[Cheats] Online PVP FPS Games, could you be arsed?

dreamers75

/Old person rant.

I have realised the last few months I have subconciously abstained from playing PVP games on PC simply due to other players cheating. I was informed of this by my casual gaming buddies.

I have "all the games" on PC for good PVP FPS* and somehow stopped playing them earlier in the year, I used to fcuking love them and not give a **** about being killed by ZhangXXIVIVIVIVIV who was playing on a different server probably in a different game ....but fcuk it he killed me and earned it.

At some point I literally could not be arsed playing a game that doesnt have a level playing field and started playing more PVE games simply because they rewarded time played over skill** Which is also ****.

I do miss playing them but if I sit at the PC to play a game and scroll through the games I have...I literally think fcuk it cant be arsed with flying cars or lads running at me deployable shields on their heads.

*R6S, PUBG, BFV, COD27?,Squad,Hell let Loose, Rising Storm.

**Destiny2, Div2, 7dtd,Arma 3.


Probably missed some games but point remains i am old and cba playing against someone who sees me from a different fcuking server.

The reason i stopped playing PUBG which i used to love. Getting head shotted from across the map....No thanks.

Homelander

Cheating is still rare enough, wouldn't let the odd experience ruin it for you. I play a lot of Apex and there are definitely cheaters, but they are very rare in the overall scheme of things. Maybe get a blatant one on my team or be killed by one, roughly 1 in 20 games or so.

The mindset of cheaters baffles me. Why do they do it, what's the point, what do you get out of it. A few easy wins before you are banned. Respawn have a good approach to Apex, if you are caught cheating you get a hardware based account ban, so new accounts will also not work unless you change certain hardware.

nix

Yeah it defo sucks but as Homelander said, its pretty rare on the grand scheme of things, i very rarely encountered hackers in apex or in pubg when i played.

I think Apex, when they catch cheaters, they have started just filtering those that cheat into the same servers away from others so they are just constantly hacking against other hackers, much better than banning tbh as it will likely take them awhile to realise it..

Don't let it get you down, just report, shrug it off and next game

dreamers75

I used to be fine with it but think having less gaming time is probably an issue, if I am going to play a game I am not playing a game where some fcuker nails me from 3 miles away with a handgun.

Spear

While the cheats situation is specific to a given game, I can only recall one obvious cheater in one game over the last 10 years or more, and that was an aimbotter in Battlefield V.

In something like World of Tanks, where mass bans are done with names being made public, it was noted that they all maintained poor stats. Cheats didn't prove to be a replacement for skills such as proper understanding of mechanics or spatial awareness.

Canis Lupus

CS:GO it's rampant although never really put me off the game. Just lost interest.

Battlefield games it's reasonably common. Haven't played in a while, started it up a week ago and at least twice in the short period I played we'd a machine gunner headshotting left right and centre across the map.

The Division when it released is the only game I've played where cheaters made me stop playing. Couldn't cope with the mess that was the dark zone. By the time they started to try and deal with the situation it was too late for me and I'd moved on.

Overwatch is my current game and it's hard to spot hacking there given the difference in characters etc. I've only seen one cheater once who was a tracer that had a centre of mass auto lock. Was blatant and I reckon they were banned based on the pop up I got a week or so later.

ANyway it's frustrating but what can you do? You just have to suck it up and move on unfortunately because it's never likely to be stopped.

Subcomandante Marcos

The rise of popularity of mice with onboard memory has lead to a massive increase in specific types of cheating in fps games, especially battle Royale games.
The ability to load a profile on the mouse that automatically compensates for recoil or even to click faster when using a DRM is being exploited massively within certain games and is almost impossible to detect or stop.

This is exactly why I play FPS multiplayer on console, get yourself an Xbox One X. Sure, you get cheaters there too using keyboard\mouse but personally I don't believe it gives them the advantage they think it does. Maybe it gives a boost to someone who is crap with a controller but no huge advantage other than that imo.

Homelander

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

The rise of popularity of mice with onboard memory has lead to a massive increase in specific types of cheating in fps games, especially battle Royale games.
The ability to load a profile on the mouse that automatically compensates for recoil or even to click faster when using a DRM is being exploited massively within certain games and is almost impossible to detect or stop.

Fair enough, but that's leagues away from actual aimbot/wallhack cheaters.

Obviously recoil compensation and whatever will give them an advantage, borderline cheating to some, but it won't make or break good players really, so I can live with it.

Subcomandante Marcos

Homelander wrote: »

Fair enough, but that's leagues away from actual aimbot/wallhack cheaters.

Obviously recoil compensation and whatever will give them an advantage, borderline cheating to some, but it won't make or break good players really, so I can live with it.

In FPS games with large maps like say PUBG or RoE the ability to spray people from 200 metres at full auto and have no recoil is a massive advantage, there's nothing borderline about it, it's cheating.

Homelander

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

In FPS games with large maps like say PUBG or RoE the ability to spray people from 200 metres at full auto and have no recoil is a massive advantage, there's nothing borderline about it, it's cheating.

I do get it for sure, but it won't overcome game sense, tactical play, etc. Don't get me wrong, I agree entirely, it's a radically unfair advantage.

But nothing like aimbotting.

Subcomandante Marcos

Homelander wrote: »

I do get it for sure, but it won't overcome game sense, tactical play, etc. Don't get me wrong, I agree entirely, it's a radically unfair advantage.

But nothing like aimbotting.

yeah I get ya. Compared to aimbotting/spinbotting or wall hacking in closer games like R6 Siege or CS:GO it doesn't have the same level of "oh **** this guy" rage inducement, but I still hates it!

Lone Stone

i remember playing a battle field game online on the pc and about 10 of us stood around a guy stabbing and shooting him, he never did die. but we did.