!!!!!!BE CAREFUL WITH HACKERS AND HACKED CHESTS!!!!!!

[SiR DraGraK]

Some hackers are spawning chests (the same chests with gold and money from treasure maps), then they teleport you to the place with these chests and if you innocently take one or more (for what I know even if you take only one you will be marked), then you will have your account suspend for 30 days and all your status/progress reset like me and my friend unfortunately, we will lose the second pass too, and we are thinking if we will continue to play or not. But just trying to warn you guys don't take these chests for nothing, if you already took well... just wait for it... (If you have your account suspend for this even if you try to speak with the support they won't change nothing, and of course the worst is having all your progress reset). Other thing that I suggest but is something old, is to set always your posse closed and only invited people that you trust, because some hackers are donating hacked stuff (or duplicated itens) for cripps and the leader of the posse gets the punishment for it... So I hope none of you who are reading go through what my friend and I went through...

[Eminem]

All good tips.....for the gullible and there are many.

Hacks have their fun in no free aim lobbies for sure but the true targets are all in the controller ones. All the gullible newb players on pc get defaulted straight there and many don't read boards at all to know what the settings hidden in the controller tab do.

[Echo2Omega]

If they keep punishing all the non-hacker players they won't be any players left to play.

Maybe R* should do something about the hackers.

Oh wait. Its R* and after 5 years GTA online is still riddled with hackers as always.

[SiR DraGraK]

Originally posted by Echo2Omega:

If they keep punishing all the non-hacker players they won't be any players left to play.

Maybe R* should do something about the hackers.

Oh wait. Its R* and after 5 years GTA online is still riddled with hackers as always.

Yeah i agree, but looks like they don't care, so I'm trying to help because I don't want to see more innocent players suspend or banned for this ******** Hackers, I think the right is Rockstar get rid of this Hackers and don't ban or suspend players like this, and the worst is that they say "bans and suspensions can't be discussed and are definitive", If only the hackers are banned this would be perfect but i think they will continue to lose innocent players at this rate...

[River Tam]

The reason they are riddled with hackers is NO ONE REPORTS them. You can report right from the player menu.

Usually R* does not ban players who are forced Gold/Money drops. Worse I have seen they remove it. But if ran around gathering it. That is different. Usually when I see the actions of a script kiddy I usually the leave session right away.

Sometime not all bans are final. R* will review and if found that you did nothing. The ban is lifted/removed within 7 business days.

[River Tam]

The main reason why we will never see the end of script kiddies is.

When the get caught. They just buy another copy, get a new steam account and continue on with their ways. If caught again they just rinse and repeat.

What R* needs to do. It may seem harsh. But a hardware block. Then they only way they can continue is to buy a new motherboard. I think we would see a slow down of script kiddies.

[O2Z]

maybe d em cockstar devs could get better anticheat and work on the game not just wait to earn cash from it they wont get ride of the hackers theyre garbage look at gtao 5 years and still hackers

[River Tam]

Originally posted by Blendi:

maybe d em cockstar devs could get better anticheat and work on the game not just wait to earn cash from it they wont get ride of the hackers theyre garbage look at gtao 5 years and still hackers

Last time they tried an anti-cheat (March 2017 if memory serves me right) was for GTA 5. There was so many non-cheating players temp banned (it was in the thousands) they removed the program. All the players got their stuff back.

Being P2P and not an actual server it is really hard for R* to detect the cheating. (That is why it is important if you see a cheater, just report them and leave the session.) Plus most script kiddies now that the only time R* really looks is during a release of a new DLC, or a money give away they do quite often in GTA 5. So they will clean up their PC.

[Seijana]

I'm a bit worried that Rockstar will ban players for simply getting teleported at this rate, something that, of course, only the cheaters have control over.

[〘D E A D | D R O P〙]

Piles of medical boxes too, seen them spawn a ton of them once in saint denis.

[River Tam]

When you see that happening. Quite the game and restart it. Just do not leave. If you leave your next session could be bugged.

When players realize that R* does not monitor the lobbies and start reporting cheaters through the menu, or web site if you have video. Then it will just continue. Until we as a players do something about it.

[keyplr]

I met somebody as a horse, playing music, blowing up Valentine. Every once in while she would tp away and tp back, terrorizing the town.

[Ludicrous_Speed]

Originally posted by River Tam:

Originally posted by Blendi:

maybe d em cockstar devs could get better anticheat and work on the game not just wait to earn cash from it they wont get ride of the hackers theyre garbage look at gtao 5 years and still hackers

Last time they tried an anti-cheat (March 2017 if memory serves me right) was for GTA 5. There was so many non-cheating players temp banned (it was in the thousands) they removed the program. All the players got their stuff back.

Being P2P and not an actual server it is really hard for R* to detect the cheating. (That is why it is important if you see a cheater, just report them and leave the session.) Plus most script kiddies now that the only time R* really looks is during a release of a new DLC, or a money give away they do quite often in GTA 5. So they will clean up their PC.

So that excuses just not having one? They had a broken anti-cheat system, get a functional one. Installing cheats in both games is as easy as installing drag and drop mods, it's ridiculously easy and Rockstar has done nothing to make it more difficult. If P2P is making it difficult maybe they should put some money into dedicated servers like so many publishers and developers already do, they have the money.

The problem is Rockstar's lack of caring, not just a lack of reporting. They tried to use a broken anti-cheat system years ago... and what else? They ban a few people, more than sometimes someone who isn't actually cheating, and that's it. There's not much us players can do to fix this issue, there's a plethora of things Rockstar could do. They're just not going to do any of it because they don't care, they're still making money from gold bars either way.

[Eminem]

Rockstar don't care about casuals nor have reasons to change their play button when GTAV has become a huge financial success. Even 2019 showed no signs of slowing it down.

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[Noxsa]

Trust me R* does not care... my GTAO account got wrecked by R* and to give proof they don't care i'll explain.

back in the days when hack tool users could spawn money bags above a player! some kid spawned moneybags above evey person in the lobby, at that time i was afk for like 5mins give or take, when i came back i had MILLIONS! and the baggs still came from the sky, i ran inside, logged off and contacted R* support (more or less out of fear) to remove all that cash i did not earn. now here's the kicker... after a few days i get the message, your account has bin reset!

the ♥♥♥♥ tards resetted my entire account, labeled me as the purp ! seriously still till this day i can't earn money, it instantly gets removed from my account, because i had loads of stuff before the money drop and they took that as "cheated in" too i guess so i need to pay that off twice! F U rock star.

then again here i em, playing RDO a rock star game... i'll never learn.

[JHarlequin]

It is unfortunate that rockstar does not provide warnings on some of these issues, but the issues are almost obvious at times.

As for the story of being afk in gta online and earning millions then getting banned when you reported it. I saw pretty much the same story from another person and several people actually proved that the player was actively making youtube videos of how they got free money from modders.

People that did not realize the money was not real did get banned for it in gta. But every player that did realize there was an issue and they reported it or at least avoided it kept their accounts.

As this thread title states, if a chest is spawned near you, you should probably just avoid it unless you were doing something to find the chest. If it is for a treasure map that you were using then it is probably okay. If it is in the back of a wagon in a camp that you just shot up, then it is probably okay. If it is in a hideout you cleared then it is probably okay. If you were fishing and teleport to the middle of Lakay (the swamps) and see a chest just sitting there, you need to walk away.