Aloha Thrivers!
If you’ve been wondering what we’ve been up to the past month, we’ve covered a lot of it here: plans for the rest of the year.
We focused so much on getting everything ready for the Kickstarter this summer that our team didn’t take any downtime. We’re all going to take some much-needed rest during the holidays but before then, we’re hard at work installing new software to the backend of the game which we think you’ll be happy about.
Up until now, our alpha testing group has been relatively small, so we didn’t really have a reason to think about how to combat cheaters in-game. But with more waves on the horizon and new testers joining us soon, it was time to take action. It’s also important to us because we know it will make the experience of playing the game better all around.
Joining other games like Apex Legends, 7D2D, Fortnite, and Dead By Daylight, our update next year will include anti-cheat tools to help prevent some of the root causes of cheating which means fewer hacking attempts and a healthier community overall.
The way Easy Anti-Cheat explains it, “The traditional mass–penalization approach does not deliver long–term sustainable results and only divides communities.” This means that there isn’t as much of a risk for privacy invasion as well. They take player privacy very seriously and developed software that helps us in our quest to do the same.
It also offers us a support team to make sure we can find and solve any issues that arise once we get testers playing in the new version of Unreal.
It’s the first step on a long road of updates, but we wanted to share that it’s the first one we took as it’s crucial for the development of the game, but more importantly, the community!
We’ll be posting again in a few weeks with a look back over this wild ride of a year!
