Pringliano Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Before IL2 I had used DCS World, and very long ago, the first version of IL2 and Janes's ww2 fighters, as well as CFS2. All of these sims sooner or later became useless for me in terms of MP experience as soon as I found cheats could be used. I didn't read, or sense anything about cheats being possible in the present - Alpha - version of IL2 BoS, which is great, and I am about to start using Rise of Flight after an initial month trying to learn about it's great ww1 aircraft, and guessing it is also cheat-free, but I might be wrong ( ? ) - hope not ....
Finkeren Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Nothing is ever completely cheat-free, but when it comes to flight sims, my experience is, that it's 99% accusations of cheating being flung around by frustrated players and 1% actual cheating. I have never ever cheated in any MP game ever, because I can hardly think of anything more pathetic, and I even don't usually use available exploits (I didn't fly the Yak flaps down, when that was posible) Still I have been accused of being a lousy cheater more times than I can count, especially in RoF, where I was (surprisingly enough) a fairly good shot. 7
Matt Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I flew RoF online for more than three years and never witnessed anything that would make me believe that cheats would be possible in that flightsim.
NN_RugbyGoth Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Most of the time, video showing cheat in a flight sim is just made up video to make you download a trojan... Don't believe youtube videos of cheating with links in the description!
SYN_Vander Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Well we (Syndicate) have actively hosted missions for RoF over 4 years and we have never seen/had proof of cheats in all that time. Quite a track record. Except FB_Viks of course. We suspect he has a special dev setting on his account! 3
Dakpilot Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I think a better question would be: Is using exploits to the Nth degree considered cheating or just being clever.....or Stupid LoL Cheers Dakpilot
=38=Tatarenko Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Occasionally you see people using the skill cheat or teamwork cheat and it makes it very hard to shoot them down. Which is why I bomb them on the runway in my IL-2 12
6./ZG26_5tuka Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) Can only confrim what's been said, I have never encountered anything close to cheating in RoF or BoS so far (and I'm very pleased with it). The game I mainly came from however feautured many cheaters and hackers, guys who abused lowest graphic settings for better visibility and contact tracking threw clouds or bomber pilots using Flying Fortresses as death gunships against fighters (but I guess it will always happen once players have to earn money silver lions and gain online expirience ressearch points in order to proceed ingame). I'm very confident this won't be the case in BoS and not even closely in RoF, since both games aren't focused on progress and upgrade but only the fun of flight, which is usually uninteresting to hackers/gamers. Edit: Fun story though, I've been lately accused flying in third person only on normal server by a guy who entered a high G turnfight with my Bf109 and crashed to ground with no controll. What he didn't consider saying so is that the Bf109's stabilizer can be very effective in such situations and easily avoid you crashing even when blacked out, which is basicly what I did. Edited June 18, 2014 by [Jg26]5tuk4 1
siipperi Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Never seen cheats atleast in rof or dcs or heard about cheating in those games.
Kleinburger Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 all games have hacks, cheats but getter get used to it cause real life its the same Life hacks are real. 5
SeriousFox Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I would you even cheat in this game? there's no point.. lol
=AVG=Zombie Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I try the skill cheat all the time...... must be hard to initiate...
[TWB]Ewertsp Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 OMG! You guys didn't know??? Nav lights is über cheating since yesterday night! 1
Pringliano Posted June 18, 2014 Author Posted June 18, 2014 Yep! What happened at one of the servers last night? I was surprised to find all aircraft around me had their nav lights ON - LOL!!!! It was on an Expert mode server, so, it was a lot easier to find them this way... :-) Know what? That's what made me post the OP :-)
Pringliano Posted June 18, 2014 Author Posted June 18, 2014 What about the mithical invisible skin?! OOps! Is that posible
AndyJWest Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 What about the mithical invisible skin?! That is the mythical invisible skin that would only work on a 'mods on' server.
