Titanfall PC Bans Send Cheaters to Their Own Special Online Battlefield: 'Good Luck,' Say Developers

By Jay Michael, Christian Post Contributor Thursday, March 27, 2014

Titanfall developers are beginning to enforce PC bans for cheaters in their newest game and will be putting players into a "Wimbledon of aimbot contests."

"Titanfall uses FairFight to detect cheaters on PC. Since the launch of Titanfall, we've been collecting data on people who are cheating on PC but not immediately enforcing bans. As of Friday, March 21st, that has changed and we have started banning cheaters in Titanfall," wrote developers on the Titanfall website.

However, getting banned is not the end for cheaters, they will still have an opportunity to play, except the catch is, it will be with other cheaters.

"You can play with other banned players in something that will resemble the Wimbledon of aimbot contests," an FAQ on the game's site read. "Hopefully the aimbot cheat you paid for really is the best, or these all-cheater matches could be frustrating for you. Good luck."

Important to note is that anyone playing with a cheater for that round will also be suspended for the duration of that play session. For those who feel their ban was a mistake, they can email Titanfall at [email protected].

"Players' actions are tested against multiple statistical markers to identify cheating as it occurs," Titanfall's GameBlocks FairFight anti-cheating software description read. "FairFight crosschecks these indicators using objective server-side reporting tools and takes action when both approaches correlate to cheating. FairFight's graduated penalty system (warning/restriction/suspension) has been shown to effectively suppress and deter 'cheaters' by imposing prompt and appropriate penalties automatically, while simultaneously notifying them that continued misbehavior will result in harsher penalties."

For more info on the cheating policy, click here.