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Don’t really play multiplayer games anymore, but back when I did a lot there was a “vote kick”/“vote ban” feature that people used to get rid of the cheaters in

• Kerrick 2y ago
  As of about a year ago, Team Fortress 2 bots were so pervasive that they would often teamu p to use the "vote kick" functionality to kick non-bot players from public games.
  • fnfjfk 2y ago
    Ok that’s pretty hilarious, but what’s the point, is this just like playing battlebots for TF2 bot authors? (But if it was couldn’t they set up a purpose-built server for that?)
    • tapoxi 2y ago
      They annoy other players and intentionally make them pay for bot protection services.
    • floam 2y ago
      It’s not that they want a human-free environment or something. It’s all about causing grief. So it’d be targeted at a chosen victim probably to annoy the fuck out of them. Cheater has a button that can kick you out.
    • rfl890 2y ago
      No. More like a denial of service. The bot hosters do it out of pure hatred for TF2
    • NavinF 2y ago
      >couldn’t they set up a purpose-built server for that? Yes, but the bots have to play on the official servers to get random drops of collectible hats. These items can be sold for a lot of money
  • jabroni_salad 2y ago
    > As of about a year ago, This started about 5 years ago and continues today. They aimbot, spam both voice and textchat, dodge bullets, can fly, and hijack any vote to ensure their continued survival. If you can't get an invite to a private lobby you may as well play a different game. Either one that has anticheat or something singleplayer. If there was a silver bullet that made online play nice and respected your computer, someone would have shot it by now.
    • episteme 2y ago
      If you hadn't heard, there was a recent clean up and botting has become basically non existent in TF2 now. It went from completely unplayable to being the experience everyone once had. Don't know how long it will last but you can hop on and enjoy it while it lasts.
• mschuster91 2y ago
  It hasn't worked for a looooooong time, you'd have 4chan and its offshoots running around coordinating offsite to yeet random players. And that was in an era where people had to pay for games and risked global bans (UT2k4 had that) on their license #, nowadays in the f2p game scene that has zero cost attached it's become all but pointless.
• vitaflo 2y ago
  When they first added this feature to Overwatch, one of the best sniper players in the world got banned because people thought he had an auto-aim cheat. Turns out he was just really really good.
• ultimafan 2y ago
  Some games this is still applicable. But as of a few years ago, there's been a LOT of multiplayer shooters coming out with a battle royale style of genre, where you load into a 30-40 minute match with a single life and are booted when you die. You don't have access to a list of players at any point or votekick/voteban mechanics, at best there'll be a report button on the death screen if you thought something was fishy. So you really have no way of knowing in these games at what point the match will be ruined, someone can toggle cheats on 20-30 minutes in and you won't know until you die to them nor have any way to communicate that to the other players still ingame.