Escape From Tarkov cheats addressed emphatically by Battlestate head

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As the discussion around Escape From Tarkov cheats and hackers rears its ugly head once more, the head of developer Battlestate Games makes an emphatic statement declaring the team’s strong stance against hacks and reassuring players that the team is banning “several thousand cheaters a day.” One of the most influential modern FPS games on PC, Tarkov’s success has inspired a rise in other ‘extraction shooters’ such as Call of Duty Warzone 2’s DMZ mode, but it’s struggled with an excess of cheaters in recent wipes.

In a statement posted to the Escape From Tarkov Reddit titled ‘Hackers, cheaters, and other related scum of the Earth,’ Battlestate’s COO Nikita Buyanov publicly addresses the rising community discontent around a perception of rampant Escape From Tarkov cheaters in the game’s latest wipes. Opening with a friendly greeting, Nikita acknowledges the concerns before reassuring players that banning hackers is very much at the top of the team’s priority list.

“Every time for a long time, unfortunately, one way or another, a problem with cheaters pops up,” Nikita says, “and people immediately start blaming us for not caring. They begin to bury the game, us, and generally say things that are sensitive to us.” He says that, rather than writing a long essay on the topic, he decided to simply break down some key points to hopefully put fans’ minds more at ease that Battlestate does care.

Nikita notes, “the work to catch cheaters is always going on,” and says this usually happens in waves. He adds, “right now we ban several thousand cheaters a day,” and most of these have only played a little before being stopped. He explains that while the team’s Battleye anti-cheat “continues to improve,” so does the technology used by