What's up guys, Rogue-9 here. Whenever I see cheating being discussed on the Battlefield 1 Reddit,
there's always those people who claim that, "Oh, I've played for 500 hours, and I've never seen a cheater stop whining,
you're just bad at the game." But the thing with cheating, especially in Battlefield 1,
is that there are several ways in which you can cheat without
actually being noticed that easily. In a recent gaming session with the Rogue-9 platoons, we ended up on a server where
we spent three rounds with this guy TyPuCTmp3,
and it wasn't until the third round that I actually noticed that this guy was damage hacking. Even though the guy ended up going
65 in 19 for this round, he only ended up killing me personally a couple of times,
and it was only that first kill there, where he killed me instantly from full health where it seemed suspicious.
We even won the match and got top squad. So apart from his unlikely score, there was nothing really to give this guy away...
During the second round we played with this fellow, he was on our team so...
naturally, we didn't really notice any cheating going on apart from one person complaining in chat once and maybe his slightly exaggerated
score as a medic at the end. But in the final round, the guy
finally overplayed his hand' but check out this example of him killing me though. It really shows off well
why it can be so difficult to catch a cheater. I mean, he fired like
10-15 shots at me there and all of a sudden I was dead. Now under any normal
circumstances, I would have just put that down to hit registration lag.
And it wasn't until the next time that I ran into this guy that I finally
realized he was cheating. Now check out this situation here.
There's a whole squad of us plus one extra guy coming up on this situation,
and I knew there was a sniper out to the right which I thought I had enough time to try to identify and spot.
But apparently not and that seemed a bit suspicious,
but there's still like three or four of us here, and when good old TyPuCT emerges,
he's not even looking at me until he is and his first shot kills me from full health. Literally seconds later
we're still trying to take the point, and again from full health,
instant kill. I get revived and he takes us down with two more bullets, and that's where even I draw the line,
"you know what? No I'm going to go ahead and;
find your profile, there we are
report cheating, and
in-game I guess...
And of course like every good cheater, when I call him out in chat his response is that I'm just new to the game - how
very original. But I guess in all fairness to this guy,
I mean normally when you call them out in chat
cheaters will become extremely aggressive because that's what they are there for. They're there to annoy other players.
they're there to ruin your game,
and getting a rise out of someone is exactly their goal. And while TyPuCTmp3 did respond to my challenges, his answers were
relatively sedate considering some of the language you do see in battlefield in the chat.
It should already be quite clear that this guy is using a damage hack, and there'll be more examples at the end.
But let's take a quick look how long it took for such an obvious
cheater to get caught. Well, as it turns out, quite a while. This guy has an average score per minute of between around
1,300 and up to 3,694
points per minute. And that's since the beginning of May.
And if we look at the last month or so, we can see that he has extraordinary
K/D ratios all the way up until the end of September,
when mysteriously he stops playing for about a week. It seemed that around the time that we played against him
he finally overdid it and got banned for a week, because that's what happens when you're a blatant cheater
who's been cheating for months. And oh look for the 10th of October.
We finally see some fresh stats from him, but all of a sudden his score is no longer 2,000 or 3,000 points per minute, but
700 per minute and his KD is 0.92
GG dude, welcome back. I mean you suck, but at least you're honest now.
And that's the story of someone who was very blatantly cheating.
I mean quite obviously.
Imagine if someone had the brains to just run a
wallhack without a damage modifier or without an aimbot, or maybe someone does run a one-shot
kill hack, but only on scout rifles. The bottom line here and the point
I really want to make is; just because you've never seen anyone flying through the
sky, killing everyone on the map whether they're behind cover or not,
doesn't mean you've not come across someone who's cheating. At least after seeing good old TyPuCT here shoot me over and over again
you'll hopefully know what to look out for in terms of a damage hack. If someone hits you and from full health
you suddenly get hit by five odd bullets at the same time it might be because of a bit of a server lag issue but
if there's only one guy consistently doing it to you over and over again,
and no one else is... well in that case you might just be dealing with a hacker like TyPuCTmp3 here.
Sadly the consensus in the gaming industry nowadays
is that the primary customers for any game are console players, and of course on consoles hacking and cheating is
exceedingly rare. And the problem we end up with is that simply for most companies
it doesn't make any financial sense to invest heavily
into anti-cheat software when it's only relevant for a small subsection of the player base. And of course cheaters are
customers too, so no matter how frustrating it is to never be quite sure if that guy going 70 and 10 is just
really, really good, or he has a helping hand from some extra technology. That's probably the situation
we're going to have to live with at least for the foreseeable future.
As always guys I love hearing your opinions on the topic, so go ahead and put a comment below.
Have you come across cheaters, or suspicious behavior in Battlefield 1, and how much of a problem
do you think it is? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. And with that as always,
I hope you enjoyed the video, and I will see you in the next episode.
Oh, and one last thing before I leave you this last round where the cheater became really obvious?
This is how it ended. GG squad well played.