Cheater situation?

[Dingo]

I am thinking about getting into the game but honestly ive heard alot of ♥♥♥♥ about cheaters and hackers and their ilk, and that the devs were not doing proper cleanup.
How are things looking now?

[Knomesfella]

You're going to run into them from time to time, sure, but then again, you could genuinely just get one-tapped by a real player or even an AI. This actually happened to me, I ran out of an airlock with full high-tier kit and the ai just one-shot me in the head.
According to steamcharts, the player count has been sitting between 100-300 players daily so statistically, you might run into a cheater more frequently. I stopped playing a while back and now just waiting for the full release (whenever that's coming, the devs have said it would be sooner, but it looks like its getting pushed back a while longer) because maybe that will being an increase to the player-base.

My honest opinion, it's a fun game but wait for the full release.

[Baby Sized Oven]

I've seen 1 cheater in about 100 hours.

[METTCtheDoc]

Hey Zoidberg. I will fight against those reviews. We have implemented a LOT of different Anti Cheat Methods and on top of all of that also process manual reports as well. We are really passionate about keeping the community safe from cheaters. I personally spend alot of time on my weekdays and weekends processing reports and checking in on things, and thats just me, we have a team of people specifically set aside just for that.

[[SIG]Ares]

Hey, Zoidberg. Cheaters are everywhere, not only in this game, but what I can assure you is that we have a concrete process for addressing and removing them from the game as we want to keep our game environment healthy like everyone else does. First, we have anti-cheat software that runs before the game loads, and it's a pre-requisite. That means you can't play the game without loading the anti-cheat. In the event that the cheater bypasses for any reason, we have a manual banning process that requires your help so we can do a fair investigation before completely banning a cheater once proven.

You can submit a report on our Discord community #player-reports if you want to ask for a review. Here's the link to our discord, so you can observe our community: https://discord.gg/marauders

[KilledJoy]

Originally posted by BuryTheRodent:

I've seen 1 cheater in about 100 hours.

Roughly the same. The issues of this game are GREATLY exaggerated. Ive run into probably 3 cheaters in all my total game time ever. And maybe 1 that was "is this a cheater"... the rest were all "is that a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ai bot with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god aim or a player" before they made it easier to tell them apart.

That said for the acoustic people out there in this forum... yes we all know cheaters do exist this is not a post saying they dont exist just that you are exaggerating it.

[Rookie]

nuh uh

[youforia]

When i was playing the cheaters weren't all that bad, but on steamcharts over the last month the game barley reaches 300 players

[Kakapo]

Let me tell you about my story.

A random cheater breach into my ship, ran at the speed at sound to me. I dump the whole maggazine. It didn't kill the cheater, However the cheater didn't shoot back. He point the gun downward. I dropped my bag. He only took a pieces of paper and then left.

Moral of this story: paper quest is hard, even hacker struggle with it.

[[SIG]Hades]

Originally posted by Masterbait(er):

Let me tell you about my story.

A random cheater breach into my ship, ran at the speed at sound to me. I dump the whole maggazine. It didn't kill the cheater, However the cheater didn't shoot back. He point the gun downward. I dropped my bag. He only took a pieces of paper and then left.

Moral of this story: paper quest is hard, even hacker struggle with it.

Felt this one T ^ T idk if I'll get furious towards him or feel bad for him LOL

[hotmatrixx]

Originally posted by SIGHades:

Originally posted by Masterbait(er):

Let me tell you about my story.

A random cheater breach into my ship, ran at the speed at sound to me. I dump the whole maggazine. It didn't kill the cheater, However the cheater didn't shoot back. He point the gun downward. I dropped my bag. He only took a pieces of paper and then left.

Moral of this story: paper quest is hard, even hacker struggle with it.

Felt this one T ^ T idk if I'll get furious towards him or feel bad for him LOL

ah the paper one isn't so bad if you know it's coming; you have a lot of raids to prepare for it; I have a large Box full of Priate Contract stuff; 8 jewelry boxes, I had 8 paper then realised when I go there that I needed 10, yada yada; I'm only saving the stuff i need to about level 30 thos as I'll likely prestige for hte storage space well before then.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by botmatrixx:

Originally posted by SIGHades:

Felt this one T ^ T idk if I'll get furious towards him or feel bad for him LOL

ah the paper one isn't so bad if you know it's coming; you have a lot of raids to prepare for it; I have a large Box full of Priate Contract stuff; 8 jewelry boxes, I had 8 paper then realised when I go there that I needed 10, yada yada; I'm only saving the stuff i need to about level 30 thos as I'll likely prestige for hte storage space well before then.

