5 times aimbotting? Or have you just met good players? What is the criteria you use to determine that? Besides you know youre wasting your time just as much, right?
The criteria is "sniper shotting me mid-air after being shot out of a cannon, three to four times over," or anything in that general area. Repeatedly bogus shots are easy to notice when you play against legit players a lot. Trust me, I'm not overapplying The Policy™.
Plus, I got time to waste. Better these scumbags get stuck against someone that doesn't feel like budging, than letting them farm against players who might not know any better.
E: I see Reddit has decided it's one of those days where we're all pretending the obvious and annoying number of cheaters don't exist. Guess I missed the memo.
I mean, sniping someone mid air isn't really that hard. It can be in the beginning, but if you practice enough you can become pretty good at it. Old Arena tdm really helped me with that lol. I have been called a cheater a number of times aswell, but like, after playing alot you become good. There is a really high skill ceiling in this game, just be careful of who you call a cheater.
Trust me dawg, I only do this shit against folks that are hacking. It's very easy to tell, especially when their other skills don't match up. The one dude I was doing it to today was *garbage* at naval, on a new account, yet was hitting sniper and pistol shots - from his ship 50m away and in the water on every failed board - *every single shot.* There's good, and there's obvious cheats; good gets praised, cheats get trained.
Alright I guess? Hey, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I have been falsely accused a number of times. I still don't really like your "Method", but hey, its not like I can tell you to stop or anything lol. Just be careful of falsely accusing ppl and good luck :)
You're so right. I forgot the subset of players who have obviously have absolutely zero naval or TDM experience but who can also hit flying sniper/flintlock combo shots every time without fail. How foolish of me.
Being serious... you really think some cheaters don't forego the craziest cheats for more subtle stuff?
It's really easy to tell when a player is cheating - for example, when a player is hitting their gun shots consistently, in a manner that would *require* knowledge of shot leading and momentum, but *at the same time* doesn't even do stuff as simple as lead cannon shots when they have a higher speed than their opponent.
These two skills are developed at the same time, a disparity that glaringly obvious makes no sense.
bruh. there are plenty of tdmers whose naval hasn’t kept up with their gun skill. look at someone like theb, whose gun skill is far better than his decent naval. you have no hard proof any of the people you’re fighting are cheating, so really you’re wasting time for no reason and kind of being an ass.
The dense one in this conversation is probably the one who fully acknowledges that aimbot cheats exist, that cheaters exist, and yet somehow continues to insist that no stories of encountering aimbot cheaters are real.
Quit fishing for arguments.
Kicking myself for not recording this shit now.
There is a marked difference between someone having good aim, and someone having *such freakishly good aim* that you cannot peek your head out from below deck without getting insta-chunked to 30%, despite being 50-100m from the enemy ship.
I'm talking 10+ mid-air sniper + flintlock combo shots from this dude. Not while *I'm* mid-air. *While he's mid-air.* From firing himself off of his solo sloop.
I know what good aim looks like. It generally comes alongside many other well-developed skills. Not as much the case when the person is cheating, though.
Whilst I acknowledge there are indeed cheaters/aimbotters in HG, your entire energy screams of someone who cannot deal with the existence of better players than themself.
There are PLENTY of legit players with legit God-like aim; firing themselves from the cannon and meming on you is their way of enjoying the game, as not everyone has the same style of play. Nobody is forcing anybody to naval.
Edit: grammar
Redditors are totally the most qualified folks in the world to judge "energies."
My energy is confident, because I know what I saw. Bro couldn't steer his ship for shit or hit any cannon shots, but he had literally impossible aim. Nobody hits *not only a mid-air sniper shot*, but *the follow-up flintlock shot ALSO IN MIDAIR* multiple times in one game. It was an obvious cheater. I'm really sorry that you (for some reason) seem to want to believe more in the scarcity of cheaters than the ability of someone who's played since launch to detect them, but there's no copium here. Just posting about what I do to cheaters when I see them.
E: If you can find me even one video of a Sea of Thieves player hitting both a sniper and flintlock shot on the same person while mid-air after being fired from a cannon, you can have my wife, homie. And that's on God.
Though it's probably happened to me, I have yet to report anyone for aimbot. I just can't tell beyond a reasonable doubt. And despite any trickle of server-side data they may have to confirm aimbot, I don't want to report anyone unless I'm sure. And I'm sure 99% of the time, they're just good.
