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Why would expect users to know the names of all known cheats though? If someone created a bot called, say, "VerseC", I doubt you'd be thrilled if that resulted
by stordoff 9y ago
Why would expect users to know the names of all known cheats though? If someone created a bot called, say, "VerseC", I doubt you'd be thrilled if that resulted in you being banned.
I also suspect the crossover between cheat names and gamer user names is high - "catbot" would not look at all out of place in a list of user name.
- paulmd 9y agoAnyone who's still playing TF2 at this point has a pretty good idea of the names of the various bots at this point, because they spam them in chat while they're running. GET GOOD GET LMAOBOX has ruined many a session for me, and I would never think of using 'lmaobox' as a username. Even if you aren't actually hacking, that's a quick route to the other denizens of the server votebanning you. Nor would I ever dream of using it as a system user. I think the context you and most other people are missing here is that these bots are a fucking plague on what remains of the TF2 community and we're more than willing to have zero tolerance for anything connected to them.
- stordoff 9y agoA) The cheat may post-date your choice of username. Even if you're aware of the name (and thus avoid using it in-game), you probably wouldn't change (or even think to change) a long standing system username. B) Non-TF2 players probably _aren't_ going to be aware of TF2 cheat names. A CS:Source player may not know of them, as it's not their game, but the same VAC ban covers both CS:S and TF2 (FWIW I play CS:S occasionally and have never seen such ads. there). I understand that it is a major issue (it's one of the reasons I haven't returned to TF2 in a while), but that's not a great reason to accept a poor solution that could effect innocent users.