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BHVR and cheater

Blinckx
Blinckx Member Posts: 426
edited May 2023 in General Discussions

Guess what ? Cheaters

I link this video here but, myself, i just had 2 games in a row with cheaters so yeah, nothing has been really done since we still face the same, old, cheats game after game

And what BHVR is doing ? Absolutley nothing

The only post about cheating was on September 2022 just because there were an outcry from some major streamers but then...silence

News | Update on Cheating — BHVR


Anyone has seen the in game report system to give us feedback on when a player we reported is banned ? Because i don't. Have you seen any of those improvements in the Q1 ? I haven't



Are they communicating more regulary ? Of course not

Are they keeing us in the loop as promised ? Of course not

Where are the improved support tools and a better player feebdack report ?


Is this silence ever going to end ? Are we going to see something done to solve or, at least, fight back the cheating issues ?

Comments

  • appleas
    appleas Member Posts: 1,129

    I got a cheater 2-3 weeks back where someone escaped from the game after they were hooked with 2 gens and 3 people left.

    The amount has decreased but I have been more careful when screening lobbies. Accounts with just random numbers in them tend to be red flags.

  • some_guy1
    some_guy1 Member Posts: 697

    there were no cheaters for a good while, it's just now cheaters figured out how to bypass some of counter measures done by bhvr and even then there are barely any i've encountered lately

    reporting through support tickets got WAY faster, back then i'd have to wait for about a week for action to be taken, now it takes a day or so

  • ElodieSimp
    ElodieSimp Member Posts: 388

    Online games and cheaters go hand in hand, endless battle.

  • ClownGuy5
    ClownGuy5 Member Posts: 85

    Yea I had a cheater match a while ago didnt affect me since I wasnt stressing on trying to win lol

  • GentlemanFridge
    GentlemanFridge Member Posts: 5,796

    Just because you don’t see it happening, doesn’t mean they don’t do anything.

    That would be the point. You don’t want hackers to know what they actually did.

  • KingFieldShipper
    KingFieldShipper Member Posts: 612

    This. Opsec. Never identify what you did to patch things out in terms of security, it means nothing to you as a consumer, and everything to the hackers.

  • Nirgendwohin
    Nirgendwohin Member Posts: 1,251

    +1 cheater today

  • Senaxu
    Senaxu Member Posts: 305

    There is no protection. If people don't make it obvious that they're cheaters, it won't be noticed.

    The obvious hackers/cheaters have decreased, I've only had 4 games with OBVIOUS hackers in the last 2 months.

    Yes, BHVR avoids the topic as much as possible, and there is nothing more to be seen of it in the new roadmap. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that this thread is still alive and hasn't been closed.

    In summary: You have to live with cheater/hacker in DBD and nothing will happen in the near future

  • Senaxu
    Senaxu Member Posts: 305

    There are certainly software/systems that do something against cheaters and you can let them know (Ricochet and Vanguard for example) This is real protection. EAC is a meme security.

  • Senaxu
    Senaxu Member Posts: 305

    There is no protection. If people don't make it obvious that they're cheaters, it won't be noticed.

    The obvious hackers/cheaters have decreased, I've only had 4 games with OBVIOUS hackers in the last 2 months.

    Yes, BHVR avoids the topic as much as possible, and there is nothing more to be seen of it in the new roadmap. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that this thread is still alive and hasn't been closed.

    In summary: You have to live with cheater/hacker in DBD and nothing will happen in the near future

  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    2 games, 2 cheaters

    One was flying, the other was was a p100 with all the perks


    Great job BHVR to prevent cheating

  • Nirgendwohin
    Nirgendwohin Member Posts: 1,251

    today i saw a 2022 steam account with legacy prestiges. guess he had a really good gaming chair

  • VikingDragonXii
    VikingDragonXii Member Posts: 2,885

    You do know we will never know if BHVR did anything because they won't announce it in any way shape or form. They don't want to let those who make the cheats aware of the new security changes and work on aa new backdoor or way to bypass the system they are developing or have in place.

    This is a I line game and there will ALWAYS be cheaters.Id someone wants to cheat there will be someone selling the new set of cheats.

