It’s worth asking around to see if Team Jade’s free-to-play tactical shooter will really ban you for having a flash drive connected to your PC…

Team Jade, by the way, is part of the TiMi Studio Group and is owned by Tencent, so the Chinese tech giants are involved here as well (Marvel Rivals is owned by another company, NetEase). There was an interesting bit of news the other day that the game, which has been in open beta on PC since last week, would supposedly ban players if they had a thumb drive or external hard drive or SSD attached to their PC. It turns out that this was a translation error, so it is indeed possible that the project is of Chinese origin after all.

According to a Team Jade spokesperson, there is no problem with these flash drives, HDDs, SSDs as long as they are not used to activate certain macros or scripts that could give the player an advantage when interacting with the game. If you’re not running cheats from, say, a thumb drive, then there’s no problem, and the team has also rewritten the text, as instead of the previous “USB drives”, the game now says “Cheating USB tools”.

This was on the original ban list, so besides the understandable things (Cheat Engine, Speed Wizard, and frame-capturing software that can be mistaken for an aimbot by Delta Force), this weirdness is no longer there. Since it’s common these days to have an external HDD, SSD, or just a thumb drive (since Windows installation doesn’t always work from DVD anymore…), it’s understandable that Team Jade rewrote this. So it won’t happen that you innocently connect an external drive to your computer to store your Steam saves of your offline games (not only in the cloud) and get hit on the head with a banhammer…

At this point we would like to ask, why couldn’t they read the text before Delta Force went into open beta? We are talking about a major franchise, not some new IP.

Source: PCGamer