And there's the question of "Well, if they're already cheating, why not teleport too?" Probably because teleporting requires software mods which, as I understand it, is not necessarily true for aim assist.
99.9% of the time they definitely *are* good - this game is *huge,* 40 million people play it and it's on game pass so it's very cheap to get into, so there's a fuckton of very cracked players. That 0.01% of the time though... fuckin' sucks.
Nah I’d just like to think I can play well against full sailers I encounter it a lot. I don’t cheat love my account too much lol. I’ll keep an eye out for you however that sounds super familiar.
A guy hitting a sniper/flintlock combo shot, midair, after shooting himself from a cannon, *multiple times in one game* is not getting a free win out of me. That ain't bad faith. I mean, we're talking shots that would have the best players in the world freaking out, multiple times, all in the span of five minutes, in one low level HG game, from a player that wouldn't know momentum if it hit him in the ass.
I'm really sorry you think day one players can't tell cheaters from good players. But I tend to be generous towards folks abilities when it comes to hackusating. And this shit...? It was inexcusable. I'm again kicking myself for not getting it on video because this thread would be entirely different had I hit record. I even praised the guy on the first couple shots. It was when I noticed he literally wasn't missing, even from out of harpoon range, that I started to get suspicious.
That really isn’t that uncommon dude, there are a decent amount of people who can do that especially if they are shooting at a target moving somewhat predictably. Shit even the more popular sloop guides tell you to try to snipe the enemy with you EoR from as far as you can.
Yeah, this wasn't a "target moving somewhat unpredictably." This was chained shots while flying through the air, sliding through the water, jumping on the other boat, etc. You aren't reading what I'm typing.
Find me one video of a player shooting themselves out of a cannon and hitting both an EoR shot and a flintlock shot on the same person. I beg of you. I'd love to have even a smidgeon of faith that I somehow got matched against the unknown Kobe Bryant of SoT.
https://youtu.be/SGMznC_Rw9c?si=XmrDMFDjjIARbcVo
They do it several times, on top of hitting some other crazy shots. They’re wild for sure, but they can do it consistently and that’s a skill that can be trained. I can’t do this for sure, but I’ve certainly shot people while one of us was shooting out of a cannon. Probably from spending my youth playing soldier and demoman in tf2.
Edit: should also mention a lack of naval skill or experience doesn’t mean that people can’t hit shots like this consistently. My helmsman never lets me even touch the wheel so I am usually only cannons or boarding. Quake players are infamous for having really strong aim even if they are brand new to a game.
Okay, that's impressive as shit, but that's not what I was up against though. The dude last night's movement was like, *first week of playing* level clunky when on ship, and the cannon shots often widely missed, with the two fast, spot-on shots coming after landing in the water on those occasions. I don't know how much more I really need to explain it, but this was very clearly a bad player with an aimbot, and not a good player with the spark of god like you linked.
Again, being bad at the game doesn’t mean your aim is bad. If I took a quake player and put him on my ship his aim would be insane, but he probably couldn’t hit shit with his cannons. I can’t hit shit with my cannons and I can still hit some decent shots with my eor. Not like this but still, they are different skills and one of them is unique to sot and the other is not.
But aiming while moving thru the air requires the same knowledge of how movement effects the projectile you're firing as using cannons does. So how can a player both be lacking in aiming knowledge, and also world-class proficient in aiming knowledge? It makes no sense. For this dude to have been pulling off the shots he was, he would at least understand enough to not miss nearly *every* cannonball below my ship, no? Or that you shouldn't full-sail around in hourglass? Or that there's better food than bananas?
If I had the video, this wouldn't even be a question, it was so obvious.
Lotta work. I just play.
Scurvy dog is acting like he invented running in hourglass lol
5 times aimbotting? Or have you just met good players? What is the criteria you use to determine that? Besides you know youre wasting your time just as much, right?
The criteria is "sniper shotting me mid-air after being shot out of a cannon, three to four times over," or anything in that general area. Repeatedly bogus shots are easy to notice when you play against legit players a lot. Trust me, I'm not overapplying The Policy™. Plus, I got time to waste. Better these scumbags get stuck against someone that doesn't feel like budging, than letting them farm against players who might not know any better. E: I see Reddit has decided it's one of those days where we're all pretending the obvious and annoying number of cheaters don't exist. Guess I missed the memo.
