Defence matrix is broken

Until you bring hardware ban for smurfing but guess you still want that loophole to sell more costumes and bp on new account.

Let’s do all the data grabbing stuff from phone verification but let’s not do the obvious hardware ban.

What a joke this whole system is like everything about this launch

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wdym
DM needs some buffs.

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it only has a 10 meter range tho

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I’ve been thinking about how we’ve entered the dreaded era when I have to type “Dva’s DM” when I want to talk about that.

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I find it hilarious that they’re calling their anticheat solution Defense Matrix when DM doesn’t even stop Hack ingame.

SMH Blizzard…

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You wouldn’t believe the amount of times i have tried to DM hack only to realise it doesn’t stop it.

This is going to become a dva thread :rofl:

Yeah, the DM cheat system seems dumb, they’re not really curbing problems other f2p active games right now are fighting. And all the announcements of things they’re doing post launch, cosmetic prices, etc. I’m uninstalling OW on the 4th lol, not that anyone cares.

In a year and a half of playing I have 91 of Soldiers items and at least 70 on everyone pretty much. Such a greedy game that’s not even very innovative, basically nothing changed except remove a hero. different gameplay? sure. innovation? lmao no. screw off. Overwatch 1.1.

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I find it hilarious they are purging 20 or so percent of their users and marketing it as a positive and a ‘Defense Matrix Activated’.

That’s like cigarette companies calling their products ‘health sticks’.

It’s so opposite to reality it takes a seriously demoralized or obsessed individual to be able to buy that load of horse manure.

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hardware bans arent difficult to circumvent…

lot more difficult than another mobile number.

actually i dont believe that that’s true I watched a video about the bot problem in tf2 and why many solutions don’t work and hardware bans were brought up. Apparently it’s easy enough to spoof your hardware. #saveTF2 & why solving TF2's bot problem isn't that simple: a review of the current circumstances - YouTube here is the video, you may have to skip to 5:49 if the timestamp didn’t paste correctly.

Cheating community devs have stated that HWID are in place for OW2. Maybe not for smurfing, toxicity, gameplay sabotage, etc but definitely for cheating.

I’ll just say this, good luck finding a spoofer that actually works and needs to spoof what HWID it’s detecting and banning. Don’t forget, it’s also another thing that will cost a cheater real money to use.

[citation needed]

That’s fair I mean I don’t think they shouldn’t use hardware bans, I just think that it cannot replace the use of phone numbers. The more layers (within reason) the better.

These software spoofers are mostly detected by good atni cheat systems, the ones that work will eventually get detected, actual hardware change is costly so it works, which is why its used in most modern games, even cod uses it.

Every multiplayer game will have some sort of cheater in it. They will never be 100% cheater free. Now, does a cheater want to go through the annoyance of everything from FTUE, new phone number, HWID stuff, VPN’s, etc?

Wonder how improved their machine learning anti-cheat is. I really want to see how cheat devs combat against AI Anti-Cheat, that’d be a fun watch.

19 million Cricket customers
18 million Metro PCS
add in the rest and you’re about 50 million.

That’s just the US (and we know it’s NOT just a problem in the US)

You don’t need a citation, think for yourself.

Effectively barring 1/6th the US population from being able to access your game, and realize babies and infirmed aren’t customers, means just like I said.

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Also, I literally ask just about every game I’m in, if it’s affecting people, and guess what, about every game someone else is. Sometimes multiple.

Many people weren’t even aware of it at all, so lots of people are going to be shocked.

Based Gigachad, close the thread

Acecdotal evidence - the best kind of evidence :smiley: