Is there anyway to protect yourself from cheaters?

[Saber]

Ark Official PVP is basically one big cheat, if any larger tribe attacks you it is extra hard because they monitor your movement on the mini-map and they can see all your dinos and their stats.
Not all of them, but most of them also use aimbot.

Those are the two main hacks right?.

How can you protect yourself against that, is there anything you can do options or settings or anything at all, that makes it impossible for them to see you on their maps ect?.

[Viral]

There is none.

Ive lost count of people who wont touch this or similar games as the devs do not care.

Find a server with a decent admin. if you can, only choice.

[naka]

Originally posted by Saber:

How can you protect yourself against that, is there anything you can do options or settings or anything at all, that makes it impossible for them to see you on their maps ect?.

The only thing you can do - and it will only help a little bit - is to change your steam name to 123. Like that they will not get a notification ingame when u login. They also cant monitor when u logoff/login via battlemetrics site.
But as I said - thats just a small part and wont have much effect.

To the main topic: ppl have again and again said and warned about this. But nope - the majority didnt wanted to hear it. They kept claiming that new servers will magicly fix all the balance problems, duping and hacking. And kept harrassing every1 that pointed out allrdy a year ago this needs to be fixed during EA. So there u go.

[Saber]

Aha..so there is none.

What is strange, Wildcard probally had a lot smaller budget in 2015, but I remember playing on official server june 2015 and there was a developer named Eric with a Star behind his name. He would monitor the server, tell us about updates and ban cheats.

So they started off actually pretty well.

[Kai]

All comes down to BattlEye. Popular cheats that are sold via Cheatsites will be banned almost immediately and BattlEye will recognize them. Custom cheats (like some poeple definitely use) are a whole different story. Because BattlEye doesn't have the signature of those, it can't detect them in a lot of cases. As long as the people that produce said cheats make sure the BattlEye devs don't get a hold of them, they will have the upper hand.

[Saber]

Ah nice info, So its basically impossible for a game like to function in Official pvp...like it is just not possible.

Maybe they should warn customers of this before they buy this game?.

[Kai]

Originally posted by Saber:

Ah nice info, So its basically impossible for a game like to function in Official pvp...like it is just not possible.

Maybe they should warn customers of this before they buy this game?.

Proper customer support would be key. Active admins that take care of a certain set of server clusters, better logging systems that record and point out fishy stuff like a player using an assault rifle to kill 15 people or more within 10 seconds - then the admin can go and investigate by spectating the guy in question and immediately ban when there's solid evidence. It's not rocket science - that's how a lot of MMO's do it for example. Right now, the players have to prove that someone is cheating by recording them. Which isn't easy because you can't spectate in ARK.

But as we all know, customer support is expensive. Usually CS representatives are not inhouse employees, but outsourced to companies that focus on stuff like that. They would need to be equipped with specifically designed admin software, trained etc. I doubt Wildcard can pull this off with the funds they have - unless everybody would be ready to pay a subscription fee for officials. Which I certainly would at this point.

[ToXiN]

Originally posted by HansLollo:

All comes down to BattlEye. Popular cheats that are sold via Cheatsites will be banned almost immediately and BattlEye will recognize them. Custom cheats (like some poeple definitely use) are a whole different story. Because BattlEye doesn't have the signature of those, it can't detect them in a lot of cases. As long as the people that produce said cheats make sure the BattlEye devs don't get a hold of them, they will have the upper hand.

Battleeye sucks...many companies hired them but they always fail somehow. They manage to ban a few extremely dumb cheat users, but that's it.

Also ddos and server crashing is a serious problem on officials (as I heard).

[Toooni]

Originally posted by Saber:

Ark Official PVP is basically one big cheat, if any larger tribe attacks you it is extra hard because they monitor your movement on the mini-map and they can see all your dinos and their stats.
Not all of them, but most of them also use aimbot.

Those are the two main hacks right?.

How can you protect yourself against that, is there anything you can do options or settings or anything at all, that makes it impossible for them to see you on their maps ect?.

Yeah there is a way --> Do not play official.
Cheaters are always playing on full servers in all games.

[-BritishEcho-]

This is why I never, and will never, play on official servers. Cheating, exploits and all that will always be in the game, despite how many times Wildcard will claim it's being fixed, or has been fixed.

You can say what you like about unofficials, it's extremly popular to do so. At least you dont have to deal with all these hacking and cheating problems on well run servers...

[Helldozer]

I do love a good money grab and all the white knights made fun of and trolled the people that called this ♥♥♥♥ from the start.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and jen have egos the size of africa and as long as the cash flows to them, do you think they care that you have problems? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ even said in an interview wiping the servers would have made for better infrastructure and better security but decided against it because of player tears. So, keep giving them money so this aberration joke makes them money and adds even more problems.

[KitsuneShiro]

Originally posted by hatefulpeace:

Worthless cheaters, they really need to start making cheating a crime. 5000 dollar fine, and a misodomener.

It's just a game

[Reeva!]

Never found a cheater yet, thank the lord. I never play on Official though. I play this game to have fun, not slave away to an Alpha tribe so they can remove 1 of their thousands of map-wide pillars for me to build 2 foundations and a bed with a box, who can also turn on me at any time and wipe it just to put the pillar back. Having fun is hard enough with how many bugs this game has. When I saw the customer support, well let's just say I'm playing this game with friends now, because soloing is questionable in this game, you're just not having fun when a compy attacks a bronto 100 metres away from you and the tail (which isn't near you) of the bronto absolutely ruins your day.

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Originally posted by hatefulpeace:

Worthless cheaters, they really need to start making cheating a crime. 5000 dollar fine, and a misodomener.

It's just a game

How dare you

[EthanT]

Play unofficials with a good admin.

[KitsuneShiro]

You know that school just got out for the summer (northern hemisphere), so be prepared for the influx of children.


It would take real time policing of server to stop cheating, which isn't feasible for official servers. Maybe unofficial, but it's like a job.

Calling people names isn't going to help your cause.