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The Cheating Issues Will Continue to Hamper Player Fun until BHVR Takes Action
Just ran into my first hacker since I've been back for a month and a half. Dude was playing trapper with increased speed, permanent auras, and the ability to teleport.
Fun fact: The man who was responbile for finding that exploit and using it to harass streamers, especially Tru3talent, is still playing the game to this day and according to a trusted source may be the one who started to make the DDoS exploit wide-known. Which itself is months old but was just not known to anyone.
BHVR legit does not give a crap currently about solving this problem. I'm not even sure if they consider it a problem. Their only responses to the cheater problem has been the following:
A generic worded statement to Eurogamer which they have done little to repost on their main social media platforms or in the in-game news section.
New rules for Fog Whisperer's that say they can't complain too much about cheaters. Lest they make BHVR look bad.
Not exactly true. It's possible to unban your own account through hacks I kid you not. The game's anti-cheat is a complete joke. Hackers do not worry about it at all.
I don't know. But others have been aware of this exploit. Even if they knew would have they done anything? I mean there are multiple videos showing all the crazy ######### hackers can do going back years and they have done nothing. They haven't even took legal action against the public sites which discuss about and sell DBD cheats.
Other game companies will sue the cheat makers and do rolling ban waves that take down thousands of accounts. Meanwhile BHVR will maybe ban a hacker after weeks or months someone went through their arduous report system. A process most DBD players aren't aware of. Most players still only report hackers through the in-game report system thinking it will do something.
They'll probably do something now that a big video game site talked about it. But who knows how long it will take for them to fix their EAC system. The cynic in me says they will only fix the IP leak exploit and do nothing about the other hacks/cheats.
According to my trusted source it is. New rules dropped this month concerning how they can talk about game balance, cheats/hacks, and leaks. Essentially they can't be too hard on the devs or get too negative. Which is understandable as FWs are meant to be ads for the game. But you'd at least expect the devs to do something about the topics they don't want the FWs to rant about.
Last week I had two killer hackers in two different games. First was a clown who was super obvious, He downed everyone in 30 seconds and flew around the map whipping gas bombs at a rate of a dozen a second. Second was a trickster who selectively cheated, he only cheated when not being watched. But again he was moving way too fast, never ran out of knives, and magically appeared next to gens being repaired and kicked them to 0% progress.
I have never cheated, but occasionally I get some sort of disconnect and an anti-cheat message saying my game triggered an anti-cheat response. What is going on here? Does the anti-cheat software ignore actual cheaters and targets honest players or am I possibly being hacked?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm not touching this game untill all these issues are resolved. The swatting especially scares the living ######### out of me. People have been killed over this in the past. It is absolutely outrageous it is not getting officially addressed.
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Tru
Don't think it's gonna happen, but still.
True there.
I'm a rank 1 on both survivor(mostly solo) and killer and I'm getting hackers ever 4-5 matches. Both survivors and killers
This game is running fast to being the next TF2.
Meanwhile Behaviour
Release more skins we need more money to fix hackers and consolo optimization please buy our skins of 15 bucks.
Just ran into my first hacker since I've been back for a month and a half. Dude was playing trapper with increased speed, permanent auras, and the ability to teleport.
It's only a matter of time until cheaters find a way to ban you. Imagine having to completely start over
I bet if you went to their official Discord and asked these questions. You'd get banned pretty damn quick.
Thanks for making this @Pulsar. Maybe a cheater thread that grows like your optimization threads will actually be acknowledged for once.
Also, bump because this seriously needs to be addressed.
Ive been getting a lot of hackers all of a sudden.
Yes and BHVR apparently doesn't back up their data, hence why they can't give Legacy cosmetics back and why people randomly get their account yeeted.
They had a way to ban you through the DC penalty. But BHVR did patch that after a while.
I guess that if cheaters ban you,you are able to talk with BEhaviour for it or steam.
Fun fact: The man who was responbile for finding that exploit and using it to harass streamers, especially Tru3talent, is still playing the game to this day and according to a trusted source may be the one who started to make the DDoS exploit wide-known. Which itself is months old but was just not known to anyone.
BHVR legit does not give a crap currently about solving this problem. I'm not even sure if they consider it a problem. Their only responses to the cheater problem has been the following:
If Steve has been recorded as flying with the anti cheat software then why isn't this flagged?
Not exactly true. It's possible to unban your own account through hacks I kid you not. The game's anti-cheat is a complete joke. Hackers do not worry about it at all.
Interesting. Has BHVR been aware of it for that long?
I don't know. But others have been aware of this exploit. Even if they knew would have they done anything? I mean there are multiple videos showing all the crazy ######### hackers can do going back years and they have done nothing. They haven't even took legal action against the public sites which discuss about and sell DBD cheats.
Other game companies will sue the cheat makers and do rolling ban waves that take down thousands of accounts. Meanwhile BHVR will maybe ban a hacker after weeks or months someone went through their arduous report system. A process most DBD players aren't aware of. Most players still only report hackers through the in-game report system thinking it will do something.
They'll probably do something now that a big video game site talked about it. But who knows how long it will take for them to fix their EAC system. The cynic in me says they will only fix the IP leak exploit and do nothing about the other hacks/cheats.
Is that rule for Fog Whisperers really true? Because if it is, I'll honestly never spend a single buck on DBD anymore.
According to my trusted source it is. New rules dropped this month concerning how they can talk about game balance, cheats/hacks, and leaks. Essentially they can't be too hard on the devs or get too negative. Which is understandable as FWs are meant to be ads for the game. But you'd at least expect the devs to do something about the topics they don't want the FWs to rant about.
If they don't want people to be talking negatively about these things they should maybe START ACTING. Welp, guess this is a goodbye for these forums.
Ill miss you, whoever you even are.
They can talk about these things but they aren't allowed to get too angry or imply the devs are doing a terrible job.
Last week I had two killer hackers in two different games. First was a clown who was super obvious, He downed everyone in 30 seconds and flew around the map whipping gas bombs at a rate of a dozen a second. Second was a trickster who selectively cheated, he only cheated when not being watched. But again he was moving way too fast, never ran out of knives, and magically appeared next to gens being repaired and kicked them to 0% progress.
I have never cheated, but occasionally I get some sort of disconnect and an anti-cheat message saying my game triggered an anti-cheat response. What is going on here? Does the anti-cheat software ignore actual cheaters and targets honest players or am I possibly being hacked?
I don't know about you guys, but I'm not touching this game untill all these issues are resolved. The swatting especially scares the living ######### out of me. People have been killed over this in the past. It is absolutely outrageous it is not getting officially addressed.
Me either.
This is so sad to hear, not gonna lie.