In case you are bored with the usual methods of combating cheaters in video games, Valve has devised a new way to make these people a target of ridicule for all players by turning them into frogs in the new multiplayer shooting game Deadlock, which has not yet been officially released.
Deadlock gained increasing interest and popularity from players during the month of August through its invite system, where current testers were able to invite their friends, and as a result, the game quietly amassed thousands of players, reaching over 18,000 concurrent players in mid-August, peaking with over It has over 100,000 concurrent players and is on the list of the 10 most played games on Steam.
If you spot a cheater in-game, you have the ability to completely ban him and end the match, or turn him into a frog for the remainder of the match and make fun of his new look and he will be warned after the end of the match as well.
Guys do you ever get this weird glitch in deadlock pic.twitter.com/KxFqBJBg39
— Poggu (@poggu__) September 26, 2024
What’s even more interesting is that one of the Counter-Strike developers explained on Twitter that a similar system was supposed to be used in the popular game years ago, turning cheaters into chickens, but it never made its way into the final game.
Deadlock is still invite-only for now, and it seems likely that we’ll start seeing Valve openly discuss the game and share its official details.
Holy crap, they finally built codename “FU Surprise Mode”?!
When I worked on VAC, Rich and I designed this for CS but the cheater was a chicken.
— BurtonJ (@sptonjohn) September 27, 2024
