Hackers on Crossfire

knowlton · 25 May 2011 at 10:55

Hank_Marvin said:
hehe , hackers are morons but just rise above them.

Completely agree, but frustrating nevertheless. Last night played a session of Crossfire and found a new tactic that seems to clamp down hackers.

a) I become the room host.
b) I enforce a rule whereby if you have a hacker on your team, you must try kicking them. If you don't, at the end of the match, I will kick everybody on that team that didn't try kicking them.

After about 4 rounds, you find that hackers can't enter the room, real players remain and any hackers entering are immediately kicked.

I'll tell you what though - I have a new bug bear.

Players who have rubbish guns, hide, wait until you die and steal your gun!!!

Rroff · 25 May 2011 at 13:07

^^ Problem with that, I find a lot of people can't tell the difference between a hacker and a good player (both ways, some will defend an obvious hacker and some will call an obviously very good player a hacker).

knowlton · 25 May 2011 at 13:43

Rroff said:
^^ Problem with that, I find a lot of people can't tell the difference between a hacker and a good player (both ways, some will defend an obvious hacker and some will call an obviously very good player a hacker).

I know what you mean. I'm generally referring to speed hackers and wallers - they're way too obvious. I think my approach is to deter people from defending hackers.

Yet another bug bear!!!

I don't know if you've played Crossfire recently, but Z8 has banned the words..

'hack', 'hacker' and 'noob'!!! Seriously - I can understand why swear words might be removed, but these words - seriously!?

olivier renault · 25 May 2011 at 13:53

knowlton said:
.. I think it's rather sad that people hack (and have the audacity to stick it up on Youtube!)

Some people are born Trolls. It's best ignoring the sad little men.

Rroff · 25 May 2011 at 13:56

knowlton said:
'hack', 'hacker' and 'noob'!!! Seriously - I can understand why swear words might be removed, but these words - seriously!?

ouch, kinda like the approach some developers have taken, where they've removed kill cams that obviously show people hacking due to being unable to combat the hacking directly

in the hope people will stop complaining!

VeNT · 25 May 2011 at 15:03

crossfire is bad for it, really when you see someone moving 10-20x the speed of everyone else it's kinda blatent.

knowlton · 25 May 2011 at 15:24

Rroff said:
ouch, kinda like the approach some developers have taken, where they've removed kill cams that obviously show people hacking due to being unable to combat the hacking directly in the hope people will stop complaining!

I know - it is pathetic.

On Crossfire, they have a thing where you can save the replay of the match to report hackers - but the reporting process is so long-winded - i.e. save the replay, go to the online form, upload it and fill out a few details.

It does work and some people do get banned.

Nevertheless, overly annoying.

knowlton · 13 Jun 2011 at 17:57

Ugrh, speed hackers are back...

Wish I had a speed hack to counter them... =(