Cheaters of the popular game "Overwatch" have found a new way to cheat - "nuking." However, Blizzard Korea is quick to ban cheaters to adhere to their commitment to provide players with a fair and fun multiplayer game mode. In less than a day, the game's publisher and developer has banned more than 10,000 cheaters.
'Nuking' in 'Overwatch'
As explained by Kotaku, "nuking" is a form of cheating that is similar to a DDOS attack. When a player uses this trick, matches are slowed down to a crawl to the point that some players are not even able to report infraction. Compared to aimbotting, nuking is not yet as widespread. However, Blizzard emphasized that they treat nuking as any other form of cheating and hacking in Overwatch. Polygon also noted that the game developer is strict with imposing their anti-cheat and anti-hack methods. This is to continuously improve their games and stand true to their commitment of providing quality gameplay to gamers. Due to the said incident, Blizzard is now planning to create more updates that will prevent similar hacking incidents in the future.
More than 10,000 'Overwatch' players banned in Korea
After Blizzard Korea found out about players nuking "Overwatch," they immediately took action by banning more than 10,000 players at one go after the new cheat became trending. Most of the players who nuked the game were found out to be teens. The nuking incident is a serious concern for the game developer given that "Overwatch" is one of those titles offered as free-to-play in internet cafes in Korea. Because of this, an affected IP will affect everybody playing the game on PC.
It was just last year when "Overwatch" launched in Korea but the game is so popular that it beat another popular title, "League of Legends" from Riot Games. But since both titles are played in internet cafes, the possibility of banning all players who nuke Blizzard's title might be unlikely. Also, rumors have it that some Korean hackers also use virtual private networks (VPNs) to play "Overwatch" from PC bangs with accounts addressed from the United States or the United Kingdom.
