Has online cheating increased recently?

[imperialreign]

I've noticed some increase . . . it's a PITA, especially for those who are legit players.

Recently I've seen what would appear to be cheating on some Crysis Wars servers . . . especially when you run across someone with a 130:28 kill:death ratio. There's simply no effin' way you can end up with stats like that unless you're using some hacks or cheats . . . or are an elite gamer . . .

I can reason with maybe one player with those kinds of stats . . . but not 3 or 4.


Also had instances where I've been chilling somewhere cloaked right behind or in a bush, and an enemy tanks goes passing by a good few M away and stops right next to me, then blasts the hell out of me . . . and i haven't moved an inch . . . only way they could've seen me was with a hack.

 

[DrPepper]

I've noticed some increase . . . it's a PITA, especially for those who are legit players.

Recently I've seen what would appear to be cheating on some Crysis Wars servers . . . especially when you run across someone with a 130:28 kill:death ratio. There's simply no effin' way you can end up with stats like that unless you're using some hacks or cheats . . . or are an elite gamer . . .

I can reason with maybe one player with those kinds of stats . . . but not 3 or 4.

I feel quite good after seeing that since I legitimately got about 90 kills on a server and no deaths. Then again I was a sniper and if your invisible in the corner of the map they wont find you.

 

[imperialreign]

I feel quite good after seeing that since I legitimately got about 90 kills on a server and no deaths. Then again I was a sniper and if your invisible in the corner of the map they wont find you.

well - that's why I mentioned I can find it reasonable for one or maybe two - large maps though, snipers take forever to amass kills . . .

but when it's also the same players that seem to go right into the midst of a battle - and you can watch their position when they're on your team) . . . something just doesn't add up, y'know?





Although - then again - I get accused of hacks as well, cause I'll amass 3000+ in PS, move up 4 or 5 ranks, and only have 2 or 3 kills and no deaths . . .

 

[DrPepper]

well - that's why I mentioned I can find it reasonable for one or maybe two - large maps though, snipers take forever to amass kills . . .

but when it's also the same players that seem to go right into the midst of a battle - and you can watch their position when they're on your team) . . . something just doesn't add up, y'know?





Although - then again - I get accused of hacks as well, cause I'll amass 3000+ in PS, move up 4 or 5 ranks, and only have 2 or 3 kills and no deaths . . .

I completely agree it took me about 2 hours to get that many kills. Again I was very well concealed and moved away after 2-3 kills. There is always that guy who runs into 10 enemies and kills them all and continues on without waiting for his health to recharge.

 

[imperialreign]

I completely agree it took me about 2 hours to get that many kills. Again I was very well concealed and moved away after 2-3 kills. There is always that guy who runs into 10 enemies and kills them all and continues on without waiting for his health to recharge.

well, see, that's what I can't grasp . . . it's not like I'm an unskilled gamer myself, I just prefer to avoid direct conflict 95% of the time . . . only time I go sniper, though, is when cleaning out snipers myself . . .

but, I've been confronted by situations where it's me against 5-6 enemies, and there is nearly no way you're coming out of that successful . . . even when they're all green-ass newbies with assault rifles . . . unless you're cowering in a tank or some other armored unit . . . but on foot?

 

[SystemViper]

Best bet would be for servers to start forcing players to use Xray - complete a scan prior to joining a server, anyone who fails the test gets banned for 'x' ammount of time.

xray? hmmmm should i google or bing~

 

[kyle2020]

Our server uses xray before tournaments - it scans your pc for anything running that is deemed illegal then sends that report to the host. Cracking program.

 

[Ptep]

Thought this was appropriate.......

http://www.break.com/index/lancheater.html

 

[InnocentCriminal]

I recently started playing CoD 2 again and I couldn't believe the amount of assholes on there as well as cheaters!

One 'guy' was had a kill to death ratio of 96 to 4 and in the score board 'his' name cycled through every name on the server. Fuckin' assholes ruin games for me.

ANGRY IC SMASH!

 

[Asylum]

Thought this was appropriate.......

http://www.break.com/index/lancheater.html

Funny shit!!

 

[Taz100420]

Yea there is ALOT of cheaters on GTAIV servers. I blasted some guy in a car with a rocket launcher and the car went flying into orbit and the guy fell out of the car in a flash and headshotted me with a pistol over a very long distance with ONE SHOT!!!! Impossible! Possible with hacks!

I've NEVER cheated playing online but have in the single player offline modes, thats fun sometimes lol

Thought this was appropriate.......

http://www.break.com/index/lancheater.html

I would be real mad if they threw my computer on the concrete. I would get my 9 and go back to that place and "shop" for new parts

 

[Kovoet]

Yeah same I hate all those little pricks coming on and being immature just ruins the game.

Couldn't put it better myself

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I've noticed some increase . . . it's a PITA, especially for those who are legit players.

