Re: Hideouts has just banned 1300 Arenas cheaters

Number of preds who got banned.

I had read about this some weeks ago on reddit, but here's an article on one way matchmaking was being exploited.

What I don't see in this article was this: Players were grouping up on distant servers in order to trade losses back and forth.  It had something to do with one player leaving the game at some exact point in the match.  Loss protection and other exploitable MM mechanics were involved.  The batch banned about a half a year ago weren't playing against anyone at all except their other "friends."

I wonder how many of the players just now banned had already been banned once before, just this January?

@Sand_spitterWell they didn't really kill randoms since Arenas is 6 people only and it was 2 teams grouping up trading.

But that is a boatload! So of the few people playing arenas barely any are legit 🤣

@Sand_spitterIts Arenas so 2 groups of 3 click ready at the same time. With how low the players base is I'd bet it was easy.