is multiplayer still a cheat/mod frenzy?

[RandalMcdaniel]

I wanted to play this game for real to replace black desert online but i cant take it seriously if everyone has mods like when i tried a couple years ago

its cheating you are cheating and i dont care who says otherwise

[ChisaiiNeko]

Publicado originalmente por RandalMcdaniel:

what? i dont think so.. when i played the only way to transmog was to mod the files

and thats your opinion, its important that i can visibly see what gear they have on so i can tell if they know what they are doing.

Layered weapons are a thing and since you don't have mods, the only way for you to see a transmog weapon is when the players do it the legit way in Iceborne. Layered weapons are just a part of the game.

Transmog weapon mods are almost all purely clientside which means you wont see it on your end afaik

The only mods/cheats you will see are in MH series that will affect you are: modded quests, Player running around oneshotting stuff/one hit breaking parts, not taking damage, Vita mantle lasting forever and the ability to never lose sharpness.

And even then, all are super rare (maybe 1 hunt out of 10k hunts) and you can always just host the server so you can boot those players.

[RandalMcdaniel]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. September:

Publicado originalmente por RandalMcdaniel:

ok these answers are not what im looking for

i want someone to say "they added X in 2022 people cant cheat anymore" i dont want to debate right or wrong

There is basically no anti cheat in this game. You can't get banned for using anything questionable. It has been this way since launch.

There is your answer.

thaank you for the answer! Have a great day everybody!

[BimboGooch]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. September:

Publicado originalmente por RandalMcdaniel:

ok these answers are not what im looking for

i want someone to say "they added X in 2022 people cant cheat anymore" i dont want to debate right or wrong

There is basically no anti cheat in this game. You can't get banned for using anything questionable. It has been this way since launch.

There is your answer.

they say you can, but from what ive googled almost no one gets banned lol. Maybe if you sent direct video recorded proof THEY MAY do something. But I dont think capcome cares about cheats for most their games.

[Mr. September]

Publicado originalmente por BimboGooch:

they say you can, but from what ive googled almost no one gets banned lol. Maybe if you sent direct video recorded proof THEY MAY do something. But I dont think capcome cares about cheats for most their games.

No one has gotten banned in MHW. It's impossible at the moment.

How do I know? There is no system in place that can penalize the player. I would have gotten banned more times than I could count if that was a thing.

Unless you somehow manage to directly offend Capcom (like an actual hacking attack on their servers or something), nothing will happen. They straight up don't care.

[Sifnix024]

Publicado originalmente por RandalMcdaniel:

if people can still transmog gear into a different appearance, i will not be redownloading this game, thats all i want to know

my point being that even the smallest mods mean we are no longer all using the same vanilla game and we are NOT all on the same playing field

i dont like multiplayer games where people can mod. I didnt even play world of warcraft because addons existed. I HATE mods in multiplayer.

imo The multiplayer experience should be the same for every single player

Before the realese of iceborne there weren't many layerd armor option with the release of iceborne they added everything as layerd skins to unlock before iceborne using transmog wasn't even cheating because you didn't get any advantage now it would be technically cheatin because you don't have to farm 5min to unlock the skin

[SoulReaperAxel]

So visual mods are cheating? OK then I'll go cheat with some luastra balls hanging out above my head

[Kada]

Publicado originalmente por RandalMcdaniel:

if people can still transmog gear into a different appearance, i will not be redownloading this game, thats all i want to know

my point being that even the smallest mods mean we are no longer all using the same vanilla game and we are NOT all on the same playing field

i dont like multiplayer games where people can mod. I didnt even play world of warcraft because addons existed. I HATE mods in multiplayer.

imo The multiplayer experience should be the same for every single player

If this is your take on it then, console might be the best bet. Many people use appearance mods, it doesn't give then any advantage over you. It just makes them happy to see their characters the way they'd like. Nearly everyone I've met so far has had some sort of appearance mods or mods that change the music. It is an inevitability.

[Kada]

Publicado originalmente por Nekonya (^w^):

Publicado originalmente por RandalMcdaniel:

what? i dont think so.. when i played the only way to transmog was to mod the files

and thats your opinion, its important that i can visibly see what gear they have on so i can tell if they know what they are doing.

Layered weapons are a thing and since you don't have mods, the only way for you to see a transmog weapon is when the players do it the legit way in Iceborne. Layered weapons are just a part of the game.

Transmog weapon mods are almost all purely clientside which means you wont see it on your end afaik

The only mods/cheats you will see are in MH series that will affect you are: modded quests, Player running around oneshotting stuff/one hit breaking parts, not taking damage, Vita mantle lasting forever and the ability to never lose sharpness.

And even then, all are super rare (maybe 1 hunt out of 10k hunts) and you can always just host the server so you can boot those players.

This is correct, the only time you'd see it is if you have the mod aswell.

[Cel]

Tbh if anyone says "no" they are completely lying. In 5 years, i saw a lot of MHW fanboys supporting it and we already have some in this discussions, you can see.
I quit console, comeback to the game 3 weeks ago on PC, as soon as i hit the end game after 300 hours cheater are everywhere. Their level of toxicity is unmatched.
Sorry to say that but you don't have to believe me, play the game and see it for yourself . Now 100% of the time i'm just playing solo .

[Mr. September]

Publicado originalmente por Celanio:

Tbh if anyone says "no" they are completely lying. In 5 years, i saw a lot of MHW fanboys supporting it and we already have some in this discussions, you can see.
I quit console, comeback to the game 3 weeks ago on PC, as soon as i hit the end game after 300 hours cheater are everywhere. Their level of toxicity is unmatched.
Sorry to say that but you don't have to believe me, play the game and see it for yourself . Now 100% of the time i'm just playing solo .

The game has a weird "region lock". It uses your Steam Download Region, and other nearby countries.

Some regions just have more cheaters than others.

[Zeoplez]

Lol, lmao even.

[benji27potf]

I put about 1000 hours into this game last year and ran into maybe 8 cheaters, I would always leave the session once I noticed cheating.
Most people just use mods in general for things that dont impact someone else. if you run into the same people chances are you will end up partying and playing lots of sessions together.

The places I would run into cheaters were in the fatalis fight and the guiding lands.

[Brother Caliber]

I agree, they should separate players who mod to only play with their friends + other modders. Leave the real players alone. I've played this game since the PS4 beta, and admittedly never seen a modder/cheater, but I don't deny their existence, and if cheaters were always in my lobbies I'd get pissed off too.

[Brother Caliber]

Or they could implement a booting system, so you can simply boot the cheaters

[benji27potf]

Publicado originalmente por Brother Caliber:

Or they could implement a booting system, so you can simply boot the cheaters

I been booted before for being a noob on this game ( not enough DPS), not sure if it was an in built system or a modded lobby.