Published 13:05 IST, September 15th 2020
Fall Guys' take on anti-cheating gives birth to Cheater Island
Fall Guys has been battling cheaters just like every other game. To tackle the situation, they've found an innovative way called 'Cheater Island'.
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Fall Guys is a fun, goofy, online multiplayer survival game. An online game almost always has one issue that y need to take care of -- and that’s cheating. Cheating in an online game provides unfair means to cheater and game developers do t take that very well as it disrupts sanctity and quality of game. Fall Guys, like all or games, has been a victim of cheating, since dawn of it. Fall Guys developers did make some anti-cheating provisions to maintain fair play, and that gave birth to Cheater Island in Fall Guys.
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Fall Guys Cheater Island
Fall Guys has been plagued with cheaters since start of game. refore, y had to think of an interesting way to curb cheating and maintain fair play in game. This gave birth to Cheater Island in Fall Guys. Cheaters from everywhere were put on same server to tough it out against each or. This invative idea from Media tonic gave fans quite a few funny and interesting videos of people battling it out in Cheater Island.
At first, Mediatonic’s tolerance for cheating was quite lenient, giving a chance for se players to mend ir ways, but this effort turned out to be futile as cheaters never stopped cheating. So once eugh of se types of players were gared, Cheater Island was server se guys were pushed to.
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A thread from Fall Guys twitter accounted illuminated fans about ongoings of Cheater Island. It read, “At launch, we had some of our own cheat detection built into game We weren't banning anyone at this point, just garing data carefully We wanted to be 100% sure that our cheat detection would only catch people who were legitimately cheating false flags!” Ar tweet in continuation to this read as, “After we confirmed that it was working - We secretly launched Fall Guys Cheater Island™ It was a magical place where cheaters could happily compete against mselves for Cheater's Crown* *Literally just a rmal crown but tainted with a hollow feeling of guilt and regret”.
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Cheater Island Workarounds
Cheaters faced an issue with game, wherein y would keep falling down and ir lobby would t get populated with players and it would just be an endless fall on ir screen. This happened because Fall Guys have designed it in such a way, where only cheaters could fill up a cheater’s lobby, until and unless re are eugh cheaters online, game for a cheater will t start and would be subjected to an endless fall. However, y found a workaround to this situation, which was teaming up with ir n-cheating friends.
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Goodbye Cheater Island
Fall Guys has removed concept of Cheater Island from game itself and initiated bans on accounts of cheaters. cheaters w will t even get an option to play a game, even if it is against or cheaters. y will w t be able to move ahead from login screen. Fall guys keep putting in more anti-cheating provisions in game, and se should become in to play in new ‘Anti-Cheatus and Big Yeetus’ update.
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Promo im source: Fall Guys Twitter handle
13:05 IST, September 15th 2020