The latest move in Epic Games's ongoing fight against cheaters in Fortnite sees the gaming giant implement hardware-level security in Easy Anti-Cheat implementation, at least for those players looking to participate in tournaments. As of February 18, 2026, tournament players will need to enable TPM,...
The fact that Fortnite has been going THIS STRONG for THIS LONG, and is still basically the most profitable competitive online game ever just proves that none of that shit is necessary.
yea, it was a big thing in '16 around the same time pokemongo was released, by GO fell off as the years went on, they still have a sizable amount of people playing. but fortnite just gets more people playing because they have skins or crossovers.
Cheaters are getting more and more numerous all the time; they have to take steps to not be completely overrun.
My wife got eliminated by a 100% invisible player a week or so ago. No in-game item or event makes you completely invisible like that. The stealth splash item and the hide-and-seek event are both imperfect camoflage. So clearly this player was hacking. If she encountered players like that in every game, she’d quit, understandably.
cheaters already have bypasses for hardware-level anticheat. in practice this just serves to restrict us.