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It’s no secret thatGTA Onlineon PC is filled with hackers and modders who ruin everyone’s gaming experience. Compared to PC, Rockstar Games has implemented more strict anti-cheat measures on consoles to tackle cheaters. Finally, after 9 years, PC will also get a strong anti-cheat that will take down hackers, but is it too late?
GTA Online‘s popularity has been dipping already and due to hackers, the game has already lost most of its authentic fanbase. It took Rockstar Games a lot of time to introduce this but finally, players will be able to experience the game peacefully.
GTA OnlineOn PC Now Has BattlEye Anti-Cheat
A much-needed update was made toGTA 5andGTA Online‘s anti-cheat software in the title update 1.69. On their officialwebsite, Rockstar Games confirmed that the BattlEye Anti-Cheat has been integrated and an option to disable BattlEye Anti-Cheat for Story Mode play has been added to Rockstar Games Launcher.
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BattlEye is a fully proactive kernel-based protection system used to prevent hackers in games like Arma 3, Rainbow Six Siege, Escape From Tarkov, Destiny 2, and more. Since 2015, hackers have been a huge problem inGTA OnlinePC but with BattlEye, fans should expect to see fewer hackers and modders in the game now.
There Are Some Issues With BattlEye Anti-Cheat
BattlEye Anti-Cheat has some issues and Rockstar Games has revealed that players will have to follow some steps to ensure it runs smoothly on their system. BattlEye is known to not work properly with the following graphics modification software: ReShade and Special_K. These mods will be disabled during gameplay.
BattlEye is also known not to work properly with the following antivirus programs: AVG and Trend Micro, so players will have to temporarily disable these antivirus programs to run the game smoothly. At the moment, Steam Deck does not support BattlEye forGTA Online. Players will be able to playGTA VStory Mode but unable to playGTA Online.
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Rockstar Games took 9 yearsto implement a better anti-cheat software forGTA Online finallyand unfortunately, most fans have already uninstalled the game because of hackers. Nonetheless, the studio can hope that this new update will convince fans to return to the game.
The community is more focused on the nextGrand Theft Autoinstallment,GTA 6, but so far Rockstar hasn’t revealed anything after the firsttrailer. The anticipation is quite high asseveral leakshave surfaced on social media. many players found the recent Bottom Dollar Bounties quite disappointing but it’s clear that Rockstar is more focused on the development ofGTA 6.
Do you think the BattlEye Anti-Cheat will improveGTA Online? Share your views in the comments!
Farhan Asif
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Farhan Asif is a gaming writer at FandomWire who specializes in video games/franchises like Helldivers 2, GTA, and Call of Duty. Apart from 1600+ published articles for FandomWire, he has also written more than 750 articles for AnimatedTimes. He has a passion for coding and is pursuing a degree in computer science. During his free time, Farhan loves to play video games and hopes to create a video game of his own one day.
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