Absolutly zero excuse for cheating in any game unless the devs have added the cheats themselves. People who feel the need to cheat need serious mental help a skill building course aimed at self improvement would be a fix. Or just throw out life time bans to everyone that's caught. Water mark the games and if cheating is found add that water mark to a blacklist stopping anyone from ever playing that copy.
@@gamingscotsmanOG You have serious mental issues if you don't think cheating in a single player game is not okay. If it doesn't affect online players, who cares? The time of the purists died a long time ago.
Everything in gta online is way too expensive imo and earning money can be quite difficult at times. I have a friend who uses cheats in that game simply to give himself money. He doesn't use anything else in the cheat menu, just the money part. Would you still consider him a bad person?
I love when you legitimately beat someone in a game and you get a message from them saying you cheated and they're going to report you. They're just butt hurt. 🤣🤣
Maybe because thats how it looks to them, my brother does it a lot lol. Thinks hes shooting the person and i see him shooting right past them and theres input lag and fps etc linus tech did a video on it with the top fps streamers.
My favorite thing about playing console overwatch. I always was accused of hacking. Now I'm on pc and run into real hackers. And i wonder how anyone could think i was hacking after having experienced a real one.
Same here.. people who cheat in online are all twats My thoughts has been like this Single player Game in the 90's how to cheat? Perform these actions and you can't die Single player Game in 2000's how to cheat? Perform these actions and you will get a lot of money and can't die Game in 2010 and after, bruh you want to cheat? Fine pay us 10 dollars and you will level up 1.5× faster. O the in game economy is so bad that getting simple stuff either costs 50 hours in game time to unlock this in game weapon? Pay us 20 dollars and you will get it Fecking ea
yep it often helps get all the crap you missed first run through and can increase the time value of said game. I also suck at pvp games so I just don't play them.
Imagine playing a sims or Bethesda (single player) game without ever having a reason to touch the console. I mean. The sims 4 console guide even states they encourage it. But I mostly use it in those two. As it makes QoL go way up. Especially in the sims.
im very supportive of single player modding and cheats.., cause its there to make the game more fun..,(but please to people who claim their good cause they cheat or mod.., dont.., some go as far as to say save scumming is also cheating but i think thats gray).., but yeah.., SP games.., or mode.., all the power to you.., its techincally the world as you wish to explore it..,
It made everything easy. It brought everything at once so you weren't able to enjoy it over the long run and weren't able to enjoy your accomplishments.
Nowadays publishers slap cheats on upgraded editions of games disguised as “bonuses”, making those who pay up receiving an advantage compared to the majority who get the standard edition. One of the most notorious examples was EA Star Wars Battlefront, where the best weapon in the game by an absolute mile - the Han Solo Blaster - was only available in the Deluxe Edition and above, so the majority with the standard edition were getting pwned by the players who paid up for the upgraded edition with the best weapon.
I argued with a guy who makes cheats for escape from tarkov, here is his take on why it’s not wrong. “It’s funny you mentioned steroids. Off topic but every sport that is competitive, you do understand most of the athletes use PED right? 95 percent of athletes that are world class use PED and the organizers for the events know but drug test them with easy tests to pass. Do you think most of the heavy weight and middle weights in ufc are natural, same for boxing. Do you honestly think people like Mike Tyson and Holyfield were natural lmao.”
I've never cheated in a multiplayer game, but single player I have cheated often. My most common reason/justification for it is quality of life or time. I find myself going to trainers or cheat engine every time a game puts in an artificial wall and then tells me to grind for the next 4 hours to get past it. Assassin Creed Odyssey is a perfect example of it. The story missions didn't keep you leveled up enough to do just them and I wasn't interested in a lot of the side missions. Then there was the upgrading system for your gear and ship. I wasn't interested in running around picking up the next piece of candy. Unfortunately, I just straight up don't have the time anymore to get past these artificial lengtheners and cheat to keep the game going. I do also unfortunately fall into the casual category. I have been finding it harder and harder to keep up with my favorite genres. Typically once I get too frustrated with a game the trainer comes out so I can move past the part that's frustrating me. My job keeps me plenty frustrated and I play games to blow off steam so I don't blow up on people (Verbally that is).
I have osteoarthritis in my hands it it physically aches to do repetitive tasks, but I have been gaming for 30 some odd years. I get sick of holier than thou people who complain about running macros in an MMO to avoid the very physically painful grind.
