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macro controllers and AI controller inputs are a thing and are actually rampant in certain games. Just look on youtube for some of the Street Fighter 6 cheat v
by busterarm 3y ago
macro controllers and AI controller inputs are a thing and are actually rampant in certain games.
Just look on youtube for some of the Street Fighter 6 cheat videos that have popped up in the last few weeks. Also if you play games like Apex, Valorant, etc, there are macro controllers that will not only perform movement tricks for you but will do things like correct aim for automatic fire drift/spread or even (on PC) home in on targets for perfect aim for you.
Cheat capability is cheap to buy these days and it's way more prevalent than you can imagine. It has basically killed off Escape from Tarkov already.
- Loughla 3y agoI just don't get it. I genuinely don't get it. If you're cheating, you're not winning; the software or hardware is. What is the point? What do people get from this?
- permo-w 3y agoin some games there's a certain degree of "everyone else is doing it, so I have to in order to compete", which I can somewhat understand, but obviously the game has to get to that point in the first place, and a lot of that is probably just children
- AlexandrB 3y agoSame applies to "pay to win" games, yet they make a ton of money. Cheating is definitely its own kind of fun though - I remember cheating in single player games using something like a Game Genie back in the day. It's fun because you feel like you're "getting one over" on the game. In multiplayer it's a plague, but some people (mostly kids/teens, I hope) seem to be very amused by the angry reactions they get.
- busterarm 3y agoSome people will be bullies their whole lives. Also writing cheat software is a lot of fun. Great engineering problems.
- genewitch 3y agoI cheat on games that i got cheap (or "free" via xbox for windows) because i want to "finish" the game, but i also have dozens of other things vying for my time and attention. I also watch old TV shows at 1.2x-1.4x speed, for many of the same reasons. It makes the filler less obnoxious, i get roughly the same experience, and i can honestly say "i've seen every episode of <X>". Like Law and Order, for example.
- baby 3y agoSome people are just shitty. There are scammers, rapists, etc. Everywhere. Video games cheaters are just the scummiest people online.
- permo-w 3y agoI wouldn't go that far. you've got blackmailers, scammers, child pornographers, blackhats, ad-tech, etc
- butlike 3y agoCase: I'm a 65 year-old retiree who's reaction speed is slow, but I want to play the game so I can relate to my grandson, and getting dominated left and right isn't keeping my interest. Case: I'm a 16 year-old with low self-esteem who wants to show off an impressive k/d rate when I play with my friends, so I boost those numbers when we're not playing together. Case: I'm an arbitrary player who has 5,000 hours in the game, of which no stone is left unturned. I cheat in order to get longevity out of the game and to make it novel in a new way.
- permo-w 3y agoI bow to your superior knowledge
- genewitch 3y agoAs we used to say at Blizzard: "Uninstall Cosmos, for the win"
- AustinDev 3y agoI agree with what you're saying except for the Escape From Tarkov bit. They are in a real pickle. They have a live service game they sold at a fixed price without any of the typical live service game monetization methods. Battlestate games has no incentive to actually ban RMT and cheaters when they are first detected because a ban too quickly will break the economic model of the RMT cheaters. Who, once banned, will buy another copy of Escape From Tarkov. I know a few people who write game cheats for a living and they have multiple clients who regularly buy over 100 copies of Escape from Tarkov nearly monthly.
- busterarm 3y agoI think you're proving my point. Cheating is understood to be so rampant in the game at this point that legitimate players have backed off. The wiggle video was catastrophic.