Outriders may not be a PVP game, but the developers don’t want anyone to have unfair advantages outside of the intended game mechanics. People Can Fly and Square Enix will be taking some drastic measures against cheaters, including branding them with a “discreet but visible watermark” on the HUD to identify any footage they may post as coming from an account that engaged in cheating. They’ll also be stuck into matchmaking pools strictly for cheaters, which will make it take much longer to get a group together.
The developers outlined their policies on cheating and hacking in a Reddit post forewarning players ahead of the launch next week. They identified 200 players (or 0.01% of the total players) who cheated in some form in the Outriders demo. With progress carrying forward to the main game, they will be punishing any accounts who have been flagged for cheating at launch day. “We can see you all. Yes, even the person who gave themself 600 Legendary Weapons,” they said. Anyone identified as a cheater will suffer the following account-wide (not character specific) repercussions:

You will not be able to matchmake with legit players

Matchmaking will likely take significantly longer
You will still be able to play solo

In future, your HUD will have a discreet but visible watermark placed on it so that gameplay footage created on this account can be readily identified as coming from a flagged account.

On launch day, April 1st, all accounts...