#Creative Fortnite Cheating Banned by Epic Games in Tournaments -BB
Epic Games is maintaining its stance against cheating in Fortnite tournaments, issuing an update outlining their competitive integrity standards for 2020 that includes banning creative cheating methods like signalling and collusion. These measures’ importance will only increase as the game remains incredibly popular, as it gained over 50 million new players in 2019 alone. With numbers that high in a competitive game, strict rules and penalties regarding cheating are essential to ensuring that players do not begin manipulating the system.
Cheating in esports is nothing new, and developers are always devising new methods of detecting and punishing it. Due to esports’ technical nature, there are several ways for players to cheat that may not be immediately visible. One common example is in the speedrunning world, where players compete to see who can complete a video game in the shortest time. Several speedrunners have been found to string together clips from separate playthroughs or edit their videos to remove frames in ways that are virtually imperceptible. In other games, players have been known to modify their controllers to allow them to “rapid fire,” meaning holding down a button results in it being pressed hundreds or thousands of times, as opposed to once.
Epic Games’s update highlights “collusion” in Fortnite, which refers to players on opposing teams working together. Examples listed in the update include agreeing to land on a certain part of the map prior to the match beginning, communicating with opposing players, and dropping items for opposing players to pick up. “Communication” in this case is not strictly verbal; it can also include pick-axe swinging, emoting, toy tossing, or jumping. Epic Games specifies that while pacifist playstyles are permissible, penalties will still be dealt if players are found colluding, with repeating offenders receiving increased penalties.
The penalties themselves are not stated, although the Fortnite team’s 2019 competitive gameplay integrity post states that eight accounts were banned last year for teaming, with one winner forfeiting prizes. Account bans of varying times appeared to be the most common penalty for any instance of cheating, which also included account sharing, circumventing region locks, and intentionally disconnecting to avoid giving points to another competitor. It is unclear whether other forms of punishment will be issued.
The most intriguing question is how Epic Games intends to monitor and prove collusion. In Fortnite, actions like jumping and pick-axe swinging are integral parts of the game and necessary for survival. Additionally, any players can enter the same game and use third-party chat software such as Discord to openly communicate. Although this update concludes by encouraging players to report integrity issues to the support team, there are also seemingly no measures to prevent players from reporting their competitors simply because they lost an in-game confrontation. Epic Games’s intentions seem to be in the right place with this recent update, but without specific methods of identifying and proving collusion, it may be more of a gesture than a promise.
Fortnite is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
Source: Epic Games
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