There are beasts out there that are far worse than a simple macro auto-pilot program, a la Glider. In the FPS community, beasts like the notorious aim bot, capable of auto-targeting your enemies in a game of shooting skill, exist to ruin everyone's fun. And when you cross your MMORTS with the battles of an FPS... well you start getting people using the latter program.
Global Agenda finally has one such program out for it, and yes, it does work. Snipers are accurately killing people from across the map, assaults are using chainguns that never miss, and all other types of havoc are being let loose. However, we don't recommend that you use any of these programs, unless you want to be targeted by Hi-Rez Studios.
Hi-Rez is actively targeting players who run these programs, sending out lifetime bans to those they catch. Yep, that's right, no warning, just a nice lifetime ban. We caught up with Todd Harris to briefly ask him about what the company was doing in light of this whole aimbot situation.
"Cheating is relatively rare within Global Agenda," executive producer Todd Harris told Massively. "However, as within any competitive shooter, some players are trying to cheat their way to success. Fortunately, since we run centrally managed servers, we can identify and react quickly compared to other online shooters that rely on community managed servers such that a cheater could simply hop to a new server. With our monitoring and stat collection we detect cheaters and reward them with a lifetime ban. We've already implemented an initial batch of bans and we'll continue to have a zero tolerance policy for cheating."
So there you have it. Don't cheat on centralized servers, unless, of course, you don't want to play.
Reader Comments (23)
Posted: Feb 24th 2010 9:17PM Averice said
Good luck to GA. Hacks like this are the reason that most online shooters aren't even worth playing. Especially the free ones, because hackers have nothing to lose. At least in pay games the company usually seems like what they're trying to do is effective, but with programs so simple as aim bots it can get tough to ever lock everybody down. I mean sure if you use the hack in a ridiculous open manner the person will get locked, but that's just it, most people Don't use it horribly, they know there are limits to believable chance.
Posted: Mar 18th 2010 12:42PM (Unverified) said
The existence of aimbots really is a pain. I'd say I'm only "good" as a sniper. I think I've been accused of aimbotting over 10 times and I've been playing for only 4 days. It's sad that good snipers don't get the respect they deserve b/c of these aimbots. Still ppl in this game need to play more FPS if they can't imagine someone sniping them while they fly in a constant direction at a constant rate. I think if I asked in Local chat who all thought I was botting, I'd get 20 tells...
Hint: It's easier to snipe someone in the air b/c they can't change direction as quickly.
Hint 2: If you move left and right in a constant pattern I can KNOW where you will be and shoot you.
Hint 3: Even if you move left to right in an inconsistant pattern I can still GUESS where you will be and shoot you. Ever meet some one good at rock paper scissors? Well with this there's even less options for you...left or right.
Hint: It's easier to snipe someone in the air b/c they can't change direction as quickly.
Hint 2: If you move left and right in a constant pattern I can KNOW where you will be and shoot you.
Hint 3: Even if you move left to right in an inconsistant pattern I can still GUESS where you will be and shoot you. Ever meet some one good at rock paper scissors? Well with this there's even less options for you...left or right.
Posted: Apr 29th 2010 12:28PM (Unverified) said
so that's how my medic died as soon as she stepped out the dropship o.O







