Cheating is rampant now

[Dusty Klitz]

In all of the 706.4 hours I’ve played this game, you’d rarely come across a cheater - Now, the game is simply plagued with them. It’s obvious and clear as day that it’s an ESP/Wall hack that’s being bought and going around because it’s rapidly progressing and it’s mainly MG’ers. I didn’t want to believe it until I saw footage, but it’s certainly a thing. Tested it out in lobbies that were suspicious and my methods for finding out were full proof and verified by other squad mates that I usually team up with that have many hours on the game.

If you’re out there and using this ♥♥♥♥, just know you’re driving the final nail in the coffin for a game that’s already hanging on by a thread. It doesn’t make you good and it’s obvious that you’re cheating. Put down mommy and daddy’s credit card and play the game the correct way so you can get absolutely ♥♥♥♥ on because you have zero skill. It’s sad that you have to completely break the game to be relevant into which I can’t even understand how that would be an enjoyable time doing that? Done with people ruining the game for other people and the whole experience.

There’s many people on here who simply deny that it’s happening and it needs to stop because you’re doing nothing but enabling it. It never used to happen often but it is now, so nip it in the bud with your admins on servers and get whoever decides to do this ♥♥♥♥ blacklisted on servers since TEAM17 isn’t going to do a damn thing about it.

Anyone questioning this, just take a simple search on YouTube for a guy named silence.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por ◯ | Caff:

This mentality is so poisonus.

Life lesson for a lot of gamers here:
- You are not the best FPS player in the world
- There are a lot of people out there that will make you look like an amateur
- Calling better a player than you a hacker is a really weak mindset
- Git gud kid.

~ Caff

Ignoring the last 2 points since they're intentionally antagonistic, this is information some people should take to heart.

A thought I always have is if such a minor, insignificant thing like dying in a videogame bothers people so much to the point they will *aggressively* blame outside forces they can't prove were there, then I worry about how they handle any sort of opposition in real life. It's like you have a jenga tower built inside, smack the hell out of it, and then blame the wind. It's absurd.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por FlamingDeath:

It's all in our heads, there are no cheaters, our mistake..../s

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e8271099-771c-4854-946e-41f7bf37671b

Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds launched March 2017, by October the same year - 322,000 cheaters accounts banned, and that's just the ones who were actually caught.

Similarly, in July, Valve banned 40,000 Steam users accounts in a single day for various cheating offences.

Oh we're using numbers now are we? Let's provide some context and information.

PUBG between launch and October 2017 went from 150k concurrent to 3 million concurrent by the end of October.
Source: https://steamcharts.com/app/578080#All Using Jan 31st 2017 to Jan 14 2018 as the filter

Understanding how concurrent players works, we can reasonably assume that PUBG had many more players than that. I did find an article at the beginning of October 2017 that said the game had sold 13 million copies, that seems reasonable so I'll use that. Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-sales-pubg-player-stats-2017-10#copies-sold-over-13-million-1

13 million total players. 322k cheaters banned.

Using some nice little percentage math that comes to a WHOPPING !*2.5%*! (rounded up btw) of total players banned during that time.

Keep in mind as well, PUBG is just reaching its height of popularity in October - September of 2017, reaching and holding its 3 million concurrent mark for several months. Compare that to HLL which is LAUGHABLE to even consider as a comparison.

Like I keep saying: Cheaters exist but the number is so much lower than you think. And now you've given me a nice little chunk of numbers to prove that, so thanks for that!

[Lovecheese45]

I loved playing this... but 3 matches in a row I've ran across someone with an MG sitting at spawn killing and racking up over 1500 attack points.... Sad

I just dont understand why you would want to cheat in online games. Do it in single player games.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por Lovecheese45:

I loved playing this... but 3 matches in a row I've ran across someone with an MG sitting at spawn killing and racking up over 1500 attack points.... Sad

I just dont understand why you would want to cheat in online games. Do it in single player games.

Play on community servers, avoid "official" servers. If you suspect someone of cheating, do an "!admin possible cheater" in the chat and hope the admins are active (most servers have active admins at all times). If you know for a fact the MG has 1500 combat effectiveness, which is ABSURD as I can *barely* reach 1k as Satchel AT on some of my best games, and the admin doesn't do anything, that's a server that should be avoided.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por FlamingDeath:

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

waffle waffle waffle <SNIP>

Try re-reading what was said.
Whatever drugs or medication you are on, it's affecting your ability to digest information

What did I miss? I'm asking you plainly, what part did I misread? Because I used *your* numbers with a little bit of my own digging. Are you talking about the Steam accounts banned, because the percentage is even *smaller*.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por FlamingDeath:

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

What did I miss? I'm asking you plainly, what part did I misread? Because I used *your* numbers with a little bit of my own digging. Are you talking about the Steam accounts banned, because the percentage is even *smaller*.

Why are they my numbers?
You're reaching
GTFO, seriously dude, you're starting to annoy me, and that takes quite some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ effort

Trying to imply that I made things up or misread something (I didn't) is hilarious considering the numbers i just gave you completely brick your entire argument about cheaters. Gotta
attempt to attack my character now that you've been proven wrong mathematically eh? Get well soon.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por FlamingDeath:

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

Trying to imply that I made things up or misread something (I didn't) is hilarious considering the numbers i just gave you completely brick your entire argument about cheaters. Gotta
attempt to attack my character now that you've been proven wrong mathematically eh? Get well soon.

I don't need to attack your character, it's on full ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ display

So what's your counter to the mathematically driven factual data that's right in front of you? I'm not interested in anything else you have to say, what's your counter point?

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por FlamingDeath:

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

So what's your counter to the mathematically driven factual data that's right in front of you? I'm not interested in anything else you have to say, what's your counter point?

You're a silly ♥♥♥♥, and I don't really care if I get done for this much required infraction

That's my counter

Great. So we've established that I am mathematically and factually proven to be correct making you delusional and wrong. Good talk.

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por FlamingDeath:

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

waffle waffle waffle

*blocked*

A blessing.

[Lovecheese45]

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

Publicado originalmente por Lovecheese45:

I loved playing this... but 3 matches in a row I've ran across someone with an MG sitting at spawn killing and racking up over 1500 attack points.... Sad

I just dont understand why you would want to cheat in online games. Do it in single player games.

Play on community servers, avoid "official" servers. If you suspect someone of cheating, do an "!admin possible cheater" in the chat and hope the admins are active (most servers have active admins at all times). If you know for a fact the MG has 1500 combat effectiveness, which is ABSURD as I can *barely* reach 1k as Satchel AT on some of my best games, and the admin doesn't do anything, that's a server that should be avoided.

I only played on community servers. Doesn't stop the cheaters. They just keep coming back

[Roovka]

Publicado originalmente por Lovecheese45:

Publicado originalmente por Roovka:

Play on community servers, avoid "official" servers. If you suspect someone of cheating, do an "!admin possible cheater" in the chat and hope the admins are active (most servers have active admins at all times). If you know for a fact the MG has 1500 combat effectiveness, which is ABSURD as I can *barely* reach 1k as Satchel AT on some of my best games, and the admin doesn't do anything, that's a server that should be avoided.

I only played on community servers. Doesn't stop the cheaters. They just keep coming back

It doesn't stop them, but it does reduce their numbers if you let admins know because many servers follow a form of "community ban list" preventing these bad actors from joining other servers. As I said if something as ridiculous as a 1500 Combat eff MG gets a pass, then that server is something to avoid.

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