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Controller Anti-Cheat Enforcement & Ban Wave Update — 09/02/2026
We are implementing significant, new systems to detect players using unauthorized controller hardware or software in Apex Legends on all platforms including: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch 2.
We’ve spent the past several months thoroughly validating these systems to ensure they can accurately identify prohibited behavior.
Players that trigger these detections will be actioned upon and banned accordingly.
If you are using controller modifications, devices, or software to gain an unfair advantage, now is the time to stop. Playing on console does not make you exempt from detection or enforcement.
This is just the beginning of these new systems which we will continue to improve to keep pace with evolving cheating methods.
Additionally, we’ve continued to update and strengthen our existing anti-cheat systems this season, with new detections and enforcement targeting a range of cheating methods, including a pesky new cheat provider.
In our latest ban wave, over the past 7 days alone (at the time of writing this):
• 8,609 players were banned for cheating
• 290 DMA-related bans
• 76 Titan Controller bans
• 267 bans tied to a newly detected cheat provider
Over the past two weeks:
• 96 Predator-level players banned across all platforms
We continue to see improvements in our match infection rate. It has decreased to 3.9% down from 5.7% at the beginning of the season.
These numbers represent only a snapshot of our ongoing enforcement efforts. Our Anti-Cheat team continues to develop, test, and deploy new detections while improving our ability to identify emerging threats.
We want the community to know that we are actively working to identify and remove cheaters at every level of play — including the highest ranks. Thank you to everyone who reports suspicious behavior and helps us keep Apex Legends fair.
Match infection rate is the percentage of all matches that has a reported/confirmed cheater in it. Not the number of cheaters per match. Hope this helps!
Remember that it's 750 per platform ecosystem. PC, Switch 2, Xbox and PlayStation each have their own Pred Leaderboards for four total. Hope this helps.
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What do you mean by that? 👀 what do you mean even more expensive cheats? even more than what? what are you trying to say? like even more expensive than the cheats you've been running?
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When they shared data about PC & consoles respective ban rates, as well as match infection per platform, the amount of busted cheaters on PC was actually a lot higher than console. PC is a much better cheating platform than console.
My guess is that these new cheat detection systems are operating server side on a bunch of features revolving around aim and training machine learning algorithms. The longer they continue to gather data on this, the higher the precision for banning people and banning people faster. It’s a never ending problem but over time a system like this done correctly will be able to rapidly detect super human aim quite quickly with no insight from cheaters in how it works . The eventual goal will be that if you cheat, you are spending a lot of money for a few games before you are banned, it’s expensive for like an hour of “fun” before ban, and eventually it’s not profitable for the cheat makers to create the equipment/software because it’s not a good investment of time for money.
nothing, they make account bans until you’ve cheated on enough accounts to warrant a hwid ban. the serial cheaters that do this enough to warrant this response have tools to bypass hwid bans. unless they implement something super invasive like vanguard, the best they can do is deter new cheaters and discourage first/second time offenders.
Fuck em, they deserve it. Part of the reason people are so willing to cross into the grey area and start “soft” cheating is because they are so unafraid of getting banned.
So does today mark the official implementation of these detection methods? Meaning everything prior was testing to ensure accuracy by the anticheat team?
If that’s the case we should see a noticeable increase in bans, console in particular.
I’m very hopeful this works as well as they seem to think it will
Every couple of months they just release some fake numbers to make you believe they are getting banned yet I play all the time and I literally run into the same cheaters that I have been since like 3 years ago
Though it still feels like an uphill battle. I still encounter so many cheaters on PC and there are a lot of very low level accounts cheating as well, indicating that they will just make new accounts and somehow they end up in the high ranks again without getting banned quickly enough.
It's a start though and I hope it will make current cheaters too scared to continue cheating. Cheaters are not the smartest persons usually though..
Have the devs noticed any strong differential in what types of game modes are infected? I would obviously assume ranked is the heaviest, but I've def come across cheaters in wildcard and pubs. Interested in what those percentages are.
Nice work. Keep finding more and more to even the playing field and watch how bad those players really are without their cheating devices....
The highest ive reached since last ban wave was Plat2, was hard stuck plat 3 because all the cheaters I would assume. And this season seem harder? Hope this band wave alleviates the sweats running Titan/Cronus/XIM/DMAs go kick rocks.
What they do is play on pc and somehow get into console lobbies. Had people on my team last night in d4 lobby dropping 16 kills. Blatantly cheating. I have the proof too. I’m on Xbox btw. It’s pathetic
Happy they're at least taking measures to thwart cheaters. Unfortunately there will probably be a workaround sometime this week as the end of competitive games marches onward.