Very few games consider accessibility. That's (very) slowly improving, but the fact remains that a lot of games are still quite difficult to play with most impairments, and some are completely unplayable (some can't help it, but many _could_ be reworked to be playable). GMTK has done a few videos on accessibility in games. I wonder when WCAG will get extended to all software. 🤔
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z I had a bunch of friends who worked for Blizzard and 3 were my roommates for awhile. I said that I could no longer play without writing macros to do some tasks and they treated me like I was a serial killer. It's funny and sad that gamers treat such things so seriously and don't care at all for the reasons.
Bryan Wright recently bought assasins creed odyssey and I completely agree, how did you cheat to level up? Im tired of grinding for hours just for a level
I remember using GameShark on my N64 where you plug the GS cartridge in and then the real game on top of that cartridge. Old school lol. I think they made it on PlayStation as well where you enter a disc, pick your cheats, and then open the disc tray while it’s running and put the real game in.
I only ever saw one once and I was like 8 and an older kid showed me how to get a lvl 100 teddiursa. Never actually used one so idk what they could all do. What were they exactly?
The “this game is old and boring so I’m going to give everyone on the server 10x speed, unlimited ammo, wall hacks, and then at the end of the round drag everyone’s character to a centralized location and send them flying straight up for eternity” hackers are the absolute best. I don’t remember if it was Black Ops 1 or 2 for PS3 that had a bunch of hackers that share but my gosh was it a joy running into them.
Yea that was fun for about a single game. I just wanted to play an old game that I haven't played in ages though and I couldn't find any lobby that didn't have infinite ammo grenade launchers for everyone. Got pretty boring pretty quick. Of course that was before one of the got me banned for life.
I'd consider myself a "Robin Hood." I mod my save, and then share the wealth with anyone who wants it. For example in Dark Souls I would give folks a bunch of Souls.
I love it when I beat someone and they tell me I cheated. Especially if they're a cheater themselves. If being able to hear where an enemy is from behind a wall because I was paying attention is a cheat, call me guilty. It's not my fault they're super loud and years of stealth games has trained my directional hearing.
The real influx of cheaters in cs go came with the introduction of those fancy ranks. Lots of people cheat for social pressure, to look good / not bad.
@@hotdognl70 Hell no. I avoided that trash bin fire like the plague. I knew it was going to be a disaster. It's an ONLINE game running on the skyrim/fallout engine? Yeah no thanks lol.
I think there is one area where I don't mind cheating and it's single player games that are too hard for someone to beat. If you enjoy playing the game but you aren't good enough to win so you cheat to keep playing. I don't care about that because it doesn't impact anyone and you can continue playing the game you paid for.
Okay so there probably aren't many people who do what I do but, I used to cheat all the time in video games, I was the kid that was bad mouthing people in the lobby, cussing people out, aim botting, scripting, wallhacking, you name it...but after a while, I started to see more cheaters, I heard all the people that would complain about it so I decided to do something, whenever NOW I run into a cheater. I will play with the dirtiest, slimiest, more exploitive cheats I can find, I will be the biggest fucking pain in their ass if I see them. Now I know it's just an online medium but, it feels good to piss off another cheater, granted I am one too, I'm no better than them, but still, it feels great to know that they're not gonna just get away with it while I'm in the game. What do you all think? Am I a good guy now? Am I still an asshole? Did I leave the oven on before I left today? Let me know.
What you do by cheating the way you do is making other cheaters realize that they aren't as powerful or in control as they think they are, and I really understand that feeling. Keep going down this path if you see it suits you.
I’ve hacked on gta because I didn’t want to grind, and sometimes I would meme around with people, and off the person didn’t want to be annoyed, I would not annoy them ;)
Kookee Penguins alright, sounds good. Usually if it’s an online multiplayer game I like to advocate against cheating, but if you were just messing around and not using cheats against other players then more power to you.
You complete forgot one type of cheater, the rarest type of cheater, the gud cheater, he helps out giving u stuff or adding u in game so u could get gud.
not 100% accurate though, if you are talking about pvp games like overwatch, counter strike etc then yes, i agree with you. singleplayer games is another story. cheating in some singleplayer games can be extra fun... so you need to check the "facts" mate :P
I already know I'm going to receive hate so go ahead and type away but I mod on GTA Online on the PC version specifically. I got tired of joining lobbies and being blown up with everyone else in the lobby, being caged, being blamed by another modder, having random objects attached to my player, and so I went out and I bought a menu with very high amounts of protection from modders with other menus, this is so much so that if I find a modder doing such acts I kick them to singleplayer, if they rejoin a friend and continue then I take further action and make efforts to crash their game. I hate griefers in video games and I myself tend to leave godmode off until the most dire times but I mainly use my menu for protection of myself and my friends so we can play the game the way it's meant to be played. I also have started using VPNs online because I've found people will try and commit a federal crime and DDOS you to remove you from their lobby. How much more of a try hard do they have to be to get in the last laugh? To say that they're the biggest script kitty. Anyway that's my personal take, feel free to roast away at me.
