Question about anti-cheat.

[alba]

I'm interested in picking up this game and I'm curious if any dodgy 3rd-party anti-cheat is in use, like XingCode3. Thanks in advance.

[Variouss]

although i'd say xingcode3 isnt a dodgy anti-cheat (cant say a good one either) ,not that i know, i heard on reddit that tera uses iovation iesnare tracking (but some say its only on NA and its not a 3rd party anti-cheat) there is no 3rd-party anti-cheat on tera as far as i know, maybe sunflare can give any information since he has been on tera longer, other then that i cant say

[Sunflare]

Originally posted by Variouss:

maybe sunflare can give any information since [...]

Since it's almost only you and me replying here, although there are 6.5 'staff members'[board.tera.gameforge.com] responsible for the English section of the forum and none of the bothers to visit this discussion board. Anyhow, guess I'm compelled to reply now, ty Vari.

Originally posted by Grips:

I'm interested in picking up this game and I'm curious if any dodgy 3rd-party anti-cheat is in use, like XingCode3. Thanks in advance.

I'm not familiar with anti-cheat systems. Only remember Punkbuster from CS and/or BF 10+ years ago. I don't see why anyone should care about anti-cheat software if they aren't using any illegal tools.

Anyhow, there are no such systems in place in TERA. Not officially anyway. Tracking concerns come up every now and again but this is another thing.
There is an established and actively used Support system in place though, and if someone is reported and indeed identified by Gameforge as a hacker, scammer, gold-seller or similar serious offender they are extremely likely to get permanently banned.
This said, you won't get banned for using an appearance/UI mod which only you can see, or if you do some tolerable changes to the config files as to make the game more playable (TERA is not like most other games out there in terms of performance), e.g. decreasing shadows resolution, changing field of view etc optimisation tweaks. Obviously, these changes aren't officially allowed but are tolerated by the publisher nevertheless. Same applies to using an external damage metre - as long as the results are not used to flame other people, you'll be fine.

[Variouss]

Originally posted by Sunflare:

Originally posted by Variouss:

maybe sunflare can give any information since [...]

Since it's almost only you and me replying here, although there are 6.5 'staff members'[board.tera.gameforge.com] responsible for the English section of the forum and none of the bothers to visit this discussion board. Anyhow, guess I'm compelled to reply now, ty Vari.

And afk 15 min -_-

staff members? those are a myth, we only have nyoka xD

[alba]

I'm not going to attempt to hack or anything, I've just heard really bad things about some kinds of anti-cheat, with arguments for both sides of the coin, so I'm just going to be cautious until I know 100% what's going on with them.

Thanks.