Apex Legends has introduced another wave of bans to combat hackers and fraudsters who have destroyed games this season. Developers Respawn Entertainment have also promised to increase anti-cheat efforts in general, but especially in some regions.
Unlike no other competing online shooter, hackers always find a way to ruin things for honest players in Apex Legends.
In recent months, players in Asian servers have specifically reported an increase in hackers, which has even encouraged some top players to avoid the ranking altogether until it is resolved.
Respawn’s security chief, Conor Ford, confirmed another wave of bans on February 23, wiping more than 600 fraudsters off the servers.
Respawn now focuses on hackers more than ever in Apex Legends.
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Ford, better known as Hideouts on social media, confirmed a manual banning wave of 652 fraudsters on February 23rd.
Today, 652 fraudsters are banned manually / individually. Is tired. Love you all 🔨 ♥ ️
– Conor Ford / Hideouts (@RSPN_Hideouts) 24 February 2021
This follows his previous banning wave of 507 PS4 players on February 10, which used an RP error to gain free positions. However, the ban for those users will only last until season 9, when they will be allowed to play again.
For the 507 PS4 that was banned from exploiting an RP error in ranking and farm-free RP, we might see some of you in season 9. Until then, enjoy Apex time and do something that is actually productive instead of cheating, lol ♥ ️🔨
– Conor Ford / Hideouts (@RSPN_Hideouts) 10 February 2021
Fraudsters destroying Apex in Japan
Contrary to popular belief, Hideouts is not the only person in control of the Apex Legends ban. There are also automated systems to catch hackers.
Unfortunately, it seems that hordes of cheats have been able to circumvent this protection especially on servers in Asia.
Hideouts also responded to these issues, saying they would be focused on cleaning up servers in the Japanese region. Japan is the second largest market for Apex Legends.
ん ん に ち は
To all my friends and legends in Japan I hear you and I am just as tired of the fraudsters on your servers as you are. I’m devoting a lot of my time this week to focusing specifically on cleaning your servers. Send everything to my side, we will fight it together ♥ ️🔨– Conor Ford / Hideouts (@RSPN_Hideouts) 16 February 2021
In a follow-up tweet, the developer also confirmed that there are “plans that will be announced relatively soon to help the problem better.”
We’re awaiting the announcement of these plans, but it certainly sounds like Respawn envisages things to combat fraudsters even more.