World War Z is getting a new update on July 22. According to the announcement made by the game’s Community Manager Jellyfoosh, the upcoming update will add the new Player Reports System in the game.
In other words, Player Reports is a new ban system for World War Z, where you will now be able to report players in the game if they caught doing any harassment, bullying, cheating, exploiting in the game.
The upcoming update will also add two more things called the Repercussions and Code of Conduct to combat such type of activities.
How to Use Player Reports in World War Z
Player Reports
To report a player in the game, you just need to go to the“Recent Players” menu, located in Party. From there, you will be able to report or can also block a player. Blocking a player will prevent any contact with the player, including through matchmaking.
You will also get 4 reasons on the new The Report Player tab including Offensive Language, Cheating, Exploiting, and Inappropriate Behaviour. You can find the full description for all the three 4 reasons listed below.
- Offensive Language: Harassing, threatening, bullying, embarrassing, spamming, or doing anything else to another player that is unwanted, such as repeatedly sending messages or making personal attacks or statements about race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated.
- Cheating: Using unauthorized software programs or tools, such as “auto” software programs, “macro” software programs, “cheat utility” software program or applications, exploits, cheats, or any other game hacking, altering or cheating software or tool.
- Exploiting: Using any software or program that damages, interferes with or disrupts World War Z Services or another’s computer or property, interfering with or disrupting another player’s use of World War Z Services.
- Inappropriate Behaviour: Engaging in any activity that significantly disturbs the peaceful, fair and respectful gaming environment, such as team killing, improperly using voice chat, animation spamming, etc.
Repercussions
According to the announcement, players who do not respect the Code of Conduct may be banned from accessing the online features of World War Z. The ban may first last for 3 hours, with subsequent bans being 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days and then permanent.
However, players will still be able to play World War Z in offline mode while being banned from online.
Code of Conduct
If you are going to play World War Z then you will have to agree with the following rules of Code of Conduct.
- Violate any law, rule or regulation;
- Interfere with or disrupt any server or network used by World War Z Services;
- Use any software or program that damages, interferes with or disrupts World War Z Services or another’s computer or property, such as denial of service attacks, spamming, hacking, or uploading computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, cancelbots, spyware, corrupted files and time bombs.
- Interfere with or disrupt another player’s use of World War Z Services. This includes disrupting the normal flow of game play, chat or dialogue within World War Z Services by, for example, using vulgar or harassing language, being abusive, excessive shouting (all caps), spamming or flooding.
- Harass, threaten, bully, embarrass, spam or do anything else to another player that is unwanted, such as repeatedly sending unwanted messages or making personal attacks or statements about race, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, etc. Hate speech is not tolerated.
- Organize or participate in any activity or group that is inappropriate, abusive, harassing, profane, threatening, hateful, offensive, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invades another’s privacy, or is otherwise reasonably objectionable.
- Impersonate another person or falsely imply that you are an Saber Interactive employee or representative.
- Improperly use in-game support or report buttons or make false reports to Saber Interactive staff.
- Use or distribute unauthorized software programs or tools, such as “auto” software programs, “cheat utility” software program or applications, exploits, cheats, or any other game hacking, altering or cheating software or tool.
- Modify any file or any other part of the World War Z Services that Saber Interactive does not specifically authorize you to modify.
- Engage in any other activity that significantly disturbs the peaceful, fair and respectful gaming environment of World War Z Services.
- Use information about users publicly available in World War Z (e.g. on a leaderboard) for any purpose unrelated to the Services, including to attempt to identify such users in the real world.
- Promote, encourage or take part in any prohibited activity described above.
The new Player Reports System, Repercussions, and Code of Conduct will be live with the upcoming World War Z update releases on July 22. What do you think about these new cheat combat systems?
