As PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds continues to crack down on cheaters, the game’s developer Bluehole has taken one fell swoop in banning 100,000 players who have been cheating. Not only that, but balance adjustments have been made to the blue zone, so if you are on the game’s test server, then you’ll be able to check them out.
A lengthy community Steam post by PUBG corp reads: “We recently discovered a new pattern of cheats in action. This week, we performed a thorough gameplay data review of 10 million players and completed analysis of tens of millions of data logs. Through this exercise, we were able to identify over 100,000 instances of the new pattern related to use of cheat and now we have confirmed that it was clearly an attempt of compromising our game.”
The post continued to state that the restrictions would be applied immediately: “These players will be permanently banned in a single wave. This is an example of additional measures we will be taking on top of the basic detection systems in place. We will continue to check the data logs like this even if it means the anti-cheat team has to filter through hundreds of billions of data logs manually.”
As far as the changes to the blue zone go, the changes being made include:
- Slightly decreased the waiting time of the blue zones in mid-to-late phase of a match.
- Slightly decreased the shrinking speed of the blue zones in mid-to-late phase (In this phase, blue zones will now move at a slower speed and the travel time of blue zones has slightly increased due to this change).
- Slightly increased the damage per second of the last blue zone.