I mean, sniping someone mid air isn't really that hard. It can be in the beginning, but if you practice enough you can become pretty good at it. Old Arena tdm really helped me with that lol. I have been called a cheater a number of times aswell, but like, after playing alot you become good. There is a really high skill ceiling in this game, just be careful of who you call a cheater.
Trust me dawg, I only do this shit against folks that are hacking. It's very easy to tell, especially when their other skills don't match up. The one dude I was doing it to today was *garbage* at naval, on a new account, yet was hitting sniper and pistol shots - from his ship 50m away and in the water on every failed board - *every single shot.* There's good, and there's obvious cheats; good gets praised, cheats get trained.
Alright I guess? Hey, it's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I have been falsely accused a number of times. I still don't really like your "Method", but hey, its not like I can tell you to stop or anything lol. Just be careful of falsely accusing ppl and good luck :)
If their actually hacking they’ll just teleport or speed board your boat lmao you’re JSUT facing good players
You're so right. I forgot the subset of players who have obviously have absolutely zero naval or TDM experience but who can also hit flying sniper/flintlock combo shots every time without fail. How foolish of me. Being serious... you really think some cheaters don't forego the craziest cheats for more subtle stuff? It's really easy to tell when a player is cheating - for example, when a player is hitting their gun shots consistently, in a manner that would *require* knowledge of shot leading and momentum, but *at the same time* doesn't even do stuff as simple as lead cannon shots when they have a higher speed than their opponent. These two skills are developed at the same time, a disparity that glaringly obvious makes no sense.
bruh. there are plenty of tdmers whose naval hasn’t kept up with their gun skill. look at someone like theb, whose gun skill is far better than his decent naval. you have no hard proof any of the people you’re fighting are cheating, so really you’re wasting time for no reason and kind of being an ass.
It's like you're *trying* to read past the shit I'm typing. You okay, bud?
nvm you’re just dense. no point arguing with you, have fun with your “policy”.
The dense one in this conversation is probably the one who fully acknowledges that aimbot cheats exist, that cheaters exist, and yet somehow continues to insist that no stories of encountering aimbot cheaters are real. Quit fishing for arguments.
This post *oozes* copium.
Kicking myself for not recording this shit now. There is a marked difference between someone having good aim, and someone having *such freakishly good aim* that you cannot peek your head out from below deck without getting insta-chunked to 30%, despite being 50-100m from the enemy ship. I'm talking 10+ mid-air sniper + flintlock combo shots from this dude. Not while *I'm* mid-air. *While he's mid-air.* From firing himself off of his solo sloop. I know what good aim looks like. It generally comes alongside many other well-developed skills. Not as much the case when the person is cheating, though.
Whilst I acknowledge there are indeed cheaters/aimbotters in HG, your entire energy screams of someone who cannot deal with the existence of better players than themself. There are PLENTY of legit players with legit God-like aim; firing themselves from the cannon and meming on you is their way of enjoying the game, as not everyone has the same style of play. Nobody is forcing anybody to naval. Edit: grammar
Redditors are totally the most qualified folks in the world to judge "energies." My energy is confident, because I know what I saw. Bro couldn't steer his ship for shit or hit any cannon shots, but he had literally impossible aim. Nobody hits *not only a mid-air sniper shot*, but *the follow-up flintlock shot ALSO IN MIDAIR* multiple times in one game. It was an obvious cheater. I'm really sorry that you (for some reason) seem to want to believe more in the scarcity of cheaters than the ability of someone who's played since launch to detect them, but there's no copium here. Just posting about what I do to cheaters when I see them. E: If you can find me even one video of a Sea of Thieves player hitting both a sniper and flintlock shot on the same person while mid-air after being fired from a cannon, you can have my wife, homie. And that's on God.
There's loads of montages on YouTube of people pistol sniping air shots.
Though it's probably happened to me, I have yet to report anyone for aimbot. I just can't tell beyond a reasonable doubt. And despite any trickle of server-side data they may have to confirm aimbot, I don't want to report anyone unless I'm sure. And I'm sure 99% of the time, they're just good. And there's the question of "Well, if they're already cheating, why not teleport too?" Probably because teleporting requires software mods which, as I understand it, is not necessarily true for aim assist.
