Apex Legends Bans Over 1,300 Players For Exploits

The latest Apex Legends ban hammer has barred over 1,300 players from the game, all for allegedly abusing in-game exploits.

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According to DotESports, the most recent wave of the Apex Legends ban hammer have handed out penalties ranging from temporary ones (several weeks) to perma-bans, across all platforms where the game was released. Respawn Entertainment even released a numbers breakdown of just how many they banned across Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and Nintendo Switch.

The numbers, shared by Twitter user @RSPN_Hideouts showed that the platform with the most banned players was PlayStation (both PS4 and PS5), followed by PC, Xbox (One, Series X, Series S), and Switch with merely 20 banned players:

Ban wave of 1307 users has been dealt out for exploiting Arenas Ranked and "6-manning". Bans range from permanent to 2 weeks depending on abuse amount. Breakdown is as follows:

PC-392
PS-520
Switch-20
XB-375

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— Conor Ford / Hideouts (@RSPN_Hideouts) July 14, 2022

The development team at Respawn says that the bans were focused on players who were using and abusing exploits in the game's ranked Arenas mode. Also called the "sixth man exploit," this exploit allows players to queue into teams with others that they're friends with. The reason is only to help them gain more Arenas Points, because they're playing the AP and MMR systems for a fool.

One might notice that console players are the most affected by this recent Apex Legends ban wave. You would expect that cheaters will often be confined to PC, but not console - which is a very noteworthy stat to see. The reason for that is simple, according to The Gamer: it's always easier to get a hack working on PC, where the hack/cheat itself and the game run on the same machine.

Getting a hack to work on a console is tougher because you have two-fold security to take care of. First, there's the console's anti-tampering mechanism. Second, you'll have to then beat the game's anti-cheat. Apex uses Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC), which is a popular software used for other games like Rust, Halo Master Chief Collection, and and Fortnite.

Either way, one thing is proven by this recent Apex Legends ban hammer: cheaters, in all manner or form, never, ever prosper. So if you feel like you've been having a bad game way too many times, there's a good chance they're just exploit users ruining your fun.

What If I Was Wrongfully Banned?

There is a chance that you might've been on the receiving end of a ban, even if you weren't using the sixth man exploit yourself. Banning is never an exact and perfect science, so if you feel like you've been banned for no reason at all, there are a few things you can do, writes West-Games. Just follow these steps:

Visit EA Games and click Contact Us.
Pick the game you're playing (Apex, in this case.)
Pick the platform you're playing on.
Go to the Manage Your Account section, and find the section saying "Suspended Or Banned Accounts."
Fill out all the needed information and pick the reason why you've been banned. Then, wait for a message from the support team on your situation.

This article is posted on GameNGuide

Written by RJ Pierce