Accused of cheating

[Amnestic]

So it's 8 of the clock in the evening and I decide to unwind by booting up Warcraft 3 and playing a casual game of DotA. I ended up picking Sniper on a random draft game. Now for those not in the know, Sniper is a fairly good hero-hunting character. Fairly flimsy, but lots of range and can throw out a fair bit of damage.

It didn't go well at the start with my team mate dying 7 consecutive times before leaving us. However we pulled back. Eventually our team started racking up kills and it was at this point that the host, on the other team, accused me of maphacking because I'd spotted them on the mini-map and had avoided a gank.

I was shocked. Shocked! That anyone would even think of throwing around the idea of cheating. This was DotA, not Counterstrike. Where tactics are meant to be used and you're not meant to start spouting that the other team is cheating when you start losing/fall victim to four other heroes/get jumped.

Well, needless to say that despite the fact their team was on ventrillo and our team was not, we still managed to win quite sufficiently.

Anyway, the point of this thread is twofold.
1) Share stories of actual cheaters/you being (falsely?) accused to laugh and enjoy.
2) I'd like to ask why people jump onto the "OMG YOU'RE CHEATING!" bandwagon so quickly. It makes no sense to me.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

People jump on that bandwagon so quickly because they can think of no other reason for someone being better than them at a game - and they rarely consider blind luck (which I have my share of, thank you very much).

 

[fix-the-spade]

When people start making random accusation of cheating. They get fair warning, then I call up the admin menu and give them this message to everyone:

To (Player). Why yes, I am cheating, watch this.

Then I hit the slay button. Hilarious everytime...

 

[sirdanrhodes]

If your'e better than someone, you must be a cheaper.

 

[mark_n_b]

Using the sniper is cheating in my opinion because that a**hole has killed me so many thousands of times I just want to vomit. Was it a pick game or random (if it was a pick I accuse you of being the cheap player that would hand my butt to me until I quit and pouted)

Being accused of Map Hacking in DOTA is kind of lame, there are so many things that could reveal your position on the map you have to be able to create tactics that deal with it.00

I've never been accused of cheating, two reasons for that:
1. I almost never play other people, preferring single person experiences
2. I'm not good enough

EDIT: oh yeah, and I suppose the fact that I don't cheat factors into it too.

 

[cheatking]

*points to name*

I cant play uno online without accucations

 

[Amnestic]

Using the sniper is cheating in my opinion because that a**hole has killed me so many thousands of times I just want to vomit. Was it a pick game or random (if it was a pick I accuse you of being the cheap player that would hand my butt to me until I quit and pouted)

It was a random draft pick. Bunch of heroes get selected (20 or so) and the teams take turns picking heroes from that selection. I only picked sniper because he was the only one I remembered how to play ;( I'M SORRY.

 

[Combined]

Cheaters? Got a million of 'em.

Once, I was playing Call of Duty 4. Got up. Went /inside/ a building and stood in a hallway that was protected by a wall, which was in turn protected by another wall. So, with a huge amount of cursing (Remember, kids! Turn off your sound when you play Shooters online.), some guy walked into a room on the other side of the map. Upon getting there, he suddenly turns towards my position and fires a few shots from his M5. Needless to say, he got me through 3-walls and straight in the head, even though It was impossible to see me through the wall. Answer: BANNED.

That, and a friend of mine got shot by the before-mentioned persons, ahem, golden-coloured desert eagle. While he was sniping. In the head. More than half a map away. Twice.


Best explained, as above, they have no other reason to believe that someone can be better than them.

 

[cheatking]

Cheaters? Got a million of 'em.

Once, I was playing Call of Duty 4. Got up. Went /inside/ a building and stood in a hallway that was protected by a wall, which was in turn protected by another wall. So, with a huge amount of cursing (Remember, kids! Turn off your sound when you play Shooters online.), some guy walked into a room on the other side of the map. Upon getting there, he suddenly turns towards my position and fires a few shots from his M5. Needless to say, he got me through 3-walls and straight in the head, even though It was impossible to see me through the wall. Answer: BANNED.

That, and a friend of mine got shot by the before-mentioned persons, ahem, golden-coloured desert eagle. While he was sniping. In the head. More than half a map away. Twice.


Best explained, as above, they have no other reason to believe that someone can be better than them.

Sorry that was me. I was using the PureAwesome mod, made by me, for me.

 

[FireFly90]

I was once accused of using an aimbot when i was playing halo on pc, when i wasn't. me and the other player only had snipers and we were trying to shoot each other close range without zoom, and (unusualy) i manged to kill him sevreal times in succession which made him accuse me of cheating when accutally i was just plain lucky. and eventualy, coz he was the host, he kicked me from the game.

