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The Fall Guys developers created servers that only pitted cheaters against cheaters on what was known as Cheater Island.
With virtually any PC game, the opportunity for people to cheat is there. Developers like Fall Guys’ Mediatonic are hoping cheats will realize how cheating spoils the fun, but when that didn’t happen, they took matters into their own hands. Today, the officer Twitter account recounted the story of how Cheater Island came into being.
I have a lot of interesting content for you this week. The development team has been very busy with the new update.
For now…
SEAT BELT
Let me tell you a wild story
Is called
The rise and fall of Cheater Island
Labelled @Netflix in case you want to make a movie or a series with it
– Fall Guys (@FallGuysGame) September 14, 2020
“For now … CLOSE UP,” reads the first tweet in a 21-tweet thread. “Let me tell you a wild story. It’s called The Rise and Fall of Trickster Island.”
The tweet also tagged Netflix’s official Twitter “in case you want to do a movie or series with it” and after reading the story, we hope Netflix will seize the opportunity. Mediatonic had their own cheat detection built into Fall Guys at the game’s launch, but they didn’t prohibit anyone from cheating, they only collected data on cheats, as the studio wanted to be 100% sure that cheat detection was only catching people who were legitimately cheating.
After confirming that this detection worked, the studio released “Fall Guys Cheater Island ™”, which was a “magical place where cheaters could happily compete against themselves for the Crown of Cheaters.” This crown was just a normal crown tinged with an empty sense of guilt and regret, says one of the tweets.
Because Mediatonic was only collecting data on cheaters at the moment, the population of the island was zero. That’s when the study lowered the threshold for cheating, after realizing that its original threshold was too tolerant.
“Cheaters would be caught … but not instantly banished,” read a tweet. “We were hoping they would realize that cheating kills the fun.”
As expected, the deception continued and Mediatonic lowered the threshold once more. After that, if you cheated, you would be allowed to finish your game before being thrown onto matchmaking servers that only other cheats were on. On these servers, you could only match up with other cheaters. Together these servers became known as Cheater Island.
“Now if you can imagine: you need more than 40 players to populate a game,” says one of the tweets in the thread. “Cheater Island is not a real world location … Cheater Island had its own set of global servers. You would need enough cheats in your region to start a game of Cheater Island.”
It became a race against time at this point because every day that Mediatonic waited for cheaters to populate the island was another day that cheats had to find solutions for the studio’s cheat detection, so the threshold was reduced again. Then it happened.
“There were finally enough cheaters to pair up and create Cheater Island matches,” a tweet reads.
People started uploading videos of what appeared to be Cheater Island, but Mediatonic said that while they knew Cheater Island games were happening, they couldn’t tell if the videos were from Cheater Island games. You can check out one of those videos below.
Here’s another video that we think is Cheater Island
The person recording does not cheat …
Or they didn’t cheat, just because of the video …
Or is he a genuine server and a legitimate player …
Either way, it makes the game look bad pic.twitter.com/wxTyIA9Urr
– Fall Guys (@FallGuysGame) September 14, 2020
Mediatonic said that while it knew for a fact that Cheater Island matches were taking place, it couldn’t say for sure if those videos were Cheater Island, so it closed the island for good. Instead of being sent to Cheater Island, cheats simply won’t be able to log into the game.
“Our cheat detection system was good … but we players weren’t expecting it … and we had no idea how far some players would go to cheat,” a tweet reads. “We tried to create a system around ‘honesty’ … but as soon as we realized we were in a RACE OF ARMS, we called in the experts at Epic.”
The next Fall Guys update will be called Big Yeetus and the Anti-Cheatus. Mediatonic says we’ll learn later what the Big Yeetus part means, but the Anti-Cheatus part represents the addition of Epic’s Anti-Cheat to the game. Cheaters beware.
If you’re trying to play Fall Guys honestly, read through the essential tips for surviving each round, then check out 18 crucial tips and tricks to help you win. For more Fall Guys, check out these details about Fall Guys medieval-themed Season 2, then check out our ranking of the Fall Guys minigames.
Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide creator for IGN. You can follow it on Twitter @LeBlancWes.
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