Cant escape the hacked/XP lobbies.....

[West]

As I am sure everyone is aware, the ghosts mosh pit is probably atleast 50% hacked lobbies at any given time. Personally, the moshpit is my favorite playlist. I am wondering what IW is doing about this problem?

I don't mind just leaving the hacked lobbies, reporting the players in them, and searching again for a legitimite one. What I DO mind is when I join into what looks like a perfectly legitimite game of Free Fall Cranked, get spawned infront of an easy 3 piece and take it without even thinking twice about it, only to find out that I gained 90000 XP and have gained 8 levels before I could react..

I am not interested in these hacked lobbies, but the XP boosting lobbies are the worst, because they catch unsuspecting players off guard and give obscene amounts of XP to people who wanted to actually earn it by playing through the game. I accidentally got the 90 k XP, one of my other friends was instantly prestiged after 1 kill, and yet another one of my friends went from 54-60 in a matter of 2 kills. None of us wanted this.


Tips for determining if a lobby is hacked or boosting:
A - if you get thrown into a game and there are only 1-3 people in and playing, it's an XP lobby
B - if you join a lobby and there is only 1-3 people in, and the COUNTDOWN starts, it's an XP lobby
C - if you join a lobby and the majority of the players are high prestige, yet have only 1-2 days of game time, it's probably an XP lobby
D - if you get thrown into a game, check the scoreboard and there are 4-6 people on each team, chances are it's NOT an XP lobby. still, you can hit T to type and ask "XP lobby?" People tend not to respond to this. If you are intent on staying and finding out, try to get an objective. See if you get the correct amount of points for it. Be careful shooting anyone until you have gotten some form of assurance that the XP is at normal levels.
E - if you find a lobby that isn't hacked or boosted, stick around for multiple games and encourage the other players to do the same.

All that being said, I still don't trust it right now. We honestly don't even PLAY the mosh pit any more, because even by following the guidelines I listed above, there are no solid ways to distinguish between the legit lobbies and the XP ones aside from getting a kill and seeing how much XP you get.

This is a big problem.. Infinity Ward, what exactly are you doing about this? FWIW I love the game, but I am not happy about being forced out of my favorite playlist (that I got for pre-ordering your game, I might add) because it has been completely dominated by hackers, cheaters, and boosters.

I'd like to see something done in the next patch. Your legitimate players are:
A - Unable to play the ghosts mosh pit the majority of the time
B - Being prestiged and leveled up massively by suprise in random, public matches
C - Worried about catching BANS from finding themselves in these lobbies and inadvertantly receiving huge XP
D - Wondering where EXACTLY the report system leads to? What is the process?

-West

[AaO|?dat.joker]

ahhh yeah i kinda play sd only

[LostBoy]

Първоначално публикувано от djmurder34:

I remember to have seen on the activision website that if you join a hacked lobby you can get banned and in the event you end up on one, you should just leave immediately.

Thats all good and all but , I left the hacked lobby as soon as i relized it was hacked. but some how it changes something on your game so now 3 days later i still get squad points repeatedly.. my steam has been shut down and restarted and it still keeps adding squad points up for just about every thing you do in the game.. so how do i stop this?

[digyyy]

Първоначално публикувано от ~sGs~Creepy:

Първоначално публикувано от djmurder34:

I remember to have seen on the activision website that if you join a hacked lobby you can get banned and in the event you end up on one, you should just leave immediately.

Thats all good and all but , I left the hacked lobby as soon as i relized it was hacked. but some how it changes something on your game so now 3 days later i still get squad points repeatedly.. my steam has been shut down and restarted and it still keeps adding squad points up for just about every thing you do in the game.. so how do i stop this?

If your challenges were modded, server side sees them as completed but client doesn't. Whenver you get a kill client gets the server state of your challenge and client gives you a squad point.

[djmurder34]

Първоначално публикувано от DOM#3 DiGy:

They can't determine who joined with what purpose, and they can't ban thousands of innocent people. As I said, they can ONLY ban people that host them.

Thousands seems like a lot to me...
I understand that one may end up in a hacked lobby but if you stay in it then it means you are trying to take advantage of it.

[digyyy]

Първоначално публикувано от djmurder34:

Първоначално публикувано от DOM#3 DiGy:

They can't determine who joined with what purpose, and they can't ban thousands of innocent people. As I said, they can ONLY ban people that host them.

Thousands seems like a lot to me...
I understand that one may end up in a hacked lobby but if you stay in it then it means you are trying to take advantage of it.

But how can you tell if person got it by accident or if he got it by invite in organised event?

[djmurder34]

Първоначално публикувано от ~sGs~Creepy:

Първоначално публикувано от djmurder34:

I remember to have seen on the activision website that if you join a hacked lobby you can get banned and in the event you end up on one, you should just leave immediately.

Thats all good and all but , I left the hacked lobby as soon as i relized it was hacked. but some how it changes something on your game so now 3 days later i still get squad points repeatedly.. my steam has been shut down and restarted and it still keeps adding squad points up for just about every thing you do in the game.. so how do i stop this?

