As part of the 8th week patch for PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, the developers continue to take action against cheaters.
After the successful charity tournament earlier this month, the developers took a well-deserved break. The patch has now been published on the new test server and already installed on the live servers one day later.
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS takes action against the latency cheats
A particular focus in this patch was on measures for lag switches. This is how hacks / cheats are called that exploit an artificial increase in their own latency. During this increased latency, the players had an unfair advantage because their actions were only executed with a delay on the server, leaving the opponent with no opportunity to defend themselves.
A particularly nasty variant was to attack players on the lobby island. Normally, players are all immune to damage there, due to the artificial latency the server registered the damage, but only after a delay. This led to the player suddenly being knocked unconscious in the plane and falling helplessly.
As a countermeasure, the game freezes players from a certain ping (latency to the server) and they can no longer perform any actions. This should prevent the majority of these exploits. At the same time, flash grenades have been removed from PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS for the time being to prevent game crashes. As soon as the corresponding bug has been fixed, they will be available again.
Below are the full patch notes for week 8:
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS - Early Access - Week 8 Patch Notes
Client Performances Improvements
• Slightly improved the drop in FPS when there are vehicles near the character
Anti cheat
• In order to prevent using "lag switch" to cheat, the characters will now be locked and will not be able to move, rotate and attack others when the ping exceeds a certain value
You will no longer be able to remove the environment foliage by revising the .ini file
Custom Games
• Fixed the issue that was causing the sound to break when there are too many vehicles in a small area
Bug fixes
• Partially fixed a bug that caused the character to get stuck in different objects in the environment
• Partially fixed a bug that caused the game client to freeze
• Fixed a bug that caused the crosshair to still be visible while in no-UI mode
• Temporarily removed the flash bang from the game as it was causing game clients to freeze / crash
