New cheat?

[Sebrais]

Twice today a Chinese opponent bypassed one of my guard units to attack a vital unit that was protected by it. On both occasions it occurred at a crucial stage of the game when I was gaining the upper hand and the incident swung the odds in their favour.

At no point was the guard unit suppressed. It appears that the opponent knew they were cheating because they emoted as they made the attack.

This is now the third time I've experienced this in the past week and the perpetrator in all three cases was Chinese.

[karmington]

Please do take screenshots so people can sanity check things.
Optimally note down the UTC+0 time of the match and send a description of the issue along with your Player#1234 to support https://support.kards.com/hc or via Discord, so we can inspect the match logs.

[uncleed]

Bear in mind that besides suppression, there are some cards that disable Guard, sometimes just for the turn.

If none of these were the culprit, that would have some dire implications.

Not only that there are cheats (which we all know there aren't), but also that there aren't any hard controls wired into the game. Alarm bells should be going off somewhere if a mechanics rule is broken. (Say.... 6th card in support line.)

Alas, you'll have to record it all.

[karmington]

T19 Howitzer for example causes a unit to lose Guard for a turn, but these sort of effects are pretty rare

[Sebrais]

To put this in perspective, I have more than 1600 hours in this game. I fully know how guard can be negated. In both cases, my guard units were fully operational and had the shield symbol of a functioning guard, and the opponent simply moved his unit and directly attacked the unit that was being guarded.

The fact that they acted to attack the guarded unit and emoted at the time as if they were gloating is not at all reassuring.

[puschit]

Rare or not, they happen, and actual cheats like this are very, very, very unlikely. The results of the actions player tale are calculated server side. For a "cheater" to bypass guard he would need to either hack the server (nearly impossible and if he actually hacked it, he could do more than just bypassing guard) or exploit an existing bug. With tens of thousands of games played each day it's very unlikely that such a bug exists unnoticed (except for chinese players :P ).
The much much MUCH more likely scenario is that the OP just missed something. This is a dynamic game and with every new card, new combinations are possible. It's so easy to miss something. He looked for suppress but I bet he didn't look for T19 Howitzer. Or Magic. Or Patrol. There is also the fact that artillery and bombers don't care for guard. He didn't name a single card that was involved, so how could we say anything about. Maybe the attacking unit was a Panther D and he interpreted the fact that his HQ got damage from the Patnther as "the tank ignored guard". Hard to say but I am 99.9% sure it's something like this and no "cheat".

[sushi_komplett]

Did the attacked unit have guard?

[karmington]

Please do remember to take screenshots to make sanity checking easier.

[Aracun]

personally I've never had match I thought someone was cheating -BUT there was still this incident where something apparently happened and OP even had compensation and player got banned
https://steamcommunity.com/app/544810/discussions/0/604141771964810224/