A wave of Aimbots?

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Just watched the newest video of “NoobHunter” and was suprised by the amount of aimbots ._.

Here I thought the one thing Blizzard does well, is taking care of of hackers… :confused:

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Let me sum up some of the possible answers you will get to this post

“I’ve never seen one aimbot since I’ve played this game” -Signed Aimbotter

or

“You just suck and should prolly just git gud”

I agree with you, the problem is horrendous and nobody even cares or will believe you in the end.

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This made me lol irl.

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Eh. Ive only seen a few since the start of the game. About 9 in over 2k hrs. They usually get banned pretty quick. An influx of them just means that a new hack has been released and will be detected soon.

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Like that. Dude seriously just go to You Tube and type “Overwatch Aimbot” and marvel at what you find.

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I have encountered 3 hackers my entire time playing this game.

1: Bastion with trigger aimbot, snapping to people all around him
2: Widowmaker with constant aimbot, tracking people right through the walls and capping them around corners along with twitching movments between multiple people behind walls.
3: Never seen the hacker but I joined a hacked lobby before custom games were a thing. Everyone instantly got their ultimates and people were freaking out.

Blizzard does do a great job culling hackers and avoiding data breaches. If you ever played call of duty you got a hacker every other game. I have yet to find a GodMode hacker in this game.

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I have. And all of them are either fake, scams or viruses.

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No not the “buy one here” videos, the ones of people being recorded using it.

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main aimbot (made by blizzard most likely) is operating since games release…and it’s charging 60 per month…
undetectable for 3 years? yea right…

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There’s actually alot in the high ranks. I’ve counted at least 5 this week.

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This is probably the only game where it’s possible to win against aimbotters.

I’ve had 3 encounters with aimbotters, and won them all.

Play smart. Use your Tanks. You can still win.

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I just caught a Genji bot yesterday on HLC. He was making a mess of everyone in game, so I decided to finally start watching the kill-cams each time he got me. At first I thought it was a skill-full smurffer. Then i realized. That player is using some wicked software which was pin-pointing players to the exact pixel.

I reported it to Blizzard, and I saw NOTHING on it. I guess it just goes to show that their system cannot keep up with modern cheat-ware :wink:

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Huh. It’s kind of like how you can still get a virus even with anti-virus software?

Hacks exist for every game. The developers create a system (in this case, Warden) to detect and stop those cheaters. But the cheat programmers are constantly looking for ways to circumnavigate the anti-cheat detection so there are always an influx of ‘undetectable cheats’ until the anti-cheat gets updated to detect the new and improved hacks.

Kind of like, y’know, virus programmers and anti-virus software.

The best way to help Blizzard is report those players for cheating and move on with your day. If they’re hacking it gives the devs more data to improve Warden and if they’re not then nothing happens.

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Oh I am aware of the cheats used in games Did the whole TF2 thing hosting for awhile kinda deal. Delt with those cheaters often.

Cheat detection can be solved with a few things and it’s been discussed more than once. But most online game development teams just seam to ignore advice given by pen testers and people studying pen because to them it is not cost compliant to bust cheaters right on the spot.

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Again, I refer to the analogy of viruses and anti-virus. There will always been ways to get around a software based detection system.

Remember a game called All Points Bulletin that was absolutely destroyed by hackers?

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I haven’t heard of the game myself. BUt I am sure that cheaters have ruined games in the past to the point where nobody wants to play them. “H1Z1 Just Survive” had that happen. I was bummed out because I signed up for the Beta for it. Played the game for a long time. But there was ALWAYS people duping items, exploiting the map to find hidden bases and most of the people left until the game Closed down in October. I had alot of time invested in that game. Same thing. GONE.

We have told game developers that something has to change. Especially if they are the hosts. The deal is. Players can do whatever they want on their end and exploit it. So we have to come up with a system which has more processing over-head to recognize whom is being a problem and whom is not.

User based anti-cheat measures on their end, does NOT stop cheaters at all. It hogs their resources and it does NOTHING. If we can offload the program, decrypt it and recognize ways to exploit it. Than anti-cheatware does NOTHING and will never be effective. IT has to be the Hosts job to recognize patterns and observe when something should NOT have seen something.

We could talk in depth here, but simplified talk to this is:

Object or Pixels A-Z have not been visible to player 1 because level object is obstructing their view. It should take X amount of seconds before they see this object, plus add on their network latency and that should be within the precise time they should see that object to act.

What I saw was a genji whom literaly was NOT looking at me. Did a 180 and went straight for the center of my Mass (in game) each time. That is some serious stuff here!!

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And? What’s your point? Even if they lose, they don’t deserve to play the game.

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Probably an extremely delayed ban wave to catch more cheaters in the end.

But more seriously, what could be a reasonable explanation for this failure? I’m trying hard to find one but I haven’t so far.

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Made a post myself about it recently. I even suggested how to drastically improve the rate at which they’re banned (actually implementable suggestions mind you. I know these things). Revive that post if you’d like the devs to hopefully get their butts in gear.

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incompetence. It’s always incompetence. The fact that they haven’t got a fast-track reporting system that favors those who report rarely and accurately speak volumes.