Wardogs CEO has an unconventional plan to deal with cheaters

FPS games on PC have had cheaters and players using unfair hacks for as long as they've been around. Various anticheat solutions have come and gone, to varying degrees of success. One of the latest, that almost every modern FPS game is implementing, are hardware-level protections, such as enabling secure boot and TPM 2.0. Wardogs will follow suit with that requirement, Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer told Polygon. He wouldn't go into much more detail about the studio's specific anticheat plans, but when it comes to exploits, he thinks the game itself will protect players from unfair behavior: "The nice thing about cash is we can clearly see abnormal behavior," he explained over Google Meet. "What we see is probably very similar to what supermarkets see: people are very predictable in how they both spend and treat their money. So we can quickly start to map out what is an unusual behavior and what isn't." By "cash," Brammer is referring to the Wardogs metagame economy it has. Every action you take in Wardogs will reward you with XP and cash. You can then spend that cash on better weapons, equipment, vehicles —you get the gist. However, to the untrained eye, it may seem easy to exploit, bec