  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    "They don't want to let those who make the cheats aware of the new security changes"

    That's a lie they have sold to you. No one is asking for security details, no one want to see technical blueprint or anything else (and, btw, hackers do not need those information, they already have)

    What we want is to see are those things THEY promised us in 2022 with the post THEY wrote. The new feedback system ? The "keep the community in the loop" ? Some cheat can be hard to stop i may agee but seeing over and over and over THE SAME CHEAT well..

    Sure there always going to be cheaters in a live game, but i have rarely seen so many in a game

    Like i just had a match and one guy was using auto dead hard...so are 3 game in a row with 3 different cheaters

  • KingFieldShipper
    KingFieldShipper Member Posts: 612
    edited May 2023

    This doesn't negate my post like you thought it did. You don't even stop security at anti-cheats, that is arguably one of the worst ways I think you can approach software security. If there is a piece of software, it will inevitably break. You cannot stop every cheater/hacker and there will always be ways to bypass security. There are cheaters in games like Valorant, and you know what happens? The game and the anti cheat both get updated to patch holes. And you know what Riot also doesn't do? Be *specific in their dev notes in what and where they patch*, which is what I was even saying. Whether or not EAC is sufficient is a completely different conversation. Even if DBD started using Vanguard, for instance, you will inevitably see cheaters.

  • VikingDragonXii
    VikingDragonXii Member Posts: 2,885

    What the heck are you talking about there are plenty of safe secure video recording software out there. I found a few in the past with my old PC that I used that I never had a problem with. I'm lucky now with my new PC I have one built in for recording at a click of a button. They also don't need to say anything about that like MANY other games don't say they don't have video recording system in place.

    There are many online games out there that also don't have a built in video recording system. It's also not out of the ordinary to require video evidence of cheating acts. Now I do agree that making a YT video post is stupid and convoluted and we should be allowed to just send in the video.

    As for you post that dosnt have any views I can't say anything because I don't know the inner workings of BHVR reporting team.

  • VikingDragonXii
    VikingDragonXii Member Posts: 2,885

    I highly doubt you had that many cheaters in a row there are many of us who NEVER seen a cheater in our games.

    I never had any obvious cheaters in any of my games and the amount of suspected cheaters I could count on one hand.

  • Hexonthebeach
    Hexonthebeach Member Posts: 461

    Reporting is annoying in this game, but I can confirm that they are watching the videos and taken action.

  • Nirgendwohin
    Nirgendwohin Member Posts: 1,251

    Instant escape after trial start without any gens done is still possible

  • Senaxu
    Senaxu Member Posts: 305

    lucky u

    Even BVHR themself confirmed that 60k cheater were banned in 2022 alone, so yea it seems they exist somehow.

    Don't forget, cheater are also customer (10 bucks for the game and a few of them will buy a new account), sums up

  • Nirgendwohin
    Nirgendwohin Member Posts: 1,251

    It took them less than two hours to respond to my last cheater report. That's an amazing improvement.

    Thank you BHVR.

  • Steel_Eyed
    Steel_Eyed Member Posts: 4,033

    Cheaters get banned. The report system works. Anyone who says otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

    Record the match with the player cheating and send a report.

    BHVR has clearly done a lot of the cheater front. Almost completely negating it back in what? December? They’re back-ish but you can tell it’s very limited in comparison to how over run things felt a year ago.

  • Hexonthebeach
    Hexonthebeach Member Posts: 461

    The problem is that the report system only works to cheater showing their cheats. There could be some improvements.

    And just downloading a replay would be much easier than recording every game.

  • RoastedGarlic
    RoastedGarlic Member Posts: 592

    one of the issues with haste perks is because subtle cheaters use them to mask their speedhacking. its why MFT shouldn't go live without a duration.

  • drsoontm
    drsoontm Member Posts: 4,903

    Every obvious cheater I've reported has been banned after about 4 weeks. (I've kept track.)

  • VikingDragonXii
    VikingDragonXii Member Posts: 2,885

    As I said that was on my old PC my new one has a built in recording software that works just fine and can record up to 2hrs of video in one go at a press of a button.

    As for system scans...I don't trust anything that's a scanner that's not from a main company that I know and trust.

