Is it safe to play on public servers right now?

[KnightedWarrior]

Don't really have any friends to play with, and was looking to join a non-pvp server to find some randoms I could play with to enjoy the game. Personally I don't like pvp besides maybe a few duels in games like this, since I find its pointless to work for hours on a game just to get griefed anyway.
Been hearing some folks talking about hackers ruining everything, and just spotted a level 7 with a rocket launcher and an assault rifle running around blowing everything up at spawn after logging into a public server for the first time today.

Should I just play with randoms prepared to lose progress, expecting it so I feel less bad when it all goes boom, or should I wait until the developers throw in an anti-cheat?
I mean, the game is in early access right now. I could totally wait for an anti-cheat update, and just chill on something else like starsector.

[Ansgar Odinson]

No. Lots of cheaters. I would suggest playing solo, on a dedicated server, or peer to peer.

[Bowser]

No, full of hackers blowing up all palboxes serverwide every couple of hours. Happened to me 3 times the last 2 days.

[magenight]

Nope

[rick.vanopdorp]

Unfortunately no it's not safe at all. Currently there are no protections in place so players regularly find their progress wiped by server updates or cheaters.

[Pingoso]

Nah, just play with friends you know or go solo, it's fun either way.

[JohnMiller92]

Playing this game is inherently unsafe as Nintendo is about to wafflestomp the tits out of it

[Shiya64]

No, not yet Sadly.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Bowser:

No, full of hackers blowing up all palboxes serverwide every couple of hours. Happened to me 3 times the last 2 days.

Just happened to me this morning.. I was standing right next to my Palbox and I immediately knew what just happened... so I dropped a new one and left the server.

I'm only playing on the Dedicated NA servers for fun... I run my own LAN server for my wife and I and my grandson. It really is fun playing together (with non-buttholes )

[Mr.Fish]

Originally posted by Pingoso:

Nah, just play with friends you know or go solo, it's fun either way.

Just play singleplayer lol

new mutliplayer online coop pokemon on the pc and we have to play singleplayer because its a mess without any anticheat, full client authority and pubg playerbase.

yeh great success

[Mike Riot]

Yeah, if Nintendo was gonna sue, they would have done it by now. They wouldn't have even let this game see the light of day if they felt they could stop it.

[Xarian-Prime]

Originally posted by Mr.Fish:

Originally posted by Pingoso:

Nah, just play with friends you know or go solo, it's fun either way.

Just play singleplayer lol

new mutliplayer online coop pokemon on the pc and we have to play singleplayer because its a mess without any anticheat, full client authority and pubg playerbase.

yeh great success

And when there is AC folks whine about it too "omg so intrusive" and so forth..
One only hopes there's some intern going through server logs flagging repeat offenders who in short time will get the full VAC Banhammer at a hardware level..
But who knows, there's probably discussions going still as to what the best AC will be, what's in flavor and actually works, etc.. For now IT'S SAFER to play offline and that's just how it is.. not the devs fault there's complete a-holes who get their joy from ruining others playtime in the world now is it?

[rick.vanopdorp]

Originally posted by Mr.Fish:

Originally posted by Pingoso:

Nah, just play with friends you know or go solo, it's fun either way.

Just play singleplayer lol

new mutliplayer online coop pokemon on the pc and we have to play singleplayer because its a mess without any anticheat, full client authority and pubg playerbase.

yeh great success

The game just realeased in early access. I don't know what you were expecting, but to me it's not so strange the official servers don't have any protection yet at this stage. Now if for instance we would be talking about the game ARK which has been fully released for years and who's official servers are also still a mess then you would have a point.

[Mr.Fish]

Originally posted by rick.vanopdorp:

Originally posted by Mr.Fish:

Just play singleplayer lol

new mutliplayer online coop pokemon on the pc and we have to play singleplayer because its a mess without any anticheat, full client authority and pubg playerbase.

yeh great success

The game just realeased in early access. I don't know what you were expecting, but to me it's not so strange the official servers don't have any protection yet at this stage. Now if for instance we would be talking about the game ARK which has been fully released for years and who's official servers are also still a mess then you would have a point.

Before the game was early access they made the decision to program the game to be client authoritative, this was a mistake for an online multiplayer game, so nothing to do with how its released.

Plenty early access games have anti-cheat and aren't swamped by pubg's playerbase.

How quickly do you think we are gonna get bored of battling the same 3 m8s who bought the game, when pvp is launched?

[KnightedWarrior]

I honestly don't mind if the anti-cheat gets intrusive.
As long as its stopping cheaters, and letting me have fun.
Easy Anti-Cheat is a paper wall, though. I hope the devs don't resort to something on that level. Multiplayer would die forever.