Yep, and the wiki has a list of all the ZtH missions including what items are needed for them.

https://marauders.fandom.com/wiki/Zero_to_Hero

[dracula00]

The devs do try and seem to care. Why more cheating in this game than many other FPS (yet not as much as Tarkov):
1) Lack of resources on dev/fair play team
2) When submit a cheating report there is no way to specify more details such as a video clip. Important to be able to provide context. Can do so via discord but not always easy to do that and cross reference the name of the cheater. I've seen symbols used in names to make it more difficult to report them outside of the game.
3) Smaller player base at the moment so run into problematic players more often. I've run into the same cheater 4 matches in a row last I played.
4) Can't spectate even after someone's team is wiped to get proof someone is cheating. Having a video of getting killed by a suspicious player is often not enough evidence in itself.

I personally stopped playing the game a few months ago due to the cheating and the wipes every few months. Looking forward to the game hopefully further improving and stabilizing though.

[Knomesfella]

Originally posted by dracula00:

The devs do try and seem to care. Why more cheating in this game than many other FPS (yet not as much as Tarkov):
1) Lack of resources on dev/fair play team
2) When submit a cheating report there is no way to specify more details such as a video clip. Important to be able to provide context. Can do so via discord but not always easy to do that and cross reference the name of the cheater. I've seen symbols used in names to make it more difficult to report them outside of the game.
3) Smaller player base at the moment so run into problematic players more often. I've run into the same cheater 4 matches in a row last I played.
4) Can't spectate even after someone's team is wiped to get proof someone is cheating. Having a video of getting killed by a suspicious player is often not enough evidence in itself.

I personally stopped playing the game a few months ago due to the cheating and the wipes every few months. Looking forward to the game hopefully further improving and stabilizing though.

+1

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by dracula00:

The devs do try and seem to care. Why more cheating in this game than many other FPS (yet not as much as Tarkov):
1) Lack of resources on dev/fair play team
2) When submit a cheating report there is no way to specify more details such as a video clip. Important to be able to provide context. Can do so via discord but not always easy to do that and cross reference the name of the cheater. I've seen symbols used in names to make it more difficult to report them outside of the game.
3) Smaller player base at the moment so run into problematic players more often. I've run into the same cheater 4 matches in a row last I played.
4) Can't spectate even after someone's team is wiped to get proof someone is cheating. Having a video of getting killed by a suspicious player is often not enough evidence in itself.

I personally stopped playing the game a few months ago due to the cheating and the wipes every few months. Looking forward to the game hopefully further improving and stabilizing though.

2. Being unable to ID a player who killed you is not really an issue anymore. Players have unique player ID numbers that appear under their name in the end game screen when they have killed you so it doesn't matter what their name is. It's quite easy to submit a clip on the official Marauders Discord using the #player-reports channel. Nvidia and AMD GPU software has built in video clipping functions or you can free software like MedalTV so grabbing a clip isn't a problem.

4. A spectate function in a game like this needs to be done carefully because if it's done the wrong way dead players could feed information to other players that they wouldn't normally know, and yes this could be used to feed info to others that may not be on your team (just look at how bad stream sniping can be). We probably won't see a spectate option since you would only be able to spectate team mates and you can do that already on Discord, but if we do see one it probably won't be from any point of view other than your team mates. A kill cam would be more useful than spectate if you're looking to see what happened from the enemy's point of view but this would also have to be on a significant delay if you're in a crew otherwise you could feed information to your team that they shouldn't have, for example if you happen to get killed and did not know where the shot came from.

[ttv.BRUCEplus]

I can honestly say I don't think cheaters are killing this game. It's more about how it's a tad too hard here or there to complete challenges. Whether it's issues with not having a map (and the environment doesn't tell you ♥♥♥♥ about where you're at), or the repetitiveness issues (there's only so many salvage runs, or equipment runs you can go on before you're just straight bored, tbh).

so there's a lot of other issues causing this indi game to stutter. Cheating isn't one of them (I'm like the rest, I've only seen 3-5 cheaters in my 70 hours).