ok i will now come clean and admit that i have a love for the OP flash point and arma series of games so when the chance to purchase arma3 arrived nice and cheep in alpha i jumped at the chance.
i lvoe the games and the open modding that can be done with the integral editor is frankly a WIN
BUT and this is a bit BUT
WHAT the hell is it with scripters and hackers in FPS games at the moment?
i was driven away from BF3 as a game because of all the aimbots, wall hacks, and scripting issues which made it simply unplayable online UNLESS i joined in the hackzor fail-wagon. spawning and being knifed from across the map just is not my idea of a fun evening gaming. it got so bad that people were even Boasting about how undetectable there various programmed aids were in game.
And now i am playing the alpha ajnd what am i running into?
well mainly the players are good. cooperative, friendly and above all not cheating. as arma games have pretty much always been.
then in come a few players who just can not bear to loose. or even be shot once.
now me? well somone has to be bottom of the leader board and frankly i dont really care where i come if i have a relaxing time have a giggle and generally get to chill out. its a game. i dont need to "win" at it to enjoy it. and i really hate the fools who decide to ruin my enjoyment of not one, but 2 games (at least, i have lost track of the games i stopped playing online when it became blatant there was no hack prevention)
now in the DM mods people have created they instaled a no kill/unkillable zone around the spawn to prevent spawn camping AND in spawn snipe-camping. a grand idea which works well and prevents the main issues we have all run across in chest high wall-vile.
So far i have experienced, hack wise
Insta artillery. scripted, explosives teleoporting and spawning on a location when none should be avalible.
Insta minefields. same as the above but with either mines or C4 charges. oftern into the spawn point to blast the players into orbit.
Teleporting players. not the part of game spawn on a squad leader. just teleporting in randomly and spawn every .5 seconds and dying and respawning etc etc untill the rapid fire deaths simply end the round. this is set off by someone possibly to look good with loads of kills
Teleporting players to there death. be it into the sky or into the water. or into the surprise
arty strike en mass.
Spawning in Vehicles. at the moment ARMA 3 is pretty much infantry only. and it works i know they have vehicles but few servers put them in because they unbalance the DM games far to much.
yet hardly a day goes by when Mr hacker doesnt "sneak" a bunch of quad bikes or a few armored cars into the round.
now of itself thats not the worst. its when they spawn a stack of 40 f them in a row above each and every building to level the town. im sorry but we all kinda wanted to fight THROUGH the town.
then they go even further. spawning in choppers and boats to simply screw up the balance.
Spawning in Crates. possibly the least worst of but when i have to slog a mile back to rearm and you get to press the magic mystery box button its just annoying and again its just not the game.
GOD MODE.
Yeah this is an easy one to get annoyed at. 6,, 200rnd belts from a MG into the same guy for 5 minutes with aimed shots and still not dead despite the player avatar flinching every time? Why are we doing this again?
Folliage hacks
Arma 3 has trees n grass n bushes n shizzle. which block the line of sight just like the chest high walls But its dynamic and moves with the wind and is not bullet proof, all in all a good bunch of features. so you have to learn how to use it to avoid being seen but still being able to see around you.
yet some people have "learnt" how to turn it off so they can hide in a bush but not be seen
Wall hacks.
we know and loath them
Rock hacks.
Yeah atta boy for spawning in a rock we cant shoot through but your firing out from.
graphics hack.
yeah they change the graphics so you cant see things. poor quality etc
INSTAkill
if you annoy them Poof and your gone
Insta Ban. basically they get admin rights on any server.
Banner hacks.
yeah i really need to see a scrolling banner at the base of the screen proclaiming how suxzor the server is.
WHY oh WHY do these idiots feel the need to do this? are they THAT poorly endowed that they need it to feel good?
its just killing a game before its even released properly. who wants to bug check a game when every encounter is ruined by a kid with a client script?
AND breath.
i lvoe the games and the open modding that can be done with the integral editor is frankly a WIN
BUT and this is a bit BUT
WHAT the hell is it with scripters and hackers in FPS games at the moment?
i was driven away from BF3 as a game because of all the aimbots, wall hacks, and scripting issues which made it simply unplayable online UNLESS i joined in the hackzor fail-wagon. spawning and being knifed from across the map just is not my idea of a fun evening gaming. it got so bad that people were even Boasting about how undetectable there various programmed aids were in game.
And now i am playing the alpha ajnd what am i running into?
well mainly the players are good. cooperative, friendly and above all not cheating. as arma games have pretty much always been.
then in come a few players who just can not bear to loose. or even be shot once.
now me? well somone has to be bottom of the leader board and frankly i dont really care where i come if i have a relaxing time have a giggle and generally get to chill out. its a game. i dont need to "win" at it to enjoy it. and i really hate the fools who decide to ruin my enjoyment of not one, but 2 games (at least, i have lost track of the games i stopped playing online when it became blatant there was no hack prevention)
now in the DM mods people have created they instaled a no kill/unkillable zone around the spawn to prevent spawn camping AND in spawn snipe-camping. a grand idea which works well and prevents the main issues we have all run across in chest high wall-vile.
So far i have experienced, hack wise
Insta artillery. scripted, explosives teleoporting and spawning on a location when none should be avalible.
Insta minefields. same as the above but with either mines or C4 charges. oftern into the spawn point to blast the players into orbit.
Teleporting players. not the part of game spawn on a squad leader. just teleporting in randomly and spawn every .5 seconds and dying and respawning etc etc untill the rapid fire deaths simply end the round. this is set off by someone possibly to look good with loads of kills
Teleporting players to there death. be it into the sky or into the water. or into the surprise
arty strike en mass.
Spawning in Vehicles. at the moment ARMA 3 is pretty much infantry only. and it works i know they have vehicles but few servers put them in because they unbalance the DM games far to much.
yet hardly a day goes by when Mr hacker doesnt "sneak" a bunch of quad bikes or a few armored cars into the round.
now of itself thats not the worst. its when they spawn a stack of 40 f them in a row above each and every building to level the town. im sorry but we all kinda wanted to fight THROUGH the town.
then they go even further. spawning in choppers and boats to simply screw up the balance.
Spawning in Crates. possibly the least worst of but when i have to slog a mile back to rearm and you get to press the magic mystery box button its just annoying and again its just not the game.
GOD MODE.
Yeah this is an easy one to get annoyed at. 6,, 200rnd belts from a MG into the same guy for 5 minutes with aimed shots and still not dead despite the player avatar flinching every time? Why are we doing this again?
Folliage hacks
Arma 3 has trees n grass n bushes n shizzle. which block the line of sight just like the chest high walls But its dynamic and moves with the wind and is not bullet proof, all in all a good bunch of features. so you have to learn how to use it to avoid being seen but still being able to see around you.
yet some people have "learnt" how to turn it off so they can hide in a bush but not be seen
Wall hacks.
we know and loath them
Rock hacks.
Yeah atta boy for spawning in a rock we cant shoot through but your firing out from.
graphics hack.
yeah they change the graphics so you cant see things. poor quality etc
INSTAkill
if you annoy them Poof and your gone
Insta Ban. basically they get admin rights on any server.
Banner hacks.
yeah i really need to see a scrolling banner at the base of the screen proclaiming how suxzor the server is.
WHY oh WHY do these idiots feel the need to do this? are they THAT poorly endowed that they need it to feel good?
its just killing a game before its even released properly. who wants to bug check a game when every encounter is ruined by a kid with a client script?
AND breath.