[mp1st]Battlefield 3 Hacker Reveals Startling Numbers - Page 18

had problems with hackers on 2 consecutive servers i joined. One was killing people across the map from spawn (out of bounds for us) with an MG (taking no more than a few shots).

I guess he meant against equal skilled player, or else everyone could 100-0 depending on who they play against.

it's easy to get 40-1 in Operation: Metro without hacks

Hacks or Cheats like this have been around for years. This is nothing new. They had these cheats out before bf3 was even released. When game companies do beta tests, coders are already dissasembling the games and building a cheat based on functions in the game. This process happens every time a new game comes out.

The games that cheating has the worst problems in are the most popular ones.
The only way to avoid alot of cheaters is to play less popular games.
To give you an idea of how long cheats like this have been around, they got very popular when halflife -counter-strike version 1.5 was out, which was june 2002. Thats pretty much ten years so this stuff is not new.

There are companies that have huge profit margins for coding cheats for games and their methods are almost undetectable. Most companies nowadays run the cheats completely external from the game making it next to impossible to detect them without invading end user privacy.

Most people who have gamed for awhile and know how extensive cheating is in online gaming, know that there is no way you will get rid of cheating.

Also note: most companies that make anti-cheats for games are composed of very little staff(even balance , makers of punkbuster) and most companies go out of business.

Another thing to keep in mind is that if there were no cheaters, the ones that code the anti-cheats would not have a job.

Yes, I saw he considers himself a hacker. But someone who just buys a hack is just a cheater (and more often than not a very bad player). Not a hacker. That's what I meant.
I'm annoyed by the fact he claims people who can get over 700-900 spm are often hackers. While that blatantly isn't true. If you, like he did, consider 250 spm a good player then I'm afraid we'll be having a witchhunt soon enough.

I'm just very skeptical towards this self-proclaimed hacker and his claims. And I think the situation on the battlefield isn't that bad at all. Can't recall the last time I was convinced someone was hacking.

Especially in a game where hitdetection can be very iffy, tanks and choppers have proximity scanners and IRV, 3D spotting and MAVs. Or just using your brain ... If I run to a building and I know the adversary saw me advancing then I won't sprint up the stairs with my back towards him ... People can be insanely predictable and if they can't think or look at all the possibilities before calling someone a hacker then it's just sad. Learning from your mistakes is the only way to get better. Buying flashy gaming mice, keyboards and headsets won't do anything ...

/mini-rant

PS: oh and if you do come across hackers so often: Stop playing metro servers with a billion tickets and play some "real" battlefield

And I'm not attacking anyone as a person here, just giving the possibility that this guy might just be a frustrated attention wh.... meanie-pie

I believe that is a server admin feature. I could nuke a team on the OCN BF3 server since I am an admin on those server.

By nuking do you mean the whole screen go white and you hear a massive explosion or just sudden death for everyone ?

It's sudden death. Some of the servers I play on do that if we start spawn camping them on certain maps. Nuke the entire enemy team, let the team push out of spawn a bit, keeps it a bit more fun for the other team.

So you were pirating BF3?

I just want to make sure this is the case before I decide whether or not to freak out about it.

I thought it would be cleared up by now, but it hasn't been. Bummer. Let me clear it up.

These people aren't hackers. They are cheaters.

The guy in the blog is not a hacker. He is a cheater.