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Fujilives · 2012-12-03, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Bags

I've yet to run into any blatant hacking either.

Though I spend 90% of my time in a tank.

Hacking in PS2 is rampant, go to Youtube and type in planetside 2 aimbot, or planetside 2 speed hack and watch all the crazy videos.

Depends what server you are on, but on Matherson I haven't encountered a whole lot. Sure, I've encountered a few 'would-be' aim-botters, but there's no way to prove it and they could just be really (really) good, but beyond that nothing stood out.

However on another server (I forget which, but I have a Vanu there) I've seen MANY NC using a form of speed-hack. It's almost exclusively NC using it (took a couple screenshots of some of the guys warping around as best I could but wasn't recording), and when I asked the group of people with me what I just saw... they all agreed it was a speed hack and that the NC had been abusing them more and more on that server with several people saying they got "owned" by people using that hack the day prior. If you see a guy 'lagging' left and right rapidly appearing and disappearing about 6-feet each pop, that's just someone with a speed hack strafing left and right while they shoot you. I found this surprising.

Personally I think the hacking potential in the game right now is really crazy - if you have no intention of giving a crap about long-term play in this game, it's basically a hacker's wet-dream. The potential drama of everything and ability to just make a new account for free and near-infinite targets should make any hacker froth at the mouth. They really need to tie 'all' accounts (even the completely 'free' accounts) to credit cards so they have a finite-number of character creations. Sure, some people would get scraped off the top, but I'd think they would try to do this for thier own bottom-line as a tool to help reduce the inevitable chinese-cert-farmers that are bound to come (who will probably be selling characters online with 100000 certs for 30 dollars that they cheated to produce.)

P.S. Spending 90% of your game time in a tank is neglecting about 90% of the fun this game has to offer, go out and explore the world instead of sweating it out in your iron shell.