Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment announced that it's banned more than 355,000 players on PC since the game's debut. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the 50 million people who are playing the game, but every single one of those players benefits from having cheaters kicked out of the battle royale.

Respawn said in a Reddit post on March 8 that Apex Legends currently relies on Easy Anti-Cheat and that even though "the service works," it's not going to rest on its laurels. The developer said it's taking the following actions to make some improvements to Apex Legends' anti-cheat tools:

  • Reaching out and working directly with experts, both within and outside of EA
  • Scaling up its anti-cheat team
  • Adding a report feature on PC to report cheaters in game that goes directly to Easy-Anti-Cheat.



"We’re going to have to be pretty secretive about our plans," the developer said, because "cheaters are crafty and we don’t want them to see us coming."