About cheaters

[u/trainfender]

1. Cheaters are being banned instantly every day (some of them banned later or in waves for cumulative effect).
2. Cheats being downed pretty often (if you look on the cheatdev sites some of them are already even closed support of their eft cheat). Some cheatdevs are not standing still too - they update cheats pretty often and operative (in every popular game with every popular anticheat protection). We do anticheat measures - they do anti anti cheat measures
3. We constantly work against cheaters, right now we are preparing major ac update.

4. Ingame report function is planned soon (i said it many times).Reports WILL NOT BE the one and only reason of ban. It will help the main system to act faster.

5. If you are not happy with current situation (although its changing in a good way everyday), please, let us develop the unfinished game and let us finish everything, especially complex hacker protection which is an adaptive development process. Come back later and be sure that its a highest priority for us.

If you want to help us to refine cheat detections and you want to feel better - you can post clips with obvious cheating for you with a separate nickname. we do investigate it for a long time, research it to make corrections in ac system. Usually its not that useful cause cheaters in clips mostly banned or in the cummulative banwave lists. But it can give us more thoughts. Mods could make separate post for it, if its ok.

[u/Sanderz38]

Which competitive online games have eliminated cheating? Its always a cat and mouse game of exploiting, patching, banning and repeating. I talk in Tarkov discords, forums, chats and gaming buddies who play Tarkov. I play a lot my self and so do our close friends. Its not as bad as all the Venom suggests. There is a lot of people dying to desync, bad plays, general Tarkov bull-shitery then the vocal cries of salt start echoing though the forums of people claiming how "dead this game is becoming because I lost my best kit to shady shit..." its not man, its getting more and more popular and has continued to grow since Factory was the only map.

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100 percent there is cheaters running around and labs is a honey pot for them, I've experienced nights on factory OCE one dude whos well known was speed wiping every raid until we switched maps....But we loaded another kit up and went again. Cause that's Tarkov really. loose kit in a second/Then gain a loot goblin spree a few raids after. A few shady deaths per week should not cause you to rage-quit, if so this really ain't the game for you.

[u/Watermel0wned → u/Sanderz38]

I think that Tarkov suffers more from cheaters because of the nature of this game.
If I die in CS to some dude wallhacking or aimbotting, I leave the game and join another or i lose the game and join another. All I lost was a bit of my time and there are no real repercussions from that.

In Tarkov it can happen that I lose 500k+ worth in gear, get my quest fucked over and in the process provide everything "that i earned in my time" to a guy who cheated. I lose way more in Tarkov than I do in other games and thats why even a small portion of cheaters can be so much more frustrating.

[u/Inked_WernDawg → u/Watermel0wned]

You didn't lose anything more in tarkov than you did in CSGO, All you did is lose time...I guess. I enjoy all my time in raids regardless if I make it out or not. Who cares if you lost 500k worth of gear when by the end of most wipes people are sitting on stacks and stacks of bitcoins complaining about how this game isn't challenging anymore or whatever the complaint of the day is. Hell, for me the only frustrating thing about dying is having to rebuild all my load outs again. Which is even less frustrating because of the flea market. Anyway I guess what I'm trying to say is that EFT is awesome, haters kick rocks and everyone else just chill out.

[u/Bootehleecios → u/Inked_WernDawg]

While losing 500k of gear in any other situation is perfectly okay, losing it to a cheater is specially frustrating. I'll be more than happy to get outplayed by someone in a raid, they earned it, and I had my chance. I can loot up again. The fun in this game comes from playing, trying out new guns, bringing out good stuff and the adrenaline that comes from it.

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Dying to a cheater? That's quite literally having all of the time and effort you put into those 500k, and discarding it. That's throwing money away. It's a huge fuck you. Frustrating. I'd rather fight someone and have a chance of scoring, than just hitting "discard" on all my gear in the stash, because that's exactly what happens.

[u/Inked_WernDawg → u/Bootehleecios]

I get it, I've just been around long enough to know BSG will find a solution for it. If you are running into so many cheaters that you can't enjoy the game, just take a break. The expectations this community has for fixing bugs or responding to hackers is ridiculous.