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I'm starting to see some very sketchy behavior with certain killers, as a survivor; potential cheats

Demoth
Demoth Member Posts: 49
in General Discussions

Essentially, there are several killers I've been running into lately (can't post their names, but I've reported them) who never run aura perks, but they always b-line for survivors. They generally can make every match end before a single gen can be done, and there's simply no hiding from them. You don't even have to be at a gen, but hiding behind some random rock across the map from where a survivor got hooked, and they run straight to you.

I've noticed a lot of Hillbilly and Nurse players being the ones who seem to show this extremely sketchy behavior, mainly beacuse they can travel cross map the fastest. One survivor I was with saw a guy get knocked down, so he hid in a locker. Other guy gets hooked, killer comes halfway across the map and doesn't even search, just pulls him out, and with the guy on his shoulder, comes to my hiding spot and smacks me.... we weren't near a gen.

Does anyone else run into this?

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  • Cetren
    Cetren Member Posts: 985
    edited January 2019
    I have once before, sucks when it happens.
  • PhantomMask20763
    PhantomMask20763 Member Posts: 5,176

    Haven't run into this before but I bet it sucks big time when it happens

  • Demoth
    Demoth Member Posts: 49

    @PhantomMask20763 said:
    Haven't run into this before but I bet it sucks big time when it happens

    I don't like to cry "hacks", because I also have just stumbled onto survivors in multiple games. It just seems so fishy that some people are never searching for survivors, without aura perks, and just seem to always go straight to where everyone is, all the time.

  • Warlock_2020
    Warlock_2020 Member Posts: 1,867

    Oddly, ran into it twice last night. Both were a Hillbilly. Had a player down before I reached the first gen (I started in the killer shack). I move to a locker, he hooks the player, I count down to 5, exit the locker, and another player drops. I leave the shack and make it to a nearby locker (had quick and quiet) and got into it before the next one got hooked. Came straight to me. I counted down to 4 before I heard his TR. Figured I'd wait him out, he is likely going to the killer shack. Nope. Came straight to me and opened the locker. Left me and hooked the fourth person. No chili.

    Either seriously lucky, unbelieveably good, or something fishy happening. Had two matches that way.

  • PhantomMask20763
    PhantomMask20763 Member Posts: 5,176

    @Demoth said:

    @PhantomMask20763 said:
    Haven't run into this before but I bet it sucks big time when it happens

    I don't like to cry "hacks", because I also have just stumbled onto survivors in multiple games. It just seems so fishy that some people are never searching for survivors, without aura perks, and just seem to always go straight to where everyone is, all the time.

    Yeah, if it's happening to you too much it might be hacks, especially without aura perks or tracking perks. Just report and move on I guess. If they were just lucky nothing will happen but if they were hacking they'll get their ban.

  • Demoth
    Demoth Member Posts: 49

    @Warlock_2020 said:
    Oddly, ran into it twice last night. Both were a Hillbilly. Had a player down before I reached the first gen (I started in the killer shack). I move to a locker, he hooks the player, I count down to 5, exit the locker, and another player drops. I leave the shack and make it to a nearby locker (had quick and quiet) and got into it before the next one got hooked. Came straight to me. I counted down to 4 before I heard his TR. Figured I'd wait him out, he is likely going to the killer shack. Nope. Came straight to me and opened the locker. Left me and hooked the fourth person. No chili.

    Either seriously lucky, unbelieveably good, or something fishy happening. Had two matches that way.

    In the cases where it happened last night, the matches always ended within 2 minutes, because there was no way to escape the killer.

  • Gorgonia
    Gorgonia Member Posts: 1,607
    I was home with a friend and he was playing survivor vs Bubba. He thought Bubba had BBQ because it is in fact a skill of his and because he ran directly towards survivors after each hook. He killed them all, Bubba had no aura reading skills, like he didn’t need them yet he knew where everybody was.
  • DwightsLifeMatters
    DwightsLifeMatters Member Posts: 1,649
    edited January 2019
    Demoth said:

    Essentially, there are several killers I've been running into lately (can't post their names, but I've reported them) who never run aura perks, but they always b-line for survivors. They generally can make every match end before a single gen can be done, and there's simply no hiding from them. You don't even have to be at a gen, but hiding behind some random rock across the map from where a survivor got hooked, and they run straight to you.

    I've noticed a lot of Hillbilly and Nurse players being the ones who seem to show this extremely sketchy behavior, mainly beacuse they can travel cross map the fastest. One survivor I was with saw a guy get knocked down, so he hid in a locker. Other guy gets hooked, killer comes halfway across the map and doesn't even search, just pulls him out, and with the guy on his shoulder, comes to my hiding spot and smacks me.... we weren't near a gen.

    Does anyone else run into this?

