Call of Duty bans more than 14,000 cheaters in 24 hours::undefined

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Cheaters really need to just fuck off and do something else with their lives. They are just sad assholes who can’t accomplish anything without cheating. With that lack of integrity, they’d make great CEOs. But with the lack of morality and stick-to-it-ness, I guess they’d fit better as middle management.

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Games should make hacker servers or hacker zones where it’s free for all to change your game however you want it. I understand the fin in changing the gameplay of a game to make it new.

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        1 year ago

        I would love a sneaky anti cheating system, where if you are detected the game behind the scenes starts making everyone else’s shot at you 100% headshots 😂 so there you are, trying to cheat, but you can’t get a single shot off because stray bullets are just homing at your noggen!

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          1 year ago

          Or even better, it forces a banana suit on you, so you can carry on playing but everyone knows who you are.

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          1 year ago

          I love the hilarousness of the idea, but unfortunately aimbots can just auto-fire at the first pixel, while humans won’t even register that you appeared for “long” milliseconds. However, if the game can force other people’s shots at you then I guess it can also force your shots to miss.

      • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Some already do. You have what’s known as “cheater ques” or “cheater lobbies” where cheaters get shadowbanned to only play against other cheaters

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          1 year ago

          Problem is, players reporting other players puts them along with the cheaters in the shadow ban servers. I’ve been shadow banned a number of times and it’s not fun and I don’t cheat.

      • Whirlybird
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        1 year ago

        That’s not why most people use these hacks though. They don’t want to play with other hackers, they want to use the hacks to give themselves an unfair advantage against people that aren’t using hacks so they can win.

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        1 year ago

        Matchmaking works best when as many people as possible are in the pool to join your match.

        Having everyone in the game on the official servers is the way to go and nobody should be modifying the game. It’s unfair.

        • maniclucky@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I feel like the suggestion is more about harm reduction. If you can’t get the cheaters to behave, quarantine them.

        • tabular@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I’d rather the freedom of dedicated servers, playing how we want and long after they abandoned the game or disabled matchmaking.

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          1 year ago

          Having everyone in the game on the official servers is the way to go and nobody should be modifying the game. It’s unfair.

          Remember the backlash that Microsoft got by trying to do this with UWP games?

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            1 year ago

            The backlash was because of what it would’ve meant for the wider Windows ecosystem and is the reason Valve threw enormous amounts of time and money at developing Proton.

            It was actually fairly similar to what Google now want to do with browser environment integrity in terms of being anti-competitive and anti-consumer.

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              1 year ago

              It was actually fairly similar to what Google now want to do with browser environment integrity in terms of being anti-competitive and anti-consumer.

              It wasn’t really “anti consumer” though. As a consumer you don’t have a right to modify purchased software.

              Did it suck for modders? Definitely. Are they entitled to be able to mod games that they didn’t make? No.

              I’m not sure what you think was “anti-competitive” about it either?

              The backlash was because of what it would’ve meant for the wider Windows ecosystem

              Most of the stories going around at the time of “what it meant for the wider windows ecosystem” was just FUD though. Anyone could make and install any UWP programs they wanted to. UWP wasn’t restricted to only specific companies or anything, just like existing .exes aren’t. There was so much ridiculous lies being spread at the time, it was insane.

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      On the flip side, I’ve been called a hacker and reported (to no avail, thankfully) about 20-40% of the time after I make a semi-decent killshot.

      Its not a hack, I can just see you very clearly when you’re running straight from point A to B without using cover. I didn’t use an aimbot, you’ve been standing in that one spot scrolling through your menu so I’ve had plenty of time to aim properly. I also didn’t use an invisibility hack, I’ve been waiting at that corner because I knew you would come charging past.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Then you aren’t one of the people I’m talking about. Personally, I take accusations of hacking or cheating as a compliment, because I know I’m clean and must have had a good game. Although sometimes dipshits will level accusations like that because I got them. Then I tell them to look at the game stats because I wouldn’t be 17-23 if I were cheating. The people who actually do cheat though, double fuck them.