"He's hacking 'cause I can't kill the crew"

[Jane "Biffed it" Helldiver]

I've been in a few matches where people have stated that another player is hacking because he can't kill the tanks crew or components. Is it just that the guy's trash at the game or are there actually "hacks" or cheats that can do this.

[RedSector73]

server side calulations.... so short answer is not likely to flat no.

[Foxtrot39]

Only hack that exist are aimbots and the ability to see through objects, both wich are extremely easy to spot and report and also rare as F because of how conspicuous it is

[Waryth]

and who is this player?

We can just investigate this through the server replays and even if he's hacking or not, we get to see who really is at fault.

[kiro the avenger!]

Publicado originalmente por Foxtrot39:

Only hack that exist are aimbots and the ability to see through objects, both wich are extremely easy to spot and report and also rare as F because of how conspicuous it is

Aimbots aren't that conspicuous.
Warthunder doesn't give you a killcam where you can look at a tank's view instantly snapping on to you. And an aimbot's shot it indistinguishable from a lucky shot without repitition. Players will typically only see the shot that kills them, and will have no knowledge of said cheater doing it constently throughout and across his matches.

That said, as others have said cheats that effect the interaction of the game is impossible. Everything is handled server side, if there's a disagreement between the client and the server, the server wins (this is also related to what causes sparking).
Only cheats that affect player performance are possible, so aimbots and spotbots.

Then of course there's the 'legal cheat' that is that sound mod, which massively boosts engine noises allowing you to very easily ''sound ♥♥♥♥♥'' enemy tanks.

[Foxtrot39]

No but someone tracking enemies behind walls and landing 100% OS at + 700m first shot on target at max speed isn't really hard to suspect + you can still watch the replay and see how twitchy and jumpy one's aim can be until it stops on a target where it follow flawlessly its ammorack

[kiro the avenger!]

Publicado originalmente por Foxtrot39:

No but someone tracking enemies behind walls and landing 100% OS at + 700m first shot on target at max speed isn't really hard to suspect + you can still watch the replay and see how twitchy and jumpy one's aim can be until it stops on a target where it follow flawlessly its ammorack

Oh yeah people no scoping enemy tanks at full tilt it pretty obvious.
But anyone with half a braincell knows that obvious, and often they have the sense to at least stop first.

I've hit an enemy tank first shot at 2.8km on a ~30 degree canter, that's why landing a first shot on it's own isn't obvious.

[Foxtrot39]

No saying luck/skill shot doesn't happen, but doing that 3 time in a row with big distance variations is too much to be considered like that

[kiro the avenger!]

Publicado originalmente por Foxtrot39:

No saying luck/skill shot doesn't happen, but doing that 3 time in a row with big distance variations is too much to be considered like that

I agree, which is exactly my point.

You very rarely observe the actual effects of anyone's shots beyond the one that actually kills you.

[Bootleg Greedo]

yeah I think I've encountered either the luckiest guy ever or a hacker, he was driving a basic AA gun around tier 1 matches a week or two ago and one shotting crews through (at least for my tank) the optics for the driver. lost all 3 tanks to him, and he was an AA gun with at least 13 kills on tanks. I think I only got a shot off once, and missed, before I got slaughtered. Me and my team could be the worst guys ever, but I somewhat doubt that he did it legit.

[Foxtrot39]

BR 1.0 AA were always better than tanks as long you have 50cal or above as weapon

[Bootleg Greedo]

Publicado originalmente por Foxtrot39:

BR 1.0 AA were always better than tanks as long you have 50cal or above as weapon

Are they really? Well that's kind of ♥♥♥♥, you would hope a truck with a light cannon on the back would be worse at fighting vehicles than an armored vehicle with a heavier gun

[Foxtrot39]

Take the german Flackpanzer 1 for a ride you won't regret it

[MacaroniBurger]

They should honestly remove ulq. It's ruining morale.

[Foxtrot39]

Publicado originalmente por MacaroniBurger:

They should honestly remove ulq. It's ruining morale.

Or force deactivate it when the game can run 30 FPS on higher resolution

[kiro the avenger!]

ULQ isn't even that bad.
It's OPness is overhyped as a result of it's effect early on, it's heavily reduced in effectiveness now.