I was playing wildcard yesterday and this person was in my party. I removed their ID and name so that there is nothing identification wise. Was absolutely nuts. They were cracking and knocking people out of the air on their drops with a charge rifle. Also using a wingman close up and knocking people left and right.
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took care of that already... thx
Just going to say this again here... these cheating problems are not hard to solve. EA just doesn't care enough to do it. How do you do it, limit people to 1 account, require them to provide a phone number and email for the account and use that phone number or another as a multi-factor authentication (username/password/text code) to launch the game. Many games do this already and don't have cheating problems. Once people can only have a single account and know that their account will be banned for cheating, they will stop cheating.
Kinda agree on the other hand I would be one of those people who would think twice to give Respawn (given their past record of security issues including live tournament hack) my main phone number.
In my country and I know in many more you can actually buy legit new phone sim card for as little as 2 EUR or sometimes even less. Not to mention booming e-sim business = basically people who spend 50$+ on cheats can easily add a few more EUR and just continue ruining the game. Only winners in this case will be sim providers.
Additionally if we assume people have just 1 sim => Preds and streamers would cry instantly as they would not be able to create random accounts for their abusive rookie to pred runs.
Plus this integration would take away resources from skin making :D bad for business :P
EA_Barry - stop advertising in game reporting system that is not working forever. I have not see actual case of it making any difference for past 20! seasons, despite being crazy active reporter in there and doubling-down on many people via web form and submitting clear vods that noone on your team even watched (still 99% of videos have 0 views and players in them still play the game). Better just be quite than to "spit in our faces" copy/paste template misinformation.
Feel free to prove me wrong - I will give you names of reported players and you tell me why they still around :D
You might be right, some people will go to great extents, but most won't. Therefore, it can still be an effective deterrent. In terms of the remainder and the lack of an effective system, they could do better. Detecting various inputs hacks like steam configs, controller hacks, etc. can be done. It's a computer, they can log/analyze the data and automatically ban (especially now with AI), it's more about the cost and resources to do it. They don't want to invest. Instead they have a crappy system that doesn't really work that makes people think they are doing something about the problem.
To be fair I think these days it is much easier to hack.
Way back when I started:
These days speed in which info exchange is done and number of hacks available and packages - walls, radars, aimbots, recoil cancelling, HWID spoofers etc. - are just insane. You just need to bring money and done.
Also back in the days at least in my country people (kids / highschool) had like at best 50$ per month for basically everything. So we could not even dream about buying hacks. These days spoiled losers get 50$ per day or at least per week so pocket change for them to buy lifetime subscription.
I assume if 2FA or similar thing will be added hacker companies would just add e-sim or 2FA bypass to the package and just charge extra 10$.
As for Respawn...it is just sad that they can't implement at least similarly crapy but operational AI as say Titan hacks have (based on Zeus YT videos) or gather and flags metrics like amazingly fast flicks on targets time after time say 10-15 times per game, or insane accuracy game after game and so on. I am quite sure it should all be trackable but companies are just lazy.
Same in Valorant - dude goes for 60% HS rate, top frags 2x-3x more than 2nd place, then drops a few games below 1 k/d and 10% HS, then goes back to 40+% HS rate and Riot says that's all good :D
Big companies are either stupid or just covering for hackers for profits. Can't be anything in between. I would make no sense that multi million dollar companies can't apprehend some garage hack builders with pre-built template sites that all are like and done for like 200$
And I mean there is a list of things that show how sloppy Respawn has been towards player base:
List is just too big for such a AAA game. Glad Expedition 33 #goty just showed everyone how it is done and how hopefully such studios will just annihilate big fat cats of the industry in near future.
What can you expect from Easy Anti-Cheat if it detects nothing and let this Bangalore play the entire game? He probably played on that account for a few more hours, maybe days, before he received enough player reports. EAC stopped detecting the simplest things, let alone Zen, Titan, Xim etc.
A few days ago, I was watching a streamer (very niche, only 2-3 viewers, but I checked it out of curiosity after I was killed by it in a strange way) who had something called jitter, meaning mouse scripts. When he shot, the crosshairs would shake slightly left and right (very fast and very regular vibrations). But I gave up on them, because there are so many cheaters here, you can't count them, bro.
Game just won game of the year... I guess:
a) apex barely won best multiplayer game of the year
b) I am not the only one saying Expedition 33 is amazing
c) glad it is not multiplayer and people of your level of intellectual and emotional intelligence can't spoil it
With this development team, this game won't win anything (Apex). Unless:
for the most unbalanced game of the year
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