Radars in Frontlines and Hunts - Any word from SE?

[SeleneVenizelos]

This content is currently broken for PS3/PS4 players. Not entirely so much that they can't partake in it, but certainly at a tremendous handicap to the PC competition that are using these exploits.

Everything is broken for PS3 and PS4 users because PCs play the game much better. You can make radar users (probably a much smaller percentage of players than you think) your scapegoat all you like but you should be aiming your venom at the fact you're on a console.

[Tupsi]

Everything is broken for PS3 and PS4 users

Guess I imagined clearing quite a lot of content on my PS3 :x

[Lionhand]

I have tolerated much of the gil selling and botting in this game already. But this takes the cake. Unless radars and teleporting scams are dealth with, I think im through with this game. I so hate this bogus hunters who are parading titles and upgrading weathered items like its nothing. Access to i110 items is maintstream now, i dont know how crafters can fight back (desynth? for glamour? really?) and even old time raiders might as well join the bandwagon too. Seeing bans and warning updates is good, but I DOUBT that totally removing this hacks is even possible seeing how long-time problems like bots and gil sellers are still thriving and continues to mock SE. I do like the idea of hunts, but seeing how its being abused now? i just wish this patch wasn't release at all. Oh yes, this radar app is also being used in Frontlines, another feature that i liked ruined by it.

[Gucci_Charms]

They don't comment because they don't care.

[dspguy]

I don't condone the radar cheating, but I also don't see what they can do. It reminds me of when some states in the US tried banning radar detectors in cars. Most courts found that the signals are there to be received and it is not illegal to receive the radar signals transmitted from police/authorities. Of course, this is a game. And SE is the judge/jury/executioner. However, I don't see how they can do anything. The radar cheat probably just reads in whatever the server says is in your view. I can see them doing something if people were teleporting around.

It is depressing. Probably one of the reasons I don't touch frontlines and won't do hunts unless I'm in a big LS doing it. I can't compete. It is a problem.

[Tupsi]

I don't condone the radar cheating, but I also don't see what they can do.

They can spawn fake enemies that can only be detected if you're reading memory - They did it in FFXI and it only showed up to people who used Windower and certain plugins that parsed memory. Aside in-game measures they can scan your PC but they'd have to update the EULA/TOS to do so.

[Souljacker]

They can spawn fake enemies that can only be detected if you're reading memory - They did it in FFXI and it only showed up to people who used Windower and certain plugins that parsed memory. Aside in-game measures they can scan your PC but they'd have to update the EULA/TOS to do so.

And quite frankly they don't have the industry clout OR the playerbase to pull that kind of a bait and switch. I'd agree with the random spawning of fake mobs - something, ANYTHING to fix this problem... short of spying on my personal computer tyvm.

[dspguy]

I stand corrected. I guess there is something they could do.

[Alukah]

They can spawn fake enemies that can only be detected if you're reading memory - They did it in FFXI and it only showed up to people who used Windower and certain plugins that parsed memory. Aside in-game measures they can scan your PC but they'd have to update the EULA/TOS to do so.

How exactly did that work in XI? I don't see it working well here, I mean yeah you are able to see the fake enemies in your radar, but the server doesn't know you are able to see them since it's a 3rd party app, SE still cannot know who is able to see them.