Multiplayer cheating

[KOMBAT WOMBAT]

I am not a bad shot but theres people who are one shoting and absolutely dominating. It sure fells like there using cheats.

[Cr0m]

i know next to nothing when it comes to cheating in fps or any games online. i've heard about aimbots. but i have no idea how that stuff works, like if it's a program that can be used for any game, or a mod or something that is game specific, i've never cared to look into it and have played these games on and off for like 25yrs now.

so i don't know if there would just be some kind of tools already in existence that someone could just plug into q2 right after launch, or if they would have to make something custom for q2, or if that would even be hard to do since it seems like a lot of the source code and tools to make stuff for q2 are out there.

but i will say i had someone hitting me with a chaingun from positions where it felt like it should be impossible. i would be running down a hallway, the other guy in a room where i'm running AWAY from, and i take a corner at the other end of the hallway and i'm somehow still getting shot. the guy did not chase me around the corner and was still down the other end of the hallway. this map did have windows and things in places, connecting areas, but i couldn't see where those bullets could have been coming from.

it was just the two of us and this happened maybe 4 or 5 times in the match.

i don't know if it was cheating or the guy was just more familiar with the map but it seemed wild. i was wondering if it could've been just a buggy/lag related thing too.

[DiewazZz]

Railgun one shot kill

[Salander]

After like 15 hours of multiplayer, I came across one situation where a player suspiciously had Quad damage for a bizarre period of time and it couldn't be killed. It wasn't a very good player also, so yeah... It could be possible that there are some cheaters out there.

Although there are many pros too: people that know the maps, how to dominate the item spawns and that will kill you pretty fast using a Rail Gun, a BFG or a Quad Damage. More often than not, those are the culprits of getting decimated lol.

[Thermal Lance]

There might be people cheating but keep in mind some players played this for decades and have it up to muscle memory. Like, you get outclassed like nobody's business.

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by Thermal Lance:

There might be people cheating but keep in mind some players played this for decades and have it up to muscle memory. Like, you get outclassed like nobody's business.

This happen in Quake 1 MP too, people tend to get destroyed very easly by veterans

[qbit]

Not uncommon to time the quad damage in your DM rotation though the level. I haven't done MP on the remaster yet, but I hundreds (if not thousands) of hours playing via dialup back in the 90s with a 200-250 ms ping.

Back then it was common for people to pickup the quad and invulns right when they spawned by just using a stop watch (bound to a key) and running the levels in a sort of optimized circle. This was after the release of the deathmatch maps. That's all people played after those were released in a major update.

I don't know what the new MP experience is like (especially with cross-play). The remake is silky smooth in the single player game, so a veteran would surely dominate. My modern mouse and ping will surely provide an advantage since I was using a ball mouse for a time back then. This mouse had a mechanical ball inside it that required cleaning on a regular basis. And the rollers.

[Lu2]

some players got 20+ k hours on quake1,2,3 ... and champions but iam not saying cheaters doesnt exist . aimbot is effective and hard to detect on railgun

[KOMBAT WOMBAT]

These players that are bunny hopping sideways and never miss a shot and are preaiming corners. I wonder if they are using the original engine with updated graphics or if the whole game is new?

[Cellsiuss]

Dude, 'these people' have been playing this game for almost 30 years. Quake multiplayer has perhaps one of the most hardcore players in gaming history. Watch the duel of pro players on YT. They know the respawn of every item on the maps to the second (im not exaggerating, its basic knowledge for them).
Im not saying that cheats don't exist in this game, but these players are simply legends. I dont know what multiplayer games you play, but in Quake it means nothing and you dont stand a chance against anyone at a good level without hundreds of hours of practice.

[Capt.EO]

u got pwned n00b .

[krhomebot]

If i buy quake, it will be for MP, is it worth it?
I have only played Doom16 MP, and i am only average at that.

[KOMBAT WOMBAT]

Originally posted by krhomebot:

If i buy quake, it will be for MP, is it worth it?
I have only played Doom16 MP, and i am only average at that.

It's weird compared to Doom. The way the characters move is weird. The graphics are not great. I dont know if it's worth it for the multiplayer. I quit playing when I kept getting owned. Plus it crossplay so your battling kiddies on there xbox and Playstation.
Not sure if they have aim assist or if that's just automatic with console games. The aim assit is retarded overpowered in some games like COD MW2. It tracks you like an aimbot for pc even through walls