There's a few types of cheaters that don't go mentioned here. The Recreationists that do it for fun, y'know, Big Head Mode, dancing NPCs, wacky gravity effects and whatnot. Stuff that makes a game bizarre and hilarious. The Challengers that do it because they don't feel challenged and actively take things away from themselves via cheats to make the game harder and thus more rewarding to beat. I'm a bit of both of these at times. But then, I don't aim to hurt anybody... except myself.
I’ve played Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion multiple times over years since I was a kid. Only now going back and playing with exploits to farm minor skills and money. Have over a Million Septims and I’m only LvL 1 and on Xbox with all patches.
Some Cheaters also use cheats to promote other people’s homemade cheats.This cheating is also good for money making as they are paid money for testing cheats in games. This is what I hate the most
RU-vid becomes less fun when there are advertising involved. And when advertising is cheap it becomes not only easier, but dumber. Like advertising a youtube video on youtube. Like really guys? How is this supposed to help you gain subscribers? I hate it when I see people doing this.
I'm sad my kind of cheater/hacker didn't show up. The kind that's rare and oddly enough is found on games like rust and GTAV. The cheaters that help others. example being like maxing that stats on somebody's car in gtav without taking any sort of pay for it
I don’t mind playing cheaters lol in fact it’s always hilarious when they lose. I love being responsible for turning their game off. Imagine cheating in a game and still losing 😂
Honestly they need attention because they have low self esteem and are lacking that in their IRL lives. It’s the same as a class clown. They are unhappy with themselves and are craving any type of validation and attention they can get (positive or negative). These people are the type of people no one will miss if they walked into a winter storm, and they know it and they’re angry about that fact. Edit: the only ones that make “sense” to me are the ones who are making money/are trying to make money from their ill gotten skill, like streamers or aspiring pros.
I cheated in multiplayer very few times years ago. CoD MW2, S4 league, soldier front, and gta v online only for money, besides gta that got me banned in a day, the aim bot and God mode / wall hacks were just addicting fun, I wasn't considering feelings but it was fun while it lasted, only those games out of hundreds I've played.. oh and San andreas multiplayer too, considering I've only cheated in san andreas single player for single player games
Single player, i occasionally use cheats after i have beaten the game for no reason in particular. Multiplayer games, i have never cheated (to my knowledge, possible accidental glitch exploitation), but if i had to pick, vigilante with a splash of greifer
In regards to MMORPGS: I have been gaming online for years and have had to put up with cheaters/griefers so much that my character builds are based on survival when cheaters show up usually in the form of stealth characters and my mindset is always assuming the other guy is far more powerful than I could ever be because that's all I ever deal with. I mean I really do not know what it would be like if the other guy was weaker than me or equal to me. Anyways when I get a chance to talk to cheaters/griefers they are almost always of the position that they are winning not because there is an imbalance in the power of our characters but instead because the man sitting behind the chair (themselves) are far superior and that they are just defeating an inferior player (me). I really have no idea what a cheater/griefer free MMORPG gaming experience would be like because I have never seen it. I guess it would a slice of heaven on Earth I guess.
as a ex hacker I used to hack not to feel power but to get revenge on the hackers I would only hack when I saw another hacker and target them I am retired from my duties.
I cheat in single-player games that have micro-transactions so I can access all of it's content without paying more money for things that were initially meant to be part of the core game. Edit: Also games that could have been good but were made grindy for selling boosters.
Achievers and most griefers are deeply insecure with complexes n stuff. They're like those people who pretend to be rich. They not lying to themselves, they lie to everyone else. The satisfaction comes from being recognized by others as a good player, or even a "good hacker" but all in all as a successful person.
@@darthhatespeech5329 Thats the part i don't understand. How can they get satisfaction from being viewed as successful when they know they actually aren't? For me personally the only way i could feel satisfaction from being viewed as successful is if i also convinced myself that i was actually successful, and not just cheating.
