@slag: Well I don't feel bad about reporting it then. That was only the third time I have played too.

I don't know what exactly they're going to do, but purely client-side hacks (wallhacks, aimbots) are pretty tough to actually detect. The best you can typically do is use some heuristic method to guess someone might be using one (for instance looking at mouse acceleration and accuracy to evaluate the possibility of someone using an aimbot), but in that case, you're only going to be able to detect the most extreme cases with enough certainty to justify an auto-ban. You'll also have to deal with the hack creators constantly releasing updates to try to stay at the boundary of what your heuristics can detect.

It's also possible to scan the player's system for code that has been previously identified and cataloged as a cheat, but again, this is going to be a constant arms race with the hack creators as they release updates to try to work around this. A lot of players are also likely to complain about techniques like this due to the obvious security and privacy concerns.

The only dependable way to really handle all hackers is to rely on reports to filter the cheaters into separate matchmaking pools.

Despite it being so innovative and fresh, these kind of issues is why I can't get behind Pubg as goty. Get your shit together bluehole.

The last few days I have definitely seen a drop in the amount of cheaters, and my rank puts me at the top end of the leaderboards where you'd expect to see the most of them. Maybe I just got lucky?

Ye... in the last 6 months chinese cheatware has flooded the game. I guess since the devs didnt understand mandarin, they were unable to blacklist the code? Idk. But they had the english hacks under control just fine. Something about the chinese cheatware that made it almost impossible for them to handle.

Your game of the year folks. When the official release has even more problems than the early access version

Just watched Breakfast & Battlegrounds this morning from the Waypoint folks and their last game, they got annihilated by some dude in a moving truck with an UZI and neither of them were in sight of the thing. Replay showed auto-aiming, and dumping more bullets than should be possible. This game is a dumpster fire if they cannot keep that stuff under control.

I guess this is why it has sold so quickly on Xbox One.. Less cheaters. Even though it has much more bugs than on PC.

That and a lack of games.

@drunken_nun: Good job making a GB forum account to shill another fucking one.

Sometimes I wonder whether reports of cheating, or perhaps the cheats themselves, are distributed by people who would financially benefit from players switching over to other BR games, but I guess that's pretty crazy.

For what it is worth, this is very, very true. I have ~450 hours played, and have seen 3 cheaters. I play exclusively FPP.

I didn't like FPP initially, but after I got past the learning curve I have begun to enjoy it much more. Far, far fewer "cheap" deaths where someone just waits for you to turn around before peeking, etc. It's worth putting a few hours in to see if you can get past the learning/comfort curve - that did the trick for me, and has helped me avoid cheaters to boot.

This is why I’m sticking with the Xbox version, despite being technically inferior. At this point, it’s a better playing experience

This thread is four months old. Will Smith recently said on the Bombcast that Pubg are putting out two 25mb patches a day that make it extremely difficult for the cheaters to do their thing. He plays four hours a night, and went from seeing constant cheaters to almost none at all. I think the cheating problem has been mostly fixed.

@splodge: Yeah I stopped playing around the peak of the cheating. It was at a point where I was seeing multiple cheaters a day. I started playing again a fewweeks ago and don't think I have seen a cheater yet.

It's 2022 and cheaters are still apparently a thing even after they made PUBG free to play. 😑 *sighs

The only good thing is that it's free, and free means more players, and more players mean possibly more cheaters. *facepalms

also slightly off-topic but related, CSGO still has cheaters too in 2022. oof.

GameSpot article for reference

• PUBG Explodes in Popularity on Steam After Switching to Free-To-Play Model - GameSpot