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Since the launch of Arena Breakout: Infinite, the B.D.C. has been committed to fostering a fair and safe gaming environment. We have upheld this core principle throughout Season 4 and will continue to carry on and deepen this legacy in every future season. Game-related violations (such as using or sharing plug-ins, actively teaming up with a cheating player, and other negative in-game behavior) continue to be a critical issue for us. We will proactively and severely penalize any offline transactions and any other actions that negatively impact the game. Even if the plug-in users did not eliminate anyone, they will still receive 10-year bans once we've verified that they used a plug-in to cheat. For players whose game environment seems suspicious (including but not limited to opening the game client under abnormal circumstances, using third-party plug-ins to access, read, or modify the game client, having game data that contains odd calibrations, etc.), we will first place them under observation for a period of time. This will temporarily ban their account from matchmaking or from the game entirely. Then, we will send video recordings of their matches to the Replay Expert Team or the Security Technology Team for evaluation. If they verify that there have been rule violations, stronger penalties will be implemented.
The B.D.C. has achieved continuous security breakthroughs since Season 3:
1. Comprehensive Upgrades to Game Data Protection
Data encryption is the main defense against plug-ins. To protect the game's security, we are always optimizing and upgrading our encryption technology. Building on our previous achievements, we upgraded our systems and improved our ability to detect abnormal CPU instruction sets, allowing us to successfully stop attempts to bypass security at the strategic level. We also implemented stricter penalties against accounts that broke the rules, based on behavioral analysis.
In response to increasingly complex hardware cheating methods, we have deployed the DMA-Hunter system to continuously and powerfully suppress relevant plug-ins. This season, we further strengthened our defenses against malicious cheating hardware, especially cheating methods like combiners. This caused instances of cheating to drop significantly, by about 60%, demonstrating our commitment to efficiently block DMA cheating at the system level.
2. Comprehensive Upgrades to the Monitoring and Countermeasure Systems
To protect the fairness of the game, we have made comprehensive reinforcements and upgrades to our anti-cheat system. This season, the replay-AI model has been comprehensively expanded. The model can preemptively intercept rule violations at a high degree of accuracy, so it can deal with over 5 times as many instances of cheating. To combat a variety of plug-ins that attempt to hack the game, this AI model has stronger detection capabilities and can block signature tampering signals. Using comprehensive retroactive bans, it has significantly reduced the use of mainstream memory plug-ins.
To counter various types of bypass attacks targeting our security system, we continued to deploy proactive intervention strategies based on improved multi-dimensional analysis of violation data, so we could stop cheats in a timely manner and minimize their impact on regular players. We will continue to use more systematized verification mechanisms and dynamically upgraded penalty processes to carry out strict, comprehensive punishments against cheating.
In Season 4, we penalized over 20,000 violations, including 10,000 accounts that received a 10-year ban.
3. Comprehensive Crackdown on Illegal Trading to Maintain Order in the Market
Last season, we discovered some players were conducting offline trades involving the transfer of supplies in raids, as well as doing script-based Market sniping and illegal resales. Behaviors like these not only disrupt normal trades in the game, they also fuel the growth of plug-ins and related black markets, severely impacting the game's fairness. To protect the shared interests of our players, we strengthened the monitoring and penalization of these violations this season by adopting several core strategies. As of this moment, we have issued over 1,800 penalties and recovered over 57.94 billion Koen in illegal earnings, achieving significant results overall.
4. Continuing the Fight Against Teaming up with Cheaters
Last season, we began cracking down on players who rely on plug-in users on their team to call out enemy positions and achieve abnormal eliminations, and were able to effectively reduce this behavior. Heading into Season 4, we continued and strengthened our approach, implementing stricter tiered penalties against players who had multiple violations. Since the start of this season, we have penalized over 12,900 players for this violation.
5. Whole-Process Monitoring of Illegal Content
The B.D.C. security team has whole-process control over illegal content, such as abuse, fraudulent advertisements, pornography, vulgarity, and racial discrimination in the game. We preemptively intercept threats based on device login characteristics and a word bank of sensitive words, which is constantly being expanded and updated. At the same time, our AI model can identify and filter out content that breaks the rules in real time, as well as trace the violating accounts in conjunction with the reporting system. In Season 4, over 1 million fraudulent traffic diversion attempts, over 260,000 illegal voice messages, and over 350,000 racist remarks have been intercepted, creating a robust line of security to protect the in-game environment.
6. Proactive Compensation Mechanism for Plug-in Eliminations
Our Anti-Cheat Elimination Compensation Plan has been widely praised since its launch during the test period. In Season 4, we continued to safeguard your rights as a gamer. Since the start of Season 4, compensation has been issued over 310,000 times, totaling over 310.2 billion Koen.
Summary:
In Season 4, we continued and strengthened our fight against plug-ins, building more solid defenses from multiple angles. We improved our monitoring and recovery plans for the trade system, effectively curbing illegal trades. On the ecosystem development front, we tested and launched the "Inspector Community" feature so players can work with us to jointly monitor and manage plug-ins, allowing passionate players to directly contribute to our anti-cheat efforts.
We will continue to invest our attention and resources in this fight going forward, leading the charge against cheating and working alongside our players to create a fair and equal Kamona.