I mean that guy is obvious. Suspicious doesent equal to cheater tho. I have played since alpha and I have encountered now one (1) 100% cheater and 2-3 95+% cheaters (cant be certain, maybe super lucky). However… Blizz takes action and when it becomes a problem ban wave is coming soon™. Unlike cs:go, where non prime is like average 1 cheater every game, not every game has a cheater but some games have multiple cheaters. Prime is like maybe 1 in 5-10ish. Its like actually infested with cheaters. (and the 100% cheater wasnt even aimbotting, just walling)
If aimbot is acting realistic, how does it look like then? I already said that i just see them in my games, i occasionaly see someone with diamon+ aim in gold/plat and thats all.
If realistic aimbot on plat player is hitting as plat, what is the difference? If its hitting as gm on plat acc, i would definitely noticed much better aim.
Whole point of aimbot is to have better aim than human can. If aimbot is trying to be very realistic it would not be so good obviously.
They really need to tie game accounts to phone numbers, more accountability and free data collection is a win, win for the players and Blizzard. Go even further and give them a hardware ban from the entirety of Battlenet, so if they have any other Blizzard games then they’re nuked as well.
That’s sadly not an option.
They ain’t even IP banning, hardware banning would make even less sense.
About 20 different identifiers are used to recognize a computer. These are stored in the registry and as far as I know, these values are also transferred to Blizzard servers.
A blacklist is only used in extremely rare cases. I do not think that the use of cheats can lead to ending up on a blacklist.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Well the issue blizzard wants to avoid is banning IP / Hardware (MAC:). Why ? Because they can easily change the user. I wouldn’t mind it either but I can see why they do it from a company PoV.
I mean, maybe the IP paired with the Mac adress ? Like, how possible would it be that some random guy would get the same IP and network card from the same person that got banned in Overwatch. Idk, just my 2 cent 
: Then you would have the problem that multiple people playing on the same PC would still suffer from this solution. Honestly, I don’t really know the perfect solution to this.
“Wide spread ban wave” how many people were hit ? like 5 ? idk lol.
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Because if you come back to the game to cheat and spend money on another copy of the game you are making them money. They couldn’t care less about “keeping them down”. The fact is that they want you to buy multiple accounts, because they benefit. Money is money, they don’t care from who.
They are. There is a case of famous torb troll. He even changed ip and some pc components and they were able to ban him in few hours on new accounts.
it could be a combination of around 20 identifiers. you probably could calculate a score from that.
MAC address, Battlenet Installation ID, computername, username, timezone, supported languages, time at which the connection was established, provider network. In theory, peripheral devices could also be queried.
I think you can create a very accurate fingerprint.
They won’t use that for cheaters.
It is the job of an internet cafe to make sure that nobody cheats there. if they are unable to ensure that, maybe it would be a good idea to block some computers.
People cheat in internet cafe places all the time, if it’s a busy place you cant really monitor it that closely. You win some, you lose some.
It is honestly beyond me how people can even cheat there. Like even the antivir provided by windows (defender) is able to check through most of the stuff + even is able to read ram access.
Thats just worrying to me, not only specificaly cheating in a game.
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Where is connection between anti-virus and a cheat?
Honestly, reading that list is a lot of fun. The amount of ‘kms’ comments and ‘back to level 1’ are epic.
Its not really how it works.
PC Cafe computers are not exactly normal PC’s, software wise. It has new fingerprint every time it starts. Well it doesnt even have OS installed on it lol
I find it difficult to believe people with money type like that in discord servers. They all sound like kids (young adults) with no value for actual money.
Probably, I wouldn’t be surprised.
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On cheat forums, people say that they can defeat the “hardware ban” by wiping the drive and reinstalling from scratch, or by re-imaging from a clean install.
You can also create fingerprints of “virtual machines” or computers running on similar technologies.
Computers at Internet cafes boot from image and have games pre-installed.
The Battlenet Launcher and Overwatch don’t have to be reinstalled at every start, => installation ID’s remain the same.
Your MAC address, CPU, Mainboard, installed drivers usually remain the same.
Yes, because much of the data stored is not conclusive or random. Only the composition is unique. When installing the Battlenet Launcher and possibly the games, random keys are generated and stored in the registry.
This is similar to the Windows 7-10 license activation process.
Some examples: It makes an impossible prediction; or it tracks too perfectly for just a moment.
And we are talking about only a few hundred millisecond window where it reveals itself.