If you’re a PC Apex Legends player, chances are you’ve come across a cheater or two while playing. Thankfully, Respawn is on the case! In the latest Respawn developer update, the studio has announced that it has banned 355,000 Apex Legends cheaters, and the studio will even add a report feature for PC players that will go directly to Easy-Anti-Cheat.
CHEATERS
As of today we’ve banned over 355K players on PC through Easy-Anti-Cheat. 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. Cheaters are crafty and we don’t want them to see us coming. With that said, we can share some high levels things we’re doing:
- 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 addition to that, the studio is also looking to mitigate the spamming issue some players annoyingly do at the character select screen!
SPAMMERS DURING CHARACTER SELECT
We are very aware of the cases of players spamming during character select and the drop and then disconnecting shortly after. We’re keeping a lot of our strategy close to the chest so offenders don’t have time to build workarounds before we implement changes. Solutions won’t happen right away but we’re on it.
Related Reading: Apex Legends Review – Hero Royale
CRASHES
Next week AMD will be at the studio and just like we did with Nvidia visit, we’ll be working together to improve stability and performance on PC. In the next client patch on PC we will be addressing some of the known crashes, but there will still be work to do as we haven’t nailed down all crashes yet. In Season 1 we’ll be adding improved reporting that should help us in identifying and squashing more PC crash issues.
I’ve seen it shared here but in case anyone missed it, Nvidia has released a driver update for RTX users that have been experiencing the DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG crash specifically for GeForce RTX cards and we’re continuing to work with Nvidia to improve performance and stability.
Finally, for those requesting a reconnect feature for disconnects that happen due to the game, don’t count on it as Respawn thinks this will heavily be abused!
RECONNECT FEATURE?
We’ve heard the suggestions from you folks asking for a reconnect to match feature. We are currently not pursuing this for a couple reasons:
- It opens a lot of risk for players to abuse it.
- We believe the resources needed to build, test, and release it are better spent focused on fixing stability issues so that the feature isn’t necessary.
SLOW SERVER PERFORMANCE AT THE START OF MATCHES
We’ve seen these reports and are narrowing down causes and making improvements. If this could be fixed by spending money on faster/more servers we would do it, but unfortunately there is no silver bullet on this one. We’re just rolling up our sleeves and digging in. We’ll keep you updated on any progress we make.
I have to say, I side with Respawn regarding this Apex Legends reconnect feature being a reality. I can already see how some players will abuse the heck out of it, or even find ways to work around it.