“Playing alongside cheaters can also lead to serious penalties”: PUBG weighs tougher rules
PUBG: Battlegrounds is considering stronger penalties for players who team up with cheaters to gain an unfair advantage. The anti-cheat team says it already penalises that behaviour, and is reviewing whether tougher consequences could discourage it from happening again.
The warning is part of a wider update on cheat advertising and ban evasion. PUBG says it has banned 10,237 accounts confirmed to have evaded bans by changing hardware identification information.
Stronger penalties are being considered, not announced
In its developer letter, the anti-cheat team describes deliberately forming a premade team with cheaters for an advantage as cheating. It says existing conduct rules already cover the behaviour and that stronger penalties are under review.
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“Playing alongside cheaters can also lead to serious penalties against your own account,” the team wrote. It advises players who suspect someone is using cheat software to use the in-game reporting feature.
The letter does not announce a new penalty schedule or say that every person matched with a cheater will automatically be punished. Its discussion of deliberate premade teams is narrower than simply encountering a suspected cheater in a match.
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The team is also targeting ban evasion and cheat adverts
PUBG says some banned players have tried to return with new accounts after modifying hardware identification information. It has introduced two sets of detection criteria and says it updated the identification logic four times from the beginning of October.
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The team says those criteria were validated before being applied to reduce the risk of unfair bans. It also reported more than 280,000 pieces of content selling or promoting cheats to external platforms between January and September 2026. That is a count of reports, not a claim that every item was removed.
Its letter says posts and seller accounts can reappear after removal, so the team continues to track and report distribution channels under each platform's procedures.
