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[Terror Teddy]

How will the game/company handle hacking, aimbots and other annoying crap that tends to pop up?

[Tymanthius]

Do a search on the forums for 'punkbuster' and it should bring up a thread about this. You may get some insight there. However, at this stage, no one knows.

[Spawn613]

I hate Punk Buster. It causes more problems than it solves and if they drop support for your game, you're frelled.

[CaveHermit]

He said frelled.. Stupid peacekeeper.

[Tymanthius]

Hey now, we're not all PK's just b/c we use frelled. Might be Nebari.

[ccso237]

I loved Farscape, so bummed when they cancelled it.

[Dustin Nagasawa]

Anything but PB; it didn't do anything for BF3.

[Terror Teddy]

If it is punkbuster then im a bit worried.

There were some news on Reddit that a hacker had presented a known BF3 cheat that essentially made them see everything and the ability to kill anyone at will. And as far as I know DICE hasnt done anything about that part yet.

I like competitive gaming but this is the type of game where hackers could REALLY ruin the experience.

[GHQCommander]

The true and full answer to such a question would probably cause your brain to expand 1 millimeter and kill you dead.

Cracks me up when people ask this stuff. Like the devs are keen to spill the beans on all their security measures

Knock Knock is there anyone home

[Belorion]

Farscape was indeed a good show...

as far as securing the game from the normal riff raff. Its a constant battle. As the anti cheats get better so do the cheats. The great irony is, if they put half as much effort into the game as they do into cheating, they wouldn't need to cheat.

[Bluey]

Cheat protection is good nothing anyone should worry about

[Terror Teddy]

Belorion, on 01 July 2012 - 04:59 PM, said:

Farscape was indeed a good show...

as far as securing the game from the normal riff raff. Its a constant battle. As the anti cheats get better so do the cheats. The great irony is, if they put half as much effort into the game as they do into cheating, they wouldn't need to cheat.

Good point (on both parts, i miss Farscape).

I can understand cheating in a single player games but I dont see the challenge with cheating in a competition where you try to improve yourself. oh well, i'll just save a rack of LRM20 for their ***** when they show up.

[General Corleone]

Ouch.. Punkbuster was a joke for APB reloaded.

[OICU812]

General Corleone, on 01 July 2012 - 05:11 PM, said:

Ouch.. Punkbuster was a joke for APB reloaded.

It was a joke for APB when it first came out and has never done anything to quell the hacking in the Reloaded, but it was a complete nightmare for everyone when it kicks you out of game every 5 min unless you go and manually update it.

[Lightdragon]

punkbuster is a joke for everything utterly worthless

[SpecTRe X]

Farscape was a good show but it was best ended before it got repetitive

As for cheating, speaking with past experience as a cheater (won't say what game[s]) punkbuster is completely useless against any decent hack. That said, I don't know what anti-cheat system WoT uses but hacking is supposed to be near impossible since everything is server side though I have heard of one hack that works and there are some rather.......strange shots made now and then. Regardless the effectiveness of whatever system they decide to go with will be seen eventually.

EDIT: By the way, the point of cheating isn't to become a more skilled player as much as a better one. While hacking you will develop some skill since it will help you better utilise the hack but it's about being able to fly through and get good stats and/or have fun slaughtering countless groups of players before dying. And of course if half the player base is hacking then you hacking is just leveling the playing field, just because someone may have a hack doesn't mean they'll know how best to use it.

Edited by SpecTRe X, 01 July 2012 - 05:37 PM.

[Glythe]

World of Tanks had an interesting solution to deter cheating for spotting enemies. Your client is basically constantly playing "mother may I" in regards to being able to see your enemies.

I have to agree punkbuster is complete garbage and is more of a liability than anything.

[light487]

Devs have said there are systems in place, devs have also said that those systems will not be discussed... so I guess we won't know the answer any time soon.

[Insidious Johnson]

The Cheat + Protection.... got it covered!

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K, Happy yet?

[DeathKnight1]

light487, on 01 July 2012 - 05:58 PM, said:

Devs have said there are systems in place, devs have also said that those systems will not be discussed... so I guess we won't know the answer any time soon.

Yes agreed, one must assume they have systems in place to monitor cheats and hacks. But I think they might also need bug reports from us as well as us reporting people we suspect as well.