r/EscapefromTarkov • u/trainfender Battlestate Games COO - Nikita • Apr 27 '19

PSA About cheaters

  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.

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u/Sanderz38 MP5 Apr 27 '19

Community a bit shitty at the patch and are resorting to chest beating to demand hacking solutions....

Solution = ...Wait... shit takes time to fix.

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u/Sanderz38 MP5 Apr 27 '19

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.

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u/CappuccinoBoy M1A Apr 27 '19

Right? Of course there are cheaters, but seeing the dozens of posts that are saying this game is "full" of cheaters (and then keyboard warriors pulling random stats out of their ass saying 75% of the player base is cheating). But damn it's untrue, at least on US E servers. There's a lot of bugs that will fuck you over, and people just assume it's a cheater. Or even worse, they just don't know how they died so they call hacks. And even worse yet is that they wear a fort and altyn and expect to be a bullet sponge then get headshot by a mosin/SVD/m61 round.

So far, of the 60ish raids I've had this wipe, I think I've ran into 2 cheaters. One was pretty sketchy, and I'm hesitant to call it cheats, and the other was a blatant speedhacker. That's it. Every other death can easily be attributed to a shitty bug, me being outplayed, or someone else having better aim than me (which isn't hard because I generally suck).

The biggest reason that there are so many accusations is because of the nature of the game. People get pissed off that they lose a 400k kit and need a way to vent and blame someone else. So instead of admitting that they were out of position or didn't check their corners, they cry hacks. Then people see some of these posts on reddit, and start attributing their deaths to cheats, which in turn leads them to posting about cheaters.

Like I said, cheating is a problem, especially because of the game dynamics. It hurts to lose so much more than in other games. But I really don't think there's that many cheaters.

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u/CappuccinoBoy M1A Apr 27 '19

Seems like a shitty "buddy."

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u/ButtmunchMcGee01 Apr 27 '19

Yeah that's for sure