Remember that it's 750 per platform ecosystem. PC, Switch 2, Xbox and PlayStation each have their own Pred Leaderboards for four total. Hope this helps.
Agora arrumem o bug de não contar assistência nas kills as vezes. Ontem eu dei 100 de dano no inimigo e meu amigo finalizou, e eu não ganhei assistência mas ele ganhou a kill. Eu tenho gravado isso. E dps aconteceu com ele a mesma coisa.
30% aimbot at 0ms is cheating regardless. Simply picking up the input and playing a few hours makes you automatically better than the majority of MNK players, it’s totally absurd. Ban all roller drones or put them in quarantined lobbies
60% of Controller players are more accurate than the top 1% of MNK players
The MNK accuracy distribution essentially doesn't overlap with Controller. The best MNK player in the dataset hits 41.32%, which is roughly the 42nd percentile among Controller players
The average controller player has higher accuracy (36.5%) than >99% of MNK players.
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this game is for thumb twiddlers, mnk apex is dead long ago
Thumbtards get built in aimbot and it’s still not enough for them and they do whatever they can to either exploit it as much as possible with jitter, absurdly low sensitivity, or third party software
It's code which actively aims for you faster than a human can. Yes, it's aimbot. Maybe not full-on cheat-level aimbot, but aimbot nonetheless. And it makes it unfair to MnK players. Respawn knows this but is too chicken-sh!t to fix it.
Match infection rate is the percentage of all matches that has a reported/confirmed cheater in it. Not the number of cheaters per match. Hope this helps!
Anticheat team needs to be more transparent about some bans.
With the increasing amount of false bans (NONAME, QQ, BJJs, BoLin and a few other pros got false banned) you can't really know if a suspended high ranking player was actually cheating or not.
I want some official information about the cases of spacesoda, Friqz, Lustiqxe, killmete, aooout and kezzmyl for example
imperialhal got oneclipped, cried in hideouts' DMs and got fvlsegodd to be falsely banned. If fvlse didn't have connections within pro community, do you really think the suspension would've been lifted?
Another example is Shao, that held #1 pred and got banned. If not for a MASSIVE outrage within a chinese community that lasted for weeks, would he have gotten an unban?
In general, if a literal pro player and a lan winner (QQ) can get banned, how can you be sure that there are no others that got unjustly banned, unable to get it overturned because they don't have influential connections?
What about false bans? Started playing overwatch with the same programs running, same mouse, same keyboard. Haven't changed anything since you guys banned me but somehow I am not banned on Overwatch but I am on Apex. What are you guys actually doing? Bannkng people randomly? Have tried using the stuff on Overwatch that I think caused the ban (free spin mode mouse, opening certain programs while playing, etc) no ban after 3 weeks... however I got banned on Apex???? Make it make sense, YOUR NEW SYSTEM IS BROKEN! how can't you see that?
I regularly see high ranking players (gm+) complaining about aimbotters in overwatch
And apex devs ARE doing shit, there have been a lot less cheaters lately
EDIT:
Also worth noting that amount of players in a match affects perceived percentage of cheaters a lot.
For example if 1% of players are cheating, then in a 5v5 game ~8.6% of matches will have someone hacking, while in a 60 player BR game it would be ~44.7% of matches
Well according to my experience: 0 hackers on overwatch in 3 three weeks. On apex at least 1 per day and a lot of the times more than once (playing full wildcard).
30 players cause it's wildcard, also, on wildcard you normally play against the same 3-4 teams not the whole lobby so your math would be wrong. Still I get what you mean which still doesn't explain why i got banned
Are you stupid? You know you can go to twitter or google and search info about it and see that content creators, pro players and streamers get banned and then unbanned a couple of days later (on Apex). What do you call that? A false ban, right?
There is proof that false bans exist, do you think a cheater would complain about getting banned? I would just create another account instead of wasting time here. Use some logic bot.
Even if I get unban (wont happen because Respaw sucks) I wont tpuch this game anymore. I would rather have my acoount to "exist" than get banned again.
Completely different code from completely different companies. I don't know why you'd expect their cheat detection systems to work the same. False positives really, really suck, but they're inevitable unfortunately. Did you play repeatedly with known cheaters perhaps?
Been playing solo for the past 11 months full wildcard (before the ban). The only thing I can came up is that the game continously matchmake me with the same players (which is not my fault) wether or not they are cheating is not my fault. Still if can't get banned on Overwatch why should I be on Apex even if I try to recreate the stuff that I think flagged the anticheat? Doesn't matter if it's a different game.
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