Cheating is getting worse in DRAFT

[RogueTrooper]

For the past few weeks i encounter players who have perfect decks that counter my every move... Seems very coincidental considering there's a pool of 40 cards that get played randomly... Strange that as it must be luck......hmmmmmmm

[Hisendam]

What has it to do with cheating if you just had bad luck? Real cheats look pretty different from what you are describing here.

[jzak]

Same, while I'm hopeless at draft I always get opponents who get the right combination of cards.

For example played 3 drafts as American - offered not one Shaman - or no 3 kredits infantry units - but my American opponents sure had them.

Probably just bad luck but I'm done with draft.

[Hisendam]

Guys what you experienced was just playing vs good draft players who prolly know how to build a decent deck + some amount of rng. The rng part will equalize in the long run. So if I can't get to at least 3 wins in just one run, it could be just bad luck. But if I don't get to at least 3 wins on average over 100 draft runs, it has far more likely to do with my drafting skills ;-).

[Captain Frye]

This game is RNG heavy. Just don't care and have fun.

[RogueTrooper]

I used to win 4-7 games in draft on average. And i didn't get the run of cards that i see appear. You simply cannot have a counter for every card that is played by the enemy player. Luck of the Irish every game? nah

[Lucky_Star_Fan]

There are some very good decks in draft, luck happens. I watched a stream last night and there were no stars/skulls in the bottom left so I assumed it was constructed. Guy had 2 sendais/takesaugis, bombing raid, signal regiment and a whole ton of japan synergy. Was running a few weird cards but yeah whatever. When he won the game I saw it was draft. Absolutely insane deck, probably went 7-0.

I chose brits to draft last night just for fun. I got Monty, Shelling and a Kittyhawk in draft. A decent amount of other subpar cards, but if I ran into those three I would definitely be salty. But it can happen legitimately.

Sometimes you get offered junk, it happens, not every draft deck can go 7 wins and a lot of that depends not on your deck, but on who you get matched against.

[Sudhir]

I used to play 4-5 drafts a day, winning most, but now I just do one every few days just to complete the missions. Starting a few weeks ago, I started seeing wayyyy more "coincidences" from players with either Asian symbols for names or just numbers for names. Maybe it is just bad luck and a bunch of super lucky Asian players joined the game in the last few weeks along with all the newer players who have quit, but that seems unlikely. Combined with the awful state of constructed Battles now, I've basically just quit the game.

[RogueTrooper]

Originally posted by HMG Sudhir:

Starting a few weeks ago, I started seeing wayyyy more "coincidences" from players with either Asian symbols for names or just numbers for names. Maybe it is just bad luck and a bunch of super lucky Asian players joined the game in the last few weeks along with all the newer players who have quit, but that seems unlikely.

funny that because i see the same... Asian symbols and number names get the coincidences most....

[Caak]

I played in a draft against a chinese (?) player a few days ago with exact the same # number behind the name .This seems to be at least suspicious ...

[Nate31]

I have stopped playing Drafts completely, waste of time.

[MerchantofDoom]

Originally posted by HMG Sudhir:

I used to play 4-5 drafts a day, winning most, but now I just do one every few days just to complete the missions. Starting a few weeks ago, I started seeing wayyyy more "coincidences" from players with either Asian symbols for names or just numbers for names. Maybe it is just bad luck and a bunch of super lucky Asian players joined the game in the last few weeks along with all the newer players who have quit, but that seems unlikely. Combined with the awful state of constructed Battles now, I've basically just quit the game.

Yeah basically the same here. In fact when I see Asian lettering I assume a loss. I also don't bother muliganning because you'll just get higher cost more useless cards. It's a running joke between my friends that play this and myself. We will stream each other's drafts in discord and MST3000 it. 75% of the time are jokes are accurate. It's so bad when I was playing one guy who would never take the front line when I had missing, I'm convinced he knew. He wouldn't take it with his 5-5 tanks and when he finally did he used his smallest unit first despite it being tactically inferior. It has me wondering?

[Martydi]

Originally posted by MidgetofDoom:

Originally posted by HMG Sudhir:

I used to play 4-5 drafts a day, winning most, but now I just do one every few days just to complete the missions. Starting a few weeks ago, I started seeing wayyyy more "coincidences" from players with either Asian symbols for names or just numbers for names. Maybe it is just bad luck and a bunch of super lucky Asian players joined the game in the last few weeks along with all the newer players who have quit, but that seems unlikely. Combined with the awful state of constructed Battles now, I've basically just quit the game.

Yeah basically the same here. In fact when I see Asian lettering I assume a loss. I also don't bother muliganning because you'll just get higher cost more useless cards. It's a running joke between my friends that play this and myself. We will stream each other's drafts in discord and MST3000 it. 75% of the time are jokes are accurate. It's so bad when I was playing one guy who would never take the front line when I had missing, I'm convinced he knew. He wouldn't take it with his 5-5 tanks and when he finally did he used his smallest unit first despite it being tactically inferior. It has me wondering?

Deliberately staying off the frontline is visible. It kind a gives off that you have some countermeasures for that. Plus, why is it weird that he is using the weaker units first? If you have the money to move both it and the tank, you're going to move it first, just in case there is a countermeasure. The game is turn based, why would you not move your weaker units first to eat the countermeasures?

[Sudhir]

Played a few more full drafts yesterday to see if the trend continued, and it did. Way more "lucky" players with numbers/Asian symbols for names. Have the Devs even commented on what anti-cheat measures even exist (if any) in the game?

It's a tough situation with regards to reporting since any individual case may well be just good luck. It's just that the probability of them ALL being luck seems extremely low at this point. This is something the Devs will need to solve on their end really, since this isn't a simple matter of reporting individual players.

[Heresy]

Unfortunately yesterday i had my game freeze for the first time coincidently before i was about to win a draft match. Could hear the ingame music playing, frozen screen, could minimise game, task manager said game was running at full.

Then i had a match not connect within 2 mins so i canceled the que and it counted as a loss lol.

[Hisendam]

Originally posted by Heresy:

Unfortunately yesterday i had my game freeze for the first time coincidently before i was about to win a draft match. Could hear the ingame music playing, frozen screen, could minimise game, task manager said game was running at full.

Then i had a match not connect within 2 mins so i canceled the que and it counted as a loss lol.

Maybe you'd like to open a service request, so the devs could take a deeper look into the issue and might compensate you with a free draft ticket:
https://support.kards.com/hc/en-us/requests/new