Respawn Entertainment has recently committed to combating cheating due to increased third-party software use.

Cheating has become an ongoing topic for Apex Legends. It quickly created a highly controversial situation within the community. Respawn Entertainment explained on Twitter how they plan to deal with this problem. “Respawn team is looking for various options to prevent cheating on @playapex,” the post read.

The developers’ tweet said they plan to “hire more people to focus on manual bans,” “develop more tools to automatically detect and stop DDOS attacks” and “explore ways to catch cheaters faster and remove them from games.” The announcement seemed to have been well received by players fed up with cheaters in the game: it didn’t take long for the hashtag #SaveApexRanked to trend.

The hashtag has been used by many popular publishers and professional players. In the future, players expect concrete moves from the developer team.