Apex Legends developer Respawn commits to tackling cheaters

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Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has committed to fixing cheating in ranked, but in turn, has sparked a community hashtag that has trended on Twi✃tter.

Cheating in the higher-tiers of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Apex Legends ranked has been an ongoing heated issue for the game's community, and it appears to have spilled ovꦫer past boiling point in the last day.

, it tweeted out:

The Respawn team is pursuing several options to crack down on cheating in @playapex:⚒️ Hiring more people to focus on manual bans🔧 Developing more tools to automatically detect and stop DDOS attacks🛑 Investigating ways to more quickly catch and remove cheaters from games

However, sections of the community has hit back. In a that has been retweeted over 11,200 times, professional Apex Player Chris "sweetdreams" Sexton shared a post complaining about the number of cheaters in high level ranked. It reads: "We are so done with it, it's to the point where we literally DO NOT know what to do, we just sit around month over month and nothing changes and it's demoralizing. Please t🔯ake initiative and #SaveApexRanked, before it's too late."

The hashtag #SaveApexRanked has now trended across the world. It has been used by many notable Apex streamers and professional playe𓂃rs, including , , , and .

Respawn Entertainment director of communications, Ryan K. Rigney commented on the post, agreeing with portions of it, but arguing with some of the language used. Circling a line in Sexton's Twitlonger that reads, "don't let respawns tweet about intentions to help ranked fool you", he tweeted: 💝;

There are very valid complaints in here—we've gotta crack down on the cheating and make real progress. Actions are needed, no𝐆t just words.But I'm kinda bummed to read the last line. Idk why you'd reframe an effort to communicate ൲as an attempt to "fool" players. Unproductive. pic.twitter.com/HTj9ZbvLkz

Elsewhere, Apex Legends 💜game designer&nbsജp;, echoing much of the sentiment saying:

Disrespect, threats, or general garbage behaviour won't be tolerated, no doubt, but we love this game as much as you do and we areꦓ, actually, always working to make it the best experience possible. There is SO much 🦂going on behind the scenes at all times. 2/3

He finished by saying: "Again, I get the frustration. BUT! Game development is insanely difficult. It is nonsense any games ever g🌠et finished TBH. But I get it. Please be patient. We'll fix it. We always do."

It's a salient point and one which is a reminder that the people behind the game care as much, if not more so, about the integrity of it as its fanbase. One way or another, here's hoping that Respawn can indeed get th༒e cheating situation under control and make higher-end play a better experience for all.