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Cheating in Multiplayer Games

Posted by michael on from the bang-you're-dead dept.

millertime3250 writes "Tom's Hardware is running an interesting article on cheating in multiplayer games. In an issues that has gained increasing notority, it is a great read for those Counter-Strike players and others alike. It defines the different types of cheats like Client Hook, OpenGL Hack, and Hard-Coded Hack, and cheating's effect on gaming."

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  1. Touch-screens and other equipment by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've heard rumors of touch-screens being used to make headshots. Under the definition given by the article (altering config files, etc) this isn't classified as "cheating."

    Does "better" equipment constitute cheating? Someone with a laggy connection, for example, becomes harder to hit. Someone with a bigger monitor may be able to see movement more clearly than a poor guy with a 15in screen. Is this the digital divide in fragging? :)

    I know touch-screens could provide a REAL advantage but wouldn't be defined as a cheat by the article. Sure, it's not as deliberate as an aimbot but it has to at least come close.

  2. Re:cs anti cheats by krisp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather play with the possibilities of cheaters then be forced to run something that 'checks my hard drive' or 'takes screenshots' of my game and ftps them back.

  3. Re:Where's the fun at? by Dthoma · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I really don't see anything amusing about it all except that you guys like to open your mouth and talk about how 1337 you are when in fact you're nothing but a bunch of little pathetic script kiddies.


    While that's the usual and stereotypical reason given, I think there's a more obvious reason; to these people, it's really really funny to watch everyone jumping up and down and getting angry screaming "OMG CHEATER" because of their cheating. That's the fun for them - not the winning, but pissing everyone else off.
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    Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".

  4. Re:TCP to the rescue! by 0101000001001010 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Believe it or not. This is actually one of the DRM applications I am actually looking forward too. It would make (massively multiplayer) online games so much more entertaining.

    This goes to show once again that no technology is inherently good or bad. It is the application of said technology where we must collectively learn to act more responsibly.