- Jan 8, 2011
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Apex Legends: 355,000+ PC Players banned for Cheating
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- Jan 16, 2017
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- Jan 10, 2017
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cheaters are a plague in every online multiplayer game. The platform of games (steam, origin,etc.) should more punish these players.
a temporary VAC-Ban is not enough. a permanent exclusion coupled with the IP-adress of this player could help against this misbehavior :devil:
a temporary VAC-Ban is not enough. a permanent exclusion coupled with the IP-adress of this player could help against this misbehavior :devil:
- Apr 16, 2016
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I don't personally play this one, but there is a nice video explaining it here. Az maybe not be everyone's cup of tea, but he's informative and sometimes offers a different point of view. Anyhow, here's the YouTube link: Heelvsbabyface on Apex recent ban
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- Feb 14, 2016
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Glad they try to fight cheaters. I play Leauge of Legend, the only thing u can do there is "scripting" because its almost all serverside and all encrypted and regulary changing. One reason i do not play much shooters. Cheats there are way to annyoing and powerfull, with aimbot, jump, invisilbe, wallhack, speedhack and so on. Way to annoying to handle these cheaters. i better play some mmoba/rolegames with some scripters or botters that doesnt bother me much.
355K is a drop in the bucket. I would guess 15%+ of the entire player base is cheating in that game now. Easy Anti-Cheat is pretty lame to begin with.
The golden rule for me with MP shooters.. I have 2, 3, MAYBE 4-6 weeks and I am done. After that point they are usually filled with rampant cheaters/exploiters/griefers. As a result, I rarely buy MP shooters any longer because of this as I inevitably become burned and feel like I wasted my money. 2-3 weeks of solid play is not worth $50 for most games.
Especially stuff like The Division where they didn't even block cheat engine use and half the people you ran into in the dark zone were flat out cheating.
The golden rule for me with MP shooters.. I have 2, 3, MAYBE 4-6 weeks and I am done. After that point they are usually filled with rampant cheaters/exploiters/griefers. As a result, I rarely buy MP shooters any longer because of this as I inevitably become burned and feel like I wasted my money. 2-3 weeks of solid play is not worth $50 for most games.
Especially stuff like The Division where they didn't even block cheat engine use and half the people you ran into in the dark zone were flat out cheating.
- Dec 16, 2016
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There no such thing as "temporary VAC ban" @ steam. Upon further investigation (very long), you have a game ban which is either a) Minorly Disruptive (30 days, Griefing) or b) Majorly Disruptive (Permanent, Cheating). And in some country most ISP use Dynamic IP addresses
And i agree, permanent ban should be punishment for cheater
VAC Bans are... Brutal. My son got VAC banned and he didn't even cheat. All he did was go to a cheat site and 'browse'. Upon investigation I found that Steam was utilizing the DNS Client Cache on Windows and browsing domains users went to, and if they went to known hack sites, they VAC banned them. I can't get my son unbanned, regardless of who I contact and how much I appeal.
Steam's VAC protection now scans and transfers your DNS cache - gHacks Tech News
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- Dec 16, 2016
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@ForgottenSeer 58943 i'm sorry for your son vac ban,.. you might want to post at steam forum about it.. VAC banned is only for cheat online multiplayer game, it's not suppose to ban when you visiting any hack site.
There is even and issue in the past i read about steam vac ban caused by ccleaner opened while playing csgo. So some background apps can trigger an issues. It's safer to close all program before starting any vac steam games.
And i agree VAC Bans are Brutal on steam,. some rules are stupid.. such as we can get vac ban if gifting a vac enabled games to a friend and turn out your friend cheating, you will get vac ban too.. that unfair,
when we gifting its mean just a gift, we not suppose to 100% sure that he/she wont cheat ever.
Btw I use cheat engine sometimes just for fun, but it's on solo game non multiplayer/non vac games.
There is even and issue in the past i read about steam vac ban caused by ccleaner opened while playing csgo. So some background apps can trigger an issues. It's safer to close all program before starting any vac steam games.
And i agree VAC Bans are Brutal on steam,. some rules are stupid.. such as we can get vac ban if gifting a vac enabled games to a friend and turn out your friend cheating, you will get vac ban too.. that unfair,
when we gifting its mean just a gift, we not suppose to 100% sure that he/she wont cheat ever.
Btw I use cheat engine sometimes just for fun, but it's on solo game non multiplayer/non vac games.
- Apr 2, 2018
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VAC Bans are... Brutal. My son got VAC banned and he didn't even cheat. All he did was go to a cheat site and 'browse'. Upon investigation I found that Steam was utilizing the DNS Client Cache on Windows and browsing domains users went to, and if they went to known hack sites, they VAC banned them. I can't get my son unbanned, regardless of who I contact and how much I appeal.
Steam's VAC protection now scans and transfers your DNS cache - gHacks Tech News
ADVERTISEMENT I think we can all agree that games need some form of cheat protection. This is especially true for multiplayer games where people compete against each other. If you have ever […]www.ghacks.net
I am pretty sure he does have a cheat software on his PC. " I got VAC banned for no reason " is common thread in Steam community forum. Pretty much, all cheaters refuse to accept they cheated and got caught.
Too bad I have Fortisandbox and SIEM logs to show he doesn't/didn't. But Steam doesn't care.
Which is another reason why I dislike Steam, and actively avoid purchasing on it. (Epic, GOG, Uplay, Origin, anything else really.) It just adds to my dislike of Valve, and my cheerleading of the Epic Games store and their potential future purchase of Discord.
Which is another reason why I dislike Steam, and actively avoid purchasing on it. (Epic, GOG, Uplay, Origin, anything else really.) It just adds to my dislike of Valve, and my cheerleading of the Epic Games store and their potential future purchase of Discord.
- Jan 16, 2017
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I don't play games but how can you deny steam from browsing domains users went to?VAC Bans are... Brutal. My son got VAC banned and he didn't even cheat. All he did was go to a cheat site and 'browse'. Upon investigation I found that Steam was utilizing the DNS Client Cache on Windows and browsing domains users went to, and if they went to known hack sites, they VAC banned them. I can't get my son unbanned, regardless of who I contact and how much I appeal.
Steam's VAC protection now scans and transfers your DNS cache - gHacks Tech News
ADVERTISEMENT I think we can all agree that games need some form of cheat protection. This is especially true for multiplayer games where people compete against each other. If you have ever […]www.ghacks.net
- Apr 16, 2016
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Wow, sorry to hear that. But there must be something you missed - according to this reddit post, Gabe personally said that just visiting cheat sites will NOT get you banned. That was 5 years ago though, so they might have changed something, but... I kinda can't see Valve doing that, it would halve the whole user base at the least...VAC Bans are... Brutal. My son got VAC banned and he didn't even cheat. All he did was go to a cheat site and 'browse'. Upon investigation I found that Steam was utilizing the DNS Client Cache on Windows and browsing domains users went to, and if they went to known hack sites, they VAC banned them. I can't get my son unbanned, regardless of who I contact and how much I appeal.
Steam's VAC protection now scans and transfers your DNS cache - gHacks Tech News
ADVERTISEMENT I think we can all agree that games need some form of cheat protection. This is especially true for multiplayer games where people compete against each other. If you have ever […]www.ghacks.net
- Apr 16, 2016
- 78
Delete the DNS cache before connecting to valve, or stop DNS Client service, which will also slow down any domain look-ups your machine makes.
