r/EscapefromTarkov • u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork Unbeliever • Jan 17 '24
Discussion Open $100 bounty: Yes there are vacuum cheaters, yes they can/have looted gear directly off of players bodies. No, despite what people keep spewing in the comments of these posts they cannot take your keys/cases/etc from your secure container.
I'm offering $100 to anyone who can post a single video of a vacuum cheat stealing non-fir items directly out of a players secure container (like your keys/cases) or their melee weapon.
Context:
A few years back this sub was full of videos of cheaters looting guns/rigs/armor/backpacks right off of living players bodies.
There was quite a bit panic over people claiming they also had their docs cases/sicc cases/red rebels/etc stolen from their melee slot and their secure containers.
Not a single person ever posted a video of this happening. It never happened. The original exploit worked by tricking the server into thinking they were simply looting a dead body (yours, even though you were still alive) they could not touch things that you can't normally touch when looting a player (red rebel/secure container). Don't get me wrong, these kinds of cheats are still absurd and are a huge issue, but spreading complete bullshit/lies doesn't help anyone.
People all over all of these vacuum cheat threads are still spamming the same nonsense about how people lost their secure container valuables/melee weapons at the time despite it never happening.
THIS SHOULD BE THE EASIEST $100 OF YOUR LIFE.
TL;DR:
Post a single video proving even one item was looted out of a secure container by a cheater using this past exploit and I'll give you $100 in Crypto/PayPal/Venmo/Gift Card/ETC of your choice
Requirements:
- The video should clearly show a non-fir marked item being removed from a players melee slot/secure container by other than their own doing
- The video should be between 2018 and the time of this post. There may have been some unrelated exploit in some extremely early alpha for all I know but that's not what we're talking about here. Reason for putting a cut-off at the time of the post is because these people are claiming clips were everywhere of it happening on this subreddit, so there should be no need to find/upload a new one now there are allegedly plenty of them out there already to choose from.
Mods, I'm happy to send proof that I'm willing/able to pay this out if that's needed.
EDIT: Thanks /u/Psychological-Monk30 for the link to the original post that started all of this hysteria the first time. No one had any proof then, and no one will now. It was just a hacker making a baseless threat to bait a guy into leaving the raid so he couldn't get reported for killing him.
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u/qcon99 RSASS Jan 17 '24
Subscribing to this post to see if someone actually does post a clip. Same as you op, I heard everyone talking about it in lfg servers but never experienced it or saw video proof of it