M4rgaux Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 There are a few possible kind of "cheats", the general consensus is, where is weakness, there will be exploit. Note that the flight sim community is in general more mature than other community, therefor many of these things might not happen. 1: Bug / feature exploit - Everything that is in game and can be exploited will at some point be exploited, it will be fixed in time. 2: Graphics hacks - Erasing the cloud, glowing plane, hud with every useful info about a plane... Hello sweetfx, you work in the same way, hacks might happen someday. 3: Gameplay hacks - aimbot & co, due to the nature of the sim and the complexity of the flight model, this is unlikely to happen. Now there are different kind of cheater. 1: People looking for an easy way to win, most of em will get bored very rapidly. 2: People developing their own hacks for a challenge (we need moaaaaaaar of em, they're not here to annoy people but to challenge themselves, can't blame em for that. ) 3: People making a living of their hack (There won't be anyone like that here, the player base is way too small.) Now there are different kind of player. Those who win. Those who get ass-kicked and jump on the occasion to improve themselves and their skill. Those who think everybody cheat (It is in the human nature to rationalize everything, I don't lose because they're better, smarter or have more experience but because they cheat). 1
M4rgaux Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I don't understand this logic. If they have developed a cheat, some method of modifying the game to give them a competitive edge, then they're definitely annoying people. These are, in some ways, the worst kind of hackers since, with their custom code not widely used, they are less likely for anti-chat systems to be able to spot them and ban them. 1: Anti-cheat systems are a joke, the only anti-cheat really working is a human looking at what happened on the server. 2: Actually some people enjoy the challenge of finding weakness and exploiting them.They will try what they've done and move on something more challenging, the competitive edge isn't in being better than someone without the cheat, but being better than the code, to improve they're knowledge. Moreover, the weakness might even crawl back to the dev team (seeing the legal and moral implication of doing that, it don't happen really often.) They remain unseen and unheard of most of the time, they will probably never bother you, yet you have to thank these kind of people for the internet and the IT as you know it. 3
Capt_Stubing Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 It's been my experience flying Il2 1946 in a competitive environment that a cheater won't last long. If the server is very active they usually have Admins and people send in tracks. They get the boot forever. Also I would say that most guys that are into our genre are a bit less likely to be a hacker. Certainly there is always some asshat that breaks the rules. To the original poster. I've had some amazing MP experiences flying Il2 1946 with the UP and HSFX Mods. If you fly on regular servers you won't run into many situations were people are hacking.
-TBC-AeroAce Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 NAV LIGHTS LOL that was sooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
von_Tom Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Of course there will be cheats. It won't be as obvious as laser beams or star fighter FMs, but there's a lot you can do with a hack telling you when to fire or radar instead of a map. They're probably in use already. Hood
BeastyBaiter Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 I've never seen a cheat used in RoF in all my years playing it in MP. I have heard that one squad did find a way to get enemy planes displayed on a map on a second screen or something, but that was just a claim. I never saw any proof of it or saw anything in game that would suggest someone was doing it.
SYN_Vorlander Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 A cheat could and will only work if the master server gives you permission.
6./ZG26_Gielow Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 You can have a squad member recording a track, then he quits and plays the track. Thus you can see how many planes, altitude, hdg and probable target. ii
M4rgaux Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 A cheat could and will only work if the master server gives you permission. Actually no, the game run on your system, you are king of your system and even if it's not tolerated you can do some dynamic libraries injection, memory injection and the like. (It's already existing, look up sweetfx).
SYN_Vorlander Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Dear Extreme 1. Don't you think its possible for players to test code for the developers on an open mp server? Its only a question.
6./ZG26_5tuka Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 (edited) I just hope they won't adopt BoS for any third party software or mobile platforms in whatever kind. A good example of "legal" cheating was the introduction of game compatible Apps for smartphones and tablets in the "thunder game" which enabled players to display the minmap during matches. Nice feauture, but way to abusive friendly. I only took short time until guys invented active radar apps that showed minmap, markers for enemies and gave ring tones whenever sby approached your 6 (at adjusteable distances). I think there are much more pretty things you can digg up in the internet I don't know off. BoS can surely go nice without such feautures only focusing on traditionally flight simming. Edited June 18, 2014 by [Jg26]5tuk4
71st_AH_Hooves Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 OMG! You guys didn't know??? Nav lights is über cheating since yesterday night! Yeah apparently using your lights to signal teammates is totally cheating lol Classic
DD_bongodriver Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 that makes me a starnge pick Something like that 5
Bearcat Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I think a better question would be: Is using exploits to the Nth degree considered cheating or just being clever.....or Stupid LoL Cheers Dakpilot Occasionally you see people using the skill cheat or teamwork cheat and it makes it very hard to shoot them down. Which is why I bomb them on the runway in my IL-2 Indeed... I think the word cheat is highly overmodelled..
Talisman Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Yeah apparently using your lights to signal teammates is totally cheating lol Classic Nav lights are far too bright in daylight at the moment. Nav light use in combat is not realistic. Looks like we are going to get the same old IL2 1946 dogfights with Christmas trees all over the sky. It is so lame and such an immersion killer. Reminds me that this is a game rather than a flight sim. If the dev team cannot make lights that are less bright, then I think they should do without them altogether. They are nav lights, not combat lights, LOL. I think CloD had the right approach by not having the nav lights activated. This saves having totally unrealistic Christmas tree dogfights. I don't want a Christmas tree dogfight sim, LOL. Fly a Christmas tree in combat as a gamer I suppose, but I would rather a serious aircraft combat sim. I suppose people will want to fly in combat with red smoke next, LOL. 1
BeastyBaiter Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 You must really hate the flare gun then Talisman.
