Surplus of Cheaters

[Prophetic Eclipse]

Seems like there is a major surplus of cheaters recently. So many new players and just all around existing cheaters are suddenly popping up. I've seen easily 5 in the last 2 days. What the hell man.

[Baboulinet4]

Game was free on Epic. You probably have your answer here

[(BAC) NAT3]

the mask from nebula was showing up as cheater. not sure if that's totally fixed yet.

[Prophetic Eclipse]

Thanks for a normal response N8 ^~^

As for the others (Bat and Baboulinet). Ima stick with EOS. Its better to have new friends to play with.

[LegacyXI]

I've seen a lot of people mainly newer players marked as a cheater for things like invalid weapon mod and invalid mask. None of them seemed to be doing anything outright blatant. I figured it was a issue with some dlc.

[Eternal Bruhmeister]

Originally posted by Prophetic Eclipse:

Seems like there is a major surplus of cheaters recently. So many new players and just all around existing cheaters are suddenly popping up. I've seen easily 5 in the last 2 days. What the hell man.

Another way of being labeled a CHEATER is by having weapon DLC that the host doesn't have it seems.
I own all the PD2 Heists and my friend I play with bought a weapon pack that I don't own. every time he tries to equip/mod a DLC weapon the host doesn't own it marks them it seems (at least during the session)

[Blockhead]

There's a lot of false positives going around right now, unfortunately.

[McGoodGreen]

The game has been infested with cheaters since 2015. Nothings new. You are just noticing how bad it is finally.

[SadlyItsDaniel]

its the fortnite script kiddies that need their fortnite porn imprinted on their guns

[Driftkel]

There is a mod out there that automatically kicks cheaters out of your games whenever they try to join you based on certain cheats the mod will detect with the cheat's keywords.

[CryonicSuspension]

Originally posted by Baboulinet4:

Game was free on Epic. You probably have your answer here

Same thing happened to Dead by Daylight when it was made free on Epic Games. People made 100 Epic accounts and then DBD was wrecked by hackers.

[CryonicSuspension]

It's not really an Epic thing, it's when you make your game free, there's basically no penalty to cheating.

It's like in Fortnite when people use "no-recoil" hacks, or auto-aim with 6-shooters, turning them into sniper rifles. There's no penalty to banned accounts because you can just make a new one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqbyq4--cnw

[Felixinius]

Originally posted by ඞ Eternal Bruhmeister ඞ:

Another way of being labeled a CHEATER is by having weapon DLC that the host doesn't have it seems.
I own all the PD2 Heists and my friend I play with bought a weapon pack that I don't own. every time he tries to equip/mod a DLC weapon the host doesn't own it marks them it seems (at least during the session)

This is utterly incorrect.
if the host gets labeled as cheater because of a weapon mod then they used a mod they don't own, plain and simple.
If your friend (client) gets labeled as a cheater for the same reason, then they are using a mod they don't own and LYING to you. Plain and simple.
Nice mental gymnastics, but this is a well known mechanic by the community.

[Eternal Bruhmeister]

Originally posted by Felixinius:

Originally posted by ඞ Eternal Bruhmeister ඞ:

Another way of being labeled a CHEATER is by having weapon DLC that the host doesn't have it seems.
I own all the PD2 Heists and my friend I play with bought a weapon pack that I don't own. every time he tries to equip/mod a DLC weapon the host doesn't own it marks them it seems (at least during the session)

This is utterly incorrect.
if the host gets labeled as cheater because of a weapon mod then they used a mod they don't own, plain and simple.
If your friend (client) gets labeled as a cheater for the same reason, then they are using a mod they don't own and LYING to you. Plain and simple.
Nice mental gymnastics, but this is a well known mechanic by the community.

We both have the same mod installed and I have not been labeled yet and have joined public games you are LYING to yourself.

[ChrisXX]

afaik most of them are false positice bec. of Epic there are some issues bec. of the mods, masks ect. so calm down

[Blockhead]

Originally posted by Felixinius:

Originally posted by ඞ Eternal Bruhmeister ඞ:

Another way of being labeled a CHEATER is by having weapon DLC that the host doesn't have it seems.
I own all the PD2 Heists and my friend I play with bought a weapon pack that I don't own. every time he tries to equip/mod a DLC weapon the host doesn't own it marks them it seems (at least during the session)

This is utterly incorrect.
if the host gets labeled as cheater because of a weapon mod then they used a mod they don't own, plain and simple.
If your friend (client) gets labeled as a cheater for the same reason, then they are using a mod they don't own and LYING to you. Plain and simple.
Nice mental gymnastics, but this is a well known mechanic by the community.

Overkill addresses the bug where people were being incorrectly marked as cheaters for items here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/eventcomments/5596333034287725326/

To quote from the changelog:

Fixed an issue of where players got marked as cheaters for wearing nebula items