Cheating Online Gamers 488
An anonymous submitter writes: "The NYT has an article - Do Cheaters Ever Prosper? - Just Ask Them. Hmmm.. Wireframe walls in Quake?"
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.
I hate cheaters! (Score:5, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP!! (Score:5, Funny)
...and the first NYtimes cheat code is... :)
UP-Down-Left-Right-Select-START!! (Correct Link!) [nytimes.com]
Cheating IS fun.... (Score:5, Funny)
Cheats on the internet probably shouldn't be allowed, it'll just piss people off.
The One (Score:5, Funny)
If you can reprogram your video card then you wouldn't even HAVE to cheat.
You already are "The One"
What college is this? (Score:5, Funny)
What college is this that you can play games 14 hours a day and still pass? Everyone I know that did that either failed out or is taking so few credits they might as well have dropped out. College kids, I fear not. 12-year olds who have nothing to do all summer long, I fear.
Takes the fun out of it (Score:4, Funny)
For example, CNN reported that Iraqi forces were using wallhacks, and they have been camping in spots located well outside of the battle map/field where US missles can't reach. Totally unfair.
Nethack cheaters (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Some Common-Sense Solutions (Score:4, Funny)
I feel the same way - when the Quake 3 demo first came out, I played online a bit. One day a player came along that was taking advantage of a serious speed enhancement... so I devoted the rest of my time to tracking and killing him. It didn't take long to find him as he'd wander all over at top speed... the funny thing was is that he was pretty predicable, even though very fast... so I was able to kill him before he got me about once for every three kills he got. I also taunted him, and I know I got to him as eventually he started only going after me!! Of course, knowing he was coming made it even easier to get kills as I could just slam rockets into a wall he was about to go past and throw him into a chasm, or other fun things... plus he was rather an idiot and probably killed himself as often as I did by trying to use rockets while running all over at top speed.
Anyway, it is fun to torment cheaters.
Re:I hate cheaters (Score:1, Funny)
I was a totally legit CounterStrike player until I figured out that the people that were constantly fragging the daylights out of me were not doing so unaided.
so now I sparingly use an aimbot. sparingly, meaning I turn it on when up against major cheaters so I can at least play on even ground with them, and leave it off at times when it appears that all/most opponents are playing un-aided.
I personally wish the CounterStrike world would just bite the bullet and segregate into cheating and non-cheating servers. THEN aggressively kick and ban cheaters on non-cheating servers.
Re:Some Common-Sense Solutions (Score:3, Funny)
And then of course, when you finally beat him, he accuses you of cheating.
Re:read it here (Score:3, Funny)
Just sounds more realistic than they expected the game to be
Re:I hate cheaters! (Score:4, Funny)
We all know the best cheat ever. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MORON (Score:3, Funny)
Judging by his definition of leveling the playing field, he must have been an Anderson intern.
Why Be a Cheater ? (Score:3, Funny)
Why be a cheater when it's more fun to TeamKill instead ??
Seriously, killing guys all day with wireframe and grenade hacks does not piss the otherr players off as much as team killing.
You have to get really psychological with the other players. Do a couple of team kills and explain that you are a newbie (having a name like Player 6 helps). Sorry man !! didn't mean to kill you!! I did not know where you were when I threw the grenade and so on
After a while they will figure it out and team kill you and get the same server enforced penaltys (less money for weapons and whatnot).
Then you go into chat and start saying "what's your problem man ? Just trying to have some fun and being a dick
Finally the last phase is when people trust you again to really open up the team killing whoopass.
This is so damn fun
Oh yeah, right... (Score:5, Funny)
Have the LucasArts people seen the new Star Wars movies? The only alien languages would be "Broken English with Asian accent," "Broken English with Jamaican accent," "Broken English with Italian accent"...
If you ask the cheaters... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Here comes the old "leveling the field" argumen (Score:3, Funny)
Rich