Deadlock cheaters are being turned into frogs as players get chance to vote on their fate | Gaming

Valve instituted a fairytale punishment for cheaters in its unreleased laney shooter Deadlock yesterday. Cheaters will now be turned into frogs, provided the other players in the match vote for it. A Counter-Strike 2 modder proved the effect in a post on Xitter after the change was mentioned in some out-of-the-way patch notes by a Valve developer.

“Added an initial Anti-Cheat detection system,” said developer “Yoshi” in the changelog posted on the game’s official-but-kinda-half-hidden-behind-the-bins forum. “When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards.

“The system…