Cheating in general!!

I just watched a couple of videos of this in action... I'm surprised at the cool little QoL features it adds.

Shame it's a frigging hack. I'd quite like to take off the particle effects and have better noises/indicators for drops.

Demonoz, you make it sound so easy to stop people from cheating. But you have to understand that most cheats nowadays are just reading from the memory and drawing a map from the code, it isnt writing memory which is very easy to detect in comparison. I know games where maphack is impossible because of the way the game is coded, but im sure that a lot of code probably has to be rewritten in PoE to make it so that these kind of cheats are stopped.

Also, while there are 10 devs (i dont know how many there actually are) working on the game there are probably 100 guys with more time on their hands working on making cheats for the game. The devs working on the game has to work on content and stuff, and not only measures against cheating, while the guys at home in their mom's basement has all the time on their hands to make cheats.

Cheating will always exist in online gaming, you cant prevent everything, sad but true. Banning someone without proof is not smart. Some day someone is angry at you for making a bad trade or whatever, and they decide to launch false accusations about you cheating, and all of a sudden you are the cheater even though there is no actual proof.

I play Battlefield 4 a lot and sometimes im on a good roll and I get called a cheater. Usually I take it as a compliment, but sometimes the serveradmin will be a tard and believe the accusation and ban me without any actual proof other than the fact that I had 20 kills and 0 deaths. Pretty annoying to be called a cheater when you arent one, I know from experience.

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Vhlad wrote:

Current poe cheats can:
- reveal the entire map.
- zoom out further.
- remove light radius and illuminate everything.
- disable particle effects.
- auto flask at set time intervals or at various life thresholds.
- auto exit at a set life threshold.
- auto buff at set time intervals.
- auto aura.
- provide a DPS meter.
- overlay icons on desired drops (6l, 6s, r-g-b, user set craft bases, etc).
- play a custom sound when a unique drops.
- overlay alerts for user set monster affixes (i.e. reflect).
- notify you upon loading into a zone of the presence of exiles or strongboxes.
- spam trade.
- sort your stash.

That sounds fantastic! Where do get all those cheats?

(Okay that probably was not very helpful....)

hmm weird ohh right sunday which means the poe hack thread will be moderated a bit later like.....always

btw the new bot is hc approved

i never thought that cheating is that much of a problem in poe before i was invited into a guild full of cheaters. they all used a maphack, they farmed boxes etc. they dont were really carefully in teamspeak and chat about the fact that they were cheating. A couple days later a old friend started again in poe and i left this guild.


I dont think that GGG can catch those cheaters. They are simply to small to invest that much time and money into tracking cheaters. Sure, if they had the moneys, they would do it like blizzard did, go to the lawyer and shut down all those sites where you can download those programms.


cheating in poe is like dsync, deal with it or leave the game. Sadly but true.

I think the tinfoil hat is cutting off the circulation

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Manocean wrote:

I think the tinfoil hat is cutting off the circulation

Naw, it's heating their heads even farther.

+1

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Vhlad wrote:

Current poe cheats can:
- reveal the entire map.
- zoom out further.
- remove light radius and illuminate everything.
- disable particle effects.
- auto flask at set time intervals or at various life thresholds.
- auto exit at a set life threshold.
- auto buff at set time intervals.
- auto aura.
- provide a DPS meter.
- overlay icons on desired drops (6l, 6s, r-g-b, user set craft bases, etc).
- play a custom sound when a unique drops.
- overlay alerts for user set monster affixes (i.e. reflect).
- notify you upon loading into a zone of the presence of exiles or strongboxes.
- spam trade.
- sort your stash.

The sad thing is that in perfect world half of these would be basic useful client features, not cheats. Auto aura, DPS meter, unique sound, better loot filter, stash sorting. (That said, I'd like to stress the fact that I'm not using any cheat.)

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fph wrote:

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Vhlad wrote:

Current poe cheats can:
- reveal the entire map.
- zoom out further.
- remove light radius and illuminate everything.
- disable particle effects.
- auto flask at set time intervals or at various life thresholds.
- auto exit at a set life threshold.
- auto buff at set time intervals.
- auto aura.
- provide a DPS meter.
- overlay icons on desired drops (6l, 6s, r-g-b, user set craft bases, etc).
- play a custom sound when a unique drops.
- overlay alerts for user set monster affixes (i.e. reflect).
- notify you upon loading into a zone of the presence of exiles or strongboxes.
- spam trade.
- sort your stash.

The sad thing is that in perfect world half of these would be basic useful client features, not cheats. Auto aura, DPS meter, unique sound, better loot filter, stash sorting. (That said, I'd like to stress the fact that I'm not using any cheat.)

Yup that's useful stuff i'd like to have too. But ggg are doing the best they can i'm sure with the resources they have.

I used a plugin like that for d2 to change the colours of loot on the ground so uniques and certain items i was collecting had a different colour. It was great.

Some of that stuff is just features most other games would have out of convenience, etc sorting storage.

Has GGG said anything about modding in PoE? Is it purely illegal, or is doing some things OK?