ALGS regional finals suspended due to hacking
I'm actually laughing a little because regular gamers have been complaining about cheaters for years and nothing has been done about it. If this doesn't light a fire under EA and Respawn, nothing wi...
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It was RCE so the hacker was able to access Gen and Hal's PCs remotely and either install & run cheats or run cheats already there. Either way, EAC didn't detect anything and the wall hacks were broadcast for everyone to see. Hal was the one who said he thought he'd had aim bot installed on his machine when they suspended the match.
In any case, NOT a good day PR wise for both Apex and EAC (neither a good day for the devs ofc). Even if EAC detected something, not all bans are executed immediately. Or, IF it's an RCE vulnerability, the cheat code might've spawned within/emerged from the game process which isn't the usual scenario EAC is trying to detect and/or counteract.
My concern is that they will either not publicly address this, or if they do... they will not be honest and upfront about what is going on, so as the entire player base doesn't stop playing - spending.
Is it far fetched for me to feel EA/Respawn will not be honest if it means profit drops as hard as they can hit?
..... depending the outcome of an investigation of course.
Doesn't matter if this was RCE, server side, or rootkit on compromised PCs. Destroyer showed he can do both. Month ago he has sent 30+ bots after HisWattson etc.(so server side), now he rootkited (guessing) ALGS's PCs.
Remember when Titanfall servers got hacked? Fixing took so long that hardly anyone returned leading to the game dying.
So be careful what you wish for in terms of EA addressing the situation or taking action 😉
https://www.gamesradar.com/the-titanfall-2-devs-have-quietly-fixed-the-beloved-fps-and-fans-are-convinced-that-its-the-start-of-something-bigger/This whole thing is an absolute embarrassment to EA, Respawn, and Apex.
Instead of shrugging their shoulders, EA/Respawn should of taken the game offline until further investigations, which would of determined if the game was safe to play, and to patch out any issues that they come across. (Which, they should of taken action months ago, especially when the hacker was giving pros a bunch of packs, and was even opening it on their accounts). This should of been a MASSIVE red flag that it needed to be looked into.
Also, from what I can tell, understand, and gather, Gen really didn't notice they had aimbot, and I didn't even notice they had knocked a different player until I saw the one who I thought they knocked still shooting at Gen, which at that moment the cheat GUI popped up, and Gen had to leave.
Hal on the other hand, noticed the hack, told his team, and yet stayed in the match and kept playing despite being told to disconnect. A few of the other players were even shot down by Hal while the aimbot was active by the remote hack. This to me is still considered to be cheating even though Hal didn't install the cheats.
Also, why wasn't the match ended the MOMENT the hacks were discovered? Why was it allowed to keep on being played out? The ALGS Twitter had announced afterwards that they're postponing the event due to the tournament's integrity. WHERE was that concern when Gen unknowingly had aimbotted another, and found out they had wall hacks too? The event should of been instantly ended right then and there, especially when it became clear that it wasn't Gen's fault.
I really hope they fix the game, get a better anti-cheat, and perma ban Hal for using cheats they knew they suddenly had, and for refusing to maintain the game's fairness and integrity by staying in the match, but I won't hold my breath.
For those of you who think Hal shouldn't be banned, he literally shot players down after staying in the match, which was after saying he "just won't shoot". He understood he was given cheats, and yet didn't do anything to stop them from being used like how Gen did. This should NOT be overlooked.
If I was Hal, I would of instantly ALT + F4'ed without hesitating, told my team I got hacked, and notified the admins. NOT stay and abuse the cheats.
