UT2k4..... and cheaters

[bucwylde23]

Ok so it's been almost a year and a half since I last played UT2k4... and I reinstalled it today for the heck of it and was amazed at how many cheaters there are..

I was playing an instagib CTF match and 1 out of every 2 players was using a bot. Is there any way to play and not have cheaters running rampant? maybe I'm just clueless about UT2k4 anymore, but I would like to play and have fun. Where do you guys play?

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: chrisg22
Ok so it's been almost a year and a half since I last played UT2k4... and I reinstalled it today for the heck of it and was amazed at how many cheaters there are..

I was playing an instagib CTF match and 1 out of every 2 players was using a bot. Is there any way to play and not have cheaters running rampant? maybe I'm just clueless about UT2k4 anymore, but I would like to play and have fun. Where do you guys play?

isn't instagib 1 shot 1 kill or is it something different? how do you know they used bots? I assume aimbots is what you are talking about?

 

[lxskllr]

I'm a little dubious that there were that many cheaters on the server unless it's very poorly admined. I haven't seen that many except for the demo servers which you should avoid like the plague.

I pretty much only play vanilla dm. You can try our clan server if you like 69.65.31.93:7777 asshattery, cheating and poor sportsmanship aren't tolerated though, so check vulgarity, and attitude at the door. Another good dm server is here 208.167.225.218:7777 language rules aren't as strictly enforced, but a good bunch of guys, and a clean server.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: chrisg22
Ok so it's been almost a year and a half since I last played UT2k4... and I reinstalled it today for the heck of it and was amazed at how many cheaters there are..

I was playing an instagib CTF match and 1 out of every 2 players was using a bot. Is there any way to play and not have cheaters running rampant? maybe I'm just clueless about UT2k4 anymore, but I would like to play and have fun. Where do you guys play?

isn't instagib 1 shot 1 kill or is it something different? how do you know they used bots? I assume aimbots is what you are talking about?

Yeah that's the 1 shot kill mode. Trust me, they are using bots. I come out of the teleporter and the guy is looking the other direction. He kills a guy on the opposite side then kills me before i can even get a shot off. the shot comes out of his back, he never even turned around.

Not to mention the two guys using the aimbots are talking about it with each other and comparing their aimbots.

The other thing that they did to cheat was they somehow took BOTH the red and blue flag and just disappeared, they weren't on the map anywhere.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
I'm a little dubious that there were that many cheaters on the server unless it's very poorly admined. I haven't seen that many except for the demo servers which you should avoid like the plague.

I pretty much only play vanilla dm. You can try our clan server if you like 69.65.31.93:7777 asshattery, cheating and poor sportsmanship aren't tolerated though, so check vulgarity, and attitude at the door. Another good dm server is here 208.167.225.218:7777 language rules aren't as strictly enforced, but a good bunch of guys, and a clean server.

Well I dont' recall what server it was, but there were 2 cheaters that I saw.

I'll check out that server. I am looking for a server without all of the BS so you don't have to worry about that.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: chrisg22
The other thing that they did to cheat was they somehow took BOTH the red and blue flag and just disappeared, they weren't on the map anywhere.

Adrenaline code?

Maybe I'll play with ya guys sometime... I just need to get unlazy and actually load UT2K4.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: chrisg22
The other thing that they did to cheat was they somehow took BOTH the red and blue flag and just disappeared, they weren't on the map anywhere.

Adrenaline code?

Maybe I'll play with ya guys sometime... I just need to get unlazy and actually load UT2K4.

There used to be an exploit where you could take a flag and make it disappear. The only reason to do this was to ruin a game, it wasn't used to win or anything. That's the reason most cheat I think. It isn't so much winning for them as it is ruining the game for others. If that server was up to date that exploit shouldn't have worked. Current patch version is 3369

 

[Smilin]

side note, slighly funny story..


Back in the quake II days a buddy worked at the small ISP I used. They had a quake II server setup on-site. He sat around all day waiting on tech support calls and played quake II inbetween. He played it a lot. He got good enough that the aimbot detection would occassionally kick him off the server when he made a snap railgun shot. This was typically greeted by a "woo-hoo!, yeah!" rather than any frustration.

This was in the mostly modem days (I was an LPB with ISDN) and people would gripe and bitch nonstop about his ping and accuse him of cheating. When the bot detection got him there was an uproar of "I told you!".

There were those that got pretty rude even though they were reassured by many regular players that he wasn't cheating. When he used admin to kick them I think maybe it sunk in that they were wrong and being an ass...after all, who would run a server with bot detection then turn around and play on it with a bot? Fun days.

 

[bigsnyder]

I like UT2k4, but UT GOTY is still one of my favorites.