Blatant Cheating by people editing game files, with evidence

[TJluvmae]

There is cheat detection. People are getting banned. The makers of the hacks got banned multiple times trying different hacks. The hack makers don't care because they recover their loses by selling the hacks. The hack makers said it themselves, if you do over X amount of damage the detection kicks in and if you move from point A to B ( teleport hack ) in x amount of time, the detection kicks in.

The problem is the aimhacks / esp / radar hacks becuase they are so hard to detect.

[3rdpig]

I've seen cheating at Arkfalls, it's annoying, but they're hurting themselves far worse than me. Just report them, they'll be banned eventually.

But I'd still like to see a "Cheaters Hall of Shame" on the board. Nothing like old fashioned peer pressure to end misbehavior.

[Freyar]

Kind of irked to see that in an MMO the game is not server-authenticated. Who thought this was a good idea? Damage, loot drops, reloading, abilities, car spawns, anything critical to player performance needs to be server authenticated, especially for PvP.

[Nomad_Phoenix]

Kind of irked to see that in an MMO the game is not server-authenticated. Who thought this was a good idea? Damage, loot drops, reloading, abilities, car spawns, anything critical to player performance needs to be server authenticated, especially for PvP.

This really does surprise me too as Trion did a good job with RIFT. Seems a bit short-sighted and/or a huge oversight not to see that.

[Gashslapper]

TBH i see people quickly killing the hellbugs at ark falls and frankly from what i see there are really very few true hackers in the PVE part of the game i dont do PVE so i cant comment but you can LEGIT one shot the hellbug warriors

How to one shot a hell bug warrior ...

step one get overcharge
step two modded sniper rifle or burst fire LMG designed for accuracy over ROF
step three draw aggro
step four wait till the hell bug tries to spray you with the exploding goo.
step five activate overcharge and fire directly into the open mouth. this is a critical weak point similar to a head shot against a human. the bug will explode almost instantly with just one or two bursts.

i always hate it how people always accuse good players with a understanding of game mechanics as hackers. if you have proof of the ark fall oneshooters get a fraps of them killing a hive prime in a single burst.

and to be honest people running around hitting things with cars or spamming rockets at a warrior are more detrimental to ark falls than hackers because a hacker will eventually get caught but noobs are forever getting in the way of my line of sight.

these scare tactics regarding hackers generally result in a large number innocent players reported for simply being good there was a ban wave recently that was rolled back because of false reports that people where *****ing about so stop whining visit the wiki and learn the weak points of your enemies

TROOF! If I forget to switch weapons and find myself using my fully modded and maxed purple bolt action almost 80% of the creatures in the world die in one well placed hit. The exceptions are elites, "big guys" and bosses.

[Valethar]

Not sure if we are allowed to name and shame. I really want to but I dont want to get banned myself. Mods - please contact me if you want this guys username.

You are not, it's a violation of the Forum Code of Conduct. What you should do is send in a support ticket with as much information as you can, including the name, platform, region, time and date, location, etc.. and they'll investigate it from there. They may or may not want/need the screen cap. They have pretty robust logging and metrics tools, so they likely can pull up that conversation on their own without need of the screen cap.

[Salvador]

i've seen 3 monarchs and the hellion all 1 shotted in the same large arkfall. those were some awesome critical kills.

[Nomad_Phoenix]

i've seen 3 monarchs and the hellion all 1 shotted in the same large arkfall. those were some awesome critical kills.

They are using the "Gun of a Thousand Truths"!

[Freyar]

This really does surprise me too as Trion did a good job with RIFT. Seems a bit short-sighted and/or a huge oversight not to see that.

With a lot of shooters it's tempting to not have everything server-authenticated simply for performance reasons, but it HAS to be done for an MMO environment in which there is only one authority. (You can get away with client-side authentication on a per-server basis for games like CoD4.)

[MahChew]

Tut Tut, and i thought Trion would of learned a lesson from Borderlands and File editing. Server sided weapon stats please! ffs.

mind you, its easy to see people are cheating, just look at some of the scores on rampage(s).