DotA and CS:GO force you to link your phone number to your account to play online. PUBG needs to do the same. Will clamp down on cheaters hard
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Eurogamer: Cheaters find more ways to spoil everyone's fun in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
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DotA and CS:GO force you to link your phone number to your account to play online. PUBG needs to do the same. Will clamp down on cheaters hard
there are plenty of cheaters in games with no money. if you can cheat, people will cheat.
There are those who cheat simply to troll but a vast majority of cheaters in pubg are doing it to turn a profit.
that's fair but in the halo days i remember having to play against cheaters in almost every game. simply removing money won't make cheaters go away.
It's not that bad. I mostly play R6 Siege online, and cheating seems to be under control. I haven't met a single cheater tbh.
True but it will reduce their numbers enough that you only encounter them on the rare occasion instead of most rounds.
has it become that bad? i haven't played in a month but i can't remember seeing that many cheaters.
This is also my experience
While i cant stand hackers/cheaters and it should be eradicated from the game, i dont think its as big of an issue as some would have you believe
The game is a mess. Three of my friends stopped playing already because of the utterly awful netcode/rubber banding/tick-rate and still prevelant jankiness. Cheaters is not even the main reason here.
They need to do something in the next few months because otherwise they'll keep losing more and more players in the west.
They need to do something in the next few months because otherwise they'll keep losing more and more players in the west.
It's gotten to the point that Tencent has gotten the police involved to arrest the people making these cheating programs.
So far over a hundred of them.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tencent-helped-chinese-police-arrest-120-pubg-cheat-makers.16827/
So far over a hundred of them.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tencent-helped-chinese-police-arrest-120-pubg-cheat-makers.16827/
They really need to implement a ping/continent restriction at least until they find some sort of more permanent option.
I was so happy when I started seeing cheaters in every other match I played. It meant I'd got gud.
That feeling didn't last.
This is a uniquely PUBG problem. I've seen more hacks in the last few months than I've seen in over twenty years of online gaming on PC.
That feeling didn't last.
This is a uniquely PUBG problem. I've seen more hacks in the last few months than I've seen in over twenty years of online gaming on PC.
Cheating is rampant in every online game.
There is even a newer subset where you have Twitch streamers who cant play the games yet want the views and subs so cheat.
Games like CSGO, Overwatch, Call of Duty, Battlefield, etc etc all have cheaters and a lot of them...pubg is no different.
Keep telling yourself that. Other companies deal with this sort of shit
What a strange post.
So how did Valve stop all the cheating that takes place in CSGO? I'm would love to hear you tell that story.
There's a rather massive time zone difference between China & North America. What weird times are you playing that your game is full of players from China? Peak times in one area should be downtimes in another, and vice versa.
Well if you're playing on a friday past midnight EST or 9pm PST like a lot of people do you are approaching 1pm afternoon in china on saturday which i am sure is a busy time.
When I play pickup team games in Europe I almost always have Chinese players on my team, regardless of time of day.
As an almost exclusively online multiplayer player, this is why I don't play on PC. I could build a monster gaming PC tomorrow, but the games I played would be filled with cheaters and have lower populations than consoles as well.
Im guessing you didnt play the division on pc? Shit was out of control. Only way to thin the herd, is permaban on first offence.
Good for you. This is largely because Chinese players don't play in first person mode.
And enjoy the 25fps tactical bullet-time esque precision.
Isn't there a cap for the lootboxes per week ? More currency wouldn't help in this case.
I was killed by an aim bot two times while in the top 3 & top 8 and basically haven't played since. I hate that cheaters are ruining I game that I enjoy playing so much. Smh
I'd include yours in the list, "I don't have the problem so there isn't one" is the definition of shit post. Plus I just straight up don't believe you, cheating has been rampant since 1.0.
Idk about that.
I played a lot of Call of Duty 4 and World at War when those games were already 6, 7 years old and people still were cheating/using hacks. (on console btw)
Cheaters just like to troll..
Well, you didnt need to specify that you didnt play online on PC. The second part was pretty much telling.
Yeah, it's getting really annoying...
Me and my team got killed by a obvious cheater (killed from miles away through buildings and mountains) twice while being only like 15 people left two times in a row a few days ago... That was the first time I really got angry at this game...
I played like 550 hours at this point, and there where a few encounters with cheaters here and there, but nothing to bad... But at this point its really souring my fun with the game... Sucks
Me and my team got killed by a obvious cheater (killed from miles away through buildings and mountains) twice while being only like 15 people left two times in a row a few days ago... That was the first time I really got angry at this game...
I played like 550 hours at this point, and there where a few encounters with cheaters here and there, but nothing to bad... But at this point its really souring my fun with the game... Sucks
I stick to my story...after reading this thread I feel even more confident in my stance that this game should not have won any GOTY Awards. When you have multiple people saying "I don't play this game anymore because, in every game there is at least 1 cheater", how is that the best game to play from 2017?
Because that's not really the games fault?
Also the goty discussion has really nothing to do with the problem discussed in this thread
This is probably a good reason to play online games on consoles over PC? Seems to be quite prevalent.
Cheaters aren't invincible and often lose on purpose. The odds of you knowing they cheated and them beating you instead of someone else beating you is extremely small. Your anecdotal evidence is incredibly worthless.
Yeah I don't think posts like "I don't see it therefore it must not be true" are worthwhile. It's obvious games that have money principles like PUBG will attract more cheaters.
How is this any different than when Batman Arkham Knight launched on PC? It was unplayable for many "due to technical issues". "It wasn't the games fault", but it still was such a mess people chose to spend their gaming time and money elsewhere. When people are purposely avoiding your game because it is not an enjoyable experience, I don't believe it is the best game of the year.
We all in this community play games for "fun". It doesn't sound like many in here on PC are having "fun" with this game unfortunately. I wished it ran like a Ferrari for everyone, but it isn't.
There was a Reddit post showing that statistically there's at least one cheater in every single match, and it feels like it too. With the game being made so poorly it's extremely easy to cheat in PUBG and we see cheats that just wouldn't work in other online shooters (pretty much everything is handled client side). You have the blatant cheaters using rage hacks doing it for profit and the more subtle cheaters using ESP, no recoil and wallhack because they're too bad to win without them.
They should first of all block China. Tried an asian server yesterday and more than half of the players must have been hacking.
Never to this extent though, and not just because the game is so huge, it's more down to the fact everything is checked client side, which is why people can instant heal, instant revive etc, that just shouldn't be possible. I know certain elements will use PUBG as an example of why PC gaming is so terrible but it's really not, I've been playing online shooters since the 90s and cheating is rarely a massive issue.
Strange comparison, PUBG isn't a technical mess, it's actively "targeted" from outside from people that sour the fun for others... It's not a problem of the game not running...
And I had hundreds of hours of fun with the game before this got a problem, millions of people have fun with this game... It's a recent thing since 1.0 launched that it got THIS bad
as I said, the extend of the problem is directly related to the ginormous appeal of this particular game.
all the "famous" shooters they all have had their share of same kind of problems, be it see through walls, auto-aim, god mode, unlimited this-that..
not so sure about that... I remember reading some stats like they were banning crazy numbers like >10.000 PER DAY, before it got out of beta..
like >300.000 hackers banned back in october or something..
ding-ding-ding!
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I play mostly on FPP, and I think it has less of a problem with cheaters than the TPP servers. It's difficult to prove that most people are cheating because there are glitches with the killcam. But yeah, it sucks suspecting almost everyone that kills you of cheating. I'm pretty sure some people have reported me for some of the kills I've made as well.