Accused of hacking :)

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

I get it every single day, in fact me and my friend have it a tally up during our sessions to see who can get called a hacker the most.

My steam account has apparently been "banned" by people too many times...Yet it's still in good standing

It got to the point where I couldn't be arsed winding people up about it any more so stuck this in my profile for them to read.

"If you're going to cry about hacking, learn to fecking play - Go on some non pb cod4 servers and see some real cheats =/

The one I use is called "sense"...You get it from birth.com alternatively Yourmum.org: The hack includes eyes, ears, common sense and "game" sense.

Also the waste your time button is up there some where under the words "Report Violation" be sure to include the phrase "He's better than me, thus he hacks."...

After you have done that try using some of my patented no more tears shampoo - And see if I give a feck."

 

[One Seven One]

I've been accused of having a modded controller a number of times in Call of Duty 4, made me happy to hear all the hate from them.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

never accused of hacks but in bioshock 2 i was told to go play MW2

 

[esperandote]

that reminded me of this

 

[Skorpyo]

Whenever someone accuses me of hacking, I just target them. Without mercy.

It's a good way to get idiots and children off of a server you treasure.

If the ending is any indication, I'm now on some sort of FBI watch list, just for seeing that. X(

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

He just sounds like a noob sore looser. People like him generally never get anywhere in online gaming.

On the contrary, noobs and newbs are two different things.

Haha are you serious? Please explain =)

Well, a Noob is just a bad player and a Newb is a new player that hasn't gotten his feet under him in the game yet. A Newb may very well be an early Noob.

Is this common knowledge? That's the first time i heard of it! The name's are a bit too close for their to be a distinction, if someone was called a 'noob' verbally, how are they to know which one applies?

OT: I got accused of cheating back in the day in CS...maybe people were just not yet used to online gaming, and consider when you sneak and they run and you get the drop because you heard their footsteps you are a hacker. that was pretty sad. Thankfully not so many people do that anymore...i think more people are becoming aware of the amazing standard that some people play RTS games nowadays too.

 

[hawkeye52]

had it happen to me a couple of times on cod4 and then tell them to go play promod to find people who are much better then me

 

[thedeathscythe]

If someone think s the only way you could possibly beat them is by cheating, you're doing the game a favour by deflating their ego a little.

This. My game of choice? Normally Socom, and people will always cry "Lagswitch!" to explain why they lost.

SIDE STORY: If you don't know what a lagswitch is, it pretty much is a device to greatly decrease your upload speed, but not cut it completely, so that in certain games (such as Socom), you can run around, shoot everything, turn the switch off and then everything you did will happen instantly (aka, 10 people will drop instantly from all corners of the map). This happens because the game hasn't been designed to kick you when your upload speed drops like that, but instead just kind of keeps you on the back burner, so when your speed finally returns, everything you did while your speed was garbage will happen simultaneously. It pretty much guarantees a victory since it's almost impossible to kill a lag switcher.

So, that being said, way too many people cry lag switcher on Socom, but I like it when they point me out.

 

[archvile93]

I've been accused of having a modded controller a number of times in Call of Duty 4, made me happy to hear all the hate from them.

In all fairness that is a serious problem in the game. I see people firing the G3 faster than the P90 all the time. It's a lot easier on the PC because you can map the fire key to spinning the scroll wheel. It's so bad one server I know of will check your key bindings and ban you if you've done that.

 

[Motiv_]

Combat Arms, for the brief stint that I played it, got me more accusations then in about 2 years of playing Left 4 Dead, and several years of playing Counter Strike 1.6.

If you get a headshot, you're obviously aimbotting, because there's no way I could possibly headshot someone called xXl33tSn1p@666Xx.
If you get a double kill, then you're obviously wallhacking because people actually sticking together is totally unheard of.
If you're ready for someone when they come around a corner, you're obviously using chams because there's absolutely no way you could've known he was coming out of one of the only two ways out into the map.
And last but not least, if you so dare as to lag once, in an entire match, you're obviously using a lagswitch because it's apparently an unfair advantage to stutter about the map unable to shoot anything at all.

 

[Cpu46]

Lets just say, taking a group psychology class and implementing it into a multiplayer game gives you enough of an edge to be called a hacker. Been accused of wall hacks multiple time and some guy even thought I had an infinite radar.

 

[Tdc2182]

Put on a FAL in MW2 and win the game. It doesnt matter how slow you shoot, they instantly assume you are using a modded controller.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I was once accused of cheating in a game of Counter Strike (back when it was still in Beta if memory serves). I had just joined the game with a friend and we were the last two left on the team. Having been in for a few losing rounds, I was at least reasonably armed with the Mac-10 and body armor. I must stress that, up until that point, my contribution to the team had been getting shot by a sniper, getting shot out of a crowd and being shot because I failed to notice a CT with a shotgun behind a box.

It was just the two of us and our only real hope of winning was to plant the bomb and hope for the best. So, as we ran to the bomb site, I turned around from time to time to see if anyone was following us. It just so happens, after thinking I heard a new set of footsteps, I turned around just in time to see 3 CT's turn the corner behind us. The best plan I could come up with was simply "spray bullets at them and then get shot in the face".

