How bad is the Hacking in this game?

[Vamilad]

Is there even anti-cheat?

[icemachine12]

The only known and barely working hacks are for arcade battle, those hacks are ESP and some poorly coded aimbot from what I could find. There's no damage modifying hacks or god mode, no ability to spawn in random things or have unlimited ammo... Just ESP hacks in a game mode where you can see everyone anyway.

[StingerRPG]

Do you even read the news when you open the game?

[Blitzkrieg Wulf]

Tha hacking is virtually non-existent, for what some users would like to lead you to believe. In four years (Actually, more.), only as of two days ago, I ran into the first person whose behavior I questioned.

So, while some people try to cheat, they are typically caught quickly and banned permanently.

[icemachine12]

Originally posted by Vamilad:

Is there even anti-cheat?

The reason most threads are deleted is to stop people from spreading false information, the fact only 500+ people were banned within a 3 month period shows the game isn't even worth cheating on. We're talking about the daily avg of 60K players and more, but population will rotate due to time zones etc.

[Vamilad]

Originally posted by crimeZappers:

The only known and barely working hacks are for arcade battle, those hacks are ESP and some poorly coded aimbot from what I could find. There's no damage modifying hacks or god mode, no ability to spawn in random things or have unlimited ammo... Just ESP hacks in a game mode where you can see everyone anyway.

I play Realistic Tank Battles generally so I can't "see everyone" unlike Arcade and Air Realistic.

Originally posted by StingerRPG:

Do you even read the news when you open the game?

All I check to see on the news is patch notes and I don't remember seeing anything saying "anti-cheat".

Originally posted by Blitzkrieg Wulf:

Tha hacking is virtually non-existent, for what some users would like to lead you to believe. In four years (Actually, more.), only as of two days ago, I ran into the first person whose behavior I questioned.

So, while some people try to cheat, they are typically caught quickly and banned permanently.

So there is some form of anti-cheat?

[icemachine12]

Any company that has an anti cheat in place will not reveal the full process of actually catching cheaters, as that'll only benefit the cheat providers, but in short they have a process to catch out cheaters quickly and effectively

[MaximeDelaroux]

Originally posted by Vamilad:

So there is some form of anti-cheat?

Yep.

Just yesterday another ban report was listed with about 570 accounts banned w/ the account names shown.

You can read up on it here:

https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/349898-countermeasures-against-forbidden-modifications/#comment-6846212

[Vamilad]

Originally posted by MaximeDelaroux:

Originally posted by Vamilad:

So there is some form of anti-cheat?

Yep.

Just yesterday another ban report was listed with about 570 accounts banned w/ the account names.

You can read up on it here:

https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/349898-countermeasures-against-forbidden-modifications/#comment-6846212

Thanks, sounds like you guys are still improving but that can be said with any game.

Glad to know there's something in place to catch people who don't like to play fairly.

[icemachine12]

I'm glad machine learning is taking more of a place in catching out cheaters.

[Lrfss]

I saw my first hack of this game yesterday after years of playing, so from that stand point I'm pretty satisfied! It was a U.S. Corsair and went from 2k ft. to 25k ft. in a matter of about 3 seconds, then flew towards me and I gave chase as I wasn't so sure I was really seeing this and thought maybe it was a server side or ISP glitch or such. Anyway, it flew about 5k ft high above and past me so fast it looked like a UFO... I was in a P-51 and it pulled away steady at like Mach 2 was really crazy to see, strange part was that after that I didnt even see that plane again as I was busy in battle shortly afterward and forgot to get the player name... If there is a next time I'll have to save it all for reporting, I was really surprised and do believe it was a hack of some sort anyway...

[icemachine12]

Originally posted by Lrfss:

I saw my first hack of this game yesterday after years of playing, so from that stand point I'm pretty satisfied! It was a U.S. Corsair and went from 2k ft. to 25k ft. in a matter of about 3 seconds, then flew towards me and I gave chase as I wasn't so sure I was really seeing this and thought maybe it was a server side or ISP glitch or such. Anyway, it flew about 5k ft high above and past me so fast it looked like a UFO... I was in a P-51 and it pulled away steady at like Mach 2 was really crazy to see, strange part was that after that I didnt even see that plane again as I was busy in battle shortly afterward and forgot to get the player name... If there is a next time I'll have to save it all for reporting, I was really surprised and do believe it was a hack of some sort anyway...

If you're going to make such a lie, at least make sure we can't fact check it...

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Lrfss:

I saw my first hack of this game yesterday after years of playing, so from that stand point I'm pretty satisfied! It was a U.S. Corsair and went from 2k ft. to 25k ft. in a matter of about 3 seconds, then flew towards me and I gave chase as I wasn't so sure I was really seeing this and thought maybe it was a server side or ISP glitch or such. Anyway, it flew about 5k ft high above and past me so fast it looked like a UFO... I was in a P-51 and it pulled away steady at like Mach 2 was really crazy to see, strange part was that after that I didnt even see that plane again as I was busy in battle shortly afterward and forgot to get the player name... If there is a next time I'll have to save it all for reporting, I was really surprised and do believe it was a hack of some sort anyway...

If it was pulling away at Mach two at a "steady" pace then you were not in a P-51 or any plane in the game.

[MaximeDelaroux]

Alright, apparently we can't have this discussion without people posting links/comments that violate the discussion rules.

I think the OP had their question answered.

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