My Fight against Cheaters

As wavebend mentioned before, there's nothing stopping people from modding the game files themselves. You'd assume level details would be server-side...

I have done my share of cheaters reporting, ranting and 'witch hunting' back in the day when the game was still being officially supported (at least on paper, we know in practice this game was never truly supported).

Back in the day XP exploits were quite common, and people would get like 20-40 promotions a day, 100 a weekend, this sort of bullshit. Quite a few people on the Leaderboards were cheaters. There were also 'godmode' cheating, in which their damage would hit numbers by the hundreds of thousands (one friend had a video posted on youtube, I searched for it now but unfortunately couldn't find it).

Anyway, all of these incidents were brought to the developer's attention. At one point they said they might do something about it - I even copied and pasted they saying that and wore as my signature on the original BSN forums - but, as you may well know, they never did shit about it. Bioware does not take their games seriously as we do. Once 'support' for DAMP was officially ceased, I decided no longer to care about cheaters - nor about the game, to be honest. Gladly cheaters soon get sick of their 'accomplishments' going unpunished and move on. Therefore, while the game is 2+ years old, most cheaters never really invested more than a few months in it. I don't expect this new wave of cheaters will last long either.

As for cheaters reporting here on the forums, I think it is important for blacklisting sake. Even if Bioware does not care, we do, and I personally would not like to share the same lobby with them.

Doesn't add up. I was dealing 50% of my actual damage, Frank was dealing 25% of his, since he has 2x mine willpower. If that was the case he would deal 50% of his damage as well. That's why it's strange.

That feel when the inverted cheat game above looks exactly like my normal damage and damage taken

Anything that affects stats. Maybe cheat engine, but that person could've also modded the stat files for normalization, modded the weapon files (that would also apply to other players in the team), modded the scripts, such as damage calculation/received for allies, etc..

Another game, sorry the Sound is corrupt, but you see what happened there.

I rarely play public, so I find few cheatgames, but I always look at who plays with a cheater.
I have already removed one from my friend list, because he plays with cheaters and is a friend of one.

 

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Neither that nor gold hacks...

Just curious, in a game with 8 Sabbies or Zithers, would it crash the game? And how does the region lock affect such gameplay? And, and, and...