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What's up everyone!! I am somewhat new to MMORPG.com but not to MMO's. I'm currently playing a game you may or may not have heard of called Darkfall Unholy Wars. This game is a very fast paced FPS based game, you have to aim your arrows, melee swings, and spells. Now unfortunately for this particular game, cheating/hacking is rampant with very little way to stop it due to the gaming company not being able to detect the hacks and they have openly admitted that. They "investigate" each case of suspected hacking, but don't get very far very fast. As a result, you really never know if the person who beat you did so legitimately or not. It's very annoying as a certain group of players are HIGHLY suspected of using what is known as an "Aim Bot" or a "Stickyback Hack".
Now to clarify, an Aim Bot is what it sounds like, it aims your abilities at the closest person for you so that you virtually never miss. A stickyback hack is what it sounds like as well, this allows you to stick to the persons back so that you can melee them down without missing a swing.
On to the fun part and what brings up my question. I am typically very good at games and this game is no exception. However, as stated before there is a group of people that are highly suspected by most of the games community of hacking due to how much better they are at the game than everyone else, including myself. Some of the things they do just seems...inhuman. Now we all pull off something every once in a while that is amazing. However this particular group seems to always do what most of us can only do occasionally. Particularly in melee, they can stick to someone relentlessly and kill them quick due to the "squishier" classes not being able to "squirrel" or dodge them. They are apparently capable of defying the "action is quicker than reaction" rule. They are able to match each and every turn that someone does and not lose any ground on them, thus killing them quickly. Is that even possible? Maybe I am wrong but I don't believe that it is. Thus why I'm going to provide a little bit of video of the game to show you what I mean and let you decide.
This video is a video of a known hacker that was eventually banned. Notice how he moves and "sticks" to the persons back who is un-capable of dodging no matter which way he runs/dodges. Keep in mind THIS video is confirmed a hack, I am using it to give you an idea of what I am talking about since most of you probably have not played this game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdEAQmqx0s
Now in the previous video it was pretty obvious he was hacking. He was banned because of how obvious he made it that he was hacking (still took them like 5 months to finally ban him, maybe longer).
The issue on why these other guys are not banned (if they are in fact hacking) is that they are suspected of "toggling". Toggling is basically turning on your hack for moments at a time then turning it right back off after you use your ability or abilities. With the current lack of hack detection it is virtually impossible to tell if someone is hacking IF they toggle. Heck even in their own videos it's impossible to tell simply because you turn it on, use your ability, turn it off. This happens in less than a second. By doing this it is believed these players can sticky back people without bringing suspicion on themselves (other than the fact that they just killed someone in seconds who is known as a relatively good player) and land most if not all of their abilities.
SO now that you have an idea of what I am referring to. Do you believe that it is even humanly possible to melee someone down in this game like that? If the person who is running is the action(er?), and the person who is chasing performs a reaction (which is supposed to be slower) is it possible to "stickyback" someone to death without the use of hacks/cheats?
If it interests anyone, I did some research and it takes .215 seconds for the average person to react to outside variables. Some can be faster, some slower but that is the average.
So now judge this video. Is this kind of stuff possible?
This video is just a normal video. NOT suspected of hacking, at least not widely suspected. This IS however, one of the PLAYERS who is highly suspected of hacking. (forgive the bieber bs in the video, his clan name is bieber boyz lol, gotta give him credit for humor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXzOQDghWUo&feature=youtu.be
Notice people turn left and turn right, forwards, backwards, circles, etc and for the most part he is able to match their turns while losing very little to no ground on his opponent. Is that possible? I ask because I really don't know, maybe he is just THAT good or maybe he is toggling on off at the right times in order to keep the same distance. I don't know.
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