Anti Cheat at Embark Studios

When Embark Studios began work on THE FINALS and ARC Raiders, we didn't have a dedicated anti-cheat team, tooling or any well defined processes to deal with cheaters.

This talk covers our road as a studio from the early days of integrating 3rd party solutions by a single engineer to a dedicated team of 10 engineers, data scientist, ml experts and community support. Writing custom solutions for the two game Embark Studio currently has out there, and attempts at keeping the games fair to the millions of people that enjoy them.

I'll end the talk by what we've learned, what still keeps us up at night, and how we're preparing for what's next as cheaters and in particular commercial cheat vendors take the next steps in creating their cheats hoping to avoid detection.