Apex Legends Players Banned for ‘Dashboarding’ Were Overwhelmingly on PS4

Apex Legends bans over 2000 gamers for abusing Ranked Enviornment and matchmaking exploits, the overwhelming majority of that are PlayStation 4 customers.

Apex Legends needs to be a safer place to play now that Respawn has banned over 2000 gamers throughout all platforms, however the PS4 neighborhood seems to have been particularly affected by poisonous gamers. The overwhelming majority of the dishonest Apex Legends gamers caught on this latest ban wave got here from the PS4 platform alone.

In keeping with Conor Ford, a developer at Respawn who runs safety for Apex Legends, a complete of two,086 gamers have been banned for abusing exploits present in the sport’s ranked mode. Of that quantity, a complete of 1,965 bans had been delivered to PS4 gamers. This is not the primary time Apex Legends bans have targeted a specific demographic, however final time it was on account of cultural and linguistic differences–this time, it seems the PS4 neighborhood was merely overrun with “dashboarding” cheaters.

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“Dashboarding” refers to a particular loss forgiveness exploit the place gamers forcibly shut the sport down after shedding a match to keep away from shedding RP, permitting them to maintain a excessive rank nicely after they need to have misplaced it. Nonetheless, this is not the one exploit the Apex Legends PS4 neighborhood seems to have engaged in. The second exploit that the banned gamers had been benefiting from is a matchmaking exploit that permit high-rank gamers sneak into the Bronze foyer to tackle much less skilled gamers to allow them to farm factors. The problem of extremely expert gamers focusing on much less skilled ones was beforehand talked about in a catchy song about Apex Legends‘ problems.

Ford clarified that these are matchmaking bans and that they are going to have various lengths relying on how a lot the participant in query abused the exploits. Nonetheless, it is seemingly that these banned gamers will miss the opening of the brand new season. To this, Ford merely states that banned gamers ought to come again subsequent time and play the sport the way in which it is meant to be performed as an alternative of making an attempt to reap the benefits of the sport’s systems–and different gamers, for that matter. These bans rolled out across the similar time that Respawn fixed another Apex Legends glitch that was stopping Apex Packs from giving out gadgets.

This info has prompted a little bit of a stir on Twitter, the place Apex Legends gamers seem like responding to the bans in quite a lot of methods. Some customers seem like joyful about or no less than grimly happy by Respawn’s try and crack down on dishonest. Nonetheless, a number of customers declare they had been banned regardless of not utilizing these exploits, and others query why so many bans had been targeting the PS4 neighborhood. One person responded to these questions by explaining that “dashboarding” solely works on PS4, which might clarify the disproportionate ban numbers. Apex Legends‘ Ranked Arena mode has eSports potential, so it will make sense if Respawn wished to clamp down on the dishonest affecting this mode.

Apex Legends is on the market on PC, PS4, Swap, and Xbox One.

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