Anything that reduces cheaters is always good from my opinion.
Also, perhaps some degree of low levels vs. high levels matchmaking could be done if there are many players on a campaign and it is possible. Some automated system, based on ranks or something?
On the other hand, I started with nothing on this game and I actually favor plenty of the bolt-lock action rifles, because it is all about your own gaming style and skill. However, I understand that for many people who want to start gaming, the wall is HUGE for entry if they dont have significant FPS gaming background/ experience.
That wall/ Barrier of entry should be reduced any way possible, I am one of those people who can lose 100 times in a roll and still stay interested and trying, but I am an exception and I know that. Younger players have less tolerance for losing too many times in a roll.
What comes to cheating and preventing cheaters, as mentioned it is always a favorable thing to do. That should be taken seriously, few cheaters can ruin the game completely and fast. However, action has to be taken in a way that no one who is INNOCENT gets kicked out/ banned if they literally have not cheated.
This is extremely important for me because it happened to me once.
- I leave that evidence/ judgement system on the developers hands how it works with the IT-systems and so on.
For example, I play only random games and I am typically somewhere in the top 20% or top 3 after every game, but it is because I have played this game endlessly and remember pretty much all the maps, have strategic eye where to put spawn points and more ammo and from where to approach.
I have also been in military, so there is that too… Dont know how useful that is but I guess it gives something from the backbone/ Subconscious brain memory?
- I have never cheated in any video-game at all.
I simply do not even know HOW to do it?
All I am asking from developers is to ensure that it wont be like the old system in Battlefield was, from there I was booted out from the game because I was literally too good at it?
This happened to me and I have never touched battlefields after this:
I played Battlefield Vietnam online to a point where I had 52 kills and no deaths at all (That looks weird already) kind of numbers all the time and it was deemed suspicious, someone reported me and i got banned? I quit the game there at once. At that point I had played it like 2 years every afternoon after school as a kid.
I was so good at flying with those choppers and loved the music so much that I was literally doing exactly what players are supposed to do and ferrying out other players from the spawn points near the target spawn and after landing them there, covering them from the air.
Or I sneaked out behind the enemy lines and started taking people out really well.
I never cheated on it, I never even figured out how to do that and I dont want to because it ruins your OWN gaming experience, learning to lose is also important. It helps with dealing real losses in the life too.
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The point being is that I got to a point where I was so good at it that I got kicked out from the system due to “Cheating” although i never cheated?
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I still remember it and it was like, what? - 17 years ago?
Therefore the judgement/ kicking out system has to be based on something else except on other players “Suspicion” of you doing something that you are not supposed to do. It will also leave a door open for bullying.
Thats all.