That's sound a little strange, do you keep your computer on all the time ? rebooting should clean up the memory

Първоначално публикувано от DOM#3 DiGy:

But how can you tell if person got it by accident or if he got it by invite in organised event?

If someone stays, it means he accepts the rule of the lobby (I understand that may sound a little harsh...)

[West]

Първоначално публикувано от DOM#3 DiGy:

Първоначално публикувано от djmurder34:

Thousands seems like a lot to me...
I understand that one may end up in a hacked lobby but if you stay in it then it means you are trying to take advantage of it.

But how can you tell if person got it by accident or if he got it by invite in organised event?

I feel like it should depend more on the amount of time spent in the lobby, or the amount of kills/objs you got in that lobby.. Okay, so you joined an XP boosting lobby. Maybe you even got a kill or two. That should be all it takes for you to realize what is happening, and make up your mind about whether or not you want to participate. It is very, VERY easy to hit ESC and quit the lobby at any point in the game. Nobody who was in a boosting lobby for 5+ minutes with more then 2 or 3 kills should be excluded from a permanent ban. I'd even settle for just resetting the stats of everyone who meets that criteria.. Just do SOMETHING, please IW. Don't you see how badly your game is already being ruined?

I am ripping on everyone I see with an obviously unreasonable prestige level / time played ratio.. openly calling them a cheater, reporting them for boosting and encouraging the rest of the lobby to do the same. I probably won't personally change anything, but if we go out of our way to gang up on the individuals who are ruining this game for us, maybe in a year or 2 this XP boosting will become a thing of the past. I'd love to see entire lobbies flat out REFUSE to play a single game of COD with someone who has obviously been boosting.. Think about if that guy could never play a single game again except against other cheaters, because the entire community shunned him for being an obvious cheater.

Won't happen, but its still a fun thought XD

IW is really screwing up by letting all these hacks slide. This isn't MW2... it's the newest title, out for a couple weeks and already hacked to smitherines with absolutely no reassurance from the devs that this problem is being worked on. Today alone I saw atleast 2 aim botters standing mid map and snapping around getting head shots... an endless supply of hacked lobbies after about 7PM, flying lobbies, kids glitching off the maps, an open lagswitcher...

I think that if IW can fix these problems, they need to ASAP. If they can't, they need to tell us they can't ASAP. I worked hard to pay for your new game this year IW, please don't just take my money and let it go.

[digyyy]

Първоначално публикувано от tA>> West:

Първоначално публикувано от DOM#3 DiGy:

But how can you tell if person got it by accident or if he got it by invite in organised event?

I feel like it should depend more on the amount of time spent in the lobby, or the amount of kills/objs you got in that lobby.. Okay, so you joined an XP boosting lobby. Maybe you even got a kill or two. That should be all it takes for you to realize what is happening, and make up your mind about whether or not you want to participate. It is very, VERY easy to hit ESC and quit the lobby at any point in the game. Nobody who was in a boosting lobby for 5+ minutes with more then 2 or 3 kills should be excluded from a permanent ban. I'd even settle for just resetting the stats of everyone who meets that criteria.. Just do SOMETHING, please IW. Don't you see how badly your game is already being ruined?

I am ripping on everyone I see with an obviously unreasonable prestige level / time played ratio.. openly calling them a cheater, reporting them for boosting and encouraging the rest of the lobby to do the same. I probably won't personally change anything, but if we go out of our way to gang up on the individuals who are ruining this game for us, maybe in a year or 2 this XP boosting will become a thing of the past. I'd love to see entire lobbies flat out REFUSE to play a single game of COD with someone who has obviously been boosting.. Think about if that guy could never play a single game again except against other cheaters, because the entire community shunned him for being an obvious cheater.

Won't happen, but its still a fun thought XD

IW is really screwing up by letting all these hacks slide. This isn't MW2... it's the newest title, out for a couple weeks and already hacked to smitherines with absolutely no reassurance from the devs that this problem is being worked on. Today alone I saw atleast 2 aim botters standing mid map and snapping around getting head shots... an endless supply of hacked lobbies after about 7PM, flying lobbies, kids glitching off the maps, an open lagswitcher...

I think that if IW can fix these problems, they need to ASAP. If they can't, they need to tell us they can't ASAP. I worked hard to pay for your new game this year IW, please don't just take my money and let it go.

The game is just released so you can't expect no cheats at all. Anyways, even the ded servers aren't released yet. We know that there is some kind of IW anti cheat, and there is huge chance that it will start working with release of ded servers. No anti cheat can be good in p2p game.

[[o.0]LonelyWolf]

we're gonna have to wait and see.

Първоначално публикувано от DOM#3 DiGy:

The game is just released so you can't expect no cheats at all. Anyways, even the ded servers aren't released yet. We know that there is some kind of IW anti cheat, and there is huge chance that it will start working with release of ded servers. No anti cheat can be good in p2p game.