  • VikingDragonXii
    VikingDragonXii Member Posts: 2,885

    And as you said I did my research on the video recorders I downloaded and fact checked everything before I even did a download.

    I also did look them up and came to my own conclusion about a hour ago. Like I said I do my research because I can't just buy a new PC if it gets assaulted by malware since money is tight.

    I also understand you have your own reservations about trusting BHVR since your experiences are not that good, while mine are alot better and have had success ousting a few hackers following thier system.

    This is just something we have to agree to disagree since we have different experiences with the subject at hand.

  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    Now cheaters are running also with insta gen repair , just got a guy running around the map, touching gen and boom 100%

    Great work BHVR

  • egg_
    egg_ Member Posts: 1,933

    I honestly don't see why i should go through the whole time wasting procedure of recording a match, cropping the video, uploading it to YouTube just because bhvr refuses to implement a functioning system themselves.

    I'm not working for them nor am i paid, and uploading videos is a huge time waste other than bandwidth occupation. If they can't be bothered implementing a functioning report system that doesn't require a user to go through all this hassle, I can't be bothered going through the hassle either.

    I'll just report in game and be done with it, not enough? Not my fault

  • Steel_Eyed
    Steel_Eyed Member Posts: 4,033
  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    Fine but then GIVE ME A DAMN TOOL TO REPORT A CHEATER and impove EAC because, right now, both things are awful

  • Senaxu
    Senaxu Member Posts: 305

    That is a fact. Currently there is no way to detect and remove cheaters/hackers who act subtly.

    These are absolutely secure and will continue to exist as long as there is someday an automated system that checks the code and game files (for 3rd party software).

    However, realistically this cannot be expected before 2025. Let's see if the game is still played until then.

  • appleas
    appleas Member Posts: 1,129

    Someone even streamed their cheats on Twitch at one point in time under different names.

    If someone is confident enough to do that, it means there’s literally 0 repercussion even if they do get caught.

  • illNicola
    illNicola Member Posts: 482
    edited June 2023

    Now I feel like laughing not to cry when it comes to cheaters. I have a fresh one to tell. Yesterday I was playing, quite a chill game were it not for the absurd genrush, I close the game as I had both devour hope at 3 tokens and active noed. I put 3 survs on the ground and slug for the last, at that moment 3 totems explode together (The Undying one, the devour hope one and the noed one), with 3 survs on the ground. Needless to say how the game ended.

    I thought it was a normal game and fair? Obviously, then I see 3 totems pop together with 3 survs on the ground and only 1 still standing.

    Post edited by illNicola on
  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    On Feb 5th, when i was still recording my games, i met a cheater who was flying. I uploaded the video to youtube, created the ticket, received the automatic response that they would take charge of the report.

    From February 5th to today, NOBODY has ever seen the video so yeah, there are 0 repercussion and BHVR do not care at all

  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    Another day without BHVR doing anything about cheating

    I'll update this post every day until i see a proper action from BHVR against cheaters and i'll report everyone i face in each game, how do i know if they are legit or suspicious players after all

  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426
    edited June 2023

    Hello BHVR any update about cheaters ? Any news ?

    Just reported 40 people (10 games, i report everyone now) as "suspicious cheater". Are they cheaters ? No ? Yes ? Who knows since EAC is not working and there is no real anti cheat protection

    Post edited by Blinckx on
  • sluc16
    sluc16 Member Posts: 537

    I once reported a cheater and I got baned because his nickname was visible in the evidence. That made absolutely no sense

  • KingFieldShipper
    KingFieldShipper Member Posts: 612
    edited June 2023

    Unless you posted this on the forums or reddit (unofficial reddit btw, just the same rule about not naming names publicly) and got banned from the forum/reddit, I find this highly unlikely and I don't think I believe you.

  • Blinckx
    Blinckx Member Posts: 426

    I hate having to update this post every day, but will continue to do so until I see clear action against cheaters

    I wish everyone would do it, i wish the "big names in streaming" to do another public outburst and shed some more light on this issue

    At the moment it is impossible to know if we play against cheaters or honest people and it makes me very angry and should anger the whole community, this deafening silence from BHVR, this total lack of transparency on cheaters, this lack of support and a functioning reporting system

    So yeah, again, what are you doing BHVR to stop cheating ?