Recently I've seen what would appear to be cheating on some Crysis Wars servers . . . especially when you run across someone with a 130:28 kill:death ratio. There's simply no effin' way you can end up with stats like that unless you're using some hacks or cheats . . . or are an elite gamer . . .

I can reason with maybe one player with those kinds of stats . . . but not 3 or 4.


Also had instances where I've been chilling somewhere cloaked right behind or in a bush, and an enemy tanks goes passing by a good few M away and stops right next to me, then blasts the hell out of me . . . and i haven't moved an inch . . . only way they could've seen me was with a hack.

That's another thing people are complaining about that I forgot to mention. It's not the usually 1-2 who may be hacking. It's influx of 4 or 5+ that people are complaining about. In COD the kill cam really tells on you if you are cheating or not. In BF2, it's those shots beyond the fog of view, etc in other games.

Thought this was appropriate.......

http://www.break.com/index/lancheater.html

LOL

 

[Morgoth]

i have seen some glitching in left 4 dead and counterstrike source but real cheating i have seen is in crysis where you realy notice if some one is cheating (mass kill, Teleport, one hit kil)

 

[Guru Janitor]

I always see an increase in cheating this time of year. Its usually why we tend to not let kids under 17 or 16 in our clan. We have before and they usually ended up using hacks at some point or another, usually in the summer, and we end up kicking them from the clan and banning them from our servers. You should see their appeal threads in our forums

As an admin on a few servers, this time of year sucks...when I'm not in the server, someone else has to be...theres just too much kids hacking....

 

[reverze]

Cheating has definitely increased within the past few weeks I've noticed..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgnXZEzpD8

Even people cheat in L4D now.. What's the point?

And yeah.. they like to brag about it too on youtube.. -_-

 

[Easy Rhino]

i don't think more people are cheating. i think more people are complaining about cheating.

 

[Paintface]

Its not so bad in the COD series.

But VAC might as well be non excistant, the cheating rampart in all the Valve games, and when you complain to valve they are like "oh but it uses delayed bans no worry!" which is the perfect excuse for not putting enough effort into detecting cheats better and faster.

Also with the delayed bans which will take weeks even with detected cheats, so many kids with $$$$ see counterstrike source as a MMO where they pay a monthly $10 fee(price of CSS) where they basicly cheat as much as they want with a new account every month.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

Cheating has definitely increased within the past few weeks I've noticed..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgnXZEzpD8

Even people cheat in L4D now.. What's the point?

And yeah.. they like to brag about it too on youtube.. -_-

That was not music in that video.

 

[DonInKansas]

It's summer. Kids are online more often, therefore more cheating.

 

[imperialreign]

i don't think more people are cheating. i think more people are complaining about cheating.

somewhat agreed as well . . . I can see some users whose skills aren't up-to-par complaining, but for a lot of us who've been LOOOOOONNNNGGGG time gamers, it has nothing to do with us losing more often . . . it has more to do with being bested not by skill but by hacks.

But, then again - there's others like me . . . I don't say a word, not without some kind of evidence to prove it . . . me simply saying that k:d ratio doesn't seem right isn't enough evidence, IMHO.

 

[Soylent Joe]

I don't get what you mean by cheating. Like in TF2 some people use aimbots/speedhacks/wallhacks, but that's why there's the VAC and why admins should always be vigilant. If that's the kind of cheating you mean then no.

 

[imperialreign]

I don't get what you mean by cheating. Like in TF2 some people use aimbots/speedhacks/wallhacks, but that's why there's the VAC and why admins should always be vigilant. If that's the kind of cheating you mean then no.

that's typically what cheating is . . . or making use of game "glitches" that allow for the palyer to circumvent standard gameplay (shooting through walls, 1-hit-across-the-map kills, highlighting enemies through walls, etc.).

Pretty much, anything that alters the users gameplay in their favor to make up for a lack of skill.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

in CSS, the rate of wallhacks/esp exploded... many people use it... aimbots are present, and some are as good as in the good ol-beta-cs-hl1 days... so you have a chance to kill that player. on a deathmatchserver, on a textures map. with at least 5 people in front of you covering the headshot area of the aimbot. and then you have to be at least,skilled, and you would need luck...

flash/smokehack is always present but not so easy to detect... was never...


yes, cheating on online servers has actually increased

 

[zithe]

It's not really a cheating problem, but kids are SO annoying in Garry's Mod. I mean, who tells an annoying kid about that game? It's not for the impatient, unless you buy the game just to destroy another person's creations.

Only actual "cheating" I've seen was when I went on an RP server just to see what went on. The admin gave me police officer status and a gun. This one guy must've had a macro of some sorts that auto-pointed at everyone else. You could sneak up behind the guy and he'd whip around and headshot you. I killed him once, then the admins gave him god mode...