From now on, the Valve Guy will target cheaters – hopefully with his good eye.
A multiplayer shooter is plagued by cheaters. This message is the uncle of A sack of rice fell over in China
and the brother-in-law of The sun rises in the east
But in the case of Deadlock, Valve’s new shooter, things have an almost amusing twist.
Because Deadlock has not yet been officially released. Until recently, Valve even kept the project under wraps, even though the Internet was already flooded with images and videos about the shooter.
Aimbot, Wallhack – the hated classics are back
A video currently circulating on Reddit clearly shows the problem that is now plaguing Deadlock. Unfair players, possibly even bots, that cheat their way across the map and, thanks to the aimbot, hit the target with inhuman precision.
Link to Reddit Content
Valve and its fans may find the scenes familiar. Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike 2 were and are still affected by the cheater problem. Recently, a petition started by fans collected 340,000 signatures, which were then printed in a book and handed over to Valve.
Whether the still young Deadlock community will also find such creative expressions of anger depends largely on how Valve reacts to the emerging cheaters. In other words: How hard will Valve swing the ban hammer?
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Finally, to be fair, it should be noted that cheaters are not the only problem with Valve titles. Other publishers and developers are also fighting this battle against windmills.
Not long ago, an impressive 60 percent of all matches in Escape from Tarkov were plagued by cheaters. The Destiny 2 studio Bungie even caused several convictions in court. And watch out, scandal: Even our GameStar Plus pope Peter said the following sentence on camera: I am the biggest cheater of all time!
The fact that Deadlock has great potential is proven by current figures from SteamDB. Currently, already over 100,000 players in the shooter, although it is still officially only a test phase and far from being the finished game.
Valve should therefore have a vested interest in not allowing the cheater problem in Deadlock to become so big that, like in Team Fortress 2, you can suddenly only react instead of act.
