Global Agenda takes aim at bots, aimbots specifically

There are beasts out there that are far worse than a simple macro auto-pilot program, a la Glider. In the FPS community, beasts like the notorious aim bot, capable of auto-targeting your enemies in a game of shooting skill, exist to ruin everyone's fun. And when you cross your MMORTS with the battles of an FPS... well you start getting people using the latter program.

Global Agenda finally has one such program out for it, and yes, it does work. Snipers are accurately killing people from across the map, assaults are using chainguns that never miss, and all other types of havoc are being let loose. However, we don't recommend that you use any of these programs, unless you want to be targeted by Hi-Rez Studios.

Hi-Rez is actively targeting players who run these programs, sending out lifetime bans to those they catch. Yep, that's right, no warning, just a nice lifetime ban. We caught up with Todd Harris to briefly ask him about what the company was doing in light of this whole aimbot situation.

"Cheating is relatively rare within Global Agenda," executive producer Todd Harris told Massively. "However, as within any competitive shooter, some players are trying to cheat their way to success. Fortunately, since we run centrally managed servers, we can identify and react quickly compared to other online shooters that rely on community managed servers such that a cheater could simply hop to a new server. With our monitoring and stat collection we detect cheaters and reward them with a lifetime ban. We've already implemented an initial batch of bans and we'll continue to have a zero tolerance policy for cheating."

So there you have it. Don't cheat on centralized servers, unless, of course, you don't want to play.