Valve instituted a fairytale punishment for cheaters in its unreleased laney shooter Deadlock yesterday. Cheaters will now be turned into frogs, provided the other players in the match vote for it. A Counter-Strike 2 modder proved the effect in a post on Xitter after the change was mentioned in some out-of-the-way patch notes by a Valve developer.
"Added an initial Anti-Cheat detection system," said developer "Yoshi" in the changelog posted on the game's official-but-kinda-half-hidden-behind-the-bins forum . "When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards. "The system is set to conservative detection levels as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that is more extensive.
We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out." Guys do you ever get this weird glitch in deadlock pic.twitter.
com/KxFqBJBg39 Deadlock is still in heavy development, yet it was being played in the tens of thousands before it was ever officially announced. Valve have since recognised it as extant , which is nice of them. Part of me wonders if a froggy punishment isn't a little too funny.
I suspect some cheaters will just get a memey kick out of this, then double down their workaround efforts to rejoin the game. But there's hope some will be annoyed when that brief moment of novelty.
