Fall Guys devs create a \u201cCheater Island\u201d to punish pesky hackers MediatonicMediatonic has been trying to reduce the number of cheaters in Fall Guys ever since it was released, and their most unique method yet put dozens of in-game criminals onto their own island. Even though Fall Guys is one of the simplest battle royale games on the market, it\u2019s still overrun with cheaters. Players will use speed boosts to rush ahead of the competition, enable flight mode to zoom towards the crown, and plenty more. It\u2019s been an issue since the game released on August 4, despite the developer\u2019s best attempts to slow it down. From disabling the ability to account share, to expanding the detection system, they\u2019ve tried to pull cheaters from the game in a number of ways. However, the developers just shared their most surprising tactic to date. Instead of banning accounts, issuing suspensions, or taking away crowns, cheaters have been allowed to stay in Fall Guys. What they might not realize though, is that they\u2019ve secretly been playing against other cheaters all along. I’ve got lots of spicy content for you this week \u2013 The Dev team have been super busy on the new update \ud83d\udc40 For now\u2026 BUCKLE UP Let me tell you a wild story It’s called The RISE and FALL of Cheater Island Tagging @Netflix incase they want to make a film or series out of it \u2014 Fall Guys (@FallGuysGame) September 14, 2020 Early into the game\u2019s release, Mediatonic launched a new playlist behind the scenes. It wasn\u2019t a visible playlist with new minigames or features. Rather, it was a secret playlist called \u2018Cheater Island.\u2019 \u201cIt was a magical place where cheaters could happily compete against themselves for the Cheater\u2019s Crown,\u201d the devs explained. If you were flagged by the cheat-detection system, the \u201cnext time you tried to matchmake, you would only be able to matchmake with other cheaters.\u201d Essentially, all cheaters were lumped into their own separate version of Fall Guys where they could only go up against one another. Unfortunately, this new world just for cheaters came with its own set of issues. Mediatonic needed to detect enough cheaters in a given region to actually start up a match on Cheater Island. \u201cIf there weren\u2019t enough cheaters, you\u2019d all just be falling forever,\u201d they added. Once enough problematic players were flagged, the island was finally populated and cheat-filled games kicked off. A few example videos were shared as all players dashed from the starting line to the crown in the blink of an eye. It seems as though these cheaters can earn all the crowns they like, but they won\u2019t be able to steal the glory from genuine players anytime soon. Somebody actually uploaded this video to Reddit with the title: “”Ever played a round of Fall Mountain where all the players are cheating?”” The problem is\u2026 this LOOKS like Cheater Island but we can’t be 100% sure pic.twitter.com\/byJi6r0Ykc \u2014 Fall Guys (@FallGuysGame) September 14, 2020 Ultimately, the island lasted a few weeks but was ultimately shut down by the developers. Instead of dropping everyone on their own island, cheaters are simply unable to log back into the game moving forward. \u201cOur cheat detection system was good, but we hadn\u2019t expected so many players. We had no idea the lengths that some players would go to cheat.\u201d While Cheater Island might be closed, it\u2019s no cause to be alarmed. Cheaters are still being dealt with in different ways. In fact, Mediatonic will be adding Epic\u2019s Anti-Cheat in the next major update, a big step in their fight against cheaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fall Guys devs create a \u201cCheater Island\u201d to punish pesky hackers MediatonicMediatonic has been trying to reduce the number of cheaters in Fall Guys ever since it was released, and their most unique method yet put dozens of in-game criminals onto their own island. Even though Fall Guys is one of the simplest battle royale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}