It’s not much of a secret that has a bit of a problem with cheaters. Since the free-to-play battle royale game launched back on March 10th, developer Infinity Ward has tracked down and banished 70,000 cheaters. That was the number at last count anyway… it’s almost certainly higher at this point.

But it gets worse. The problem seems to be so persistent – particularly on PC – that gamers on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are actually choosing to turn off the crossplay feature so that they don’t run into cheaters. To be clear, not every PC users is a cheater, but PC is the platform you’ll find the most of ’em, as enabling any naughty features on a console is harder and much easier to detect.

It’s clear Infinity Ward is working hard to weed out the pumpkin eaters where it can, but there’s also obviously so much more work to be done. The good news is that the studio recently outlined a number of tough new measures that will be implemented soon, and should see the number of cheaters taken out of the battle royale increased drastically.

In a post shared on Twitter (above), Infinity Ward confirmed that starting this week, any player who reports a suspected cheater will receive confirmation if/when that alleged cheater is banned. The studio is also implementing “additional dedicated security updates”, and will update matchmaking so that suspected cheaters have to play together, ensuring they’re not ruining it for anyone who wants to play fair.

Finally, the studio has increased its resources across the various teams so that it can better keep track of and enforce any reports. Oh, and a little later down the line, we’ll be getting report-a-player functionality as part of both kill-cam and spectate modes. That, in particular, should really help weed out the bad guys.

It’s worth noting that also suffers from cheaters and that these new features will be applied to that game to, but as a free-to-play experience, people are more likely to cheat in and risk losing access to . Hopefully these new tools prove to be effective in stamping out cheaters in the battle royale once and for all, because I’d quite like it if we could all go back to playing together on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.