The Hacks and Add-ons arer already here.

Not even a week into CC's release and the hacks and add-ons are back. Hacks like speed and CD hacks and add-ons that track buffs and the like are already being spread across the scummy players. I'm posting this here to get SE's attention on the matter and to do what they need to do to keep a PVP mode that is finally fun from getting ruined. I'm aware that Feast had this issue too, but we had a moment of reprieve when CC came out. Even if only for a few days.


A clip to serve as one example (Not mine):


https://clips.twitch.tv/RenownedColo...p46HWolEGp_CmP


From this informative reddit post:


https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...lable/i5089i5/

Been seeing some fishy behavior myself where I see perfectly timed guards on limit breaks, crazy speeds, ect.
even exploits making people unkillable where I sit on them the entire time and they casually just eat up the damage even from a ninja LB

This new PVP is garbage.
By "simplifying" they pretty much made a broken system

Yeah, because the old PVP totally wasn't a niche cesspit of cheaters

Had a game where I was 2 seconds into guard. Well past server tic and stunned anyways. Not his LB. Just a standard primal Rend. Stunned with guard still up.

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Originally Posted by silverdragontyr

Had a game where I was 2 seconds into guard. Well past server tic and stunned anyways. Not his LB. Just a standard primal Rend. Stunned with guard still up.

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Had that happen too

Sprinting with guard on seems also to be a thing

I had a WHM (?) spam the thing that turns you into an imp. They weren't even trying to hide it. It was like the Oprah of matches. YOU'RE an imp! And YOU'RE an imp!

PvP has always been the mud hole for cheating. In frontlines there always were 'specific' ppl that were very fishy.

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Originally Posted by Sidamel

PvP has always been the mud hole for cheating. In frontlines there always were 'specific' ppl that were very fishy.

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And? This isn't an excuse. I'm running into immortal WAR/SAM/DRG insanely often now. It is pretty absurd actually.

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Originally Posted by Ogrumz

And? This isn't an excuse. I'm running into immortal WAR/SAM/DRG insanely often now. It is pretty absurd actually.

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Had the same thing, WAR stands smacking me with Chitin up and LB.

Go right through him with Zansetsuken

Health bar greys out then suddenly 100% again.

Like how blatant do some people have to be before SE acts and gets these clowns outta here?

The first thing I'd like them to do is lock PvP on free trial accounts. This forces people to actually risk something by playing on a main account and if they're cheating then. No Mercy.

I'm not sure how hacks like self-revival/invincibility would even work because as far as I'm aware damage calculations and changes in HP are handled serverside and thus can't be tampered with.

The things they can mess with are things pertaining to movement and action delays, and the latter is particularly problematic when it allows hackers to output unreasonably large amounts of burst by dumping every OGCD ability in their kit on you simultaneously (And I have a hunch I've been subjected to that before...).

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Originally Posted by JanVanding

The first thing I'd like them to do is lock PvP on free trial accounts. This forces people to actually risk something by playing on a main account and if they're cheating then. No Mercy.

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They already did that because people were ruining games of Rival Wings by using hacks to teleport the Oppressors above the objectives and bomb them from a height no one could actually reach.

They need to start taking more action, SE has always seemingly been hands off about this stuff.
And they also need to be heavy handed about it. Permanent ban from the game, none of this 3 day suspension period.

Wearing an Ultimate Title: How much did you pay?
Wearing a high Tier PvP Title: What cheats did you use?

Do these people not understand that Cheating, buying or using these "Addons", make these Titles utterly worthless?
I mean, i am Crystal myself and it already feels like nothing anymore because of this crap.

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Originally Posted by Araxes

Wearing an Ultimate Title: How much did you pay?
Wearing a high Tier PvP Title: What cheats did you use?

Do these people not understand that Cheating, buying or using these "Addons", make these Titles utterly worthless?
I mean, i am Crystal myself and it already feels like nothing anymore because of this crap.

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I'm diamond and there are still so many players that don't know what they're doing. yet they somehow do perfect move sometime.
like a NIN Lb'ing 0.1s after I drop below half health from some random attack while nearly max range yet the rest of the game he moves around like a headless chicken and end up with the most death and least dmg.

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Originally Posted by ThorneDynasty

Yeah, because the old PVP totally wasn't a niche cesspit of cheaters

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HEY.

You forgot to mention the wintraders too

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Originally Posted by iiTzSeb

HEY.

You forgot to mention the wintraders too

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Kinda the same for me tbh.

I feel like the action bots are probably going to be the most common form of cheating because it's subtle enough to fall into plausible deniability unlike the other more blatant methods like being immune to CC.

Having an add-on that basically screens for "high risk" abilities like DRG's LB and SAM's Chiten and automatically guards or CCs in response is still a ridiculously huge advantage. Obviously not fool-proof, but still probably likely to save you more often then it gets you killed.