Cheating Killing the Game

[Levnekaethian]

Already run into a few people with cheats that let them constantly have powers at the start of the game. Nothing like attacking your first nest while your opponent sits on your units with toxic spores incessantly.

[[OG] Brandoid]

you mean opening the game with a toxic spore or they are sitting on your nest spamming them one after another without limit?

[Levnekaethian]

Originally posted by OG Brandoid:

you mean opening the game with a toxic spore or they are sitting on your nest spamming them one after another without limit?

No not just opening with toxic spores - having multiple charges ready to go at the start of the game. Spend 20 food to start with it? Sure. Having enough food and wood to go to T2 without having more than one nest and then upgrading it immediately within 3 minutes to have somehow 4 charges (should only be 3 at max even if somehow you managed those materials) in under 4 minutes? No. Not even a cooldown time between it.

[[OG] Brandoid]

it might be possible they could be buying spore
deleting the upgrade and buying again

when you do that or even when you upgrade the charges are refilled

[Levnekaethian]

Originally posted by OG Brandoid:

it might be possible they could be buying spore
deleting the upgrade and buying again

when you do that or even when you upgrade the charges are refilled

While standing on my units the whole time and having a single nest? LOL

[[OG] Brandoid]

Originally posted by Levnekaethian:

Originally posted by OG Brandoid:

it might be possible they could be buying spore
deleting the upgrade and buying again

when you do that or even when you upgrade the charges are refilled

While standing on my units the whole time and having a single nest? LOL

yeah its just 20 food to buy the upgrade over and over.

its definitely an oversight from the devs they gotta patch it.

[Levnekaethian]

Originally posted by OG Brandoid:

Originally posted by Levnekaethian:

While standing on my units the whole time and having a single nest? LOL

yeah its just 20 food to buy the upgrade over and over. :whyuno:

its definitely an oversight from the devs they gotta patch it.

You don't generate 80 food in 4 minutes and you can't upgrade at a distance. There are people generating legions across the map without burrow - unless of course they're cheating and have additional powers since they use fear, shield, rage and spores. It's getting old very quickly. I've had two different people sit on my nests from the start of the game. They're not even hiding it. Devs just don't give a damn

[[OG] Brandoid]

Originally posted by Levnekaethian:

Originally posted by OG Brandoid:

yeah its just 20 food to buy the upgrade over and over.

its definitely an oversight from the devs they gotta patch it.

You don't generate 80 food in 4 minutes and you can't upgrade at a distance. There are people generating legions across the map without burrow - unless of course they're cheating and have additional powers since they use fear, shield, rage and spores. It's getting old very quickly. I've had two different people sit on my nests from the start of the game. They're not even hiding it. Devs just don't give a damn

What maps did this happen?

Steam has built in recording now. You could record stuff like this so we can see who those players are

[2muchMANA]

yoooooo I thought I was tripping! Had one match where this dude was spamming my armies from the beginning with the spores. He used it twice at the start of the match thinking owe damn, he teir 2 already? and every engagement he always spammed those spores and after enough engagements and counting charges I realized the only way hes doing this is if he had all 4 perks set as t3 spores. When he had his army ready he just followed my armies spamming in relentlessly and yes, you cannot destroy and rebuild chambers from a distance but yet they seemed to have endless charges.

[Levnekaethian]

Originally posted by OG Brandoid:

Originally posted by Levnekaethian:

You don't generate 80 food in 4 minutes and you can't upgrade at a distance. There are people generating legions across the map without burrow - unless of course they're cheating and have additional powers since they use fear, shield, rage and spores. It's getting old very quickly. I've had two different people sit on my nests from the start of the game. They're not even hiding it. Devs just don't give a damn

What maps did this happen?

Steam has built in recording now. You could record stuff like this so we can see who those players are

I only had suspicions until the Sands level where you start with one nest and its a competitive layout. Then I started to pay attention to this. If I get the same people, I'll record if I can or at least remember to check the heatmap afterward. It's easy enough to avoid them until more and more people start cheating.

[76561198967690450]

Hi everyone,

First of all, let me apologize for the inconvenience caused by this situation.

We're following this thread carefully and investigating all potential cheating. We haven't recorded anything yet, but are interested if you can record someone doing such a thing.

That being said, we have found a player expert at abusing a game mechanic and this will soon be patched to ensure that such behavior is not rewarded anymore. (But from our observations he was not cheating, just overusing a game mechanic that was not intended to be used this way.)

Also, please feel free to report such players in the game, If he is sufficiently reported he will get banned.

Thank you all for your reports, We take these very seriously and keep on looking into the game data to find any potential ways of cheating and how to counter these. Let's keep this a fun, fair and engaging PvP experience.

[76561198967690450]

As a follow up on my previous message, our latest Patch has negated an exploit where you could destroy and rebuild your powers to near-instantly refresh your power cooldowns for a relatively low price.

Our latest Patch prevent sit by making powers spawn with their cooldowns at 0% filled instant of 100% as they used too. So what looked like an infinite power cheat should not exist anymore.

However, if you do see it again (so a power used more than 3 times in a row in less than 3 minutes) please make a video and share it with us for us to investigate this.

Thank you for your time and help everyone!