SARD Anti-Cheat Update

[MageLO 134]

Hi everyone,

 

Since the launch of New Horizon in August 2024, we've been working hard to roll out SARD Anti-Cheat. It's our next step toward a fairer, more enjoyable APB experience, and SARD has been a committed partner in helping us build something uniquely suited to the challenges of our game.

 

Read more about our plans moving forward in our dedicated news post.

[ninjarrrr 251]

thats a lot of rewording and mental gymnastics to say that the anticheat isn't going to auto ban, or that little orbit doesnt want to ban cheaters as they'd lose their main source of revenue :((

[MACKxBOLAN 426]

@MattScott I do appreciate the update.

 I know this is a bit more complicated than screwing in a light bulb.

This is more like Re-wiring the whole house.

Now I understand the delay. 

 To the average gamer they are just looking at the light bulb, 

and saying it doesn't work. 

I am intrigued at how the outcome will be.  

[koenyboy500 38]

I can respect bold moves.
I have read only the intro and a bit and I must say: I very much see the codes and morals from my own server.
While I think it's the tougher route, one thing is for certain. THANK YOU for just sending information. Anything.
The "We're working on it" is, personally, all I needed to keep my hopes up, for even the highest climbs.

That said, just out of curiosity. How are these 'cheat points' gonna help with laying low on not notifying the cheaters in question that they've been spotted? I would have suspected more of an approach of what Valve has been doing with TF2.

EDIT after reading:
I've got to say, whilst I am not entirely sure how the 'cheat points' system is gonna be used and how effective it is to keep the game clean of cheaters (as it seems like the leniency regarding them has been upped a lot... And especially with the people here shouting that LO is endorsing cheaters... well... ).
What I can say is that thought has been put into this and I can recognise the decision to do this only as having good intents. So I am very much willing to support this.
But I hope that being the first game, whilst being F2P as well, having the reputation of "The first game that doesn't ban outright" is not gonna bite us in da bootocks.
This will be a fine line to work. I trust that Matt has put a lot of thinking into this.

Edited Tuesday at 11:27 PM by koenyboy500
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[Pedroxin 107]

Aww look who crawled outta the cave to serve us a big fat juicy nothingburger. I applaud the effort tbh, I guess at the very least u gotta try to appear legit when in fact you are running a money laundering front rather than a game company 

[CookiePuss 5377]

2 hours ago, Pedroxin said:

Aww look who crawled outta the cave to serve us a big fat juicy nothingburger. I applaud the effort tbh, I guess at the very least u gotta try to appear legit when in fact you are running a money laundering front rather than a game company 

How does money laundering work?

[BillehBobJoe 9]

Yeah, you guys got a whopping 123 players tonight on NA im sure you'll do gang busters in data collection on them

[Deadliest 385]

What da f**k is cheat points? We rewarding cheaters with points?

Old Broken game + a broken anti cheat, just shut the game down and work for it over the years man.  

 

Edited yesterday at 03:42 AM by Deadliest

[vsb 6171]

9 hours ago, MageLO said:

Read more about our plans moving forward in our dedicated news post.

same script matt has been repeating for years now

 

a deep “heartfelt” apology, some excuses of technical difficulties, an outline of grand plans for success at some nebulous point in the future, and then he fucks off for 6 months until it’s time for another apology because the last grand plans (who could have seen this coming?!) ran into technical difficulties 

 

it’s played out brother, ask chatgpt for some new material

[Yapopal 165]

I read it without confidence. Please consider unlocking the mission exit button. This will rid the game of a ton of toxic crap that comes from the matchmaking system, low population, and crap optimization.

[Qualeta 15]

Nothing gonna change, you will see 5 cheaters in asylum anyway 

[BlatMan 708]

How are cheaters going to earn points if you can't even detect a player running too fast?

[FranGT 15]

2 hours ago, Qualeta said:

Nothing gonna change, you will see 5 cheaters in asylum anyway 

Only 5?

[Qualeta 15]

16 minutes ago, FranGT said:

Only 5?

forgot to say "at least"

[Deftonez 125]

the more things change the more they stay the same

[Ebola-Chan 59]

Yawn, no real consequences to cheating.