This summer has seen an unprecedented number of cheaters in online games across all genres. It’s so bad, I’m starting to question the future of online games, or at least online games that have open matchmaking (or possibly any open element like the Hall of Fame).
Wish I had better news or something to contribute that would help.
Yeah it’s a joke. I used to be about 150th but now somewhere over 1000th place.
Yup, most of those top few hundred appear to be modded accounts with prestige 10 level 2999 accounts. I play the game an awful lot and only on prestige 8.
It’s rampant across the game from those profiting (literally) from dealing the cheats (as can be seen in the other thread) to those manipulating the game to achieve higher content ranking, LB scores, etc, that it’s pretty much rendered rankings meaningless (by way of overall comparison) & diluted the quality of the content as a whole.
It’s clearly not a level playing field, so it really comes back to the integrity of the player & how they choose to participate in the game. The achievements of those who have invested the time honestly & are dedicated to the game are the ones who have helped contribute to the overall success of the franchise imo.
Glad to see they are continuing the efforts to address the cheating where they can & hopefully they are targeting the “dealers” as well. It’s pretty obvious these people know the ways to circumvent the system to allow them to continue in the manner they have for so long. They also need to take further steps to address the blatant abuses related to content sharing, but not very hopeful given how long it’s been occurring unabated.
I get an error message when trying to report the top 4 in the list. Rest of the top 10 reported for suspicious behavior. I have spare time at the moment, so will be going down the list. Hopefully at least those with 10 million will get removed as a result (not sure if the powers that be are aware of the surge, but my action should prove that they are now)
There were 391 @ 10 million, which I have just reported. I wonder how quickly they will reduce.
But ban me for Cheating on Xbox Console. But the right cheaters have a free hand in the game. Give me permission and I will clean up all the lists in 4 weeks.
to be fair the accolade point thing is meaningless without cheaters - but that is why I bothered to post, what is the point?
yes, just grinding
the intention was there to have repeatable accolades - that “recycle” icon - but most of those don’t repeat and most of those that do repeat don’t have that icon (at least when I was trying to work out which ones did and didn’t)
I can’t think of a reason for that icon other than “you can repeat this”
but why put repeating things in there anyway? what’s the idea behind it? doesn’t appear to be one, really
“put in something like there was in H4, influence but different, put in ways of earning it, start fiddling around to leave a bit of a half-arsed mess, job done”