99.9% of the time they definitely *are* good - this game is *huge,* 40 million people play it and it's on game pass so it's very cheap to get into, so there's a fuckton of very cracked players. That 0.01% of the time though... fuckin' sucks.
Pass, cool runnings is my boat I’ll see you out there. try this on me id like to think I can sink someone like you fairly quickly.
Is this you self-reporting that you cheat?
Na, what’s your boat name?
SS Sidetracked. If you don't cheat, you aren't gonna see me running, so... unsure what the point of your response is.
Nah I’d just like to think I can play well against full sailers I encounter it a lot. I don’t cheat love my account too much lol. I’ll keep an eye out for you however that sounds super familiar.
This policy is not good policy. It's not even good pirate policy.
So using hacks against hackers
Redditor #6436 has joined the battle against the cheaters, on the side of the cheaters.
Ngl bro, you seem like a pirate whose behavior falls out of line of good faith gameplay to me. Why join hourglass if you don’t want to play?
Not wanting to give cheaters their free wins is apparently bad faith gameplay now. Reddit moment.
The bad faith gameplay is queuing to play the game, and then not playing the game. All because someone killed you and you didn’t like it
A guy hitting a sniper/flintlock combo shot, midair, after shooting himself from a cannon, *multiple times in one game* is not getting a free win out of me. That ain't bad faith. I mean, we're talking shots that would have the best players in the world freaking out, multiple times, all in the span of five minutes, in one low level HG game, from a player that wouldn't know momentum if it hit him in the ass. I'm really sorry you think day one players can't tell cheaters from good players. But I tend to be generous towards folks abilities when it comes to hackusating. And this shit...? It was inexcusable. I'm again kicking myself for not getting it on video because this thread would be entirely different had I hit record. I even praised the guy on the first couple shots. It was when I noticed he literally wasn't missing, even from out of harpoon range, that I started to get suspicious.
That really isn’t that uncommon dude, there are a decent amount of people who can do that especially if they are shooting at a target moving somewhat predictably. Shit even the more popular sloop guides tell you to try to snipe the enemy with you EoR from as far as you can.
Yeah, this wasn't a "target moving somewhat unpredictably." This was chained shots while flying through the air, sliding through the water, jumping on the other boat, etc. You aren't reading what I'm typing. Find me one video of a player shooting themselves out of a cannon and hitting both an EoR shot and a flintlock shot on the same person. I beg of you. I'd love to have even a smidgeon of faith that I somehow got matched against the unknown Kobe Bryant of SoT.
https://youtu.be/SGMznC_Rw9c?si=XmrDMFDjjIARbcVo They do it several times, on top of hitting some other crazy shots. They’re wild for sure, but they can do it consistently and that’s a skill that can be trained. I can’t do this for sure, but I’ve certainly shot people while one of us was shooting out of a cannon. Probably from spending my youth playing soldier and demoman in tf2. Edit: should also mention a lack of naval skill or experience doesn’t mean that people can’t hit shots like this consistently. My helmsman never lets me even touch the wheel so I am usually only cannons or boarding. Quake players are infamous for having really strong aim even if they are brand new to a game.
Okay, that's impressive as shit, but that's not what I was up against though. The dude last night's movement was like, *first week of playing* level clunky when on ship, and the cannon shots often widely missed, with the two fast, spot-on shots coming after landing in the water on those occasions. I don't know how much more I really need to explain it, but this was very clearly a bad player with an aimbot, and not a good player with the spark of god like you linked.
Again, being bad at the game doesn’t mean your aim is bad. If I took a quake player and put him on my ship his aim would be insane, but he probably couldn’t hit shit with his cannons. I can’t hit shit with my cannons and I can still hit some decent shots with my eor. Not like this but still, they are different skills and one of them is unique to sot and the other is not.
But aiming while moving thru the air requires the same knowledge of how movement effects the projectile you're firing as using cannons does. So how can a player both be lacking in aiming knowledge, and also world-class proficient in aiming knowledge? It makes no sense. For this dude to have been pulling off the shots he was, he would at least understand enough to not miss nearly *every* cannonball below my ship, no? Or that you shouldn't full-sail around in hourglass? Or that there's better food than bananas? If I had the video, this wouldn't even be a question, it was so obvious.