Asking out of curiosity, has anyone heard of hacks in HS?

Yesterday I was playing a game with a maestra rogue deck against an elemental mage, and I gave my life in the game to be able to control him and survive the game, I ended up beating him in the end, then he sent me a friend request, I thought it was probably to insult me, as always, but the guy accused me of using a hack to win and said he was reporting my account to blizzard for a hack, and I was very curious about that, I stopped to think and I never heard of a hack in HS

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The only thing I could ever honestly accuse of hacking given the things people are legitimately able to pull in wild is the most one sided rod of roasting rolls a wheel of Yogg has ever rolled against me. But even then, is it hacking, or is it the most disobedient, possibly sentient, chaos god posing as a luck card in Hearthstone working perfectly as intended?

yes i had a hack happen. a guy had a deck full of velaroks starting turn 3 (no marin/tolins goblet could have been played at that point, even new draws were also velarok which were already transformed without a card from another class played). every pull was some crazy stuff, like 3x in a row helya. didnt last very long to experience more. i added him, but when i pressed spectate i was immediately unfriended and kicked out.
it reminds me of twist where some people started the game with manipulated deck lists that insta won on turn 1.
its the only time i can think of a blatant hack in standard though.

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Welcome to online gaming where all of your opponents are the greatest gamers of all time and the only reason they can possibly ever lose is because of Hacking or Rigging and never because they just suck.

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The sheer fact the person had to mention they were streaming is hilarious.

I have my salty moments for sure, but its just sad when people go out of their way to accuse you of something they have no proof of.

I never encountered or heard of actual hacks in this game. Doubt they exist but maybe?

Insanely one-sided rng and botting are not “hacks”.

It has been done before in some modes. This happened in twist as well.

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and he still lied about it, right, HS doesn’t have that many views on Twitch for a random person to have 2000 viewers.

Seen claims for sure. Not to say that all of the claims from the players are bogus, but some people get angry about losing n will claim anyone that beats em is cheating, but i have no doubt some of the claims are real.

Also seen it actually addressed, as NeonGhost noted above.

Yes there are hacks but they are all client side. Probably the most common hack is the animation speed up hack which makes APM decks trivial to play as animations no longer limit you.

There probably exist other hacks and exploits, but the one mentioned above is the only one I know of that has been documented.

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A heavily funded game like Hearthstone (well compared to most games in the world at least), is EXTREMELY rare to have a public cheat online for more than a few hours; maybe you can see something for 3 days if they are too slow but that stretches it; private hacks from extremely skillful programmers can exist but do not expect to see those in your games often (people with that skill are less than 1% of the population of professionals at programming itself).

The most common cheat that happens on heavily funded games is automation of gameplay with extrernal means to the actual game software; e.g. anything that pretends to move your mouse or use your keyboard to fool the game you’re doing it;

it’s why it’s VERY easy to be banned in ANY blizzard game even if you only configure your mouse to auto-click a function to pretend you’re playing.

The only time I hear of hacks is when idiots come to these forums or elsewhere claiming there is. It’s also interesting these posts only happen when the poster has lost a game.

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You know, except for those times blizzard banned accounts for hacking the client to break deck building rules by putting duels rewards and the like in their starting deck to get turn 1 otk in duels and in twist…

If it’s client side only, is it actually a hack?

It can easily be an exploit. E.g. automation of gameplay by virtually moving mice and keyboards. It’s actually the most common way to bot Blizzard games because heavily funded games like this aren’t going to have any blatant “cheat.exe” running in the background since it will be immediately caught (battle.net has a built in anticheat).