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Server owners

Server metadata moves to the Portal: how to avoid ‘Missing server data’

Since 14 October, your server name, description, tags and images are managed in the Cfx Portal. Here’s what to check as a server owner.

15 October 2026

Script picks

Spooky season: the Halloween scripts dominating October

A co-op ghost hunt with ten ghosts, trick-or-treating with a bucket that actually fills up, and a pack of spooky pets. These are the seasonal releases that stand out.

13 October 2026

8.5
Our #1 anticheat

Electron Anticheat

The most used FiveM anticheat, with the most complete staff toolkit we’ve seen and a one-off lifetime price. Here’s what it detects, what your staff get, what it costs and where the caveats are.

Price €149.99 lifetimeCustomers 6,000+ (per Electron)Server overhead ~0.04 ms (per Electron)
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Anticheats: the rankings

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1Electron AnticheatTop pick
Most servers · €149.99 lifetime8.52FiniAC
Reviewing RP situations · €34.99–€49.99/month8.03FiveGuard
Budget lifetime (once Enhanced is fixed) · €45/month7.94WaveShield
Large servers that want recordings · €49.99/month7.85Raven AC
Teams handling lots of appeals · $17.99/month7.7
Free first

Filter control requests

Stops clients from taking control of other players’ entities: the classic ‘every car flies away’ trick. Mode 4 never routes REQUEST_CONTROL_EVENT at all.

server.cfg
sv_filterRequestControl 4

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Scripts

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The most-discussed releases on forum.cfx.re over the past few weeks.

PaidGameplayEditor’s pick

RTX Ghost Hunting

Co-op investigation, 10 ghosts, evidence tools & location creator

by RTX_DevESX, QBCore, Qbox +1

625 likes2,896 views

PaidJobs

Multiplayer Builder Job

12 regions & 3 machine systems

by TworstShopESX, QBCore, Qbox +2

133 likes2,373 views

PaidSeasonal

RTX Halloween V2

Trick or treat, pumpkin carving, 35 decorations

by RTX_DevESX, QBCore, Qbox +2

48 likes588 views

FreeMaps & UI

TGIANN Map & Blip System

Day/night map with a blip panel

by TGIANNESX, QBCore, Qbox +1

32 likes3,854 views

FreeVehicles

ms_balloon

A flyable hot air balloon

by MikeScriptStandalone

32 likes2,439 views

PaidVehicles

Zyke's Advanced Wheel Pop

Synced wheel damage and wheel loss

by ZykeESX, QBCore, Qbox

26 likes574 views

Blog

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Guide

Free hardening: server.cfg settings that stop cheaters in their tracks

Before you spend €45 a month on an anticheat: these built-in convars already block a good share of the well-known tricks. Based on a widely read forum guide.

11 October 20267 min read

Opinion

Buying an anticheat in 2026? Read this first

99.9% detection, ‘the #1 anticheat’, leaked source code: the market is a minefield. Six questions to ask every vendor.

9 October 20265 min read

Development

License changes and vanished xbl IDs: what 2026 means for your database

Xbox identifiers are gone and some players got a new license. Here’s how to keep players from losing their characters.

3 September 20264 min read

On the forum

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Creators want transparency on the release queue

A creator watched a paid MLO release disappear without notice after more than a week in the queue, while others got two posts approved on the same day. Another user points to the page that lists your own pending posts, and suggests missing screenshots were the likely reason for rejection.

@ic3d2 October 2026“Don't silently delete some creator pending posts…”

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Frustration over shared mapdata files in MLOs

Buy a single MLO and you sometimes get one huge mapdata file covering a creator’s entire catalogue, causing conflicts with other maps. A tip from the thread: open the ytyp and ymap files in CodeWalker and clear out unused entities.

@LCRPPATREON29 September 2026“Issues with creators bundling shared mapdata files across all MLOs”

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Real car brands on your server? The short answer: no

A new server owner asks where real manufacturer logos stand under the Platform License Agreement. The answer in the thread: no real logos, no debadged real-world designs either, only original designs with fictional brands.

@giorgi_datashvili9 October 2026“Clarification on Vehicle Logos and Branding – Platform License Agreement”

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Game server hosting or a VPS?

A hosting company asks what people prefer. The developers in the thread go for a VPS or dedicated box: root access, firewall rules and database tuning matter more to them than the ten minutes a ready-made panel saves.

@knoxz721 September 2026“Game Server Hosting or VPS? What do you prefer?”

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