 

[DiamondJim]

I think I've only been accused of lagging people... That's sorta like cheating. Especially on Halo 3, where on occasion, I don't experience said lag and begin to dominate. I know there are methods to doing this to gain an advantage, but I just honestly have a bad connection. =/

 

[Murian]

Funny you should mention Counterstrike...

Way, way back in days gone by when I played over dialup I was having a good round on survivor, in fact it was probably my best at the time, something like 30:5 kills to death, and some git on the other team had to get worked up about this started calling me a cheater. So I defended myself, but he wouldn't shut up. At least one guy on my team said he didn't think I was, although only in team chat so he never really entered the arguement, can't blame him really. Of course, this git who got me so riled up about this didn't stick around for the next map...where I promptly did really badly. Figures.

Since then I've seen aimbots and the like first hand, and am now under the impression that the people who casually fling cheat accusations around have never actually seen a real cheater before. Why? because they are blindingly obvious, like this:

Probably not an aimbot
Somebody is doing really well on a server. They may just know the map/be having a good round/are really that awesome.

Aimbot
Somebody is firing an AK47 on full auto and kills everybody in sight with headshots within a split second, despite running and being attacked from multiple angles.


These days I just think of cheat accusations as somebody letting off steam by taking out their frustration on another person. I wish they would grow up. I know some people seem to take these accusations as a badge of honour, but I don't. It could after all, be that you just pissed off somebody by happening to kill them repeatedly by dumb luck.

 

[Raven28256]

I have one from Call of Duty 4.

This guy on the other team in a Domination match truly WAS cheating. You would unload an entire magazine of rounds into him and he would just run up and knife you. There was one time when he went through two claymores in a hallway, a hail of bullets from four people on my team, and a rocket from someone's RPG-7 and he still didn't die. He just knifed all four of us and moved on. He ended the match with something like 30+ kills (All of which were with the knife/melee attack) and zero deaths and then has the balls to say "I'm not cheating, you people just suck."

Once I found a guy using an aimbot as the sniper in TF2. It would automatically aim his rifle at an enemy's head when they were within his view, so all he had to do was push a button and get a kill. Although, he was at least nice about it. He was an amateur programmer who just wrote the aimbot and wanted to test it out. He got a few kills and then turned it off.

 

[Malvoo]

A couple of years ago i was pretty big on Americasarmy. It's an fps made by the U.S army.
Anyways, what i liked to do was run alternative routes and get behind my enemy shooting them in the back. While most people play americasarmy as if it was rainbox six, i played it as if it was unreal tournament. After a while i got pretty good, and with an account being fairly low on honor(Honor=Level) I always got accused of hacking and kicked from the servers.

 

[Vidiot]

I've never been accused of cheating, two reasons for that:
1. I almost never play other people, preferring single person experiences
2. I'm not good enough

EDIT: oh yeah, and I suppose the fact that I don't cheat factors into it too.

*sigh* an all too familiar story. those are the two reasons I don't play RTS games online. Also, I'm usually using a pirate copy. I admit, I do cheat on single player games, but never online.
(I'm just not a competitive person, and certainly not enough so that I have to artificially inflate my scores and ego, I just love swarming the computer with overwhelming odds)

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Zee Oh Em Gee H4X0RZ!!

...I've been accused of using a lag switch from time to time...At school my connection tends to appear that way, but more often than not, I'm the one who gets my ass handed to me because of the lag I'm producing.

 

[Jazzyluv]

its too easy to get called for hacks, any type of hitscan weapons i usually get called out for hacking, scouting in tf2.... i get called out for hacking, its so funny. CS:S has a really low leval community, i can literally just out-aim the majority of the community, don't even have to think, and I've only played that game like 20 hours. If you have any sort of grasp of the game, then yes you will be accused of cheating.

I once double mid-air piped a soldier in tf2..... and i got kicked from the server.... it was great....

 

[NeedAUserName]

My principle is "if someone's better then me, they're definitely using every cheat they can" its fun to think like that sometimes. Don't normally accuse people though, just grunt it at the screen.

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

One time, playing The Battlegrounds (HL 2 mod) I was randomly accused of "teleporting." The guy asked me how I was doing it, so I responded, "Hold up-arrow to teleport."

 

[Beowulf DW]

On a Halo 2 Team Sniper match, two of the guys on the other team were levatating and killing us off at their liesure. I got pissed off, hid in an alcove for 15 seconds, and I figured out where the bastards were. I got headshots on both of them. They respawned, went to the same place they had been, and were promptly excuted by me. The other two members of their team were unable to end my relentless assault because, free of the threat the two cheaters presented, the rest of my team was able to dispose of them quite easily. I kept this up for 3 more minutes (they didn't even try levitating to another location), before they got so frustrated that they quit. My team won the game, and I promptly filed a player report on both of the hacking bastards.