@@johngrisham3784I would say they are like this in other parts of their lives. Some of them could be defined as narcissists and they feel a need to be either great at everything, or really good at at least one thing. They may always have to be the “cool guy” in a group, or they may suck at so much in real life, they want to be respected in a virtual reality. Hell, I knew a kid growing up who bought a modded controller for cod, because he wanted to be even better. He was already really good at MW2, had lots of friends in real life, and was often praised even for being mean, yet he wanted to be even better so he got a modded controller. (I think he’s a narcissist, maybe he’s not). Overall, all I can think is that these cheaters feel a need to be better than they really are. The self satisfaction comes from everyone thinking you’re really good when in reality you are not
@@johngrisham3784 That's where you and them differ. When it comes to inferiority complexes there are two general archetypes I like to call external and internal inferiority. You probably know the former as a superiority complex (I personally don't like the name because I feel it misrepresents what it actually is). People with internal inferiority complexes usually have some deep rooted belief that they are inferior to everyone around them, even if someone gives them praise they feel undeserving and like that person is either mistaken or flat out lying to make them feel better. Even if they blatantly show skill or knowledge in the subject, the person themselves may not necessarily feel they do. The cause of insecurity comes internally. For external inferiority complexes/superiority complexes they usually think that everyone else finds them inferior and they just need to show/prove that they are of equal or better skill, even when that assumption is blatantly incorrect. Personal gratification means nothing to them, the only thing that matters is that they get recognized and praised as that is the only way they can feel secure. To them losing is unacceptable as it will make others view them as inferior, and so its possible these people will try to find shortcuts or methods to ensure they don't lose at all.
"Why do people CHEAT in video games?" The same reason they cheat on their "loved ones" To satisfy themselves in a selfish manner There should be a distinction between cheating for fun in a single-player game vs cheating in a competitive multiplayer match against people. Cheating in single player games is okay. Cheating in multiplayer matches is just scummy.
Not necessarily. Sometimes it's out of Borden and it can be oddly therapeutic. I can't explain why but I've never been selfish and in my moment of realisation and reflection I felt guilty and stopped.
@@0xsergy Wym? I just said he didn't say that pronounction incorrect, it just reminds him of something. I never said there was a different way of pronouncing vigilante nor said the one the RU-vidr said was wrong either.
@@0xsergy I mean there is another way you can say it. He said it as Vigil-LON-te while some people say it as Vigil-LAN-te. Both are correct ways to say it. I personally say it as Vigil-LAN-te because the first time I heard the word was in some old superhero cartoons and that's how they said it.
Certain genres do not however... War Thunder has so much munchkin min-max going on on such levels it's either you do their way or play at another tier/rank bracket where there's less of that, many times the former is at tiers/ranks said player isn't comfortable playing at. That game has been having SEVERAL Vigilante acts every now and then (when bombers were Broken and absolutely OP, a clan simply was made to police the matches, with them killing ANY bomber on sight, friend or foe; then there's a heavy tank that outclassed everything else there, Light tank top speed with armor immune to 90% of the shells at it's own rank and a gun broken as fuck, TKs rose for quite some time...).
Me: You did not talk about the Infinite Account issue. Like how cheating has no real consequence at all because you can just make another account. Literally Everyone: Shhhhhhhhhh
I am a cheater, but only in gta offline. I think that me and my brothers are what I would call the goodtimers, just having fun with things like mods and developer made cheats to spice up the game and enjoy it more than the vanilla gameplay, without making anybody online upset.
If I'm doodoo at a multiplayer game, and I know I'm just gonna keep being doodoo, I won't play. But if I'm doodoo at a singleplayer game, imma cheat it fuck you I do what I want
Nezz Gaming 3K is very different from most Total War games with how much diplomacy is a factor in the game, so for that reason I do think deserves an honorable mention. But Total War Warhammer 2’s combat is so sick I have to say it’s my favorite.
I remember back when I was really into Modern Warfare 3, was into a clan and stuff... we used Kick tool to kick/ban hackers or cheaters who ruined the fun in some games. And its weird, cos kick tool was in some way one could say "cheating", but let me tell you being in a game and playing against a hacker while YOU are the host (with kicktool on) and telling them: "Listen buddy, you got 10 seconds to turn off your hacks or your ass is out". Naturally they NEVER listen but atleast poeple know there are "good cheaters" who are there to get rid of the rodants while they are playing the game as well.
