Hello. Its been a known fact that any mmorpg has its exploiters and cheaters. Age of Conan suffers much from them, expecially on minigames. there are lots of proof videos about cheaters on youtube in AoC, there are functional website that sell this software for AoC.
I have suggestion for dev team to implemest some of anti-cheat program to AoC client, for example
But, FC didnât used any kind of anti-cheat/hack/exploit software, since May 2008, and you expecting from them to do it at 2018? Never gonna happen for ââseveral reasonsââ. They gonna say ââOur badget is low for such softwareââ as an excuse, and/or they ignore AoC community one more time. They gonna say ââNo proof XYZ player has cheatââ. BUT WAITâŠAt least they have anti-troll software at old forums⊠Anzu Professional Edition.
After allâŠTHEY ARE FUNCOM.
There are plenty of anti-cheat software, i dont think that is TOO expencive for FC, after all, they planed PvP Saga 2, and it will be major disappointment if there will be cheaters. It just ruin all competitionalism and purpose of PvP.
None of the anti-cheat software is actually good enough to keep up with hackers of some level of sophistication. It might actually work in AoC though because thereâs probably not enough money to be made out of AoC to bother spending the time keeping the hacks updated, if you go with that theory it could probably be solved with code updates, though.
Yep,itâs hard to detect .exe / .dll injectionsâŠWellâŠThat happens only with Funcom gamesâŠI wonder how the hell every other company/game can use similar softs to detect>block>ban 3rd party craps, but at the same time itâs SO HARD for fc to do same thingâŠ
Years ago, i offered a few lines of C++ code to detect âtiming differencesâ. There are many timers inside a modern PC that u can use (TSC, HPET, RTC, PIT, âŠ). You do not need to pay for a 3rd party software if you have some free programmers to do it.
I played thousands of minigames, and only a handful of times a legitimate cheater (real speedhacker, or comber player) changed the outcome of the match.
The truth is that the players turning to cheats in this game are very weak players and canât even utilize the cheat to make any difference. Putting effort into some kind of anti-cheat, doesnt seem worth it, when itâs something that will need constant updates.
The handling of afkers and trolls is a different story completely, and this is where they need to add attention (change something so GMs are able to punish them more easily)
On Crom, games are usually decided on who gets the trolls / afkers and not.
TL:DR, Cheaters barely impact anything at all. AFKers and trolls are the real issue.
Exactly what Lurvi said. Handling trolls and afkers is what is needed (and the ability to play with friendsâŠ). Cheaters are not even that common and donât really impact the game because they suck and have no idea what theyâre doing. Of course it would also be great to have code updates and bug fixes but the team is so small now and a lot of knowledge of the original code must have been lost over the yearsâŠ
About 99% of the cheat accusations are wrong anyway and simply due to network issues, lack of knowledge of the game and plain old bugs. Run AoC on 2 PCs side by side, use speedbuffs and jump around doing combos on one machine while watching the other screen and youâll very quickly understand what Iâm talking about. Yes, itâs pretty terrible. It was a bit better with EU servers for most of us, but it was still terrible compared to other games (although MMOs generally donât have a very accurate netcode because itâs simply not realistic with this type of game).
And an anti-cheat is way too much work/effort for such an old game. Implementing an anti-cheat at this stage of development would cause stability and performance issues and probably open new loopholes and make it unplayable for many due to false positives and whatnot. Thatâs really not what this game needs.
Sorry bro but not one MMO on the market has succeeded in stopping 3rd party programs. They can occasionally detect them, but by the time they do the cheat programs are changed and keep runningâŠalso there are many tools out there for free that hide things like exe files from being detectedâŠknowledge is one of the many differences between a person that cheats without ever being caught and those that get caught constantly.