Anti-Cheat

[ItsGaryy]

A couple days ago it was announced that the anti-cheat was enabled for higher BRs for other game modes

I’m just wondering why wasn’t/isn’t the anti-cheat enabled for the whole game by default? Seems kind of dumb not to have it enabled for the whole game rather than specific BRs?

Tons of games including this one have shown that people will cheat at any BR, its not an issue exclusive to certain BRs or game modes.

Are you guys surprised that the anti-cheat isn’t/wasn’t enabled for the entire game?

[themadseventeen]

It was enabled at all BRs in GRB. Marked modes and air in general offer less opportunities for cheating so I guess that’s why it wasn’t enabled.

[Necronomica]

Here is the news post in the forums about it:

It’s fixed! №107 + Update 2.47.0.68

[image] Today, we’ve rounded up and will be going over some of the bug fixes and improvements that we’ve made to the game today and over the past few weeks. If you’d like to catch up on every fixed bug, then be sure to check out the changelog section on our website. If you’ve found a bug that you’d like to report, you can do so on our community bug reporting platform. Mandatory anti-cheat for top BRs We’re gradually expanding the scope of mandatory anti-cheat in War Thunder. In addition to …

It was already active for all BR’s in Ground Realistic + Sim and Air Sim. Now it will also be activated in Air Realistic + Arcade and Ground Arcade for BR 11.0+ to begin with:

@Stona_WT

In addition to the unmarked modes where it was already enabled, it will now also be active in Air Arcade and Air Realistic battles, as well as in Ground Arcade battles for players and squads with vehicle setups with BR 11.0 and higher.

@ItsGaryy

Seems kind of dumb not to have it enabled for the whole game rather than specific BRs?

They are just starting there and will gradually require it at lower and lower BR’s:

@Stona_WT

Looking ahead, we plan to gradually lower the minimum BR threshold for mandatory anti-cheat.

[ItsGaryy]

Interesting.

I genuinely wonder what the thought process is for not having it enabled for everything by default. People will cheat no matter what game mode or BR. Seems counter intuitive to allow people to get away with cheating at certain BRs and game modes until this point but even then gradually lowering it rather than just being enabled from the start.

[Necronomica]

This is their previous reasoning:

@Stona_WT

Until now, we hadn’t required anti-cheat in marked modes, since the presence of markers already greatly limits unfair play.

Which sort of works in general for lower BR’s. But at higher BR’s now that more modern vehicles are added it’s going to matter more and have more of an affect on the outcome.

@Stona_WT

However, at high Battle Ratings the stakes are correspondingly high: even a seemingly minor advantage can decide the outcome of a match. That is why we began rolling out anti-cheat starting with the top BR tiers.

[ItsGaryy]

Yeah, I see that.

People will cheat regardless of BR and game mode.

Hopefully they just enable it for the entire game sooner than later regardless of game modes.