Hackers and Multiplayer

Blatherscythe

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Playing any Call of Duty game other than Black Ops (although it soon will join the ranks of the other CODs) really makes you appreciate dedicated servers and moderators. I'm talking about hackers in the multiplayer, the asshats who have god-mode, no-clip, rate-of-fire cranked to 11 with stupid flashy gamertags. I make it a point to report everyone of these guys/gals I have the "pleasure" of meeting, but recently it's been taking up too much time per game. I'm sitting there for half a minute having to report 1-4 people and the only fuzzy feeling I get from it is the thought that the one's with higher gamerscores will suffer more if they get banned.

So how do you guys deal with hackers on the old games you love? I know that reporting them and not talking/verbally assaulting them is the best way, but there are other ways right?

Also, what is the worst story of hackers ruining a game that you have? And what is the funniest? Also, if your a hacker, why do you do it and how do we deal with someone like you if you don't mind telling? For me the worst would have to be when I was playing COD: WAW recently and decided to play free-for-all, unfortunatly 3/8 of the players were hackers, one jumped around the map and burned us with a flame thrower, the other sprayed with his Russian SMG with no clip and the other just went around knifing us all, after reporting them all I try to play the game as normal as possible. I only managed one kill before getting fed up with that bullshit and leaving, luckily I was the host, so I cut their "fun" short.

Another story I have is with most of the same group on the previous game. After reporting them all and playing as usually I get trapped in a room with one of the hackers, I put 3 rounds of double barrel shotgun slugs into him, knife him twice and taunt his crap aim all while he flails aroung trying to kill me. Eventually a level 2 tossed a grenade in killing me, so the bastard didn't even get a kill, I then go on to say "No wonder you need to hack, you couldn't get a kill otherwise!" That was spoiled by the events of the next game as I've told you. But enough of my bitching, let's hear yours.
 

Nouw

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I play Combat Arms and I couldn't give two flying shits about hackers despite the mountain of people crying about it. I report and move on.
 

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I remember once playing Saints Row on XBL with a friend just for a laugh, and it was just all people like that. I mean, I wasn't expecting much, but it made me never touch the multiplayer again.
 

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Nouw said:
I play Combat Arms and I couldn't give two flying shits about hackers despite the mountain of people crying about it. I report and move on.
Never played it, but it probably makes playing the game a bit more frustrating to have hackers. Report and move on is all you really can do if the devs don't give a shit.
 

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Sinketi said:
I remember once playing Saimts Row on XBL with a friend just for a laugh, and it was just all people like that. I mean, I wasn't expecting much, but it made me never touch the multiplayer again.
I know what you mean, I bought WAW expecting there to be a few hackers, but I never thought that half the people in a game would be a bunch of the cheap pricks.
 
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Play L4D2 as a full tank team being shot at from atop the bridge on 360 is less then pleasant.Then,I get to the top kill 2 of them and get perma-pushed into a building.Was not fun.
 

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Psycho Cat Industries said:
Play L4D2 as a full tank team being shot at from atop the bridge on 360 is less then pleasant.Then,I get to the top kill 2 of them and get perma-pushed into a building.Was not fun.
That sucks, how'd you get a full Tank team anyways?
 

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usually it's just COD assholes with the FAL on automatic, but i get the occasional asshat hacking in halo 3, i just report and move on
 

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mrdude2010 said:
usually it's just COD assholes with the FAL on automatic, but i get the occasional asshat hacking in halo 3, i just report and move on
One more reason to play Reach, one more reason to loathe Activisions milking of the COD franchise.
 

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The only memorable encounter with a hacker I've had was someone on mp_pavlov spinning around like a turret with an mp40. I leant round the window of the redbrick house and took his head off with a mosin nagant. Naturally the scum stuck around for a while until he got bored.

I think it was one of those [1SK] members.
 

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Worst part is, they do indeed hack because they are horrible at the game. APB:R recently started doing something about their hacking problem, and the site that these people are buying their hacks from had forums of them complaining about their hacks not working and admitting that they could not stand up to play a fair game without them.

APB:R is a free to play game, and these people are paying around 30 dollars a month for hacks... At the end of the day, it's hard to feel frustrated with them when they're draining that much money just to be able to balance out the competition. It's lazy, really. I spent quite some time getting used to the feel of the game and learning to play it properly. These morons get their asses handed to them and they quickly throw away money that they could have spent on 2 sub-based mmorpg games to play a free 2 play game that isn't even remotely that splendid.
 

