Deadlock, Valve’s newest MOBA-shooter hybrid, is still in its embryonic stage but already gettingpestered by cheaters.They seem to be drawn to Valve’s games like moths to a flame, but Valve was pretty quick in its response this time around and came up with a hilarious countermeasure.
Deadlock’snew anti-cheat update has players voting to decide the fate of people it catches cheating. You now have the power to choose whether cheaters will get immediately banned, or turned into frogs for the remainder of the match,thenbanned. In either case, a game affected by a cheater will not count towards your MMR.
That’s the image posted on Valve’s forums to accompany the patch notes, but it’s actually what you’ll see if the anti-cheat system catches a cheater in your game.
This is what the pop up looks like when someone in your game is caught cheating, you can choose:“Frog Now, Ban Later” or“Ban & Leave Match”pic.twitter.com/cohD4VUCuU
And this is what you’ll see if the players decide to go the humiliation route:
Guys do you ever get this weird glitch in deadlockpic.twitter.com/KxFqBJBg39
The Twitter user above is obviously joking, but your average cheater’s lack of knowledge of the game they’re ruining might very well prompt them to similar responses.
And this is one hell of a lot of fun, so here’s hoping cheaters won’t find a way to game the system and have non-cheaters banned. Yes, similar things have happened inDark Souls, where hackers found ways tokill and have innocents banned in their place.
Interestingly, this countermeasure was not inspired by the frog curse fromFFVII.,but by “FU Surprise Mode”, an oldCounter-Strikeanti-cheat magic that never saw the light of day.
Holy crap, they finally built codename “FU Surprise Mode”?!When I worked on VAC, Rich and I designed this for CS but the cheater was a chicken.https://t.co/Q6BKGTCZwj
You can now play judge, jury, and executioner onDeadlockvia Steam.
