Palworld, currently the fourth largest religion in the world, has a cheating problem. In a Twitter post, Palworld's official account announced, "We have now identified a player who is cheating on our official servers." The good news? Poképair has released a patch to fight back. The 'bad news' is that it may take a while to get proper action.

Palworld's 0.1.3.0 version was released on Steam earlier today and includes "countermeasures against various cheats and exploits," but Pocketpair said in a previous tweet that "it is currently difficult to immediately and completely prevent all cheats" and that this The problem is likely to remain in some form." We will continue to focus even more on security and creating a safe playing environment for everyone."

Pocketpair does not directly mention what kind of cheating Palworld's official servers are currently undergoing, but hackers have one-shot attacked everything, given themselves huge stocks of items, and even gained server admin rights I don't know if the glitch that PCG's Chris Livingston used to get into space is a cheat or not, but if it is, I am very sorry.

In any case, such hacking is not a fun time for the honest Pokémon trainer, space aside. Fortunately, a quick overview of the various community outposts of the game suggests that the problem doesn't seem too serious at the moment, but cheats and hacks tend to spread as people discover how to do them. Hopefully Poképire's patch will stop things from getting worse.

After all, the game sold phenomenally well and was the first real breakout hit of 2024. We will keep a close eye on the status of anti-cheat measures as PocketPair moves forward with the Palworld roadmap, but for now, if you want to be 100% sure that Palworld's multiplayer games are 100% safe from hackers, it may be best to stick to private servers with passwords I'll keep an eye on the anti-chat situation.