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Here's An Inside Look At PUBG's Anti-Cheat Efforts
Like many high-profile multiplayer games, cheating can become problematic and rampant. Recently, PUBG's developers released a video that gives a behind-the-scenes look at what the team does to discourage and decrease cheating.
Some of these efforts including aggressive approaches, like pursuing the help of law enforcement to track down and arrest those who make hacking tools themselves. The video, however, mostly touches upon internal tools that PUBG's Anti-Cheat Unit puts to use.
Watch the video below to find out how this is done.
For more on cheating in video games, you can read about how Respawn has banned over 770,000 cheaters to date in Apex Legends.
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Products In This Article
PUBG: Battlegrounds
Platform:
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, PC, iOS, Android
Release Date:
December 20, 2017 (PC),
March 19, 2018 (iOS, Android),
September 4, 2018 (Xbox One),
December 7, 2018 (PlayStation 4),
April 28, 2020 (Stadia)
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