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Blatherscythe said:
mrdude2010 said:
usually it's just COD assholes with the FAL on automatic, but i get the occasional asshat hacking in halo 3, i just report and move on
One more reason to play Reach, one more reason to loathe Activisions milking of the COD franchise.
the only problem with playing reach is you get the people who aren't hacking, but are still annoying to play with (nade spammers/campers)
 

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Nouw said:
I play Combat Arms and I couldn't give two flying shits about hackers despite the mountain of people crying about it. I report and move on.
Lol I've played this since the beginning, and there were times when the game became LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE due to rampant hacking and Nexon's delayed responses to said hacking surges.

It's gotten better lately, but it's still the ultimate scapegoat for whenever some poor loser can't handle losing/dying.
 
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Blatherscythe said:
Psycho Cat Industries said:
Play L4D2 as a full tank team being shot at from atop the bridge on 360 is less then pleasant.Then,I get to the top kill 2 of them and get perma-pushed into a building.Was not fun.
That sucks, how'd you get a full Tank team anyways?
I have no idea.I think someone on the survivor side hacked and did it.What I want to know is how he did that on a 360.
 

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Blatherscythe said:
Nouw said:
I play Combat Arms and I couldn't give two flying shits about hackers despite the mountain of people crying about it. I report and move on.
Never played it, but it probably makes playing the game a bit more frustrating to have hackers. Report and move on is all you really can do if the devs don't give a shit.
"if the devs don't give a shit"

Nexon in a nutshell. They usually don't do anything about it until it gets really really bad.
 

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teqrevisited said:
The only memorable encounter with a hacker I've had was someone on mp_pavlov spinning around like a turret with an mp40. I leant round the window of the redbrick house and took his head off with a mosin nagant. Naturally the scum stuck around for a while until he got bored.

I think it was one of those [1SK] members.
You could at least kill him, the assholes from [Rain] are the worst hackers in the WAW multiplayer, their also the most obnoxious, the [rain] clantag makes their gamertag flash in all the colors of the rainbow.
 

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zehydra said:
Blatherscythe said:
Nouw said:
I play Combat Arms and I couldn't give two flying shits about hackers despite the mountain of people crying about it. I report and move on.
Never played it, but it probably makes playing the game a bit more frustrating to have hackers. Report and move on is all you really can do if the devs don't give a shit.
"if the devs don't give a shit"

Nexon in a nutshell. They usually don't do anything about it until it gets really really bad.
What's Nexon, and how bad does it get?

EDIT: Nexon is the developer, I read your post.
 

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snowfox said:
Worst part is, they do indeed hack because they are horrible at the game. APB:R recently started doing something about their hacking problem, and the site that these people are buying their hacks from had forums of them complaining about their hacks not working and admitting that they could not stand up to play a fair game without them.

APB:R is a free to play game, and these people are paying around 30 dollars a month for hacks... At the end of the day, it's hard to feel frustrated with them when they're draining that much money just to be able to balance out the competition. It's lazy, really. I spent quite some time getting used to the feel of the game and learning to play it properly. These morons get their asses handed to them and they quickly throw away money that they could have spent on 2 sub-based mmorpg games to play a free 2 play game that isn't even remotely that splendid.
At least it's fun to rub it in about how much they suck when they are incapable of hitting you with all their cheap hacks.
 

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Psycho Cat Industries said:
Blatherscythe said:
Psycho Cat Industries said:
Play L4D2 as a full tank team being shot at from atop the bridge on 360 is less then pleasant.Then,I get to the top kill 2 of them and get perma-pushed into a building.Was not fun.
That sucks, how'd you get a full Tank team anyways?
I have no idea.I think someone on the survivor side hacked and did it.What I want to know is how he did that on a 360.
Makes sense, Tanks can't jump and are slow moving compared to most special infected.
 

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i play mw2 and the hacked lobbys are annoying sometimes, but thats ok, i have a program which saves a backup of stats, lvl, classes, titles and emblems every 15 minutes. hackers are actually rare. maybe one wh per week. and its normally pretty easy to bash'em:
hacker is hacking
me: "even your parents hate you"
hacker: "i have tools to destroy ur stats"
me: "i have backups"
hacker: "fuck you"
hacker leaves the game