how rampant is cheating in CC

[Amarande]

I just started CC and I have seen 1 player take out an entire team solo. players go from no rank to gold in 1 hour

SAM LB will by design do exactly that if opponents are not aware of the mechanics.

As for the ranking thing, every game with ranking is that to some or other degree. Everyone starts out at the default rank regardless of their actual skill, and in most cases outside of advanced enough esports to actively feature a placement system (such as League) or online versions of traditional card and board games (e.g., Doman Mahjong here in XIV, or most online Chess servers), the starter rank is the very bottom of the ladder.

So if you're actually good and you play enough games in a short period, you should fairly quickly rise to near or close to your proper rating level, that is how rating is intended to work (although with CC it's a little weird because there are the ratchet points that you can't drop below once achieved, while in most games you can potentially fall all the way to the minimum rating on a bad enough streak).

[Kozh]

SAM LB will by design do exactly that if opponents are not aware of the mechanics.

As for the ranking thing, every game with ranking is that to some or other degree. Everyone starts out at the default rank regardless of their actual skill, and in most cases outside of advanced enough esports to actively feature a placement system (such as League) or online versions of traditional card and board games (e.g., Doman Mahjong here in XIV, or most online Chess servers), the starter rank is the very bottom of the ladder.

So if you're actually good and you play enough games in a short period, you should fairly quickly rise to near or close to your proper rating level, that is how rating is intended to work (although with CC it's a little weird because there are the ratchet points that you can't drop below once achieved, while in most games you can potentially fall all the way to the minimum rating on a bad enough streak).

I dunno, going from no rank to gold in an hour is nearly impossible because your team depends on RNG. You may be god at pvp, but if your teammates suck, then you'll lose.

From my experience it took me 2 weeks to reach gold back during season 1. I can buy if it's a day (though I'll still be suspicious).

[Zaniel]

I just started CC and I have seen 1 player take out an entire team solo. players go from no rank to gold in 1 hour

The solo kill thing is not super outrageous, you can solo wipe a team as several classes with a good bit of luck and skill combined. I've wiped an entire party as a ninja coming in as cleanup after a good AE and I've also been solo team wiped by a few nuclear Limit Breaks, it happens. I find you remember this sort of thing when it happens to you and just don't remember the 3,000 times people blew it and killed no one.

In spite of all the talk about cheating I've only ever seen a few instances of absolutely blatant cheating using the auto-target bot in ranked. Other than that, I'm sure it lurks about here and there but it's not the order of the day.

[Fland]

I just started CC and I have seen 1 player take out an entire team solo. players go from no rank to gold in 1 hour

Was it a Samurai?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

A GNB with LB, a WAR with LB, a SAM with LB and probably a BLM as well if the enemy is sleeping can do massive teamwipes. A NIN can chain kill as well if given the right situation.

Now, Ive seen actual cheating and nearly choked on a drink from laughing - a DNC used speedhacks and basically had perma zoomies that were faster than the speedlanes on Palaistra.

I won anyways because Blota and Salted Earth are a blessing.

Are they frequent? Perhaps more recently but I have rarely seen it happen on Light datacenter. I wont speak for NA datacenters though... *ehem*

[Katt_Felista]

how rampant is cheating in CC ? : Yes

It's still going on, and SE has absolutely no cheater prevention engine on their game, just about "everything" passes and unfortunately they can't do a thing about it, and don't really want to bother to.

https://youtu.be/sXlzYhvlOdQ

[Wolwosh]

In my experience people are just bad.
Either my groups just faceroll the other group, or we get facerolled..
I can't tell you how many times my team members try to 1 vs 5 instead of grouping up...
Its so frustrating >_<

[LianaThorne]

I dunno, going from no rank to gold in an hour is nearly impossible because your team depends on RNG. You may be god at pvp, but if your teammates suck, then you'll lose.

From my experience it took me 2 weeks to reach gold back during season 1. I can buy if it's a day (though I'll still be suspicious).

This is half true, you can trick the system into queueing you with friends if you all queue at the same time. I've done it several times with my partner. So it's not a stretch of the imagination to see 5 people who all know each other on the same team. Even if you end up on separate teams, your friends on the opposing side can just throw the game and help you rank faster that way.

[Vatom]

This is half true, you can trick the system into queueing you with friends if you all queue at the same time. I've done it several times with my partner. So it's not a stretch of the imagination to see 5 people who all know each other on the same team. Even if you end up on separate teams, your friends on the opposing side can just throw the game and help you rank faster that way.

I see that more often then not and I would consider that cheating if the game's code wasn't so trash

[Bsrking5]

So nothing new, just the usual?