- India’s biggest streamer expresses concerns over BGMI’s hacker problem
- Cheaters continue to make problems for everyone
- The game’s publishers are implementing new methods to combat the rising number of hackers
Wherever there is something to be one, there are cheaters to be found. This seems to be the case for Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), as MortaL expresses concerns over the many cheaters in the game.
MortaL Keeps Finding Cheaters
Cheaters have been a part of gaming even before the first computers were created, and most games were simply colored stones on a wooden board. To this day players have to reconcile with the fact they may meet a hacker in their game. Fortunately, such occurrences are a rarity, as modern games usually have decent anti-cheating systems.
There do come times, however, when even those systems cannot cope with the sheer number of cheaters that may plague a game. This is the case according to India’s most popular gamer and streamer Naman Mathur AKA MortaL. Lately, he has been having more and more encounters with hackers in his games, posting on Twitter that he runs into unlawful players in about 40% of his matches.
It is nothing new for even large games such as CoD Warzone to have problems with cheaters right after their release. It seems BGMI has not been able to address the growing number of hackers and now content creators are leading the charge in trying to combat the problem, with MortaL being just one of the many people to raise their voice against wrongdoers.
What Are Devs Going to Do About the Problem?
Battlegrounds Mobile India, previously known as PUBG Mobile India, is India’s most popular battle royal shooter. The game is exclusive for the Indian market and was launched on July 2, 2021 for Android devices and on August 18, 2021 for iOS devices. Unfortunately, it seems that less than three months of its release, the game is plagued by hackers.
According to Krafton, the game’s developer, they have come up with a lot of measures to deal with cheaters and hackers. They said they have banned over 140,000 accounts in under a week, with some of the reasons being:
- Using unauthorized programs or hardware devices.
- Mobile gamers modifying game data (including GFX tools).
- Using another player’s account.
- Players exploit glitches and game bugs.
- One gamer abuses his opponent.
Players, who are suspected of breaking rules, like downloading the game through various APKs, possessing illegal or auxiliary programs installed on their device, or are using a rooted device, will get a warning message in the form of a pop-up. These messages started appearing on September 15.
The studio gives the players a second chance to fix their mistakes by allowing them to make routine repairs and revert the modified data to the default. Players can click on the arrow icon in the game’s main screen, where they can go to Settings > Basic > Log Out > Repair, mark Routine Repair to OK. When these steps are followed, the player can once again log into the game. If not followed, the player faces a huge risk of their account being blocked.