Those that played CS in the early days probably know just how wretchedly inaccurate the MAC-10 was a few rounds into a burst. In a blind panic spray, in the space of perhaps a second, without ever once having my crosshairs anywhere near the heads of my enemies, I dropped all three of them with headshots.

Astounded by such amazing luck I was unable to properly defend the action as simply a remarkably lucky break. I was promptly kicked and then banned as a result. I don't blame them - an aimbot is a more plausible explanation than "the inaccuracy of the weapon was so great that stray rounds caught three people in the head in very short order".

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

He just sounds like a noob sore looser. People like him generally never get anywhere in online gaming.

On the contrary, noobs and newbs are two different things.

Haha are you serious? Please explain =)

Well, a Noob is just a bad player and a Newb is a new player that hasn't gotten his feet under him in the game yet. A Newb may very well be an early Noob, but a Noob is never a Newb.

No, I think that your Noob is a Newb and a Newb is a Noob, you Noob!


OP: I get accused of hacking in Gears of War, but thats only because my connection is so bad I can absorb 15 buckshot shells to the face and still have enough health to lob a grenade and roll away.

Contrary to popular belief, Noob and Newb, at one point, meant the same thing. You see, a new player was called a Newbie. Back in the early days of online gaming, you not only had to deal with a text only communication system, you also had a very short character limit and a rigorously enforced time limit for composing and sending messages (one doesn't have long to write a message in a 16 player game of Quake 1 deathmatch as the levels were the size of a postage stamp and death, when delivered by rocket launcher, was quick and messy).

Because of time and character limit issues, newbie was truncated to Newb. Because 1337 speak was all the rage, the spelling of the word was changed to something phonetically identical (noob) and then run through the standard 1337 parser which resulted in no0b.

The word has, for the most part, always been a pejorative. There are times when it is not. For example, if one describes themselves as a newbie, it is an attempt to explain precisely why they did not do well in a game. Newbies, being new at the game, tend to do poorly. In this case, it is simply a statement of fact. When describing anyone else as a newbie, it is generally done because you wish to assert that they played poorly, or, more specifically, they played as though they were new to the game. Again, this may simply be a statement of fact if the player being accused is, in fact, new at the game. Most of the time however some variation of newbie is used when a player does something stupid or poorly. In this case, it is pejorative as the player making the accusation of noobishness is asserting that the other player is doing badly. In this case, it is the equivalent of saying "you suck" or whatever the local colloquial term is.

The distinction between "newb" and "noob" came much later when it was realized that, because the word was so often used as a cudgel, it became difficult to point out a legitimate fact about someone without it being taken as an insult. Unfortunately, as we can see here, while it is generally accepted that there is a distinction between the words, most would be hard pressed to determine which instance is a factual description and which is an insult. I think the most accepted definition is that "Newb" is a person who is new at an activity while "Noob" refers to a person who participates in an activity without any real understanding of the governing mechanics and ideas. The former is simply a descriptive statement while the latter is an insult.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I just laugh. Morons upset that they got beat, and they just get so angry....

Hilarious

 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

Every other game of CoD4 (and once on BFBC2).
I'm really good, especially on PC.

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

I had a couple of times in different games where I got called a hacker. What happens is that I'm really good at quickly learning the mechanics of a new game. So for example, back when the Beta of Call of Duty 4 just came out, I was pretty much dominating half of the matches I played. I got called a hacker more than once. Same thing with the Beta of Battlefield Bad Company 2.

On the other hand, there are quite a few times where I wondered if one of my opponents was a hacker. Of course, it's hard to tell, as most of the time it's simply lag. Games like Uncharted 2, Halo 3/Reach, Starcraft 1/2 and even games based on the Source engine make it easier to point out hackers, because you can record everything that is going on.

 

[ethaninja]

He just sounds like a noob sore looser. People like him generally never get anywhere in online gaming.

On the contrary, noobs and newbs are two different things.

Haha are you serious? Please explain =)

Well, a Noob is just a bad player and a Newb is a new player that hasn't gotten his feet under him in the game yet. A Newb may very well be an early Noob.

Ah I see. Here I thought the two were mutual. Guess I'll have to write this down

 

[BaconBitz04]

He just sounds like a noob sore looser. People like him generally never get anywhere in online gaming.

On the contrary, noobs and newbs are two different things.

Haha are you serious? Please explain =)

Well, a Noob is just a bad player and a Newb is a new player that hasn't gotten his feet under him in the game yet. A Newb may very well be an early Noob.

Is this common knowledge? That's the first time i heard of it! The name's are a bit too close for their to be a distinction, if someone was called a 'noob' verbally, how are they to know which one applies?

OT: I got accused of cheating back in the day in CS...maybe people were just not yet used to online gaming, and consider when you sneak and they run and you get the drop because you heard their footsteps you are a hacker. that was pretty sad. Thankfully not so many people do that anymore...i think more people are becoming aware of the amazing standard that some people play RTS games nowadays too.

I don't really think it matters spoken which it is. Nobody really likes to play with/against either type.