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Fostering Healthy Multiplayer Communities with Epic Online Services Easy Anti-Cheat and Player Moderation (Presented by Epic Games)
Seb Bergeron-Raposo (Senior Software Engineer, Developer Relations, Epic Games)
Location: Room 2009, West Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 19
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All

With more games than ever incorporating multiplayer gameplay, ensuring a fair player experience is becoming increasingly difficult.
Epic Online Services offers developers a robust set of features to help prevent online cheating, get help from player communities to report on bad actors, and apply penalties to said bad actors.
In this session, we’ll provide guidance and best practices for using Epic Online Services Easy Anti-Cheat, Sanctions, and Player Reporting, and how the combination of these features can help make your multiplayer experiences the best they can be.
Takeaway
Attendees will learn how to use Epic Online Services Easy Anti-Cheat, Sanctions, and Player Reporting features effectively to help address cheating and malicious behavior in their multiplayer games.
Intended Audience
Game developers interested in anti-cheat and player moderation solutions for their multiplayer games.