A GTA Online cheat maker has spoken to a respected member of the GTA Online community and revealed how they are dealing with Rockstar Games‘ introduction of anti-cheat. For those unaware, Rockstar Games finally added a 3rd party Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, to the PC version of the game on GTA V’s official anniversary last September.
We now know from the recent FiveM team document that BattlEye integration was in the works for quite some time. People who joined Rockstar’s FiveM team began leaking plans of Rockstar’s. This included Rockstar wanting to use BattlEye as early as April 2024.
Drop In Cheaters
Last month, Rockstar Games confirmed in a GTA Online survey sent out to select players that they “have observed a significant reduction in the level of cheating in GTA Online on PC.” Many fans on social media have shared the same sentiment. However, not everyone is in agreement.
As spotted by respected YouTuber Mors Mutual, there’s a website (battleye.dudx.info) that tracks BattlEye bans. This site shows us over 20,000 accounts were banned around the first major ban wave which we reported on a couple of weeks after the introduction of BattlEye. The number was not known at the time but it was clear based on the sheer amount of complaints from cheaters that it was a large ban wave.
BattlEye immediately made an impact causing many popular free mod menus to not be a viable way of cheating. As a result, this led to the development of several well-known mod menus being stopped. However, there are some still operating and bypassing the enforcement.
Cheaters Speak
In an interview with Mors Mutual, a cheat maker said users with mod menus can still use them in GTA Online even if it is more difficult. For example, you cannot be the session host. That’s why this cheat developer is not going to stop work on their menu.
In our peak we were making $100,000 a month. – GTA Cheat Maker
They claim there are “plenty of ways to inject it” so in the foreseeable future it’ll be business as usual. Rockstar’s infrequent banning is also something to their advantage. The website battleye.dudx.info shows there has not been a major ban wave since launch; just a few bans per day. Though the developer cautions cheaters that BattlEye can update at any given time and ban your account and even PC hardware.
On top of that, Take-Two’s legal side did attempt to shut them down but that failed. The two reasons the cheater gave is that the company did not have the real life identities of these cheat makers “nor see any issues with the ways we currently interact with the anti-cheat”. They did allude to caring less about GTA Online given it will soon be a decade on from the PC launch.
Will BattlEye make GTA Online’s impending next-gen version launch on PC go well? We can only hope but signs shown in the current version so far are positive. How long that will last is up for debate.
Be sure to check out Mors’ video on the topic, it’s a well produced and sourced piece of content.
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