Arrowhead has switched to Straightforward Anti-Cheat to chop down on cheaters in Helldivers 2, however that call has confirmed controversial on Steam. The brand new anti-cheat was supposed to stop mods that give gamers unfair benefits, but it surely’s damaged mods gamers use to tidy up the sport.
“We all know mods are a part of the DNA of PC gaming and gaming communities as an entire,” the studio wrote in a publish final week. “Typically, we recognize the creativity behind beauty and non-gameplay mods, which gamers can get pleasure from with out negatively impacting those that play alongside them.
“The place we have to enhance is how we defend gamers towards modifications that create unfair benefits or negatively affect others, which works past software program manipulation to tamper with our recreation.”
Following the change, current evaluations on Steam plummeted to “Principally Detrimental,” whereas all-time evaluations of the sport stay “Principally Constructive.” Many have known as out Arrowhead for punishing gamers for utilizing mods that repair, of their opinion, points with the sport the developer has failed to handle.
Helpful mods embody hellpod steering fixes, smoother vaulting and climbing mechanics, AI enhancements, and extra. Straightforward Anti-Cheat doesn’t differentiate between these and, say, mods that give gamers invincibility.
Some gamers have claimed the anti-cheat blocked them from launching the sport in any respect, regardless of no mod installs. At present, within the UK, the sport doesn’t even seem on Steam.
“Arrowhead may have embraced the mods,” one Steam evaluation stated. “There may have been Workshop help, Left 4 Lifeless 2 continues to be thriving to today. Arrowhead may have had public vanilla lobbies separate from modded ones. Baldur’s Gate 3 has this!”
Helldivers 2 is a co-op recreation the place gamers work collectively to combat off varied alien races throughout the galaxy, as enemies fill the display screen, bullets fly, and your squadmates die in horrible and hilarious methods. From Arrowhead’s perspective, mods may provide help to grind to unlock all these cosmetics you would in any other case pay actual cash for.
IGN has requested Arrowhead for remark.