possible to get banned by association?

[long chin man]

hi. i just ran into some lovely modders who instakicked me the minute I saw they used a sample-spawner and weapon spawner. "hey, you guys are modding huh?"
I was just declaring I have no connection to these players. I, long_chin_man. do not condone the usage of third-party software to give myself an unfair advantage.
however where can i snitch on them???? they kicked me

[Lucky Cat]

I'd say its possible but so long you report this, maybe tell Arrowhead Studio in their discord about it, you might be able to get away with it. I dunno how they can reverse the problem but if you're at risk of being banned, you may as well either stay quiet about it (Which is likely not a option now) or go to the folks running the game and tell them your situation.

[Øv]

if you report them and block them i do not se why you will get banned

[AzKat 🐔]

If you mean steam account bans by association, then no.

Can't vouch for Helldivers either, but I'm guessing since they already have all the information for their connecting players they know who was going solo / who wasn't.

[long chin man]

Originally posted by AzKat 🐔:

Can't vouch for Helldivers either, but I'm guessing since they already have all the information for their connecting players they know who was going solo / who wasn't.

ah thats not ideal

i dont know the situation on how arrowhead handles "hacker carry" service. i just joined a random suicide-mission lobby. then saw all the guns and samples bugged into eachother. took some thinking it was a bug, then realised they were spawning more. i asked "u guys arent modding right" and they kicked me.

ubi and tarkov are pretty harsh with their bans. Ive only played with so far one confirmed hacker that I stopped playing with once we had proper evidence to support that they definitely used software. however I got really awful tarkov games after reporting them. as if I got shadowbanned or something.
i know r6 bans carry hacker noobs pretty often, i mean. good on them. but you really need to be able to tell the difference between some guy smurf hacking and an actual carry service loser.

[Metroid]

The only logical thing to do is to stay away from multiplayer games, there's no reason trying to compete when most people are cheating.

If people only knew how bad cheating is in multiplayer games, people will just stop playing these games altogether.

But corporations wouldn't allow that, because all their revenue mostly comes from multiplayer games these days.

So it's in their best interest to hush hush about this subject, and make sure that the narrative is corrected by telling you that cheating isn't a problem because they use anti cheat software, which is lies of course it just doesn't work in reality..

This is just how the cookie crumbles in the gaming industry right now.

[long chin man]

Originally posted by Metroid:

So it's in their best interest to hush hush about this subject, and make sure that the narrative is corrected by telling you that cheating isn't a problem because they use anti cheat software, which is lies of course it just doesn't work in reality..

honestly real