Hacks! An investigation into aimbot dealers, wallhack users, and the million-dollar business
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From my experience (close to 2 decades and probably around 30,000 hours of FPS gaming online) cheating is at the same time both far more prevalent than your average "normal" player believes but also far less dominant than some other players will claim.
An average FPS game online I will see 1 player max in a night of gaming who is using full on or nearly full on aimbotting - somtimes not even 1 a week but a bit more commonly notice people who are either definitely or highly likely to be using wallhacks/ESP type cheats i.e. take BF4 right now as it currently is in a 64 player server you can pretty much guarantee that on average 2 players are making use of basic level cheat (very low FOV "smooth" aimbot and ESP) functionality to "top up" their "skill" in the game.
Takes the mick sometimes - for instance this guy http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/soldier/TheCaspianKing/stats/962820158/pc/ blatant cheater - loads of video footage, but AFAIK never caught by PB, EA has reset his stats twice but still unbanned and still unashamed, self proclaimed cheating.
An average FPS game online I will see 1 player max in a night of gaming who is using full on or nearly full on aimbotting - somtimes not even 1 a week but a bit more commonly notice people who are either definitely or highly likely to be using wallhacks/ESP type cheats i.e. take BF4 right now as it currently is in a 64 player server you can pretty much guarantee that on average 2 players are making use of basic level cheat (very low FOV "smooth" aimbot and ESP) functionality to "top up" their "skill" in the game.
Takes the mick sometimes - for instance this guy http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/soldier/TheCaspianKing/stats/962820158/pc/ blatant cheater - loads of video footage, but AFAIK never caught by PB, EA has reset his stats twice but still unbanned and still unashamed, self proclaimed cheating.
They are however removed rather quickly once in game.
I never understand the motivation behind hacking...
I mean it doesn't give you the satisfaction of actually being good at a game, it just allows you to win with no effort---which is pointless.
I'd rather totally suck at a game and go through the learning process than spend money on cheating.
I mean it doesn't give you the satisfaction of actually being good at a game, it just allows you to win with no effort---which is pointless.
I'd rather totally suck at a game and go through the learning process than spend money on cheating.
welcome to 5 yrs ago
5? Try at least 8 years and to be fair this all began many years before that.
Glider for WoW anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(bot)
its even funnier with the op posting this who admitted to using cheats himself. not really well thought out.
i used to check many players through various means and there are many many people many who even play on here are cheats.
thing is you cant do much about it so i don't care now. if people cheat i just leave.
its big money now. 3rd party groups have no chance against well funded cheating groups now.
the devs people who own the game should do the anticheat and monitor it to a proper effective manner. many of the cheats could be caught by those.
this eats into profits though so they wont do it.
who admitted to using cheats himself. not really well thought out.i used to check many players through various means and there are many many people many who even play on here are cheats.
thing is you cant do much about it so i don't care now. if people cheat i just leave.
its big money now. 3rd party groups have no chance against well funded cheating groups now.
the devs people who own the game should do the anticheat and monitor it to a proper effective manner. many of the cheats could be caught by those.
this eats into profits though so they wont do it.
its even funnier with the op posting this
That situation has already been explained and to the ocuk staff, can't use that old line any more on me sorry
ps I knew you'd bring it up to cause a flame war, nice try though
Oh and didn't you used to wall glitch on DayZ? * Pot kettle black*
When I used to play CSS regularly, the server we played on had a pretty good policy on cheaters. If a cheater turned up and there was no admin (fairly rare), everyone just went to spectator and had a chat until they got bored and left
I used to rage about cheaters, but at the end of the day, some people are just phenomenally good and some people cheat. Both can ruin games for us mere mortals, but if you let go of your e-ego and play games for fun it's no longer such an issue
I used to rage about cheaters, but at the end of the day, some people are just phenomenally good and some people cheat. Both can ruin games for us mere mortals, but if you let go of your e-ego and play games for fun it's no longer such an issue
DG is clean on metabans, but a citation for:
Status Banned
Reason Extreme Camper
Expiration about 5 years
7 Oct, 2018 21:30
Made me chuckle
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Cheating scumbags. If people want to cheat then do it in single player mode. How dare they cheat in a competitive MP game and ruin it for everyone else. We pay a lot of money for games... just look at BF4 only to then have it ruined by utter scum. Nice :/ I don't think the game makers/publishers do enough to tackle this issue.
If you hadn't guessed it I really despise these cheating lazy *****.
My old clan, when we had our own servers we used to perm ban cheats on a regular basis and it gave you some sort of satisfaction knowing we banned their behinds.
If you hadn't guessed it I really despise these cheating lazy *****.
My old clan, when we had our own servers we used to perm ban cheats on a regular basis and it gave you some sort of satisfaction knowing we banned their behinds.
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Seems like cheating is big business now.
I remember there being cheats all the way back to duke nukem 3d online (1995?) on wireplay.
There was a private aimbot that a guy made, only top players knew about it and they made money from the tournaments.
Seems like there's always been closed communities developing cheats etc but since the idea of pro gamers the number of people willing to pay for cheats has gone up.
Look at some of the csgo teams who completely dominate online only to go to LAN and fall short (pretty sure people know who I'm talking about)
Even commentators picked up on the walling, pointing it out a few weeks ago but more recently have started clicking to next player when they see it live on stream
I remember there being cheats all the way back to duke nukem 3d online (1995?) on wireplay.
There was a private aimbot that a guy made, only top players knew about it and they made money from the tournaments.
Seems like there's always been closed communities developing cheats etc but since the idea of pro gamers the number of people willing to pay for cheats has gone up.
Look at some of the csgo teams who completely dominate online only to go to LAN and fall short (pretty sure people know who I'm talking about)
Even commentators picked up on the walling, pointing it out a few weeks ago but more recently have started clicking to next player when they see it live on stream
It's interesting because I was reading someone's trust feedback recently and somebody has left feedback on there regarding a hack and telling them not to mention it to anyone. This person has obviously thought it was a private message not thinking others can read what they wrote.
lmao