14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher THQ and developer Kaos Studios have announced that they are planning to launch a new patch for their first-person shooter Homefront, with the biggest addition being a way to detect the players who are cheating in the multiplayer section of the game.
The official website says that the hacking and cheating detection will be accomplished using something called the DemoURL feature.
It will be used to allow all players to point to stored demo files in a server playlist, with those who do the administrative tasks on servers able to store demos and then look at them in order to find evidence of nefarious behavior on the part of some gamers.
Homefront is a first-person shooter and, as such, suffers because some of the player base is hyper competitive and tries to get ahead by any possible means.
Anti-cheating will probably get a bigger number of customers online and will prolong the life of the competitive multiplayer modes by keeping things fair and balanced.
The patch, which should be released at some point during this week on all platforms, will also include a number of fixes for bugs that the player base talked about since launch.
The Kaos Studios-made patch is also set to enable support for DirectX 10 and 11, with the systems settings menu allowing gamers to tweak the graphics experience to their liking.
Initially, Homefront was coldly received by reviewers and the share value for THQ dropped pretty sharply after launch.
Since then, the company said that Homefront had managed to sell more than 2 million copies all over the world after being the most pre-ordered game in the history of THQ.
It's not clear whether the publisher is interested in continuing the series and whether it still believes that the game can compete directly with titles like Call of Duty or Battlefield.