Cheaters

[Jaden17r]

So I looked at the leader board and half the times were negative the rest were justly clearly cheated as well 1s 10s 2min etc.

[fastforward]

Yeah the only way to ensure that the times were real would be if the runners would compete live infront of an audience in some event.
the game runs localy on machines. maybe it uses the motherboard time as a reference so simply modifying some hex value can change what the game thinks is the time it took the player to reach the top.
rly sad that after a weeks release the leaderboard already shows that people are cheaters and some people would do anything just to see their name on some leaderboard.

[Not Rawr]

Originally posted by fastforward:

Yeah the only way to ensure that the times were real would be if the runners would compete live infront of an audience in some event.
the game runs localy on machines. maybe it uses the motherboard time as a reference so simply modifying some hex value can change what the game thinks is the time it took the player to reach the top.
rly sad that after a weeks release the leaderboard already shows that people are cheaters and some people would do anything just to see their name on some leaderboard.

If there's a leaderboard people will cheat. There's people that cheat in old af games, they even bot in duolingo. It's wild how desperate people are.

It'd be cool if the dev picked a time that was impossible like <1hour and cleared all times/banned them from every getting a score again. I couldn't imagine any real effective way of stopping this if the leaderboard is local though.

[Chemical Cat]

Originally posted by Not Rawr:

Originally posted by fastforward:

Yeah the only way to ensure that the times were real would be if the runners would compete live infront of an audience in some event.
the game runs localy on machines. maybe it uses the motherboard time as a reference so simply modifying some hex value can change what the game thinks is the time it took the player to reach the top.
rly sad that after a weeks release the leaderboard already shows that people are cheaters and some people would do anything just to see their name on some leaderboard.

If there's a leaderboard people will cheat. There's people that cheat in old af games, they even bot in duolingo. It's wild how desperate people are.

It'd be cool if the dev picked a time that was impossible like <1hour and cleared all times/banned them from every getting a score again. I couldn't imagine any real effective way of stopping this if the leaderboard is local though.

There have been a couple time run games (I forget which ones, abit older ones) that use several hidden timers to record true time, that is about the only way, they just have to hide them VERY well, best way to hide them would be to have said timers hidden inside the save file and have a code or system to run a check on all those clocks, if they dont sync or have the save file altered then boom, leaderboard ban.

[fnart]

you can just use speedrun dot com or youtube to check actual WR/solid speedruns

[TheUnknown]

I find it hilarious that people just do anything to cheat.