Embark, the developers behind Arc Raiders, is upgrading its anti-cheat system for The Finals with a new in-house solution that will likely replace the game's existing Denuvo anti-cheat system. Update 11.3.0 for The Finals announced the introduction of Elytra for testing purposes only. The new anti-cheat system is currently being tested with a "small group of selected players" as well as some of its technology partners, including GeForce Now and Microsoft.
Details on Elytra's anti-cheat capabilities remain hidden, but Embark promises to provide more details as Elytra gets closer to full development. Embark also noted that The Finals' 11.6 update will introduce the anti-cheat system to a broader audience through a gradual rollout process. Currently, Elytra is installed for most users playing The Finals and runs in the background for these users. But critically, Elytra is running in a passive state and is not enforcing any anti-cheat protections.
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It's no secret that Embark has been struggling with cheaters, as have most game developers who have highly popular AAA shooters. The development studio currently has a semi-complex anti-cheat strategy with Arc Raiders involving the use of Easy Anti-Cheat, Denuvo Anti-Cheat, and a behavioral monitoring AI system simultaneously. Denuvo Anti-Cheat is used as a secondary kernel-level anti-cheat layer that fills in gaps in EAC's anti-cheat capabilities, while both anti-cheat programs are further supported by a machine-learning behavior analysis system called Anybrain AI that monitors player telemetry and tracks inhuman levels of player skill in-game.
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Embark typically uses The Finals as a testbed for its anti-cheat strategies before implementing them into Arc Raiders, so it's inevitable we will see Elytra come to Arc Raiders at some point after development matures. We could potentially see Embark using Elytra to replace EAC and Denuvo, which would put most of its anti-cheat capabilities back under one application.
