Overview
- Arrowhead announced Tuesday that it is replacing GameGuard with Easy Anti‑Cheat and deploying additional security tools to better protect the game's multiplayer Galactic War.
- The studio said EAC is an industry standard used in over 200 games and that the move is meant to stop modifications that give unfair advantages or negatively affect other players.
- Arrowhead warned some mods may stop working or need updates and asked players who find non‑destructive mods blocked to contact support via Zendesk for help.
- Community members have pushed back because some gameplay mods are used to work around persistent bugs such as stratagem bouncing and hitbox problems that remain in the base game.
- The change could reduce cheating that harms other players but may also create a transitional period where mod authors must update their work and players may lose cosmetic or fix‑oriented mods temporarily.