Cheating (map hack)

[Kaylia]

I know it existed (there was a youtube video posted in another thread), but I didn't think I would encounter it so soon.

Serif and I lost to DT rush in a seemingly normal game the other day, but after being pointed out by a random person who probably got my name from the match history, I went back to the replay and noticed a ton of anomalies.

Basically, both cheater were constantly looking at the fog of war for no reason (and always where I had units/building he couldnt possibly see..even the one completely out of the way). They never went for any weird counter without scouting since the game didn't last that long, but the fog of war thing speak for itself. It's such a shame we lost to them (2:1 crystal), they were really bad.


Before someone tell me to "deal with it", I don't particularly care. Cheating online is bound to happen, but you might want to watch your replay from now on. If you catch one, PM other people from the match history and maybe bluzzaed will act >_>.

[Misuicide]

with 1.1 coming tomorrow, hopefully something about the cheaters happens too. Cause in SC1 it was already hard to stop a hacker who could play. Its even tougher in SC2 cause of how fast the gameplay is

[Binkie]

I had one a few weeks ago that that tried to worker rush me. When he failed miserably the game froze for a bit then went out of "sync". I received a win for it but the Desync made it so there was no match stats so i couldn't report him. Watching the replay he looked directly at me through the fog then went for the rush.

[GRT]

was it a 4 player map?

[geno]

I'm hoping for a very large ban wave tomorrow (today) and a ton of tears from people who lost $60 for such stupid choices.

[KoD]

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/656665#blog
The Only Problem i find at the momment is Blizzard has no real way to report cheaters, Once this is done i can see alot banning going on

[Jojothemidget]

I think this has happened to me a time or two as well...
I've had a few games where I was never scouted and i checked the edges of my base for a lone ling or parked pylon yet my opponent without scouting me at all knew how to counter everything i sent shortly after leaving my base...
Not to mention i'm in bronze league how shitty do you have to be at this game to maphack the lowest league in the game?

Yes i do realize toss have observers but by then i usually have a few turret's looking out for them.

[Thunder]

Ban wave is bound to shit all over the people who are using the free/premium map hacks. It's the private ones that only either 1 person or a few people have that will be around since it would be pretty unlucky for someone to watch your replay, lock into your camera, and then report you. (Speaking out of my ass on this one, basically, but I think it wouldn't be hard for blizzard to buy the map hack and find a way to detect it? Or they could just keep the map info server side like some games where map hacking is impossible unless you hack their servers(impossible))

I'm not too worried though, most of these map hackers really suck and macro builds will walk all over them. It's when you do cutesy stuff like drops/cloaked units that they get advantages.

But I fear the day that a good player map hacks and abuses me to no end with drops while they expand everywhere.

[Serif]

I just thought we sucked!