I've been reading lots of things about hacks. Most recently on the 'Get Legit Bro' topic.
Whether it be the cheaters themselves, the absolute sin of even possessing hacks, or just flat out the blatant refusal to have anything at all to do with them at all.
I think this is the wrong attitude. But I understand that FS officials can't be seen to have any other view as things can be misunderstood by simple people.
One guy in the topic aforementioned said this:
"Same if a server admin use it to look at the demo (and, stop that bullshit, it's of course more efficient to use a real cheat than that shownormals command, it's just logic¦ in all FPS I know, when people look at a demo for cheat, they use themselves a cheat because that's the closer they can go"
The reply he got was abuse and then told that toggling shownormals is all you need.
What bullshit. Sure that might give you the ability to (barely) see thru walls. Does it show when the enemy (or part of the enemy) is visible or behind a wall? Nope. Running a wall-hack whilst watching the demo will. And loads of other benefits that I'm not going to get into.
My point is this. Who's the best person to catch a hacker? A hacker. This isn't my opinion, this is fact.
Who's the best person to hire to make ur network or whatever impenetrable? The dude who is the best at penetrating systems.
Why do you think they run courses on 'Certified Ethical Hacking'. Because if you teach someone everything about it they then know it's strengths and weaknesses, what to look out for in certain situations or perhaps the tell of a certain hack or exploit.
I could continue...it's basic commonsense (or so I thought).
Server admin should be 'trained' in the use of hacks and become proficient in using them as a 'cheater' trying to cheat without getting caught.
For example, how someones game-play changes when they are trying not to look at people thru walls. The difference is huge and very noticeable if you know what to look for. Or perhaps the techniques you would use to fly under the radar like an aimbots smooth function or maybe it's height or fov settings.
Not to mention the time and effort server admin go thru reviewing demos over and over only for it to be 'inconclusive', or the cheater in question comes up with a bullshit excuse that you can't prove otherwise.
If you trust your admin with their given permissions or rcon to ur server or whatever why would you not trust them to learn and become proficient at using hacks but not use them improperly. Who can you trust then to do this?
Oh I know! Let's find someone who is the cleanest guy out there who's never used a hack in his life and goes to church on sundays. Let's get him to be our designated cheater catcher!
Seriously? Wake up.
While you are still going on about anti-cheats that never arrive we are stuck doing the hard yards and manually catching the fuckers, which is a shit shit job. We need every advantage at our disposal and the people we are fighting against don't obey any rules or moral standards so why should we to catch them? Instead you want to cripple us and judge the use of hacks to CATCH HACKERS. It isn't necessarily the hack that's terrible, it's people using them to cheat. So wouldn't using them in a positive way be a positive thing?
I'd be great if we could actually discuss this in a somewhat pleasant respectful manner.
This post has been edited by Perineum: 02 January 2019 - 08:14 AM