2 years ago

Anti-Cheat Improvement Idea

Players with a significantly high number of reports are to be suspected as cheaters. These suspects' gameplay is to be screen-recorded and stored on the server. Make an in-game feature for the player...

gameplay discussion

Midnight9746

Hero+

2 years ago

@Skimpp Sounds nice on paper, but you realize no one would be playing the game anymore, as its flooded with cheaters, right?

Skimpp
2 years ago
@Midnight9746 Do you mean it's too late to implement that? This feature is from a mobile game with 1/3 of average apex online players and more cheaters. I have a bit more 510h playtime in Apex and I have only faced cheaters (excluding zen/config/script/wallhack) for < 5 times, compared to facing cheaters almost every day in that mobile game. I am pretty sure it is a successful feature in that game because I see so many players using cosmetics/badges that can be obtained only from being cheater reviewers + number of cheaters significantly went down.
- Midnight9746
  Hero+
  2 years ago
  It just sounds like a lot of work for a small handful of players who still even play the game while there's a bunch of players using cheats these days. Many of which are using strikepacks, Xim, Cronus, etc.
  It might be because around this time things get slower, or that there's not much keeping players engaged, or there's other issues like the servers and audio, or a combination of everything.
  I just feel like a more automatic system would be better and having the ability to review gameplay like Overwatch, to where if we wanted to watch how someone was playing after the match, we could and then report if we needed to.
  Overwatch is great because you can do that. They allow you to submit that clip and the team can easily review it.
  - Skimpp
    2 years ago
    @Midnight9746 I mean the feature is optional, anyone who wants to do it can do it and might get in-game rewards, e.g. badges, cosmetics, crafting materials and in-game currency. I don't think it's a lot of work anyway, you can just hover over the video timeline, skip forward and backwards, and see how they shoot and move. Even in the mobile game I referred to with only 1/3 average apex online players, a lot of players participated because the rewards were so good (similar to apex coins iirc).
    
    Referring to the Overwatch, I don't think many players will voluntarily screen-record the cheater's POV after match and send it to the team. Many players including me are already tired of reporting someone for cheating and not getting any feedback on whether or not the reported player is banned. Therefore, IMO, in-game rewards is a must to encourage players to participate.
    
    Plus the video of the suspected cheaters must be a screen record so we can see precisely the recoil, and whether or not they are wallhacking. I am pretty sure the Overwatch post-game record is not a screen record. They are using similar techniques to COD where they only capture players' position, and device inputs at every timestep and rewind back, which results in crosshair not being accurate. A full-screen record is resource-intensive and costs more than 1GB per player. That's why only the most significant suspected cheaters' gameplay needed to be saved