Ubisoft's Ingenious Anti-Cheat Tactics Crush Console Hackers
TL;DR
Ubisoft's MouseTrap system, introduced in Rainbow Six Siege, has successfully reduced the number of players using mouse and keyboard on consoles by 78%. Instead of banning these players, Ubisoft chose to penalize them by adding extra input latency. The goal was to give them a chance to change their behavior and play fairly, and it seems to have worked, with many users returning to their controllers or switching to PC after being penalized. The game's anti-cheat feature for PC, QB, and efforts to combat toxicity in the game were also mentioned.
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