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Cheating in planetside 2 really ??

All this shows is that apparently you are new....

Welcome to the INTERNET.

Watch out, there are scammers out in the real world too.  Better not walk outside!

Originally posted by Ikeda

All this shows is that apparently you are new....

Welcome to the INTERNET.

Watch out, there are scammers out in the real world too.  Better not walk outside!

Pretty much this.

If this surprises you you are seriously new to the internet.

Does the game even has some kind of cheat detection ? And if what type of hack prevention has Planetside 2, maybe somebody did read about it.

I would not be surprised if the game would have no cheat protection at all, fits into the server performance chaos currently.

I was thinking about updating my graphics card just to play planetside 2 because its the only game I can't run on this pc for some reason even in lowest settings.

However after Beta, I logged into the game to make a character, and I just logged back out, and I will tell the community why.

1. The character Models SUCK!, Absolute Force Online, Another F2P game currently in Beta has better character Skins, and models for that matter.

It is shameful what some of these MMO companies do I would be ashamed to even be on the PlanetSide Dev Team, and that is no joke, how much money was spent making planetside 2 and then failing to make characters look decent, or add customizeable armors, or anything like this.

Aimbots will be in everygame which is true, but how much effort is sony really putting out there against Cheaters, PlanetSide 2 worth playing absolutely not in my eyes in the current state it is in.

Planetside 2 is no more than playing a 30 minute game in Absolute Force Online of capture the point, they really didn't do a good job.

I understand every game has its Fan Base, and those who like it will play, but I don't.

Honestly I think PlanetSide 1, was developed better than PlanetSide 2, given the year it was developed in.

Originally posted by Renoaku

It is shameful what some of these MMO companies do I would be ashamed to even be on the PlanetSide Dev Team, and that is no joke, how much money was spent making planetside 2 and then failing to make characters look decent, or add customizeable armors, or anything like this.

Don't know what you're talking about, there are customizations and the character models look great.

Had to deal with a Lightning today hopped up on god mode..

kept going when its HP was spent,moving right along and blowing everyone away.

had people hitting me through walls too.

Originally posted by Renoaku

I was thinking about updating my graphics card just to play planetside 2 because its the only game I can't run on this pc for some reason even in lowest settings.

However after Beta, I logged into the game to make a character, and I just logged back out, and I will tell the community why.

1. The character Models SUCK!, Absolute Force Online, Another F2P game currently in Beta has better character Skins, and models for that matter.

It is shameful what some of these MMO companies do I would be ashamed to even be on the PlanetSide Dev Team, and that is no joke, how much money was spent making planetside 2 and then failing to make characters look decent, or add customizeable armors, or anything like this.

Aimbots will be in everygame which is true, but how much effort is sony really putting out there against Cheaters, PlanetSide 2 worth playing absolutely not in my eyes in the current state it is in.

Planetside 2 is no more than playing a 30 minute game in Absolute Force Online of capture the point, they really didn't do a good job.

I understand every game has its Fan Base, and those who like it will play, but I don't.

Honestly I think PlanetSide 1, was developed better than PlanetSide 2, given the year it was developed in.

If it was a MMORPGFPS then I would definitly expect more character create options at the start, but it aint that, it's a MMOFPS and has plenty of custumisation options during gameplay. I will admit at first I was slightly dissapointed when I noticed I could only get 4 type of faces, but then again in a shooter like this I will see more player backs then I will ever see a face upclose. What makes the customisation worth it in PS2 is it's armor and weapons look.

Where in Absolute Force the only vehicle I saw was a helicopter, where PS2 has all sorts of vehicles. The ingame effects also are far more realistic to view then what I have seen in pretty generic effects seen in Absolute Force.

I'd say that if you are a FPS fan and are enjoying Absolute Force Online that you really should try PS2 again and give it more time. In AFO when you jump into the game it feels familair like every other shooter out there, nothing special to think of, just jump in and start shooting.

In PS2 you need to first get to know the game abit more before you get the fun out of it. Pure talking based on my own experiance with both, where as said in AFO you jump in and act like it's your common shooter. My first attempts at PS2 where pure fail cause I got instant killed when I entered the battlefield. But havn't given up and had more attempts with several being succesfull and was able to see the scope of the game. Which in my opinion goes so much deeper then AFO.

Oh and to be on topic I think I am somewhat immune to cheaters, I just feel sorry for Wanna-Be-Gamers that feel the need to use cheats in order to be good at something like a game .

This is why the beta selection process in games should be more stringent, but it's not.

All these cheats were developed and tested during beta so the second the game goes live it's riddled with them.

What is annoying is the same cheats that were spotted and reported in beta still prevail.

As others have said, PS was a cheaters paradise, PS2 is no different and i don't think i can name a single FPS or mmorpg that hasn't had some form of hacks, exploits or cheats from pretty much launch day.

Originally posted by Onomas
They should just release a planetside 2 hack for everyone, this way everyone will be on an even playing field again. And the hackers can get back to sucking so bad again that they needed to use them in the first place.

Many cheats and hackers don't do it to appear good at the game, a lot do it simply to grief others, just because they can hack the game or simply for kicks. The notion of cheating to get good scores is a bit 1990's.

The reason your idea is not workable is it destroys the game, you want everyone sniping enemies from the other side of the map for example? Not good, what would be the point in playing?

Originally posted by Zinzan

Originally posted by Onomas
They should just release a planetside 2 hack for everyone, this way everyone will be on an even playing field again. And the hackers can get back to sucking so bad again that they needed to use them in the first place.

Many cheats and hackers don't do it to appear good at the game, a lot do it simply to grief others, just because they can hack the game or simply for kicks. The notion of cheating to get good scores is a bit 1990's.

The reason your idea is not workable is it destroys the game, you want everyone sniping enemies from the other side of the map for example? Not good, what would be the point in playing?

sarcasm ;)

Its a FPS, and two things that are associated with fps is 1) you will die 2) there are hacks.

No getting around that. There are websited dedicated to making and updating hacks. Soon as a anti-hack software goes live its usualy broken in less than a week. I gave up on shooters for the longest time due to it. But since there are no good real mmorpg's i picked it up again.

Cheating/hacking usually only exists because the game allows it on the client side.Devs don't really care either,they rather the players police the game,than take an active interest in THEIR own game.

I realize some code is tough to run and check server side,the lag would be incredible.I am sure their coders are smart enough to think of ways,again IF they really care.To get anything done in life,yo uhave to put pressure on the developer to care,otherwise they won't.

if i was going to pick a couple devs i would NEVER trust for caring,SOE and NCSOFT are two at the top.Free to play devs are definitely not going to care.

While someone eventually figures out how to hack the game usually, I have never seen a game hacked so fast that came from a brand new engine.

Banning the individual players, while good, is pointless unless you stop the hacks or go after the sites that distribute them.

This being a F2P game makes it so much worse, F2P games suffer much more from hacks than P2P games.

Shame that people feel the need to cheat but such is life. If they need to do that to get their kick so be it but that should not stop honest people from playing any game imo.

Bandit

Originally posted by Teala
They didn't stop it in PS1, what makes anyone think they'll stop it in PS2?

true true