Sure, you can try to fight cheaters in online games with technology, but that just ends up turning into an arms race. One of the best tools is often encouraging players to report cheaters, and the FPS Escape from Tarkov is providing some new incentive for doing so in the form of in-game currency.
The game’s most recent patch will grant game currency to cheat reports that result in the blocking of a violator, with compensation confirmed via in-game messages. It’s not elaborated how much currency is granted for these reports, but multiple successful bans will accumulate these rewards, so it’s still probably good – and rewarding – practice to help Battlestate Games deal with malcontents.
Most of the patch otherwise is focused on the game’s PvE mode, including the introduction of an offline single-player feature and a pretty long list of AI behavior updates, with more planned in the future. Otherwise the patch makes several weapon balance tweaks, adds in-game surveys, and lets players wishlist in-game items.
