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VisualfEX's avatar
7 years ago

On topic of hackers and how to fix

The only way to effectively prevent hacking in a f2p game honestly is to ban hardware. Banning just accounts does literally nothing because it's FREE and has NO rank system therefor hackers lose absolutely nothing besides a whole 3-5 minutes to just make a new account with the possibility of getting luckier on their newer accounts in terms of skins. Which let's be honest if you like to hack and your only downside is you'll have to waste 5 minutes creating a new account who will it really stop? If you've ever played any f2p games before you know hackers/botters run the show even on pay2play games honestly. It's just less on those because of the cost and some people aren't willing to dish out that cash after they get caught the first and maybe second time. However when you only lose literally nothing, then what's to stop them from just creating a new account. They obviously won't be buying skins anyway because they know they run the risk of losing the account. I figured I had to make this thread because of the influx of hacker/cheater posts and always answering people as to why it really makes no difference how much they upgrade their security or how many people they ban. Sure they banned 16k+ people but those 16k+ just made new accounts and are right back in the game anyway by the next queue. The only way which no company ever does this because then it can't inflate numbers is to ban hardware, which doesn't completely stop them but requires them to at least buy new parts on their rig to access the game which will put a huge dent into them. But again no company has nor will ever do that simply because they can't inflate numbers that way and no security system will ever be good enough to stop people from creating/using hacks regardless. This is the problem with free games, it's been a problem even in pubg and that's paid. 

The game itself is tons of fun, however if you get frustrated from losing easily then chances are your going to have a rough time. Not every match will have a hacker but there will be tons that do, the best thing to do is not take this seriously unless you stream or plan on becoming an Esports player of Apex if it grows to that level which I'm sure it will at some point. I still play but I go into it knowing that whether this match or the next one someones going to wall and see me or aim lock me and I'll lose regardless, as long as you just try to have fun it won't bug you as much. Just know it's free, so theres nothing to stop them from starting over and losing ANY progress besides a stat chart.

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  • EasyAntiCheat does HWID ban apparently, though it inst super effective as there are things called HWID spoofers that change a computers HWID, There will always be hackers in nearly any game you play so don't think it is an easy solution.
  • Banning hardware can still be just as easy to by pass.. I believe on easy cheat it only bans your graphics card from playing so just swap out that card for another one duh ? Or spoof it... Its not hard to do at all if you are willing. 

    Even then easy cheat is fairly easy to trick though until its updated with new address codes and such.. These people do go around looking for cheats online and create patches for them however it takes time to do it.. What your expecting is something that's done right away which would mean they would have to work 20x faster then what they are doing to create a new patch for THIS game... I mean its not like easy cheat has other games that need patched or anything. 

    If you wanted a game without cheaters forever then you would have to pretty much update the game on a weekly bias which would mean a dedicated group only for just your game.. Which would be expensive as heck considering... Even then though if a group of hackers where up to it they would keep up with it however the prices of their work would explode which would in turn keep the hackers down to a minimum, but none the less there would still be those select few running around till they get bored.  

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