Community Manager@STG_Mordin Sorry to hear that you have run into cheaters like that. That is never fun. For this one as it is an older title, you can follow the steps here, but ultimately if you are playing through the EA App, and you can look up their profile, there is a send report option. Either way, it goes to the Terms of Service and they handle all of these reports.
@STG_Mordin
I think there are certain weapon parameters that are local (mag size and rate of fire), at least in some cases. So I wouldn't worry that they are somehow modifying your game.
Given that, I think it is best to just accept the occasional cheat (as you mentioned you normally do). It's a 11 year old game, and co-op at that. So yeah, when it happens to me, I just last through that game and drop lobby (more annoying if it is yours, I admit).
I don't think that's how it works.
As an example, there's a mod on NexusMods which removes shotgun fire delay in multiplayer. The host must have this mod installed to have any effect. Clients without the mod installed on a modified host game will be unaffected.
So yes, if he can change parameters in my game without me having to install the same modifications then I am rightfully worried.
Community Manager@EA_ShepardCheck your DM please (I sent you a link to the video), and then tell me whether that's the gaming experience I should expect from EA multiplayer games?
All this talk about inclusivity, safe spaces, making sure that everyone is having fun, fair, and balanced gameplay, and you are telling me that EA can't even stop cheating this blatant?
I am a big fan of Mass Effect franchise, I sank a lot of money into those games, bought them on disc when they first came out, then digital on Steam, I have both the original trilogy and the (poorly) remastered Legendary edition. I have gifted ME3 to a couple of friends, and I even bought ME:Andromeda despite bad reviews and atrocious state of the game at launch.
But if this is the experience I can count on going forward when I play multiplayer in EA games, tell me why should I even consider buying the next Mass Effect game or any other EA game for that matter?
So EA not only won't protect players from abuse, but they are also actively protecting the cheaters -- I am not allowed to "name and shame" the cheater here to warn other players because "even cheaters have a right to privacy"?
In real life everyone has the right to privacy until they break the law. Once there is reasonable doubt (someone reports them to the authorities and the claim is valid) they automatically lose their right to privacy, and if the bad deed is proven they can lose other rights too. I don't see why it should be any different just because it's happening on the Internet.
How I see it, many game companies tolerate cheaters because they can extract profit from them -- they get banned, they create new account, buy the game again, rinse, repeat. The fact that it creates toxic environment for normal players who also paid for the right to enjoy the game apparently can't be allowed to stand in the way of corporate profits.
