It is the most wonderful time of the year unless you are one of the 1729 players who deserve a lump of coal after being caught cheating on the newDelta Forcefree-to-play game.
In the spirit of transparency, Team Jade has put outregular updatesabout the anti-cheat situation, with some pretty eye-watering numbers.
According to the latest report, covering the period between December 20 and December 26,theDelta Forcesecurity team handed out 1729 bans.
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While the sentiment is appreciated, Call of Duty fans are unsure how effective this all is.
Of course, players are given a chance to atone for their sins: the bans inDelta Forceare temporary, soafter exactly 10 years of rethinking their life choices, reformed cheaters are welcome to come backif they’d like.
The bans covered 415 instances of direct memory access (DMA) cheats, and resulted in 1323 computers being blocked from connecting to the game in the future.
On top of the account and hardware bans, theDelta Forcesecurity team stopped 6331 cheating attempts in real time and disconnected 15608 for suspectedcheating.It is unclear what Team Jade’s criteria are for issuing a ban versus terminating the player’s session.
Delta Force Anti-Cheat Controversy
WhileDelta Forcecurrently sits on a Mostly Positive rating on Steam today, with 71% of positive reviews, the game received significant backlashin the beginningdue to its usage of kernel-level anti-cheat.
The game uses Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE), with some users singling out the ACE-BASE.sys kernel module as not handling access control properly and thus leaving a backdoor open.
Some of the earlier reviews also focused on a bug where the uninstaller did not remove ACE when uninstallingDelta Force, thougha developer stated that this was fixed as of December 6.
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Hanser had been accused of cheating for six months, but Activision only acted now.
Despite using heavy tools to weed out cheaters, many players mention that they are abundant, especially inOperations mode.
Extraction shootershave a bad rep among players chasing a clean game, andmany of those who moved toDelta Forcefor extraction are already burned fromEscape From Tarkov’s problem with cheaters.
According tothe game’s official account,Escape From Tarkovbanned over 28,000 cheaters between June 4 and October 25 this year, but despite regular purges,the problem persists.
In AAA land, Activision is also struggling with cheaters inCall of Duty: Black Ops 6, and the company has acknowledgeddisappointing resultsduring Season 1.
Players hoping to have a quieter time will not have to wait long.Delta Forceplans to launchthe single-player and co-op campaign mode titledBlack Hawk Down, inspired by the real events behind bothDelta Force: Black Hawk Downand Ridley Scott’s 2001 blockbuster of the same name.
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It’s thrilling stuff and the effects are identical to their movie counterparts, and you have the option to dual wield as well, which feels great.
