Overview
- Embark announced Thursday that any account caught using known cheat programs will receive an immediate permanent ban with no prior warning or second chance.
- The company has widened enforcement to include license restrictions that block banned copies, permanent bans for linked accounts, and planned expansion of hardware bans to stop repeat offenders.
- Embark is layering technical defenses including Denuvo kernel-level protection, Anybrain detections, in-house machine-learning models, and tests of the Elytra system to detect and block cheats.
- Human reviewers will inspect flagged gameplay clips and public posts before permabans to reduce wrongful bans, which explains why enforcement can take time despite quicker policy decisions.
- Matchmaking fixes that split known queue-teamers cut that behavior by about 85% within five days, and Embark says these moves aim to make cheating harder, costlier, and shorter-lived for players.