Tuesday, September 10th 2024

Cheaters Ruin Valve's Deadlock Before New Arena Shooter Even Launches Despite Harsh Punishments

Valve's latest arena shooter Deadlock has been generating hype for a long time, with recent concurrent player counts exceeding 170,000 at one point, according to SteamDB. More recently, however, reports indicate that cheaters are already invading Deadlock, despite the fact that the game is still in invite-only public alpha testing.

As shown in a recent Reddit post containing a kill-cam video from Deadlock, a supposed cheater very brazenly appears to use a wall hack to track an enemy through a wall and pre-emptively dodge an attack. In the clip, the gamer who spotted the alleged infraction, this isn't even the first time they have encountered the same cheater in-game, and there are countless reports on both Reddit and the Deadlock forum reporting similar experiences.
According to previous posts on the r/Steam subreddit and the Deadlock forum, the punishment for cheating is severe, with both your account and the account of the player who invited you getting a ban for the offense. While Deadlock doesn't seem to have an anti-cheat built into the game just yet, Valve encourages users to record deaths and kills and report cheating and toxicity on the forum. It's likely that Deadlock will use Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) when it nears full release, meaning anyone caught skirting the rules could be subject to bans in other games using the same anti-cheat system—most notably Counter-Strike 2, DOTA 2, and several Call of Duty games.

It's entirely possible that the absence of automated anti-cheat in Deadlock is intentional—at least while the game is in alpha testing. This could be a low-stakes way for Valve to get a good idea of how both players and cheaters behave in these scenarios, what software and strategies cheaters are using, and how they are manipulating the game's mechanics or code. Moreover, in an alpha build of any game or software, there are almost certainly going to be stability issues which could be picked up by an anti-cheat system, making relying on manual reporting a safer bet in that regard.

Update Sep 13th: A Valve developer that goes by the name Yoshi online has reportedly confirmed that the development team is actively working on implementing anti-cheat for Deadlock.
Sources: 80 Level, Deadlock forum, Reddit
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33 Comments on Cheaters Ruin Valve's Deadlock Before New Arena Shooter Even Launches Despite Harsh Punishments

#26
Random_User
Why_MeI hate cheaters. I wish there was an anti cheat program that fried cheater's motherboards.
AFAIR, the South Korea has a jail time for cheating, as thw gaming is an official profession there.

But yeah, cheaing in the vortual, imaginary thing, to show the dominance above someone, is silly. It's not even challenging, there's can be no feel of achievement, accomplishment, because there's no their own input, no effort, no goals, win, no struggle.

Judging, by how miserable the state of any Valve's multiplayer game with VAC is, be it TF2, or even the "newest" CS2. this isn't a surprise.
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#27
Scrizz
csendesmarkAnyone whom played an actual arena shooter like Quake 3 Quake Live or Quake Champions are cringing reading that line. :laugh:
Deadlock is an action game according to wikipedia:
"Deadlock is an upcoming action game developed and published by Valve. It combines elements of the hero shooter and MOBA genres."
I agree with that description
:toast:
I miss the good old Q3 and UT99.
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#28
csendesmark
Scrizz:toast:
I miss the good old Q3 and UT99.
You are right shame on me forgetting UT
Even bigger shame that Epic basically disowned Unreal... :slap:
Fortnite is cansur
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#29
tpuuser256
Minus InfinityThis is why multiplayer sucks arse and I'll never play.
Always up for a game with friends, but only when the friends ask for it. Single player games are far better for my mental health and arguably more fun.
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#30
Prima.Vera
never heard of this game. What is all the hype about?
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#31
Kyan
Prima.Veranever heard of this game. What is all the hype about?
It's a valve game mixing a tps with a moba and I find it kinda good. The thing that build the hype in my opinion is that it's a "close" beta but if you have access to the game, you can invite anybody in your friend list. So a lot of people have access to it actually.
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#32
Prima.Vera
Kyangame mixing a tps with a moba
I have no idea what you have just wrote... :)
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#33
Fokker
Prima.VeraI have no idea what you have just wrote... :)
Third person shooter with a multiplayer online battle arena. Think Smite.
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