Hey folks!
Just dropping our latest update on the recent anti-cheat progress.
Work is always ongoing on this front, but here's a quick look at some of the improvement we've seen since the recent changes.
This game needs ping based region lock and need to reduce lag compensation for 200 ping players.
Otherwise it is impossible to reduce cheating on eu servers on china prime time because for some reason the chinese cheaters love eu servers. Do not forget for chinese people cheating is nothing to be ashamed of, they see normal people as stupid because they don't cheat. They cheat on games, electric cars etc. they have zero morals. No anti-cheat can deal with billions of scammers.
On other games this is not a very big problem since 200 ping gives a huge disadvantage. On apex you kill people behind the wall because of lag compensation from 2001 half life netcode.
There is no need to allow people on different regions when they have 100+ ping.
@el7uarvszheoI've heard that it's now impossible to region lock because of VPNs. I'm not sure if that's 100% accurate, but sounds correct?
I agree with the lag comp argument though. After a certain amount of lag, you should be the one having the bad time. It's your job as the player to have decent internet and to play on servers that are close to you if possible. After 80ms of ping, I think you should get less and less compensation until you receive none.
I have seen a lot less blatant cheaters lately, which is fantastic, but there's still people either low key cheating using minor things like no sway, disabling movement penalties, and other nuanced stuff like that. Some people just bounce around like crazy and land all their shots, meanwhile I get deadslides running in a straight line. We're not playing the same game.
I had a game earlier where this one particular player would not receive any damage an arms length away. They were sorta bouncing around, but I had my setup that I try to use most rounds, that I frequently get 2-4k damage games with, and still, not a SINGLE shot was registered. Happens all the time. It's hands down the most infuriating part of the game.
I think Apex could explode in popularity again if they raised the tick rate, improved the networking, and lowered the lag comp. People want their games to feel fair. On paper, balancing two different players latency's to meet in the middle might sound okay, but IT'S NOT. No one wants that.
