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PUBG players will soon be able to report cheaters in replay mode

PUBG players will soon be able to report cheaters in replay mode

A new update to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds will give users the ability to report suspected cheaters directly from the replay mode.

Announced via Twitter from the game's official account (below), the update is now live on the test servers with plans to bring it to the live servers shortly.

This new report feature, the developer says on Steam's Community page, means that players don't need to die to be able to report someone for cheating.

The company announced that Playerunknown's Battlegrounds had been downloaded more than 30m times at the end of 2017 following the PC 1.0 launch and the Xbox One Game Preview release. As well as that, it was revealed that 1.5m people had been banned for cheating since the title's March release date. That's five per cent of its total userbase. 

Earlier this year, the game's anti-cheating partner BattlEye announced it was having to ban 20,000 people per day at one point

Other items in this update include changes to the crate system coming to the test server.

 


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