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I used to be part of a game's competitive community and they literally ended up having to make their own databases and live-spectating tools to figure out if someone was cheating due to how prevalent/easy it was to get cheats for that game. At one point there was a few players noted as being the top 20 or so, and eventually all bar like 3 of them were caught cheating. The complete distrust of other players when they're playing weirdly or are new and just have good mechanics made it so that anytime people died they'd have clipping software at the ready to be able to send it off to the cheating database team if they had continued suspicion. Completely killed the community as it just turned into shouting arguments of "SHOW YOUR SCREEN" etc every single game.
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Thing about this too is that it casts doubt on people's actual skill. My friend was really great at FPS games, particularly COD4 and CODMW2 which we played competitively at university. We came 2nd in the end but he was clearly the best individual player at the tournament. He just had a really good read of the map and where enemy players are likely to be, played more conservatively and has much faster reflexes and reaction time than me. In the local on-campus games people would just call him a cheater and leave the lobby. I was sitting next to him, he wasn't cheating - just dominating. Just for fun we swapped machines and when I finished like 3rd or 4th with his username and he'd continue dominating with mine in the same way, no one called my profile out for cheating. Cheating software ruins the fun for both cheaters and skilled players.
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Thing is with online shooters, there were always tons of cheaters out there. I remember in the COD2 days, we had to ban like 5-6 people from our server every day. However the last time gaming communities had the chance to regulate themselves was in cod:mw2 and even then only with a greyarea admin tool that allowed the host to kick players. For the past 10 years, game devs stripped away any and all tools players had to regulate their communities, so now players have to rely on the Dev's solutions, which is either an automatic anticheat program that lags behind cheaters, or manual evaluation and banning, for which companies refuse to provide the needed resources and manpower.
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I have mostly stopped playing nearly any game that has some type of PvP, not because there Are cheaters necessarily, but because anti-cheat is so bad and not worked on at all these days that there is just always the question of "WERE they cheating?", and the question is so plausible because of it that it just feels unfair and pointless to play.
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Even if you don't cheat, every time I popped off in CoD black ops 2 and 3 I had to deal with people calling me a cheater and then teammates team killing me out of spite, even though no cheating was involved.
I remember the good old days in action quake 2, 1998/1999... Everytime anyone had a good play or popped off like crazy, the whole lobby would celebrate the play. It was amazing. Completely different experience then nowadays.
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I think the big reason personally that I have zero interest in big competitive online games isn't the cheating it's just the frustration/enjoyment ratio. The skill curve of these games has gotten really silly if you're just a casual because of how good everyone online is now, and I just don't have any desire to spend weeks getting destroyed and raging and being mirked by lag in a game that's really lag sensitive before I can even enjoy it, when I can just enjoy myself in a less lag sensitive game with an easier learning curve that's less punishing to start playing. Maybe hacking is part of why it feels like that but I honestly am not paying close enough attention to care exactly why, I just think the format lends itself extremely strongly to that kind of frustration cycle.
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@downhillupside
1 month ago
Welcome to the world of performance enhancing drugs.
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