Poll: Does using glitches as cheating?
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I dont belive so. Saying "if it gives you an advantage then its cheeting", seems hypocritical. Skill is an obvious advantage over the unskilled, experience over the inexperienced, so on and so forth. If you build a statue and deem it infalable, then someone takes a sledgehammer to it you can't say "Well he cheated, cause he used a sledgehammer!" Its bullshit. Exploitation is how lots of great shit happens. By exploiting speed and air currents we defied gravity. Here's a more grand example: by exploiting cellular make-up and geneology, we defied God. Exploiting a games flaws all we do is defy the set order. It's not cheating, its just making yourself better. Much as skill or experience would. In Halo2 I spent hours finding great hiding places so that I would have a sniping advantage. It was a part of the level that was engeneered but others found it difficult, and others found it impossible. But I did it anyway. Does that make me a cheater?
It depends on the glitch. If it allows you to get to a good sniping spot, it's fine, but if it's something like giving you infinite ammo or health, then it does count as cheating.
A great hiding place to snipe from is NOT a glitch...
A glitch is a cheat where you gain advantage by doing something weird on purpose to gain an advantage over players.
Wikipedia: ""Glitching" is the practice of a player exploiting faults in a video game's programming to achieve tasks normally impossible if the game's script runs as intended, such as running through walls or defying gravity."
Some examples of how glitching on purpose ruined the online mode in Gears of War:
Weapon Swap Without Pick up.
Sniper Rifle With Rapid Fire Glitch.
Shoot Grenades From Your Assault Rifle.
Unlimited Ammo Auto Shooting Glitch.
Fire Smoke And Frag Grenades At The Same Time.
A glitch is a cheat where you gain advantage by doing something weird on purpose to gain an advantage over players.
Wikipedia: ""Glitching" is the practice of a player exploiting faults in a video game's programming to achieve tasks normally impossible if the game's script runs as intended, such as running through walls or defying gravity."
Some examples of how glitching on purpose ruined the online mode in Gears of War:
Weapon Swap Without Pick up.
Sniper Rifle With Rapid Fire Glitch.
Shoot Grenades From Your Assault Rifle.
Unlimited Ammo Auto Shooting Glitch.
Fire Smoke And Frag Grenades At The Same Time.
Glitching is kinda a grey area, because the nature of each glitch is different. Some are minor and aren't really serious enough to count as cheating. Others give you a significant advantage that your opponents canoot counter, that's when I would start calling it cheating.
Gunz has atrocious gameplay based around spazzing and spamming... Doesn't help your point much.Acaroid said:
That said, yes, exploiting glitches is cheating. You're exploiting something you shouldn't for your advantage. There's no "grey area" here either, no "only in this situation!". It's cheating. It's the definition of cheating. Singleplayer, multiplayer, local lan... It's always cheating. The only difference is you won't get kicked/banned/insulted in single player for doing it as you're only cheating yourself.
The map glitches on CoD4 are a good example. If you need to use a certain tactic to get into a spot on the map you are not intended to be (on a wall, inside a hill, on top of a roof, out of the map etc.) then you are cheating and will be reported as such.