[QUOTE=sunshinefats;534271]As I recall, the theatre mode in BO2 was just an extra they added for fun, and did not actually play a role in getting cheaters banned as it was not 100% accurate all the time. It was only really helpful in aiding you if you weren’t 100% sure someone was cheating before you reported them and you wanted to see if they did something obvious. On the other hand though, you could report players to both steam and 3arc, and they would ban people if enough reports came in(3arc that is, steam largely doesn’t seem to care). Problem with that system was that they required a certain number of unique reports within a certain timeframe or they did nothing, and a lot of people just didn’t recognize cheaters or didn’t bother to report them. Still, I give 3arc credit that they did, at least, have people on staff to follow up on people who got enough reports, and I did witness quite a few cheaters get banned.
At any rate, I do agree with your point that we need some sort of multifaceted system in place to allow the DB community to aid in getting rid of the bad apples. As someone mentioned, it’s been discussed at length before, but as of yet the devs have made very little effort other than to tell us they were “working on it.” In one discussion a dev simply came in and said, report it to nexon, and closed the thread as if to shrug it off or it wasn’t really their problem…so I’m not overly encouraged thus far that they truly consider it a top priority. At least not yet.[/QUOTE]
Quite correct, it isn’t great at the moment.
Though, I really think the only way to really get rid of it is to update the game frequently. There is usually a 1-2 day hold on cheats when an update is released!
It needs to be put in place, because I have no motivation to try and even compete in pugs or competitions. Until we can clearly see there is an active working AC, what is the point? I mean, we can’t honestly say Pugs and competitions are 100% cheat free, although the community does a great job at trying to keep them out.
While playing pugs myself (I haven’t played many, and I won’t be name dropping, because I could very well be wrong!!!), I have seen some dodgy crap!
This includes pre-shooting and being shot as soon as I go around a corner, people trying to jump shoot and the bullet hitting the wall in front of them because they didn’t realise it went that high etc. I ain’t a bad player(not the best, I will happily admit that!). I also understand pub is a completely different game, but! The mechanics don’t change and when I dominate a pub game(objectives too) with mostly every kill being 1+ headshots and then move over to playing pugs, I go negative 9/40 in every game, I think to myself ‘well, I didn’t really have a chance to react’. I don’t complain, I don’t call out, because some of these players ARE really damn good players! I don’t know them well enough to say “he’s a cheater”, but I truly won’t be happy until there is an AC which proves it’s self worth. I want to play competitive, but why don’t I have that piece of mind!
I really hope it’ll come soon!