Does Bloodhunt have spyware? Anti-cheat in Vampire The Masquerade\u2019s battle royale SharkmobAs with any battle royale, Vampire The Masquerade\u2019s Bloodhunt suffers at the hand of cheaters, but what exactly is the game\u2019s anti-cheat and what\u2019s all the talk about spyware? Sharkmob\u2019s innovative take on the battle royale fuses tried and tested mechanics with the Vampire The Masquerade universe to create Bloodhunt. Just like any other battle royale, though, the game has been plagued by hordes of cheaters from the get-go. While ravaging poor mortals on the streets of Prague has never been more fun, when cheaters are constantly the ones tearing you apart it can get a little frustrating. Bloodhunt\u2019s anti-cheat has come under fire for being too lax, but here\u2019s everything you need to know about Sharkmob\u2019s plans to stamp out rule-breakers once and for all. Contents Bloodhunt\u2019s anti-cheat While the devs are still in the learning phase when it comes to dealing with cheaters, subsequent Twitter updates have proven that the team is on the ball and looking to drive a stake through cheating issues. A September 15 Steam update states \u201cas part of Early Access we are in a form of \u2018learning mode,\u2019 where our systems and developers are watching and waiting to see what kind of cheats are deployed. Once we have a big enough data set of regular gameplay vs cheating we will be able to auto-detect offenders much easier and hopefully prevent some cheats altogether.\u201d Urging players to report any cheaters they see via the request section on the website, efforts have already proven fruitful. On September 27 the devs confirmed that \u201cwe just pushed out 2 fixes to improve our anti-cheat. The first one removes the heal hack, and the second one is related to another common hack.\u201d As the ban katana grows ever sharper, hopefully we\u2019ll see less cheater in our games. After all, the streets of Prague are already pretty dangerous as they are! Does Bloodhunt have spyware? In short, no. Bloodhunt does not have spyware. The original issue with the anti-cheat software was attributed to two specific bugs, which have now largely been dealt with. When the game initially debuted in Early Access, players quickly noticed that the game\u2019s anti-cheat remained active when they closed the game. With users concerned that this was some sort of spyware, the devs quickly issued a statement. Read More: When is Bloodhunt coming to console? – A post from 8 September notes \u201cwe have identified two bugs with our anti-cheat software. The issues are related to the anti-cheat sometimes still running after the game client has exited and a few files still being left after the game has been uninstalled. We are working hard to resolve this and hope to have it fixed as soon as we can.\u201d A fix for this rolled out on 15 September, and players who have uninstalled the game but still have the anti-cheat can remove it using this script. So that\u2019s everything you need to know about Bloodhunt\u2019s anti-cheat system. Hopefully it sets your mind at ease! Looking to tear your enemies asunder? We\u2019ve got several guides right here: All Blood Resonances & best types | Best clans in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodhunt | Bloody Roots Quest: All item locations | How to add friends in Bloodhunt | When is Bloodhunt coming to console?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Does Bloodhunt have spyware? Anti-cheat in Vampire The Masquerade\u2019s battle royale SharkmobAs with any battle royale, Vampire The Masquerade\u2019s Bloodhunt suffers at the hand of cheaters, but what exactly is the game\u2019s anti-cheat and what\u2019s all the talk about spyware? Sharkmob\u2019s innovative take on the battle royale fuses tried and tested mechanics with the Vampire […]<\/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-80146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80146","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=80146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}