How has your experience with aimbotters been?

(Chase) #1

My friends and I were enjoying a Dirty Bomb game and things went sour when an aimbotter joined us on our team. Disclaimer: Do not try to discredit my judgment by thinking that I was salty. I immediately voted to kick him once I saw him get headshot kills on the entire team within 3 seconds. However, the vote results were Yes(3), No(3) hence he remained in the game. Even though my friends and I tried to repeat the vote, the results remained the same. It was mind-boggling how the rest were not bothered by a hacker and the people who voted no were honestly the worst of the bunch.

I love Dirty Bomb and I wish for it to reach massive success but with aimbotters ruining games, it’d be tough to keep the small-growing community to remain loyal to DB. What the devs need to do is, work on the number of votes required to votekick, work on the number of votes required to shuffle (because team imbalance is extremely prevalent these days), figure out a solid plan on how to root out these hackers. Even though every single hacker I’ve encountered have been reported, it still leaves an uneasy feeling knowing that, they can create another account and repeat the same cycle. One of my friends even suggested IP bans as a no-nonsense method of removing hackers from the game.

So, the question I’d like to ask you guys is, How has your experience with aimbotters been?

(terminal) #2

Nowadays when I play, the aimbotters are usually in pubs so it doesn’t really matter to me because I can just leave. (and usually so bad that you can still kill them)

Before, Aimbotters filled competitive servers and it was basically asking for a game of spinbot instant kills when you queued for competitive. I remember seeing this one guy who was just tossing infinite airstrikes and trapping my team in Chapel Stage 3 Spawn.
But that was before, nowadays it’s not possible to do that.

(3N1GM4) #3

Played with a guy last night who finished 105/4 as a skyhammer in comp mode. claimed being legit buy I HIGHLY suspect otherwise lol

#4

Since the implentation of the report system, I haven’t seen one confirmed cheater.
I did see a few suspicious ones, but nobody instantly obvious.

I don’t play competitive every day, but even there, no cheaters.

Of course meeting one depends on how lucky or better said how unlucky you are.

(Sorotia) #5

Some people don’t give a damn as long as they win…

(Amerika) #6

[quote=“Chase;18869”]My friends and I were enjoying a Dirty Bomb game and things went sour when an aimbotter joined us on our team. Disclaimer: Do not try to discredit my judgment by thinking that I was salty. I immediately voted to kick him once I saw him get headshot kills on the entire team within 3 seconds. However, the vote results were Yes(3), No(3) hence he remained in the game. Even though my friends and I tried to repeat the vote, the results remained the same. It was mind-boggling how the rest were not bothered by a hacker and the people who voted no were honestly the worst of the bunch.

I love Dirty Bomb and I wish for it to reach massive success but with aimbotters ruining games, it’d be tough to keep the small-growing community to remain loyal to DB. What the devs need to do is, work on the number of votes required to votekick, work on the number of votes required to shuffle (because team imbalance is extremely prevalent these days), figure out a solid plan on how to root out these hackers. Even though every single hacker I’ve encountered have been reported, it still leaves an uneasy feeling knowing that, they can create another account and repeat the same cycle. One of my friends even suggested IP bans as a no-nonsense method of removing hackers from the game.

So, the question I’d like to ask you guys is, How has your experience with aimbotters been?[/quote]

Well what sucks is that anti-cheat programs will not prevent cheaters for the most part in regards to new cheats. There has always been cheaters in every FPS game for 20+ years now and, if things stay the same, always will be. New cheats come out and AC programs race to try and get them removed while using other layers of protection to help reduce the chances of your game getting ruined by a cheater.

IP bans are easy to get around. Same with hardware ID bans. Right now the response time on removing cheaters is incredibly quick and NGS has had many updates that have banned new cheats. But you will run into cheaters as long as new cheats keep being made. The main thing is to keep trying to hit those guys in the wallet and/or make it so frustrating for them that they simply stop. Yes, people can make a new account but if they do that over and over then eventually they will move on to easier prey. It won’t stop everyone but it will stop all but the dedicated.

This topic has been discussed a lot here and there, sadly, isn’t any form of voodoo magic that can keep cheats from ruining some games. The best thing you can do is learn about what you can do and also try not to let it ruin your night.

