Is cheating still a issue?
Im wondering what steps have been taken to prevent cheating in Tribes Next. I still am a huge fan of tribes 2 but found that the "happy mod" really killed it in pubs. it wasnt wide spread but it was bad enough to make me stop playing at that time though we were losing players to other games.
Hope to see some of yall in game!
Hope to see some of yall in game!
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Cheating isn't much of a problem on either server. Generally the people cheating are really bad at the game, although there are a few that are good enough it is important.
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Seriously though, these reckless cheat accusations can destroy the game. That's why I argued for a demo-required complaint policy on Goon Haven. Luckily the other admins agreed, and we typically don't accept any cheat accusations without demos (sometimes people get banned for things in the logs, like spamming & such). I think the other Goon Haven admins have done an excellent job of balancing a difficult situation - cheaters are banned, but baseless cheat accusations are discouraged.
Some of the people that harass me on the forums here were upset about that policy, but it sucks to make some good and/or lucky shots and have someone call you a cheater.
Unless someone has a valid demo of a cheater, I'm inclined to think most cheat accusations come from players that can't deal with losing.
i tried to find out what a "botter" is but all i was told is that it amount to cheating. i was like ok dude, you havent been playing this game very long have you.. honastly though, if any admin of Goon Heaven can spec me all they want. they will see i miss damn near 80% of my sniper shots... i never use to be that bad but car wrecks messing up the back and wrist messes you up alot. not only that but my reaction time is a lot slower then it use to be back in the day when T2 first came out. SL is my fav weapon after laser...
just wondering, how many admins are there for Goon Heaven?
GH has maybe 6 - 12 admins or so. Some more active than others.
sure theres the aimbot in hm2 and the stand alone aimbot, but they suck
also the fact theres only two actual single shot kill weapons, lance and mortar, that limits the usefullness of an aimbot, and both weapons must be perfectly employed to do that one shot kill, something an aimbot wont do
Now if lasers pulled off one shot headshot kills there might be some impetus to develope a working aimbot but lacking that you really have little to fear
also, in mods like base and classic and other slow mods, cheats such as hm2 perma iffs and nofog, as well as autopoints (i dont consider autopoints a cheat) do very little to effect overall gameplay, in fast mods like ultra, cheats like permaiffs ruin the game pretty much because of the increased range and damage per weapon, they can see you before you leave a building for example, and with the greater range and power of each weapon in ultra, can keep you spawning over and over
as to nofog, ffs! this is 2010, we have huge vid cards! no one runs a voodoo2 or tnt anymore, we can stand 800meter fog distance! I think getting rid of the 2001 fog settings on each map would make for a much better game
im far more concerned about things like server lag scripts than an autoaim or perma iffs/nofog
Granted, most people who use HM2 are terrible, and GH is not TWL competition, but to say Perma IFFs isn't a huge deal in CTF because you die less fast than in some scrublord mod is a pretty terrible fallacy.
Granted, in an outdoor Classic CTF map, the "knowing what to do with the information" and actually doing it are both way harder than in any other mod, but still, the awareness is a huge step that perma-IFFs make for you.