mm, yeah I like games that have a 'group kick' option, so then that way if there's a hacker and everyone hates him/her, they just votekick them out and we continue on our way
Im fine with cheaters who only do it to victimized other cheaters i got teamed with a guy who said look man im using a hack but the only thing it does is show locations of other cheaters and ddoss there server's and hick them from the game i was spectating him after i died from a hacker and he shot the guy one time and the cheaters game crashed and it was like he left the lobby
Why play a multiplayer game where people can just troll you and piss you off to no end? Single player games are kinda better because of that. Yes you can't do as much but still
Zelith Fang I agree I kinda tend to play more single players games now -__- but I love the challenge of another human intelligence in multiplayer games, just not so many ppl seems to do it fairly -_-
Thats kinda weird but ok? You cant really compare a multiplayer and a singleplayer game because they are 2 very different things. Also, thats one of the biggest lies ive heard unless you really did. Theres something called leaving and joining another multiplayer match. But one last thing i wanna point out, just because you find 1 guy cheating in a game doesnt mean you should leave because everyone cheats in every game. There are cheaters EVERYWHERE no matter what game it is. At the same time, there might not be always cheaters in every match you might join in multiplayer games and they are pretty rare to encounter unless if you are playing a game with a lot of cheating problems but still. Nothing is stopping the cheating community so just get used to it and deal with it. Im just stating btw but i honestly dont care, im just putting my opinion out there. Just do whatever 🤷🏼♂️, i have nothing against it. :v
Call me old but I remember when ‘cheats’ were just fun things that games let you unlock. Paintballs instead if bullets, enemies with oversized heads, this is why cheating is a problem now because there aren’t many games that still let you unlock these cheat modes.
I think those were the days where games were pretty much single player so the only person's gameplay experience a cheater can affect is their own but that's not the same case these days where a good number of games are multiplayer or have multiplayer aspects.
look at Valorant by exemple they have whats called ''ADMIN POWER'' in private matches and let you access wall hacks and more for spectator the problem is the software use this code to run the cheat undetected and tune it to its finest so yes and no it help to contain the ppl in solo but its also a backdoor for online cheaters
DS3, forgot to get my save file before hard formart my OS and lost everythying now im cheat to recreate the same char as before I know casual, but I play ofline
I was VAC banned in 2005 or 06, when i was still in high school, I was curious about them more than anything. And i noticed that barely any of the cheaters i ran into ever got banned. It lasted about 15 minutes. and somehow i got reported and banned fast.
That's cuz their cheats are shit. Probably copy pasters. Let me tell you one thing reports don't work, and they never will unless younare sending clips to devs
Idk about you but most cheaters I've reported. Maybe around 90. Only 10 or 5 that are not banned. Not all of them are banned instantly but they still got banned.
This comment is kinda funny. I get what you were going for but it depends on how the person pronounced the word aunt. Because many people pronounce it “ant” which makes vigilante correctly pronounced
i never cared to cheat in multiplayer. I've fought plenty of cheaters over the years and to be honest, quitting is the best option is you know they are cheating. leave, do something else. walk away. take their joy away.
@@dylandean7364 I seriously believe that most of the people who cheat and act weird on multiplayer games get joy from frustrating and annoying other people, especially when they're safe online... What a sad, miserable existence.
@@thaistompthe thing that sucks is if you ban their account, they can just create another account. I feel like companies should block their IP Address if that’s even possible or block their real name/credit card information so they can’t buy another account. Hell, I’d say go as far as dox them, but that could end up with legal troubles given how seriously some people take video games
When there’s a cheater I do one of two things. Leave the game or just consistently annoy them in some way. One thing I’ll never do is rage against them because that’s usually what they want.
The Divine Centurion not necessarily. Most of the time they want to taunt and get you frustrated. Me leaving ruins their fun of it and I get to go about my days. Depends on the game what I do.
I'd like to know how people get satisfaction from cheating in a competitive game long term. I play competitive games because I like spending my time getting good at something and having some sort of skill to show for all the time I spend doing it. It's also satisfying to earn the respect of other people who are playing the game fairly. I imagine they're either narcissist's or sociopaths. Or they are incredibly depressed people who cant seem to be good at anything so they've resorted to cheating in video games to simulate achievement and make other people's experience worse intentionally.
I know these types, I've met them and talk to them. Many can't believe that some players are very skilled. So when they get crapped on over and over, they convince themselves everyone else is hacking, so they must hack as well. However, to any somewhat decent player, it's painfully obvious when someone is hacking as opposed to when someone is actually good at aiming.
There's a thing known as regional dialect. Where pronunciation, syntax, grammar are quite different. Take an English speaking person from northern England, southern Texas, and and someone from Wisconsin. Although they can all speak English, each should invariably sound different from one another. My own example is that I lived in rural Pennsylvania for the first 14 years of my life than move to Ann Arbor Michigan. Where people spoke much faster and used a lot of slang. It got to the point where I had to tell people to slow down because I couldn't understand them. Until I learned and acclimated to their speech. It was embarrassing the first time someone called me dawg I took it as being offensive.
@@dancottrell5889 Being a natural Pennsylvanian myself, (born in Lancaster raised in York), I've also heard, if thanks to media that Lang-kiss-ter vs. Lan-caster pronunciation bit on and off. Me? It's the first.
