What are some of the "hacks" people complain of?

[BrowneHawk]

I have over 700 hours. Only real exploit I saw once was when certain vehicles became invinceable. That happened on accident. Other than questionably accurate dalton gunners not sure what other people are running into since I mostly fly. SO how are some people cheating?

[Pielord]

I think most people take lag wizardry to be cheating, aimbot when the damage comes in a chunk and you die behind cover, or when you lag compensate you as they come around the corner, and movement when they appear to warp around.
It does make it hard to tell who is actually cheating, I've only seen one confirmed (blatant) aimbotter personally, 100% headshot accuracy while spinning around with gorgons.

I have heard of hitbox, damage, and ESP cheats.

There are also exploiters such as ammo pack farmers. Once in a while you might see a bad exploit such as somebody going underground to farm spawnrooms with an A2G ESF.

[Kronos]

In my experiance I've seen maybe one or two confirmed aimbot cases and just recently I believe i personally encountered a damage hack (twice in a row 1 shot 100% damage from a carbine). But might well have been lag. Not sure there.

[Zero Ryoko]

I've seen someone teleport around above and below the ground, through buildings, and fly as infantry for half an hour killing people, with one of those IlIlIl names. But that was nearly a year and a half ago now.

[Nokta]

Most common cheats:

People flying around in a engi with Mana Turret spamming 17372874321 rockets a second and crashing the server

People with modified hit-boxes so they can do HS even when hitting the tip of your toes

People using lag-switch (even though not technically a "cheat" but more an exploit)


Less common cheats:

Aimbots

Wallhacks


Most of the time when you think "he's a cheater!" is more likely a good player owning you, or Planetside 2 crap netcode doing its magic.

[Z00ka]

I have over 400+ hrs of game time and i havent seen anything.... worst i can say iv had happend to me was a bug were i spawn and fall through the map and die thats happend only a few times with in the time iv played besides that nothing not even close to hacking... I always here people complainng about it on the fourms but iv never see jack squate.... Part of me thinks its a just hype to get the new players to doubt how badass this game is for players that are buthurrt and dont know how to get over certine issues so there for make up stuff about how bad hacks are in this game...... not saying there arent hacks but as much as i hear stuff about it iv personlly never seen it i dont think many players have either.. just my thoughts tho

[Z00ka]

All infantry btw iv only flown like 5 times lol i suck at flying....

[graypaw]

people are overreacting, thats all

[Xilo The Odd]

nah using hack and cheating is a culture, to them they arent even doing anything wrong.

big asia groups on connery like FPS korea i have little doubt out of every 50 or so players playing on their Vanu or NC unit, are using some kind of hard to detect hack. wall hacks and aimbots are pretty easy for battleye to pick up more often than not. but software gets updated and it defeats the anti hacks for a little while.

lag switches are super easy to pass off, and the only real way i see to fix that from happening is if your ping spikes, the server should kick you. and it should only take a second.

now i understand this would be inconvient for some folks. but heres a fun fact, out of all the countries, the creators of the internet, have the worst network infrastructure in the world. worse than most parts of europe and asia. only being slightly better than a few countries.

im in america, its not hard to get decent enough internet that doesnt lag spike for a solid 2 seconds to 400 ping to any server outside austrailia. so the excuse of "well my internet does that" i do not find valid. if your ping is naturally over 400 connecting to the US then its a you problem that should be solved.

if potential lag switchers were kicked from the servers swiftly enough, people will stop using them. its pretty hard to falsify your ping to a server.

[Solar_Flare]

I've been playing since early beta, had the game before steam grabbed hold of it, so don't mind the low playtime shown, But i have definetely seen my fair share of hackers/cheaters. I've seen speed hackers, running along beside my quad, flying extremely fast in galaxies and generally being annoying. Aim botters headshotting out to render distance, had guys shoot me while running in the station walls and laughing about their hacks. Hell, I even had a jumper, who was not exactly the smartest knife in the drawer try to jump between me and my squad mates while we were using vehicles. Was hilarious while it lasted.
Now take all that with a grain of salt. I've been through three seperate server merges, and have thousands of hours played, so in all that time Your bound to find a few bad apples.

[Sithis]

I've played back in CBT and OBT, then otok a very long break, and returned to this game a few months back, thus clocking maybe 150h so far, and here's what I know:

• MANA turret thing (seen that happen in person on Miller once, but haven't seen it ever since);
  
• Lagswitching/abusing higher latency (not necessarily hacking, mind you);
  
• Aimbot (only seen one person use it, though, but he was very blatant about it);
  
• Wallhack (only suspicions on in-game players, but have seen an old 2015 video with it shown);
  
• Hitbox/Asset hack (one of the hardest to recgnize; don't think I've seen it, though);
  
• Radar hack (only heard of that one, though);
  
• Fly/speed hack (seen once; the player, as it seems, got banned midway through attempting flying his Harasser, though).

