Epic Online Services has launched Free Voice and Anti-Cheat services!

“If Fortnite players are able to chat with their friends while playing, we’re seeing a huge increase in player engagement. What if you could increase community engagement like this for your own game?” – Epic Games. Yes! Now you can, with the ease of voice communication services free cross-platform new from Epic Online Services. Voices is a platform-free solution that connects your community with in-game voice chat across all stores and platforms.

Other than that, Epic Online Services offers anti-cheat solutions industry-leading to all builders free of charge. Easy Anti-Cheat is a strong feature needed for smooth online gaming with players on PC. This reverence gives builders the opportunity to launch, control, and scale great games like never before.

Controlling voice communication and anti-cheat in a popular online game can cost you millions of dollars. By offering this online service to everyone free of charge, Epic aims to empower more builders to build cross-platform play, serve their own player community, and grow the industry.

Voice

Voice is service free cross-platform for developers to offer in-game voice chat functionality to their players across all major desktop, console and mobile platforms, using the major game engines on the market.

Prior to launch, Voice was battle tested in Fortnite. This service is proven to deliver extremely high engagement and deliver high-quality, stable, fast, and efficient sound functionality on a large scale. Fortnite has seen a peak of 15.3 million concurrent players. “We are excited to make Voice available for builders to offer their community in their game.”

Connection is established between authorized users and relayed through the server Epic Online Services back-end. Epic Online Services handles all the scaling, service quality, hosting, multi-region presence, and other services of the Voice server.

This service integrates seamlessly with the pic Lobby Online Services — enabling voting trials for your lobby members.

Easy Anti-Cheat

Easy Anti-Cheat is a service anti-cheat industry-leading. After joining the Epic family, this service is now free for builders to protect their PC games from temptation and scams.

As a condensed brand with nearly a decade of experience serving over a hundred games online worldwide, Easy Anti-Cheat can be trusted to handle millions of users at peak times. Its legacy and scalable system is constantly evolving and allowing all games to benefit from new cheat prevention and detection techniques as it is found and developed for every game under its protection.

Easy Anti-Cheat running in the background and prevent cheating techniques normal as a line strong defense and always growing. In addition to deterrence capabilities, cheats are detected by cross-checking a large database of known cheat techniques, as well as machine learning processes. Accounts that use cheats that are detected are then listed in Epic Online Services Developer Portal, which empowers you to act according to your will.

With a variety of self-service tools at their fingertips, builders can directly control the anti-cheat power-ups, which can be customized with the click of a button. Test and use safety updates when they fit your game development schedule. This service is seamlessly combined with Epic Online Services’ Player Sanctions andPlayer Reports.

Find out more about Epic Online Services’ Voice and Easy Anti-Cheat, also download the SDK here.