The makers of the anti-cheat program BattlEye book 6,000 to 13,000 blocked accounts per day in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS. The operators announced this on Twitter. Last weekend there was even a peak with over 20,000 blocks in one day.

The majority of those affected seem to come from China, where there are statistically more cheaters than in the West. In total, more than 322,000 accounts have been blocked so far. This corresponds to almost doubling within a month.

We are currently banning at a rate of 6K-13K per day, nearly 20K within the last 24 hours alone. The vast majority is from China.

- BattlEye (@TheBattlEye) October 13, 2017

Developer Brendan "PLAYERUNKNOWN" Greene reported in Previous month about 150,000 cases. This increase is not unusually high in relation to the increased number of players. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS did not reach the gigantic limit of until the beginning of October 2 million players exceeded simultaneously. According to the analysis site SteamSpy, the battle royale shooter has been sold almost 16 million times. With such a large number of players, the percentage of cheaters is not noticeably high and the majority of the players are honest opponents.

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS - planning through to release

The PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS from Bluehole meanwhile have the "Roadmap", so the planning up to the release, shown in a blog post on Steam.

Since the game is due to leave Early Access this year, they only have about 11 weeks left. Accordingly, the focus for the PC version is on improvement and stability. The "Vault" (jumping & climbing) system is to be tested on the test server for a longer period of time. Interested players, including the new desert map can try.

Leaderboards and first-person perspective servers (FPP)

Optimizing the Leaderboards took longer than expected and resulted in the season start being postponed to October 20th.

New servers, including FPP server, went online in a number of regions including Korea / Japan. FFP Squad Mode will be unlocked for the SA, SEA and OCE regions as this is one of the most popular game variants.

There was also a small patch with bug fixes this week:

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Patch 16.10.

Gameplay

• Decreased the Starting Island item spawn levels in order to adjust the item balance on the Northeast side of Erangel

Bug fixes

• Eliminated the fire animation and effect that occurred in the Starting Airplane when a player was on fire from a molotov cocktail
• Fixed a bug that enabled a character to hold a main weapon and frying pan simultaneously
• Fixed a spectator mode bug of flickering weapon UI icons