What I'm referring to, is something I began to notice around the beginning of this Spring Clean Up tournament. The first incident being a day or so after it started, where myself and one of my usual 4-man premade teams were in a game on Alpine Peaks. To make a long story short, all three of us were lights, two 'meta' Raven 3L's, and a Jenner. In standard Wolfpack form, we managed to catch a lone dual AC20 Jagermech, wandering around near the southern path into our base... Naturally, we closed in, encircled him, and began to attack... Only for his first shot to hit one of the 3L's legs, crippling it instantly. The second shot? Hit the next 3L's leg, with the same effect. And the third? The Jenner's leg. No shots in between, no time taken to aim.. All three light mechs moving at full speed at the time of impact, and no, the lights were not all clumped together.
Now, you may say, "Well... Maybe it was just this one incident, and this guy had a -really- lucky day..." Of course, you -may- say that... But more and more in these last few days, myself and my clanmates have been running into more and more of these incidents. The latest (but not only one), being just this afternoon... Where myself, piloting a Raven 3L, and one of my clanmates in a Highlander closed in on a Catapult with K2 dual AC20. The first shot hit the highlander in the -cockpit-. Killing it instantly, while I was behind the K2 no less... So what's the next thing I see? The K2 instantly turning right around, again taking no time to aim, and hitting my -Raven's- cockpit the second the barrels were on me, while I was moving at full throttle no less. I'm not going to bother making this post too much longer by listing more examples, though I have about half a dozen now... But if you've seen this kind of behavior, then you know what I'm talking about. And yes, there is a difference between a legit player with a dual AC (or similar weapons), and an aimbot with dual AC (or similar weapons).
Well, after having experienced one too many of these incidents, I set out on google to seek validation of my accusations of cheating. I'm not going to post anything here, for obvious reasons, but I feel like PGI needs to -really- start paying attention, because a few key words in a google or youtube search, and you'll find yourself with people advertising anything from aimbots, to a 'see through objects' kind of cheat, to even a '100k MC generator'. Weather or which of those programs out there are actually for cheating, or are meant to install malware on your PC/steal your account information is unknown to me, as I have no desire to test it.
But please, PGI, I know you're swamped with a plethora of complaints with just about every aspect of the game... But with something like this? I've seen a lot of good F2P games absolutely destroyed by cheating and lack of initiative on the developer's side of stopping them. Don't let MWO be one just another one of those games.
Thanks.
Edited by Alpha087, 03 May 2013 - 07:49 PM.