BF2042 has become unplayable at this point
How do people even stand to play this game anymore? I'll tell ya. Go hacks or go home, thats how. Feel like pushing a point with your squad? Too bad, there's a wall hacker sitting around ...
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@NavyRigger05 wrote:How do people even stand to play this game anymore?
And please, don't insult the rest of us by saying that you've been playing since the game released and never seen a hacker. You're either one of the guilty parties being accused and ruining what could otherwise be a wonderful game, or you're just choosing to be ignorant on purpose. It's gotten bad enough, you can tell the difference between getting killed by a hacker, and getting killed by a legit player. I've put in the hours. I've grinded the weapons I like. I've read the guides and learned how to play each class how it should be played, and which weapons suit each operator the best. Don't tell me get good. I am as good as I am going to get while still playing legit. I'm not the problem. The game isn't the problem. The community is. If you're reading this and one of those players that are ruining the game for everyone else by using a hack, shame on you. Do better. Be better. Otherwise, may you have the day you so rightly deserve for ruining an otherwise amazing game.
Whelp. I haven't played for about 2 or 3 months now (since I completed the last battlepass), but at least up til then (since launch, and hundreds of hours played), I had never seen what is commonly referred to as a "rage hacker" where they are just head shotting everyone on the field almost immediately, or flying around seemingly with noclip, etc. I saw those in previous BF games (at least in BF1 and prior, didn't play much V [or much 1 honestly].
Could also be the region you play in? I 100% believe those that live in Europe or Asia-Pacific are hit way harder than in the US by this. I am in the Midwest/US so I imagine paired with East cost folks and I just haven't seen it. At least not in an obvious fashion that it generally would be. I've been playing online FPS now for about 25 years, am well aware of hackers going back to early TFC/counter-strike/quake/etc [and through some CoD and plenty of BF since 1942].
Nah, and you won't see rage hackers. Not at more at least. Most rage hackers don't care about hiding that they're hacking. My guess is they have a pirated copy of the game and don't care about losing it, but that's just speculation. Nowadays, they are careful about hiding it, masking it even to the point where your casual Joe wouldn't know the difference between aimbot and aim assist. Instead of headshotting you outright, they do a couple body shots with a sniper rifle, even though you're zigging and zagging in a full sprint that only a lucky shot could nail you with, let alone two back to back shots from a bolt action. Or they sit around a corner and wait for you to come around and pop out, gun up before they come around the corner and then defend their hacking accusation by saying they could see you on the mini-map. Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking aim assist. I 100% agree aim assist should be a thing for consoles for obvious reasons. I am US ETZ, east coast US, but my work schedule puts me online about the same time as Aussie/China/Russian TZ's.
- @NavyRigger05 I wonder if the last part could be part of it? Maybe they are VPNing into east-US time zones during that time frame?
I will say the corner part isn't that unbelievable, given the footstep sounds (I do that all the time), or frankly, how everyone is basically spotted the whole game via either Q-spotting, TUGs, pokeballs, Blasco's sensor thing, vehicle spotting, and of course anything non-suppressed shooting lighting you up as well.
I won't disagree that there are hackers, you see videos posted here and reddit and such, I just haven't (fortunately) ran into maybe more than a couple players that made me second guess. Versus blaming issues on lag compensation, netcode, aim-assist, or the numerous spotting methods. I would regularly play with a couple guys that were just ridiculously good at shooters and when we're in a full squad together we'd almost always be top-4 on the boards with kills/caps/assists/revives/etc and because of the revives and repairing of vehicles (for example) our death count would be in the low-single digits, and occasionally 0.If few rage hackers upset you, how would this post look if you knew the actual number.
America and Europe are actually the cheat provider's biggest market, and there is little difference between an Asian who can rage from an internet cafe and Americans or Europeans who pay for their cheats.
Claiming that cheaters are few, just because you haven't seen many.
Is a bit of the same as claiming, Sony doesn't sell consoles, because I haven't seen many people around me use them. Then, it doesn't matter how big a track record you have in gaming. Because the sales figures speak against you.
