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Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 13 Mar 2021, 16:21 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2021, 15:16 PMHannibal Yes those obviously do. They are a problem too if they transmit personal data. Optimally, they only transmit if they found something weird and the rest gets never saved. But we don't have such a thing. If I got it correctly, people are suggesting that some 'experts' get remote control access over Seekings PC and check all installed programs and data files. Seeking wouldn't/shouldn't agree to something like this, regardless of everything else. Also, it's really not that hard to securely delete any file or make it invisible. In: Lobby
Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 13 Mar 2021, 16:16 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2021, 16:05 PMCieZ His uncle has 3 VAC bans across multiple steam accounts, and is suspected of hacking in coh2. He admitted to playing on/boosting his uncle's account. While I agree that the accusations probably shouldn't have been made public, just the boosting speaks volumes to his character and is ban-worthy all by itself. Are you really here to defend boosting? In: Lobby
Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 13 Mar 2021, 14:06 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2021, 13:08 PMHannibal I'll snip the first paragraphs. I am not involved in any of the processes, but from what I got the current discussion revolves around banning Seeking from ML tournaments. While this is bad for him, it is different from being banned by Relic from CoH2 in general. I am not sure if you are aware, because your post is not clear on this. Last paragraph would be a heavy privacy breach. Unless Seeking is fine with random people searching through his private computer (which he absolutely should not be), this is definitely not an option. I think that a lot of the anti-cheat programs do look at the files on people's computers - specifically, the game directory. Unless Steam decides to work with Relic to implement a VAC for COH2, people (allegedly including Seeking) are free to use maphacks. Most people won't because cheating feels wrong. In: Lobby
Thread: 10,5 cm leFH 18 and 152mm ML-2013 Mar 2021, 13:44 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2021, 12:52 PMZeroZeroNi It's only a problem if you choose the ISU commnader. There are several other commanders that gives you direct strikes. I think the balance team made it very clear the reason for that change You can't have a perfect commander that deals with everything. And Remember the commanders that LeFH(ost) belongs too aren't as powerful as the ones that ML-20(though that's no reason for ML20 to be shit though) belongs. GRCA is a very strong commander that everyone has access. Storm is still pretty good at everything. It's awfully muni-dependent but still really good. The slightly lower accuracy on the ML-20 means it loses most of the time to the LEFH. It is almost never worth building and generally a poor choice compared to getting another Katy. The LEFH is much more viable. The ML20 used to be good when it had a huge AOE and much fewer shells. Relic greatly increased the number of shells in one patch, then quickly nerfed the AOE, making it much more RNG dependent than it used to be. I'm not sure how much I would want the ML-20 buffed. I stopped playing 4v4 randoms as allied about a week ago after a streak of around a dozen games when my teammates built 6-7 arty pieces. I'd sometimes see people build 3 priests or Sextons, then wonder why they get crushed at about 45 minutes. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Osttruppen Doctrine opinion13 Mar 2021, 13:22 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2021, 06:55 AMEtherealDragon Ostruppen are still very good and even got buffed with better late game scaling with LMG accuracy. The fact they they are slightly slower to arrive and you have slightly less resources due to T1 cost doesn't change their performance at all. Plus I've found that having access to T1 from the get-go means it's easier to mix in Snipers and Mortars which can be beneficial. In 4v4, Ostruppen is usually a bad choice. It tells UKF that you aren't going to have any effective counter for a mortar pit until late, and invites Soviet or USF to get at least one mortar because you're going to be static. Also, a vet 3 VSL squad seems to be a lot more survivable than an Osttruppen squad in the late game when facing a lot of indirect. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 12 Mar 2021, 15:35 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2021, 12:35 PMMuussikuha Interesting that multiple people are not seeing the minor nuances that are clear indication for cheating. Remember, top level players who are cheating in any game are very good at it and do understand that their every move might be watched. Which in turn hurts their own natural game play and gives them a slight disadvantage. Out of all the far-fetched denials, this is probably the worst. In addition to helping in the game that they're playing, it would help the player in future games against the same opponent because they will gain better insight into the other player in terms of what they build and how they react. I'd bet that all of the top tier players are bothered by this. In: Lobby
Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 11 Mar 2021, 16:19 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Mar 2021, 14:53 PMT.R. Stormjäger A_E said they double checked the ML replays with the live casts and found no difference in the fog of war. I'll take that over Rosbone arbitrarily declaring how consistent fog of war is off the top of his head. As for the gif Rosbone posted, it seems like something else is going on. 1 frame is not enough to explain about 4m of extra LoS gained in the 2nd clip. There's something else involved. Most of us are just going to have to guess. I'd guess that the odds of finding a cheat that doesn't also have malware in it are small. When Blizzard first got hit with cheaters, I just stopped playing online and would do the same with COH if a lot of people started cheating. Most games have been hit with cheats. I don't know what it would take to get something like Punkbuster working, but it would be nice if anti-cheat could be in COH3 (assuming that there is one). In: Lobby
Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 11 Mar 2021, 15:03 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Mar 2021, 12:06 PMblvckdream Agree with this. It's not possible to stop building that fast in-game. If you hit S or whatever hotkey you are using once you see the enemy approaching your own unit takes quite some time to actually stop and get going due to animation and ping. In this clip it definitely looks like he stopped before actually having the unit appear out of FOW. Does anyone know a way around this? It's one of the more annoying features in the game. It seems like they stop a little faster if you select whatever is building and cancel it but that means that you also have stop controlling the building unit. In: Lobby
Thread: Commander Revamp ideas 11 Mar 2021, 03:16 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Mar 2021, 04:52 AMKT610 (0cp)- Panzer 4 J (Replaces relief infantry) Does Relief Infantry work at all now? It used to give so many squads that I would use them as throw-aways. Now it doesn't seem to give any. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Top level player allegedly maphacking in CoH2 11 Mar 2021, 02:50 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Mar 2021, 01:12 AMGiaA I don't have an opinion and I don't really care but a few things: Is it just me or are some of the clips just not suspicious at all? Like the countersnipe in the middle of Faymo vs Devm? I also feel like there's a bit of a confirmation bias going on. Sometimes unlikely shit happens, if you look for it you'll find it. Also for context, here's brosras accusing (?) barton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPKRu92slWQ (nvm, its a joke) On a lot of the clips, I don't understand the game well enough to conclude map hacking or good sense of the game. I can understand why Sander93 voted the way he did. On the other hand, the Brumbarr shot on the cloaked ATG's was pretty convincing. I'm sure that a player as good as Seeking is also good enough to not make it obvious, and he probably messed up by not noticing that the ATG's were cloaked. In: Lobby