Talisman Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 You must really hate the flare gun then Talisman. No, but the nav lights are too bright in the daylight and I do not remember pilot accounts in WWII of Christmas tree lights in the sky pinpointing the outline of aircraft shapes when dog fighting in the day time, or even at night for that matter. Merry Christmas all year round for Santa pilots of an arcade flashing light game, but I would rather have a serious combat flight sim. Talisman
LLv34_Flanker Posted June 20, 2014 Posted June 20, 2014 S! Earlier there were ways to game-the-game in IL-2 like pressing PrintScreen and such to cause lagging. Could tell who was doing it as his plane immediately began to warp but magically ended when he got behind you. Fix was 1 screenshot per 10sec or something. Then was this "radar cheat" in VEF and other online wars, created by a certain eastern squadron. When they were busted some of them just transferred to another squad and same crap continued with new ways to cheat or game the game. There is no way to avoid cheats or exploits as there are always individuals who probe the game to get them working. Not even a master server stops them. Want a cheat free game? Play offline. But that would be boring. So what to do? I keep playing on and offline nevertheless. If those who really need cheats and/or gaming the game to be any better, good for them. I have no need to use a single way to exploit or cheat. 2
=BKHZ=Furbs Posted June 20, 2014 Posted June 20, 2014 BOS, COD and ROF never saw anything dodgy at all, ever...in IL2 maybe sometimes we saw somthing iffy but not 100 certain, in IL2 VEF sometimes but not often it was 100% cheating, again it was always one of a couple of sqds.
von_Tom Posted June 20, 2014 Posted June 20, 2014 Then was this "radar cheat" in VEF and other online wars, created by a certain eastern squadron. You mean 2GvSHaD or whatever they're called, or before that? I thought they were a group of pilots from different squadrons. Must confess I am suspicious of Russian pilots who have extremely good kill/death ratios even though I know that some are just extremely good at games. Prejudice caused by experience is probably the best way to put it. No offence intended to any Russian etc pilot that doesn't cheat and apologies if offence is taken by them. Hood
dkoor Posted June 20, 2014 Posted June 20, 2014 I've been accused of cheating in IL-2 more than I can remember... a lot of times, that's for sure. How much have I actually cheated? 0 That's not much . In all my time with IL-2, and that is vast years, I've been online from 2003-2004 or so, I never really saw anyone cheating before "mods". After "mods" I stopped carrying much about that but nevertheless I still haven't detected cheating even after mods. Mind you, I really have extensive experience with IL-2 so I can count off the lag, Print Screen buttoning, disconnecting, warping due to bad connection and so on. Especially those times where for instance Spitfire outturns Ki-43, I remember doing that - I shot down Oscar and the guy immediately accused me of cheating. Never mind that he was in inferior position and that he was slower, no, it only matters that Ki-43 is superior in continuous level circling so therefore I must have cheated in order to shot his ace a*** down. If I had a penny every time I outturned superior turning plane in IL-2 and shot it down I'd collect quite a sum ... Joke aside, no there were no cheats regarding FM and DM where people could twist those to have an unjust edge. And I doubt you will see that in the future, be it RoF or BoS either.
dkoor Posted June 20, 2014 Posted June 20, 2014 (edited) Must confess I am suspicious of Russian pilots who have extremely good kill/death ratios even though I know that some are just extremely good at games. Prejudice caused by experience is probably the best way to put it. You me and 6 others from this forum join up and go on some particular server and we will shot down everyone on opposite side never mind how many of them. Problem of this and many other games is that you can hardly find 8 people flying together in coordinated manner, but once you do it is so easy to shot people down and it doesn't actually takes some extra skill to do so. Don't be fooled with K/D ratio that doesn't mean anything but 2 things: 1 Either guy is EXTRA cautious and do BnZ or 2 he flies in squadron where people on TeamSpeak set up kills for each other. On serious servers you can't survive for long unless you fly in pack with TS. "Serious" people went so far that they disconnected in the middle of a flight just to avoid being killed, they don't land damaged planes but opt to bail out to avoid accident kills on landings, they don't fly over enemy territory much if at all etc. there are ways to minimize risks... I did a lot of things on servers like warclouds, flew solo high above friendly lines without teamspeak and had like 5/1 K/D ratio, solo among the shark gangs and most of the times get away with it by just using friendly lines and strong spots to my advantage... Must admit I mostly flew solo but I for example remember one instance when Brain32 and me ganged up in FW-190s, we shot down 7 or 8 allied planes on warclouds in one sortie. Imagine what several coordinated planes can do. IL-2 has also recording NTRK where you can track and see if someone cheats. So I don't buy a single cheat story in IL-2 unless I see the track, Edited June 20, 2014 by dkoor
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