Valve is dealing with cheaters in Deadlock creatively

Valve's upcoming game Deadlock has attracted a lot of attention during early playtests. There is so much interest that cheating has actually become a big problem among the player base. However, Valve's solution to this problem feels more like Valve is something else in the game.

Cheating in online games is probably something we will never get rid of. Even online games that are not yet finished are dragged by this plague. Valve and their upcoming title Deadlock is no exception. However, Valve's creative “frog solution” to the problem is something that stands out compared to many others.

When the Deadlock system detects that a player is cheating in a match, the remaining players are given the opportunity to vote on what happens next. Either the cheater will be kicked out of the match. Or the player character will turn into a frog and stay in the game a little longer. So they have time to be humiliated by other players and hopefully reconsider their choices.

Deadlock currently does not have a release window. Game development probably won't end for a long time. However, cheating has become such a big problem that Valve has had to get more creative to try to discourage players from messing around in the closed alpha test.