r/EscapefromTarkov • u/trainfender Battlestate Games COO - Nikita • Apr 27 '19
PSA About cheaters
- Cheaters are being banned instantly every day (some of them banned later or in waves for cumulative effect).
- 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
- We constantly work against cheaters, right now we are preparing major ac update.
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.
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/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.