Marvel Rivals Dev Apologises After Mistakenly Banning Players for Cheating | Push Square
Marvel Rivals developer NetEase has apologised after mistakenly banning players wrongly flagged for cheating. The action has since been reversed, and the studio says tackling legitimate cheaters remains a priority.
On Discord, NetEase apologised for the affair (thanks, IGN), assuring players it «does not and will not ban players who are playing fairly and without cheating». Sharing a Quickplay player base with PS5 and Xbox, those banned were on PC, using a compatibility layer. According to Wikipedia, and beyond our limited technical understanding, this might be for unrelated hardware emulation purposes, not necessarily for cheating.
The number of cheaters in Marvel Rivals appears to be rising, and NetEase says it will invest in further anti-cheat protections, putting the onus on players to report suspected cheats in the meantime. Players recently determined they were being put into bot matches after losing streaks as an apparent quick dopamine hit, a feature which the dev failed to mention pre-release.
They're cooking
Add bots, ???, profit
Have you encountered cheaters in Marvel Rivals? Do you have suspicions that your opponents might be using performance-enhancing programs? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
I wish they would apologize and address the bots situation. That really kills the game for me.
They banned the wrong rivals.
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