All in all, I've personally seen maybe four players obviously hacking (the fourth one being another Aimbotter), and had suspicions of about two or three more. Not too bad for hundreds of players at a time in 150h, really, especially compared to some other games (ahem ahem CSGO ahem), even if not as good as games such as ArmA.

[Wanderer]

Wallhack and aimbot are the most common, though until now many have used the hitbox and spotting modification (and probably still use it).

It's hard to tell if someone is using esp since there are motion spotters everywhere, but the signs are easy to pick up if you know where to look, there are people that especially in small fights can't be flanked no matter what you do, but the most telling sign is when you are in a small base and they always know where you are even when "you are not supposed to be there" or how there is always the guy that finds your cloaked sunderer even though he spawned now and you parked it 5 minutes before the fight even started, some people seems to just KNOW where it is every single time.

Unfortunately people have no idea how sophisticated aimbots have become, it's not blatant anymore (if they don't want to), they don't snap into every single head and kill everybody on sight, there are guides on how to act legit, google "how to legit cheat" or "legit cheating guide" and you will understand what I mean... this game is infested with people that at the most convenient time become a professional Quake player and drop you in an instant, I've seen it too many times to not think it's suspicious to say the least.

Too many people think that hackers will have outrageous stats (some do, especially those that want to pretend they are legit, just "pro"), but the truth is that the majority of cheaters just want to have a good time (therefore will toggle occasionally or tune it down as low as possible) and in their eyes you are the villain if you ruin their experience by being more skilled and they feel entitled on ruin yours.

I have 2500 hours in the game now and IMO the game was and still is infested with cheaters, especially "subtle" ones, the fact that after the introduction of Battleye in H1Z1 25000 cheaters were banned and Daybreak enthusiastically announced it, while after implementing it in Planetside 2 there has been only silence on their part, that's very telling.

[graypaw]

seriously guys, no need to discuss about hacks that happen maybe once in a year. im playing since 2012 and there were maybe 5 major hackers and thats it

[Ishan451]

Maebus eredeti hozzászólása:

SO how are some people cheating?

Based on the various threads in this forum, i am relatively confident in saying that the people screaming hacks are usually not understanding the game and its glitches and warps and all.

Like people complaining about some guy just standing there, being shot at by multiple people and then eventually starting moving... which most likely is a case of the guy just loading in and being protected by the system as his slow ass PC is loading.

Or people complaining about how their infiltrator gets spotted, when it sounds like they are pretty much sitting in plain sight, believing to be invisible.

Or people complaining about that one guy killing their infiltrator, sitting on a rock, with their Assault Rifle, without realizing that there is something like firemodes and you can actually turn an AR into singlefire and snipe people at a distance.

Stuff like that seems to be the most common. Complaining about people using Wallhack, when the game itself gives you wallhacking tools (Motion detector, Recon Darts, Radar addons for Vehicles)

Devil Morty eredeti hozzászólása:

I have 2500 hours in the game now and IMO the game was and still is infested with cheaters, especially "subtle" ones, the fact that after the introduction of Battleye in H1Z1 25000 cheaters were banned and Daybreak enthusiastically announced it, while after implementing it in Planetside 2 there has been only silence on their part, that's very telling.

Yeah its the same devs that did this:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-20-h1z1-dev-unbanning-cheaters-who-publicly-apologise-on-youtube

So you'd think they do the same for Planetside 2... but then again, all the people claiming this game is cheater infested are also usually claiming that Battleye isn't working... *shrugs* I have yet to see concrete proof for either.

[BrowneHawk]

|DPG|Graypaw eredeti hozzászólása:

seriously guys, no need to discuss about hacks that happen maybe once in a year. im playing since 2012 and there were maybe 5 major hackers and thats it

No, you see there is need. Because having a lot of hours in I don't see many hacks. So I was questioning what hacks are around. You see thats why I made a posts, so it can be discussed. You understand what forums are for Graypaw?

[Xilo The Odd]

Maebus eredeti hozzászólása:

|DPG|Graypaw eredeti hozzászólása:

seriously guys, no need to discuss about hacks that happen maybe once in a year. im playing since 2012 and there were maybe 5 major hackers and thats it

No, you see there is need. Because having a lot of hours in I don't see many hacks. So I was questioning what hacks are around. You see thats why I made a posts, so it can be discussed. You understand what forums are for Graypaw?

lol burn.

but yeah any type of hack used in any FPS ever has been used on this game. they use battle eye to take down the majority of em but there will be some days where their hack software gets updated to not be detected again. so its heavily reliant on server monitoring and reporting.

i have yet to see even mass reports succeed on getting any individual banned that was cleary doing something to break the ToS, so its hard to tell if the in-game report function even goes to anything.

if there is any hack i'd use, it'd be a hack to figure out how that system works if at all.