why do cheats bother playing PC games?

Wizzfizz said:
Not really, I wouldn't call that a cheat, more like they have a better connection, bit like when people started to get ISDN here (UK) and playing lpws (modemers), it's just ping/latency advantage, certainly not a cheat in my eyes. That said, back in Quake 2 some of the best duel players had 150+ ping :) Of course, if they warp all over the place then that's a bit pants and they should get a boot!
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I know, it was a bit of a sarcastic story made in the general direction of the OP. I still forget after all these years, how sarcasm doesn't travel digitally! :D
 
Would never cheat in a MP game.

I sometimes do in narrative driven SP games as sometimes I just don't have the time to complete them 'fairly'. Real life gets in the way.
 
I guess cheating can be fun if you don't have the skill. I wouldn't do it and I tend to avoid multiplayer games as I suck and tend to feel everyone is cheating when I get owned.
 
Some will use the over the top spini g 1 shotting everyo e cheats for the lolz of making everyone rage

Some will use the more subtle hacks like wall hacks etc to make themselves apear better.


Then you get to the more grey area of people who turn down all gfx settings so they dont have certain smoke effects or dont have vegetarion like grass and bushes so they can see people who would otherwise be hidden.


Then theres the incredibly lame reskinning types who make all the enemy players florescent yellow or something so they can see them.

The last two groups will argue yhe loudest that its not cheating and that its still all thier amazing skill
 
FoxEye said:
I don't understand serious competitive MP games full stop. Be it CS:GO, StarCraft or whatever.

Don't people get bored of playing the same content for years on end? Just to move up the ranking ladder?

No point answering that, btw. I will never understand.
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Its just like football, tennis, chess or any other game.

The rules and the playing feild are always the same the variation comes from your opponents
 
Get caught cheating then you get a hardware ban simple as, same with anyone caught cheating with steam accounts, the account is terminated with all games lost.
 
Tefal said:
Some will use the over the top spinning 1 shotting everyone cheats for the lolz of making everyone rage
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Use to do this on the uni soldier of fortune server on a drunken night in the odd occasion. Was great fun lol.

Wouldnt and havent ever cheated in competitive counterstrike and cs in general as i pride myself on my skill and ability to top a server when im on form (1 in 100)
 
FoxEye said:
Don't people get bored of playing the same content for years on end? Just to move up the ranking ladder?
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Depends on the game. People will get bored eventually, but some games become quite in depth when you reach higher levels. New strategies and the team play element are driving forces.
 
I don't know if it was cheating as such, but I felt the same in WoW when playing in battlegrounds. There would be 1 or 2 players wearing armour that was way overpowered for their character/level and would proceed to top the score board when the match was over.

I was mostly a PvE-er (dungeons, raids etc), but the above was my experience when I did PvP for a couple of weeks.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I don't know if it was cheating as such, but I felt the same in WoW when playing in battlegrounds. There would be 1 or 2 players wearing armour that was way overpowered for their character/level and would proceed to top the score board when the match was over.

I was mostly a PvE-er (dungeons, raids etc), but the above was my experience when I did PvP for a couple of weeks.
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I hated pvp in wow. It seemed like a huge advantage to have a bad connection which I suspect people gamed.
 
I mainly play team fortress 2 online these days. I think the best way to deal with this is to find a good community server, get to know people and you can police yourselves with kick votes.

Occasionally some get through still who are not regulars. I was playing spy a few weeks back and for anyone who doesn't know, this class can go completely invisible from the enemy team until the point they uncloak, become visible and attack.

This enemy sniper 'see's me running up a ramp past him with my invisibility cloak, turns round, slowly lines up his sights and head shots me whilst the other players on his team don't notice anything.
Unfortunately for him he must have been using a free unpaid version because after a while he kept flooding the chat with get good get ****** (starred out) and eventually got kicked.

Cheat all you like on single player games but don't cheat on multiplayer games because you are not good enough.
 
Cheating and getting away with it is actually a very useful survival skill.

I have always said (Only half joking) that the most successful middle managers are people who cheated at school and never got caught!

(You may hate them for it, but the ability to successfully take the credit for work that has actually been done for them by somebody else is a very useful skill)

I have no doubt that successful cheaters do better than average in life. as a result it would not seem unreasonable to suppose that a tendency to cheat might actually be an inheritable trait.
 
I should imagine it's all about the power fantasy. Plenty of single player games give you that (the whole one man army situation), lots of people really dig that.

I would imagine the feeling for MP games is, for most, more about the competitive element. But for some people they still want that power fantasy, so they cheat.
 
I've cheated in CS before, years ago, just searched for cs hacks, downloaded one and never got caught for it. Stupid how easy it is.

All sorts of crazy things at the press of a button, aim bot, wallhack, turning the level white so enemies stood out. you could even adjust the accuracy of the aimbot, so it didn't look too obvious. I bet there are people who continue to cheat for years who play in big clans and never get caught. Sad really.
 
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