(The_Enema_Bandit) #7

I haven’t seen cheaters (at least haven’t noticed) for about 6-7 weeks or more. The other day there was one, really pathetic. At first tried to hide it, but when we expressed suspicion in the chat, he went all out. The thing that bothered me the most (same as OP) was that, despite our calls, his team did not want to vote kick him and suddenly they became silent, especially the one guy who was calling us pussies before the cheating went hardcore. Anyway, I know this is normal, no need to discuss reasons. :slight_smile:

I want to say that I really like the report a player in-game function. I’m glad we have it and I hope the reports are helping to clean out the garbage.

Here is a link for those who don’t know how this function works, it’s super easy:
http://forums.dirtybomb.nexon.net/discussion/17853/how-to-report-a-player

Use it every time you witness cheating. It doesn’t make you a snitch, cause cheaters ruin games for everybody.

(sentimentalDime) #8

I haven’t really seen that many hackers, except yesterday when i encountered 4 hackers in a single day…

(diamondArcher) #9

Had one obvious aimbotter about a week ago. He didn’t care and happily talked about being banned and getting another account. The next day we had another in game with a random number as a name. He openly admitted to hacking and didn’t care because he could just get another account. In both cases neither of their teams voted to kick them.

(Vinos) #10

If they aren’t immediately banned by NSG then there are probably no hacks involved.

(avidCow) #11

If only.

I’ve seen 2 or 3 players exhibiting some strange shenanigans: one lvl1 player with a dumb LOOKATME attention grabbing name who definitely had some kind of aim-assist going, and 2 others who were using a combination of anti-recoil and spread negation (massively extended range on shotgun hipfire and zero rise on the deagle clone)

(Grave_Knight) #12

I think I see an aimbot maybe once a week, so it’s not a huge issue and NGS seems to get update often enough to curb them script kiddies. Usually, however, aimbots get kicked, but I usually play late at night so the crowd is a bit different (less salty and toxic players) and kicking script kiddies is general more successful.

(wolvie) #13

I honestly rarely see any hackers. I don’t see what all the hacker complain is about. I’ve seen a total of 3 hackers in my 200hrs played

(Grave_Knight) #14

And I’m guessing you mostly played after BlackCipher was implemented (better known as NGS). Before they were using Xigncode and it was horrible, mostly on the EU servers and in comp. Fortunately SD and Nexon kicked Xigncode to the curb and now use BlackCipher.

(Jostabeere) #15

I see the quite often tbh. Every 2nd or 3rd game a lame Vassili or Fletcher with aimbot on. Try to spec and record them. Usually if you switch to spectator they either:
a. become shit
b. leave the game.
But they’re always pro and have another accounts. And their friends in steam are their accounts in real and so on.
DB really need a replay function so you can conveniently send in timestamps of people cheating via an in-game replay-report-editing function.

(acrobaticBudgie) #16

I’ve seen aimbotters about once a week on average, we had one on our team yesterday and it took 2 vote requests and the enemy team refusing to respawn to get him kicked. I’ve seen more players who have some sort of psychic connection that allows them to pre-fire just as you turn a corner. I know there are only so many routes to the objectives and players should cover the angles but there are times when it’s blatant.

(Remedica) #17

I’ve heard rumours that there are sites out there where you can pay to get cheaters to boost your rankings in various of games, including dirty bomb.
Thankfully I have only encountered cheaters maybe 5-10 times during my time in DB. (That still too many tho :D)

(TheAcidpiss) #18

ive got exactly 100hrs played as of today, ive seen only one script kiddy i was quite certain was hacking.

And ive probably suspected around 10.

Pretty damn good for a FTP game in my experience, and ive been playing multiplayer FPS since it was possible. :slight_smile:

i started playing less than a month ago, so that helped

(acrobaticBudgie) #19

I will never understand the thought process behind this. If you want to unlock content but can’t be bothered to grind it out, most games have a payment option that’ll probably be cheaper than paying someone else to play it for you. If you want a high level number, you’ll be found out the moment you eventually play the game yourself. Seriously, why bother?

(N8o) #20

[quote=“laudatoryLunch;95327”]I see the quite often tbh. Every 2nd or 3rd game a lame Vassili or Fletcher with aimbot on. Try to spec and record them. Usually if you switch to spectator they either:
a. become shit
b. leave the game.
But they’re always pro and have another accounts. And their friends in steam are their accounts in real and so on.
DB really need a replay function so you can conveniently send in timestamps of people cheating via an in-game replay-report-editing function.[/quote]

Gonna be real with you, in all my time on this game, I have never seen a Fletcher hacking.