Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I heard that game has a really bad problem with cheaters. Addressing that seems like it would take precedence over getting the game on Steam. You only get one shot to make a first impression and all.
The cheating problem is off the charts. There was a really good video of someone who investigated how bad it was, and found that about 50% of players were using wallhacks.
I played it for a couple months. The gunplay was pretty impressive, but the cheaters made it incredibly frustrating, and after seeing that video, I uninstalled and never looked back.
*50% of raids had at least A player using wall hacks.
It’s likely around 30% total player base, and out of ten man raid your going to have likely 1 to 3. As cheaters like to squad up. It’s very common for large cheat discords to have fuck loads of people grouping up
Ah! My bad, it’d been a while since I saw that video.
The game is very fun and the loop is quite addictive, but PvE is probably the best thing that has happened to it in a long time. The AI needs minor tweaking, but not playing against other people and cheaters is so great. Being able to play with friends makes it fun.
I've also heard it doesn't run on Linux, ironically due to it's kernel level anti-cheat.
Online PvP raids don't work, everything else does, including the SPT mod
Out of a lobby of 10 people 3 likely are cheating. Every person who’s ever cheated to show videos of their games has this experience. My own first hand try at cheating shows this.
The game literally is one of the most cheated in shooters there is.
I don’t understand why the game would get played at all if it was full of cheaters like this. how could that be fun? especially with some high stakes thing like an extraction shooter
The game has a really bad problem with incompetent developers and project leaders who have shitty moral and ethical principles, and no I don’t think they are fixing that any time soon lol
There isnt actually a way to make functional anticheat as long as its playable on your own device. Its pointless to try and a waste of money. The only way is banning offenders and premium/custom matchmaking.
kagis
I haven’t played it, but it sounds like it doesn’t have a replay system, which apparently has exacerbated finding cheaters.
It doesn’t, and that’s one of the reasons I only play offline with mods rather than online.
does the game just run off a downloadable exe? or is it on epic or something
Till it hit steam, you have to go to a Russian website. Pay Russian company using a sketchy payment processor on a barely functional website with extremely poor security measures to use. A Homebrew janky launcher that barely works.
Just wait for it to come to steam
They have their own launcher.
If you like the idea there is a PvE mode which is fine. But the AI has its own cheats and there are all the other issues mentioned in this thread.
Even with cheats, the AI still wins sometimes. That’s how insane the AI in this game is. It’s absurd.
Gluey and the Bois don’t fuck around
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The game has had major cheating issues since Covid started. There only so much they can do when the game is build on over a decade of shit code.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is there a modern popular shooter that doesn’t have a cheating problem? And if so, what are they doing differently?
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
there are no online games that don't have a cheating problem. but there are many online games that don't have anywhere near as bad of a cheating problem than EFT.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
There’s not a cheating problem in Rocket League. 🤷♂️
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that not just a reflection of how popular it is and the incentives that players have to not lose and not just the desire to win? As opposed to a deathmatch or ranked game, you actually lose stuff when you lose in this game, right? Is there anything you could reasonably ask of this developer that isn’t just inevitable for this game design?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What's even the point of cheating in multiplayer?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
There’s a pretty massive item market for this game to use real money for in-game items, where the seller will meet you in a match and drop the gear. So there’s a big financial incentive for people from third world countries to hack so they can quickly acquire valuable items to sell on that market.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Winning at any cost, I think.
Envy@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Since covid started? Lmao