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[PC Gamer] GTA Online cheating even more rampant during free giveaway
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Not sure how this is happening as scripthook website is down and latest version doesn't work with EGS.
Giving people a game for free is not a bad thing, how it's being spun as such as really weird. If GTA (or any game) gets an influx of new players for any reason, the burden is on the developer to make sure their anti-cheat is up to task.
The game isn't "ruined for everyone" my friends and I enjoyed it thoroughly playing online together.
The game isn't "ruined for everyone" my friends and I enjoyed it thoroughly playing online together.
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Yup. If Steam gave this game away, we wouldn't have this weird take. It would be directed to Rockstar and problems with the game.
I don't love EGS but I mean blaming them for making the game worse because of existing problems - come on...
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I am blaming Rockstar/Take2, they are ones that decided to give game for free and do nothing to combat cheating. This has nothing to do which store is giving game for free.
This is pure bullshit. Every time a multiplayer game goes free to play on Steam, even for just a weekend, people respond in exactly the same way. Just because it wasn't a game that's as big as GTA 5 and you just missed it, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. EGS isn't getting victimized here, and I don't think anyone in this thread is blaming them.
I mean they didn't give a shit about the people that payed 60 dollars, why would they give a shit about the people that paid 0.
what the shit
who angled the story at EGS being the one at fault? the cheating would've popped off regardless of who was giving it away
Yup, modders can completely crash your game at will. There was even a point where they could drain your bank account and send you to bad sport lobbies too. Online has been an absolute shitshow on PC since launch pretty much.
My experience years ago in GTA Online and recently in RDR2 Online is that Rockstar basically has the least effective anti-cheat in the history of modern gaming, and it's honestly amazing that there isn't non-stop coverage of how shitty it is. Passive mode wont stop people from spawning explosions on your body until you die, if nothing else, from falling to death.
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You'd think it would be better just hire some Asian kids to create accounts 24/7 for about cent per account rather than hack some accounts.
It probably isn't. My bet is that whoever tried to get your account did for something Fortnite related.
This is what I suspected. I'm glad it was given away for free, my friends and I can have fun in private lobbies.
The reason cheating is so easy, is because the game using a P2P networking model.
Instead of doing a client-server model, if the server is running on other client machines, it is difficult to enforce authority in the game simulation and validate what other clients are doing as "correct".
Unfortunately rockstar is too poor to actually run game servers.
Instead of doing a client-server model, if the server is running on other client machines, it is difficult to enforce authority in the game simulation and validate what other clients are doing as "correct".
Unfortunately rockstar is too poor to actually run game servers.
This is why both in GTA:O and RDO I lock down sessions with firewall rules so I only end up playing with people I trust.