Hackers still rampant despite multiple reports - Please give visibility on this.

[Bacent]

They need to have a system that sends you to jail when you go into areas you shouldn't be in. Same if your character goes over a certain speed without certain actions being used.

I've seen hackers in PvP being a mess of it before, but not in this way... glad I'm almost done leveling all DPS so I can stick to dungeons

[Jennah]

Wait, when did FF14 add PvP?

[Tigerlilley]

Wait, when did FF14 add PvP?

They didn't. We have PVB - player vs bot

[iVolke]

Wait, when did FF14 add PvP?

There it is. Without fail, in every General pvp thread.

[DoH]

lmao for those of you who are complaining about this, you probably don't actually play Frontlines all that often. Although I've experienced players who appear to be using "hacks" like the OP is describing, or something to boost their jumping speed / distance, none of these players are ever very good. I recommend using macros to place numbers above particularly annoying enemies and also see who they are. For example:

/macrolock
/mk attack1 <t>
/echo Attack 1 - <targetjob> (<t>)

Although you can typically see only the class of enemy players in Frontlines and Rival Wings, the above macro will allow you to see who those people actually are. Then, after the match, look at their stats: How much damage did they do? How many enemies did they kill? How much did they heal? How many objectives did they do? Unsurprisingly, people who are obviously using scripts and bots are generally nowhere near the top of the charts after a match, so you really don't have much to worry about. Nine out of ten times, the reason your team doesn't win is because they're feeding or ignoring objectives, not because of "hackers."

I still think one of the biggest issues with the PvP community is not "hackers," but rather how unwelcoming many of well established players are to newcomers - if you don't acknowledge / engage with them and let them know how cool they are, many of them will accuse you of being a cheater and go out of their way to grief you. If you just ignore the sweaty kids and keep your head down, PvP in this game can actually be pretty fun, even if you're queuing solo (which I do most of the time, even though it can be painful when you get paired up against coordinated premades who instantly get BH5 off of baddies and then proceed to steamroll everyone).

[Divinemights]

lmao for those of you who are complaining about this, you probably don't actually play Frontlines all that often. Although I've experienced players who appear to be using "hacks" like the OP is describing, or something to boost their jumping speed / distance, none of these players are ever very good. I recommend using macros to place numbers above particularly annoying enemies and also see who they are. For example:

I still think one of the biggest issues with the PvP community is not "hackers," but rather how unwelcoming many of well established players are to newcomers - if you don't acknowledge / engage with them and let them know how cool they are, many of them will accuse you of being a cheater and go out of their way to grief you. If you just ignore the sweaty kids and keep your head down, PvP in this game can actually be pretty fun, even if you're queuing solo (which I do most of the time, even though it can be painful when you get paired up against coordinated premades who instantly get BH5 off of baddies and then proceed to steamroll everyone).

If you are not on Primal, this has nothing to do with you because you are making story on something you don't even know
That guy is known bot users with many multi alts.
The only reason he still run at large is he is protected by this forum policy of no name shaming
Unless that is your alt and you are trying to cover it up

[Bobby66]

They are bot wrong people bloodlust over hackers in Frontlines but let us be honest if you play objectives they are not much of a hassle.

[DoH]

If you are not on Primal, this has nothing to do with you because you are making story on something you don't even know
That guy is known bot users with many multi alts.
The only reason he still run at large is he is protected by this forum policy of no name shaming
Unless that is your alt and you are trying to cover it up

Ah, there we go - that's more like it. The typical accusation from sweaty kids who play PvP.

Although hackers are annoying (I'm not disagreeing with you there), what I'm saying is that unless you can show that they're having a big impact on the outcome of a Frontlines match (again, you can share their post-game states without sharing their name), the much bigger issue with PvP in this game is people not knowing what the objectives are or just being bad in general. That the majority of people who do Frontlines are doing it solely once a day for the roulette experience certainly isn't helping in that regard. Also, for the record, there are hackers on servers other than just Primal. I run into them occasionally. They're just generally bad.

[KageTokage]

The bottom line is that hackers are around, and they shouldn't be. It doesn't matter if they're easily beatable or not.

Between this and the utterly absurd amount of bots out and about who never get banned after multiple reports, it's painfully obvious that the STF is not doing their job properly and they need to change their approach and hire more staff.

Someone seriously needs to bring up both issues directly to one of the head devs next time there's an interview or some such because that was what it took to get the party finder ads removed.

[Shibi]

Between this and the utterly absurd amount of bots out and about who never get banned after multiple reports, it's painfully obvious that the STF is not doing their job properly and they need to change their approach and hire more staff.

While the team seems to have some real shortcomings with understaffing, I am sure the individuals themselves are doing their job with as much professionalism and pride as they can, and likely working very hard with an endless pile of bot reports in non-native languages.

That said, you are correct on SE needing more people to police this, four aint cuttin' it.

I'd consider it wise of SE if there was a larger and native language Strike Force in each datacentre. Fr/De/En/日本語 speakers to deal with the finer points of any rambling tickets.