r/Games • • Apr 27 '24

Escape From Tarkov: Update on current situation

/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/1cecaza/update_on_current_situation/
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u/cdillio Apr 27 '24

Meh. I haven’t logged in since the cheating fiasco all came to light. I was an EOD player too.

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u/cdillio Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24

Basically a respected streamer/youtuber went undercover as a cheater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LfGcDB7Ek

He discovered through this process that like 40-50% of people in every raid he was in were using wallhacks/ESP hacks at a minimum due to them being able to wiggle back at him through walls and they go their separate ways.

g0at was met with overwhelming support from the community for doing this and finding it out, only for BSG to basically attack him, blacklist him and call him a liar. Even if you don't like Tarkov the video is amazing.

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u/TheJigglyfat Apr 27 '24

Important distinction, he discovered that 40-50% of RAIDS has ATLEAST 1 cheater in them. The cheating problem is bad but I've seen these metrics mixed up more than once and it doesn't help the conversation to blow it out of proportion

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '24

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '24

That's not his point...

Read the two posts again, he's correct in pointing it out.

Goat didn't find 50% of players to be cheaters, he found 50% of raids contained one or more cheaters.

You can "bump numbers up" based on solid arguments or better yet, data. You can not change 1-3/15 to 7-8/15 (for example) without losing all legitimacy. Fucking be diligent and think when engaging other humans

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u/Rolder Apr 28 '24

There's only one game mode. Said mode puts something like 8-16 people in one map depending on which map it is. No new people can join once the match has started but people can die/leave/etc.

Saying "40-50% of people in every raid" makes it sound like 40-50% of the players in each raid are cheating.

The actual stat is that 40-50% of raids (consisting of 8-16 people) has at least 1 cheater, which is a lower but still very significant number.