It’s great that the game is growing and with Total Biscuits new video it will certainly see more players incoming.
But with the large amount of players flocking to the game comes a terrible downside. The downside being the cheats being made and utilized in matchmaking and public lobbies.
With matchmaking being how it is with the cheaters and level 5s with high levels, it leaves the cheaters bleeding into the public lobbies because they get bored. This is a problem because it ruins everyone’s fun and drives players away from such a promising title such as Dirty Bomb.
There is this post on reddit where a guy downloaded a cheat trial for 24 hours. In this post it makes it obviously clear that the game has a serious problem as it reveals the amount of cheaters this cheater ran into. https://www.reddit.com/r/Dirtybomb/comments/3b4tb7/im_an_admitted_cheater_and_in_my_experience_the/ and even an image telling you what the cheat does
another instance is Pansy the streamer / ESL caster stream today. She literally had a cheater follow her around to every lobby as stated here. https://twitter.com/TheyCallMePansy/status/615214304665698304
Is there anything that can be done about this? Maybe implement some sort of thing like CSGOs overwatch where you flag a player and certain people in the community will look at these reports, and make decisions on if they’re cheating… all using responsible members of the community. I believe this is a cheap alternative than implementing a better anti-cheat than xgincode. VAC is also another option.
I love this game, I really do. I haven’t played another game like it. It’s unique. But its hard to love something when it cheats on you.