Outriders Details Plans To Handle Cheaters Ahead Of Next Week’s Full Launch

People Can Fly outlines their plans to handle cheating in Outriders ahead of the third-person shooter’s launch next week. The developers say that they’ve identified 200 cheaters out of 2 million players that jumped into the game’s demo and even specifically called out one gutsy player.

“We can see you all. Yes, even the person who gave themself 600 Legendary Weapons,” warned the devs. “If you cheated during the demo ‘just to try it out’ but wish to go into the main game unbranded, you must DELETE ALL CHARACTERS AND ITEMS ON YOUR ENTIRE ACCOUNT in order to wipe the slate clean. You should not carry over any progress between demo and main game if you previously cheated but do not plan to do so in the main game.”

Players caught cheating when the game goes live will be slapped with account-wide punishments, including longer matchmaking times and a discrete but visible watermark that will show up on streams and recorded gameplay footage. They also won’t be able to join matches against legit players but will still be able to play solo games.

Here’s a list of what the devs consider as cheating:

• Intentionally running the game on PC without Easy Anti Cheat (EAC)
• Modifying game files to enhance a character: levels, skills, inventory, etc.
• Externally modifying game time to reduce time dependent features such as vendors and challenges
• Using a trainer program or similar to gain advantages within the game
• Using gameplay altering programs such as aimbots or wallhacks
• Individual players who are found to be being regularly kicked by multiplayer hosts shortly after joining may also be manually reviewed as an additional anti-cheat/anti-grief safeguard.

Using RivaTuner and other performance tweaking software as well as farming will be allowed.

Outriders launches on April 1 on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Google Stadia. All progress from the demo will carry over to the live game without the need to manually transfer them. Pre-orders are still available along with the permanent demo on Steam and on the Outriders official site.