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lookinin
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago

Once Again: Out of Control Hacking is Making GW2 Unplayable

Once again I found myself in a game that was unplayable because of hacking. This time it was some formless aberration with strobing effects. Image attached. Not only did it give me a headache after only a few seconds but I though I might have a seizure. This is not an exaggeration. I'm going to keep posting about these hacks just so it's in the record. This is unacceptable. EA is still selling this game even though it's broken and players are abusing it and not being banned. And there's certainly been enough posts about this so EA can't claim ignorance. Time to take this to another level. I'm talking about a formal complaint with my state's attorney general's office. 

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  • We need to keep reporting these despite some folk on Reddit saying not to bother and I'm glad you posted this. I reported a hacker late last year that was floating around, using rainbow warp as a foot soldier, and so on.

    This can't be that hard to deal with, even as they cut support to a minimum which I find to be a big mistake as people are obviously still playing the game and I can get more populated matches in GW2 than in BfN (ignoring bots of course). 

    To EA/PopCap: despite GW2's age and lack of new content, it's still being played and a lot of us love the PvZ shooters and would like obvious hackers/cheaters to be dealt with in a timely manner. Seeing so many new faces and old ones to boot, getting rid of these malcontents would be a massive help to the game's population and fun. 

    The game is being sold and played so a certain level of minimum support is expected. It's important to note that we want to play the game and many folks will buy coins and the upgrade packs (I certainly have over the years), especially if they know the cheaters are being dealt with. Surely it's worth the time and effort to deal with these bad apples so more people can enjoy the game?

  • @lookinin I know what you mean. I’ve seen you on some of the pc lobbies before, and it was an absolute hell as I was bombarded by a sudden spawning of mystic sunflowers. Plus, I am really trying to grind out coins as computer scientist is my dream character, so hackers do not help this situation at all.
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    AceB011
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago

    haha ask me.. i can flood you with tons of pictures and video clips, is all useless, i meant about reporting.. almost, some are getting banned but then they would reappeared with fresh new name after a month or two, and do the same cheat thing, some i bet are members on this forum also and watch the posts quietly, cuz after a while i'd see that i have new friend request from the cheater itself lol 
    everyday at least on EU server there's minimum one cheater, some of them play regularly until they see their teams are about to lose the round then they magically converts into some kind of mix between a boss character with more weird abilities like spams tons of Vampire Zombies or Disco bosses dealing huge damage. Last night we got situation on Zomburbia map, a well known cheater used the Treasure Yeti and was standing on the last spot where plants are supposed to destroy zombies party and to crash the cake, so he was staying there and there was no way for we to activate the last handle, shoot at him ? useless he had over 10,000 energy judging by the red line going so slow, try to get close to him ? again useless every plant character was getting kicked back at distance, and dealing damage to you.. i can say a lot more.. but is enough for now.. happy gaming anyway haha

  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    5 years ago

    Man that stinks! It does sound like EU is worse than NA now (always used to seem better). Tuesday night I had jumped in to play some TT for quests again and had no issue with hackers in the lobby so was able to get the quests done fairly quickly.

    To the devs: This needs to be dealt with much better than it has been. I know the PvZ shooters aren't front and center but this is unacceptable. No one should have to deal with these hackers.

  • AceB011's avatar
    AceB011
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago

    well yes, more stink is that they EA/PopCap doesn't ban them, i report them everyday at least 5 times on one round, which means i'm spamming the report option and nothing.. actually is getting worst, just 2-3 hours ago there was 3 cheaters on one lobby on Moon Base Z

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