been lucky enough to play a bit of it myself, and it’s a lot of fun, although it does cater to some number-crunching RPG nerds. this Dota 2 From creeping waves to upgrade progression, the fallout is inevitable, but it’s one of the best 3D MOBA shooters I’ve ever encountered. We’ll see how it develops as Valve continues to test its next big breakthrough multiplayer success story.