    Without clips/videos it's hard to say something about that. I got accused multiple time having wallhacks, sometimes I'm just smh cuz a stupid survivor doesn't know how OoO works and thought I can't see him aswell or someone just misstimed the locker juke for BBQ and I still see them for a split second. And sometimes I'm very lucky or predicting movement perfectly and I say to myself "omg 100% he will say I have wallhacks"
  • Poweas
    Poweas Member Posts: 5,873

    So? They might be lucky. As Nurse I'm constantly running into survivors. I had one game on Autohaven where I snowballed like mad from it and turned that around.

  • George_Soros
    George_Soros Member Posts: 2,270
    Record your games. You're probably aware how much of accusations of cheating are valid: not a lot. Maybe you're that rare exception. But without footage, it's pointless.
  • Hoodied
    Hoodied Member Posts: 13,022

    I had a trapper do it, walk across the map and find me behind a rock, no aura perks

  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675

    I used to encounter stuff like this back in the early days of DbD. I rarely reported it because I wasn't sure if they were better than me as Killer or if they were hacking.
    If you weren't livestreaming, sprinting, vaulting, etc., I suggest you report it, just in case.

  • PiiFree
    PiiFree Member Posts: 1,154

    I'm probably one of those Hillbillys that you run into and accuse of hacking.

    I often surprise myself aswell with my "random findings" but I play with Whispers since 2016, I know exactly how to make use of this perk. It might look fishy sometimes from a Survivors point of view and I take no offense if people calling me hacker, I take it as a compliment.

    Not saying that there are no hackers but often times people are a bit quick with such accusations. Anyway, the only thing you can do is record, report and move on.

  • Master
    Master Member Posts: 10,200

    @Demoth said:
    Essentially, there are several killers I've been running into lately (can't post their names, but I've reported them) who never run aura perks, but they always b-line for survivors. They generally can make every match end before a single gen can be done, and there's simply no hiding from them. You don't even have to be at a gen, but hiding behind some random rock across the map from where a survivor got hooked, and they run straight to you.

    I've noticed a lot of Hillbilly and Nurse players being the ones who seem to show this extremely sketchy behavior, mainly beacuse they can travel cross map the fastest. One survivor I was with saw a guy get knocked down, so he hid in a locker. Other guy gets hooked, killer comes halfway across the map and doesn't even search, just pulls him out, and with the guy on his shoulder, comes to my hiding spot and smacks me.... we weren't near a gen.

    Does anyone else run into this?

    Usually billy and nurses are the most experienced killers.
    With a lot of experience you know the spawn points of survivors which helps a lot in the early game.

    Without footage hard to judge anyway

  • Demoth
    Demoth Member Posts: 49

    @PiiFree said:
    I'm probably one of those Hillbillys that you run into and accuse of hacking.

    I often surprise myself aswell with my "random findings" but I play with Whispers since 2016, I know exactly how to make use of this perk. It might look fishy sometimes from a Survivors point of view and I take no offense if people calling me hacker, I take it as a compliment.

    Not saying that there are no hackers but often times people are a bit quick with such accusations. Anyway, the only thing you can do is record, report and move on.

    Like I said, these two particular players I've run into don't use any tracking perks, including Whispers.

  • PiiFree
    PiiFree Member Posts: 1,154

    @Demoth said:

    @PiiFree said:
    I'm probably one of those Hillbillys that you run into and accuse of hacking.

    I often surprise myself aswell with my "random findings" but I play with Whispers since 2016, I know exactly how to make use of this perk. It might look fishy sometimes from a Survivors point of view and I take no offense if people calling me hacker, I take it as a compliment.

    Not saying that there are no hackers but often times people are a bit quick with such accusations. Anyway, the only thing you can do is record, report and move on.

    Like I said, these two particular players I've run into don't use any tracking perks, including Whispers.

    Can still be common sense, luck, experience, too predictable movement patterns of survivors,... Very often they also leave scratchmarks or shoo crows away. Believe it or not, good killers will scout the area for crows and when they notice an area without crows, they'll know you have to be somewhere nearby.

    ...but as I said, nothing you can do besides recording and reporting them. Devs will judge.

  • antgnstea
    antgnstea Member Posts: 869
    For me it’s mostly with sketchy survivors. Not often but time to time I came across a sketchy survivor who never gets hooked, always misses skill checks around you, when get downed and mysteriously you are found. 
    Just now I encountered two toxic players who should not be playing this game come in and body blocked me until killer successfully hook me and then farm on me.
    What kind of joy brings this kind of playing style I think I never understand. 
  • Demoth
    Demoth Member Posts: 49

    @antgnstea said:
    For me it’s mostly with sketchy survivors. Not often but time to time I came across a sketchy survivor who never gets hooked, always misses skill checks around you, when get downed and mysteriously you are found. 
    Just now I encountered two toxic players who should not be playing this game come in and body blocked me until killer successfully hook me and then farm on me.
    What kind of joy brings this kind of playing style I think I never understand. 

    It was a while ago, but I ran into a speed hacking survivor who tried to be subtle. Basically, as LF, I could never catch up to them. They always ran at the same speed as me, sometimes even out pacing me during the entire chase.

    It wasn't until I managed to trick them and they ran into my chainsaw, I couldn't pick them up because they crawled away at the speed if light.

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