Re: new hack pack?
I take hack accusations with a grain of salt because I myself am constantly being accused of hacks when rolling around in a tank or plane. Most of the time somone you think might be hacking is probably just a better player.
As for my own little cheater encounter...
Personally I've only see one person that I'm about 90% positive had some sort of hack running (didn't seem like an aimbot but just a basic wallhack or some other hack where he could see all the players nametags). The player in question I had seen before on the server. He was a l33t d00d type and while he was above average he wasn't anything all that special and on a side note he had teamkilled me for a vehicle a couple times (so you know the kind of no-rules care free person I'm talking about that doesn't care about their team). Well he dissapeared for a bit and I thought "Great sR admins must've finally banned him". Then a week or two later I see him again only difference is this time his score and speed of killing had tripled at least from the last time I had seen him.
Now that's nothing odd because I go on 50+ player kill sprees all the time and especially when I'm in a vehicle but that wasn't the only red flag. At Karkand hotel at the fence he started using the APC gun and precision shooting 4 different players through the tin fence. I was his first victim and from my death cam I watched as a single shot ripped through the tin fence 4 or 5 times killing every player in a different location with total accuracy. The kind of accuracy that would've been impossible to achieve even with a UAV even though none was airborne. In other words this wasn't random spamming through the fence. I watched him also firing at players out of his visible range with great accuracy (IE: firing at players sitting behind crates/walls near hotel flag). As I am quite good with armor I know every little trick in the book for killing the maximum number of players but no trick I know would account for the shots this guy was pulling off.
The final confirmation of cheating (in my mind) came when I tested him later at the suburbs. He pulled up to the flag in all too casual of a fashion in his APC (when I pull up to a dangerous flag like suburbs with a TOW missile I use extreme caution). I was on the wall to the east of the flag and as soon as I peaked around he started shooting me. So I decided it'd be a great time to test him. I walked all the way to the far end of the wall and stood at the very edge but being careful not to let any body parts or weapons stick out (the wall is too thick for that to happen either way). Sure enough the APC starts firing at the ground directly next to where I was standing concealed by the fence. No other players were around, no UAV overhead and no possible way he could've known my location. For one last laugh I went all the way down to the other end of the wall and peaked around. If by magic the second I peaked around the corner he was staring directly at the spot where I was about to emerge and began firing at me again.
After that last encounter I remarked "Nice wallhack XXXX" towards the end of the round. Right after I said that he left the server and I haven't seen him since.
Like it or not hacks do exist. Pretty much all these hackers are or will be banned. Problem is PB takes far too long to log and ban players. A cheater might be able to get away with a month or more worth of cheating before a GUID or hardware ban catches up by then. Unfortunatly for all legitimate players by that time the player who is now banned could've tainted many hundreds or even thousands of rounds.
Hehe that's pretty amusing, I didn't even read your post before I made this post myself. Notice the almost identical situations we found ourselves in. I'm almost positive it's some kind of wallhack / all tags hack or something of that nature that also happens to work just peachy with armored vehicles (since they have splash and can shoot through some walls).
Actually I more than suspect this because a couple days ago I encountered a player on the enemy team who flagged as a friendly (he had a tag I could see anywhere). I was in an APC and he was trying to kill me with AT rockets. It was a little cheap but I had no choice but to shoot at him. I felt sorry for the guy because he was getting fragged from miles away, around corners ect..
I take hack accusations with a grain of salt because I myself am constantly being accused of hacks when rolling around in a tank or plane. Most of the time somone you think might be hacking is probably just a better player.
As for my own little cheater encounter...
Personally I've only see one person that I'm about 90% positive had some sort of hack running (didn't seem like an aimbot but just a basic wallhack or some other hack where he could see all the players nametags). The player in question I had seen before on the server. He was a l33t d00d type and while he was above average he wasn't anything all that special and on a side note he had teamkilled me for a vehicle a couple times (so you know the kind of no-rules care free person I'm talking about that doesn't care about their team). Well he dissapeared for a bit and I thought "Great sR admins must've finally banned him". Then a week or two later I see him again only difference is this time his score and speed of killing had tripled at least from the last time I had seen him.
Now that's nothing odd because I go on 50+ player kill sprees all the time and especially when I'm in a vehicle but that wasn't the only red flag. At Karkand hotel at the fence he started using the APC gun and precision shooting 4 different players through the tin fence. I was his first victim and from my death cam I watched as a single shot ripped through the tin fence 4 or 5 times killing every player in a different location with total accuracy. The kind of accuracy that would've been impossible to achieve even with a UAV even though none was airborne. In other words this wasn't random spamming through the fence. I watched him also firing at players out of his visible range with great accuracy (IE: firing at players sitting behind crates/walls near hotel flag). As I am quite good with armor I know every little trick in the book for killing the maximum number of players but no trick I know would account for the shots this guy was pulling off.
The final confirmation of cheating (in my mind) came when I tested him later at the suburbs. He pulled up to the flag in all too casual of a fashion in his APC (when I pull up to a dangerous flag like suburbs with a TOW missile I use extreme caution). I was on the wall to the east of the flag and as soon as I peaked around he started shooting me. So I decided it'd be a great time to test him. I walked all the way to the far end of the wall and stood at the very edge but being careful not to let any body parts or weapons stick out (the wall is too thick for that to happen either way). Sure enough the APC starts firing at the ground directly next to where I was standing concealed by the fence. No other players were around, no UAV overhead and no possible way he could've known my location. For one last laugh I went all the way down to the other end of the wall and peaked around. If by magic the second I peaked around the corner he was staring directly at the spot where I was about to emerge and began firing at me again.
After that last encounter I remarked "Nice wallhack XXXX" towards the end of the round. Right after I said that he left the server and I haven't seen him since.
Like it or not hacks do exist. Pretty much all these hackers are or will be banned. Problem is PB takes far too long to log and ban players. A cheater might be able to get away with a month or more worth of cheating before a GUID or hardware ban catches up by then. Unfortunatly for all legitimate players by that time the player who is now banned could've tainted many hundreds or even thousands of rounds.
Originally posted by Wasp
Actually I more than suspect this because a couple days ago I encountered a player on the enemy team who flagged as a friendly (he had a tag I could see anywhere). I was in an APC and he was trying to kill me with AT rockets. It was a little cheap but I had no choice but to shoot at him. I felt sorry for the guy because he was getting fragged from miles away, around corners ect..
Why oh why didnt my shots register?
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