Release Notes 24 December 2016

Hi everyone!

Christmas is coming and we prepared you the coolest Christmas present we could think of: The FACEIT Anti-Cheat.

One of our product managers discovered about the AC release at our Christmas party…

During the last two weeks of open beta phase we were able to not only to fix a number of outstanding bugs, but also significantly improve detections and include a number of features to make sure the Anti-Cheat is incredibly difficult to bypass. Thanks to this phase we are now confident we can detect and/or bypass a wide range of public and private cheats and we are therefore comfortable to begin the full roll-out of the client.

TL;DR:

Anti-cheat is now fully live — 32-bit client is available as well.

AC is currently enforced for everyone on FPL-C, Premium queues and some major qualifiers. Will be enforced on all FACEIT tournaments soon.

Enforcement for specific players across competitions based on multiple criteria and will gradually increase. Already enforced on a significant amount of players.

AC based bans start today!

MAC/Linux users have sllightly more relaxed criteria, but won’t be able to play premium queues / large tourneys. We are looking into a MAC client.

Plays.tv integration is live — you can share your highlights on FACEIT.

The AC Client: Who needs to use it?

Starting today we are introducing the mandatory use of the Anti-Cheat on a large number of competitions as well as on a very large amount of players based on a number of detectable variables. Additionally, this is the first day with bans based on client side detections. In terms of competitions from now on the Anti-Cheat will be mandatory on:

Premium Queues

FPL Challenger (enforced since earlier this week)

All tournaments organized by FACEIT

All third party competitions that opt-in within their settings

During the beta phase a large number of players have already been forced to use the AC. The amount of players that will be forced to use the AC will now increase based on a mix of the criteria including, but not limited to:

Cheating Reports

Faceit Behavioural Index

Statistics

Other

At the moment we estimate that a large percentage of the user base is already going to be required to use the Anti-Cheat across all compeittions; that being said, we will review the criteria continuously to slowly enable it on even more players.

What happens to MAC/Linux users?

Some of them may be forced to use the Anti-Cheat based on the rules mentioned above and all of them will be required to use it if they want to participate in the premium queues or in any competitions that require it by default. At the moment we have a slightly more relaxed tagging system for these users (meaning that some of them may still be able to play if they don’t get reported, etc.). For those getting tagged and the ones that want to play in “protected” competitions unfortunately at the moment they won’t be able to do so unless they use a Windows O/S. That being said we are currently looking into options for a MAC client.

Plays.tv on FACEIT

This week’s release also included the integration with Plays.tv as announced a couple of days ago. You can now connect your FACEIT account on the Plays.tv client and whenever you share a video related to a FACEIT match it will show up on your profile page as well as on the relevant match and competition pages!

You can find more information on how it works here.