why do cheats bother playing PC games?

Someone still plays Quake 4? Used to love that game. The hacker thing is tedious, funnily enough I've not come across that many in BLOPS2, it's blatantly obvious when you do come across them and they tend to get abused to the point of leaving within one round.
 
Jamesyboyjim said:
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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My team used to play mTw and TAMMER all the time, on the whole fantastic guys but they had a sniper who was amazing online but an absolute **** at lan, always knew where people were coming from.

Yeah lots of hackers around and until they face serious consequences then nothing will change.

Some will do it for a laugh/some to claim they are pro - i just don't want what precious time I have for gaming these days to be ****ed up.

Consoles have cheater issues too, just harder to do.
 
Because kids are **** heads and kids can go into their 30's. I'd kill children at birth but people say that simply doesn't work, something about next generations, needing people in the future, what about when you get old, but I think that's just PC tuds.
 
COD is definitely the worst for it. I tried playing MW2 and BLOPS recently and every single person was using hacks. The devs don't care what happens as long as the money keeps rolling in. I will never buy another COD game, and haven't since MW3.
 
i remember back in the days when i played rtcw: enemy territory, it was pretty bad for cheaters but as we were on dedicated servers with admin/ref status we just kicked them off/banned them,
what was fun though was when a list of email addresses used to buy et:bot was hacked from the cheat makers website, lots of "pro's" turned out to be using teh h4x :)
 
Spook187 said:
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.
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That's not what happens to steam accounts on the first instance, or even the second of being caught cheating.
 
I've done it before, back in COD WaW, during the BETA. For the last couple of weeks of the BETA there was an aimbot supplier offering the program for free, so I gave it a go because I thought it would be interesting to see what it's like.

TBH it was a good laugh, and the closer it got to the end of the BETA the more people had the aimbot, so it got quite interesting to have aimbot vs aimbot.

I wouldn't do it with a proper game though, as much of a laugh as it is to begin with, it gets boring fairly quick, and you don't get any sense of achievement out of it. Saying that, however, there will be people who's only sense of achievement is how much they win & the method to get there doesn't bother them.
 
R.C.Anderson said:
I've done it before, back in COD WaW, during the BETA. For the last couple of weeks of the BETA there was an aimbot supplier offering the program for free, so I gave it a go because I thought it would be interesting to see what it's like.

TBH it was a good laugh, and the closer it got to the end of the BETA the more people had the aimbot, so it got quite interesting to have aimbot vs aimbot.

I wouldn't do it with a proper game though, as much of a laugh as it is to begin with, it gets boring fairly quick, and you don't get any sense of achievement out of it. Saying that, however, there will be people who's only sense of achievement is how much they win & the method to get there doesn't bother them.
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Imo, it's not the winning they do it for it's the kudos. I would hazard a guess that most of the top players who make friends on fast fps games like cod/Mw/q3,4 want the satisfaction of being reveled by their peers. They don't care if it's by cheating.
 
I gave up online fps mainly because i didnt have the stamina to get "pro" enough to not get brutally murdered every round, which lets face it ruins any kind of enjoyment you get out of it.

For a time i did once consider starting into it again fired up waw on the ps3 and literally the first match i joined i spawned 300m in the air, insta-ranked to maximum prestige then got banned from the game.

Was fine 15 mins later once the game figured out it was one hacker who had done this to everyone in the match, but surely thats utterly pointless hacking? You dont even get to play yourself its literally just ruining a bunch of folks fun.

Since then i only do co-op matches or just with freinds i know, no point bothering with online if thats the state of it
 
I can understand why people do it (best score, sense of achievement, etc.) but when you step back and think about what they're actually doing, literally just sitting there letting a script do all the work, it's pretty sad. Like by that point they're barely playing the game anymore, so unless they somehow find pressing left click every so often and moving about "fun", they're only really in it to see their names at the top of the scoreboard.

Or they just like the feeling of "wrecking" other players, intentionally disturbing a legitimate match by using hacks to stop all forms of actual skill level and competitiveness in their tracks. Gives them a sense of power, that just by themselves they can disrupt and annoy an entire servers worth of players, just "trolling".
 
there was a recent thread same as this in here. basically any multiplayer fps or even other game will have cheats in it.

cheats are massive business.

best to either just not get mad about it or just except they are going to be playing.

it wont ever stop as the resources to catch stop the hacks often dip into the profits. so you left to third party groups who have either less people working on catching breaking the cheats or less money than the private paid hacks you buy.so you cant win.
 
Cheating has always been a part of computer gaming. I remember even in the NES/SNES/Megadrive days, magazines would have telephone hotlines and even occasionally publish cheat books that enables whatever inbuilt cheats to be activated.

Of course with multiplayer online PC gaming, there is the continuation to inbuilt cheats (mainly single player mode) but cheats form a big part of the mod community and they have their place, but not in a standard game.

I'm a big L4D2 fan (quick and easy to get into when I have little gaming time) and there is very little cheating on hosted games, particularly with the nature of the co-op style of play, but there are regularly little twerps that think it funny to try and kill team mates or just stir things up.

Quake is a classic for cheats.
 
Cheating or lying your way to the top will always be a thing, it happens in all walks of life, people will find shortcuts for everything and the majority of the time it ***** someone else over.
 
You also find a lot players, or ones who can't improve their own game like to curse/accuse/rage at better players by calling them cheats/hackers and all sorts! I've found that more rife personally than anyone actually cheating. Some people just like to rage out on others for their bad playing, instead of just excepting they got beat :I
 
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