Valve has up to date its new multiplayer sport Deadlock to let gamers flip cheaters into a frog.
Deadlock is a hero shooter that’s like a mash-up of all Valve’s earlier video games, together with Workforce Fortress 2, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike. It’s in early growth, with Valve updating on a regular basis, which leads us to this week’s modifications.
This week’s Deadlock patch added a novel anti-cheat measure: turning a cheater into an in-game frog. If you happen to spot a cheater in-game, you may both ban them then and there or rework them into a frog for the remainder of the match.
Right here’s the observe within the patch notes:
- Added an preliminary Anti-Cheat detection system. When a consumer is detected as dishonest, throughout the sport session the opponents will likely be given a selection between banning the consumer instantly and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the remainder of the sport after which banning them afterwards. The system is about to conservative detection ranges as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that’s extra in depth. We are going to activate the banning of customers in a couple of days after the replace is out. When a match is ended this manner, the outcomes is not going to depend for different gamers.
And right here’s the way it appears:
Guys do you ever get this bizarre glitch in impasse pic.twitter.com/KxFqBJBg39
— Poggu (@poggu__) September 26, 2024
In response to ex-Counter-Strike developer Burton Johnsey, Valve constructed a system identical to this for its legendary multiplayer shooter, codenamed ‘FU Shock Mode,’ nevertheless it turned cheaters into a rooster. Sadly it was by no means launched.
Holy crap, they lastly constructed codename “FU Shock Mode”?!
Once I labored on VAC, Wealthy and I designed this for CS however the cheater was a rooster. https://t.co/Q6BKGTCZwj
— BurtonJ (@sptonjohn) September 27, 2024
Deadlock isn’t correctly launched but (it’s nonetheless invite solely) nevertheless it’s already a large hit on Steam, the place it’s often within the high 10 most-played video games. On the time of this text’s publication, Deadlock had a powerful 118,697 concurrent gamers on Valve’s platform.
This week’s patch launched a new Deadlock hero referred to as Mirage, and made a number of map, hero, and merchandise modifications. Valve has but to announce a launch date.
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