People Can Fly will be taking big steps to reduce cheating within Outriders when it launches an April 1st, although they say only 200 players out of the 2 million who played the demo were “clearly cheating”.
Those who are identified as being cheats will find the following restrictions added to their account:
- You will not be able to matchmake with legit players but you will still be able to play solo.
- Matchmaking will likely take significantly longer.
- In future, your HUD will have a discreet but visible watermark placed on it so that gameplay footage created on this account can be readily identified as coming from a flagged account.
The following is consider cheating:
- Intentionally running the game on PC without Easy Anti Cheat (EAC).
- Modifying game files to enhance a character: levels, skills, inventory, etc.
- Externally modifying game time to reduce time dependent features such as vendors and challenges.
- Using a trainer program or similar to gain advantages within the game.
- Using gameplay altering programs such as aimbots or wallhacks.
Farming is not considered cheating, and neither is using performance tweaking software such as RivaTuner.
The restrictions will be account wide and not character specific, so cheat on on character and all of your characters get nerfed. “All accounts will be checked for evidence of cheat use on launch day – April 1st, and then at regular intervals thereafter,” say People Can Fly, “Any account logs found to have evidence of cheating on them on or after launch day will be permanently branded. Individual players who are found to be being regularly kicked by multiplayer hosts shortly after joining may also be manually reviewed as an additional anti-cheat/anti-grief safeguard.”
For those who decided to give cheating a go during the demo you do have a get out of jail card, but you will need to delete all characters from your account and lose all your progress.
Source: Reddit
