Palworld developer is introducing measures to deal with cheaters ‘strictly and as a priority’
Cheaters, your days are numbered
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The survival-crafting gamePalworldhas had a very strong start. Releasing on January 19, 2024, for PC,Xbox Series X,Xbox Series S, andXbox One, the game quickly racked up over19 million players. It seems that players really can’t get enough of thisPokémon-inspired open world title, but its huge popularity has come at a cost.
In addition to someissues with server capacity, which were preventing players from diving into the game around the launch period, there are plenty of ongoing problems being caused by unscrupulous players who are taking advantage of various cheats and exploits.
In arecent Steam Blog post, the developer Pocketpair states that such behavior has been affecting server connection, leaving “some users” entirely “unable to connect to official servers” in their games.
“As a company, we do not tolerate any fraudulent activity or cheating, and we are working on measures to deal with it strictly and as a priority,” the post continues. “First of all, we plan to release a player list function for servers in an update at the end of February. Through this, we will strengthen the identification of players who engage in cheating.”
It certainly seems like this will expedite the process of tracking down and manually banning players who are misbehaving, but the post also says that a more permanent countermeasure is in the works: “Following this, we plan to introduce an external anti-cheat solution.”
The post then goes on to apologize to players for the disruption, explaining some of the reasons why Pocketpair has taken longer than it would have liked to address the concern: “Although the development team is dealing with each issue on a daily basis and taking measures, there are many cases where we are not able to keep up, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”
Thankfully, it seems likePalworldplayers won’t have to wait long as the “entire [development] team is working hard to get everyone back to a state where they can enjoy the game comfortably and with peace of mind as soon as possible.”
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Dash is a technology journalist who covers gaming hardware at TechRadar. Before joining the TechRadar team, he was writing gaming articles for some of the UK’s biggest magazines including PLAY, Edge, PC Gamer, and SFX. Now, when he’s not getting his greasy little mitts on the newest hardware or gaming gadget, he can be found listening to J-pop or feverishly devouring the latest Nintendo Switch otome.
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