Probably comes from the fact that software like Windows, for example, is not your property and you only buy a license. You’re free to develop and run your own OS at any time. Otherwise, it is only the hardware that you own.
I’ve never done a survey of players - what are you on about??
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Based on what? Wetting a finger and holding it in the air??
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Do you have any data? And experience, a first hand account. Several of you ask my buddies
I have 1 point of data - me. That’s why I’m not making any claims about what % of players do this or that.
That’s why I’m asking where all these figures come from - 'cos tbh most of them appear to be PIDOOYA
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Well gaijin won’t ever release the actual data
I’m curious as to if this changes the game experience at all for people. Probably not much.
I wish I could play it, but somewhere in the comms either Gaijin or Nvidia forgot to update the Geforce Now images so I can’t even launch the game… so basically this update has wound up locking everyone on cloud gaming out from playing.
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Because mods are often a grey area and either it’s up to someone’s judgement or the dev policy can change and you get your account banned for something that used to be allowed… At one point Gaijin banned sound mods before allowing them again.
You seem to be associating mods with cheating, but plenty of us like mods that enhance the experience (though sound or visuals) rather than to get a competitive advantage. I think everyone is in agreement that using them for the purpose of competitive advantage is wrong, but that’s generally not what people are talking about when discussing “mods”… The problem is how do you know Gaijin won’t suddenly decide one mod or another (that’s not a cheat) isn’t allowed and you get banned from it, even when you weren’t trying to cheat.
I’ll leave my feedback here!
Interestingly, my FPS stability increased a little bit!
And, as you can see, I haven’t been false-positive’d, as I feared, so it appears I fell to the online fear-mongering and panicked too much, hahahah (everyone claiming there would be a catastrophic wave of false positive bans, etc).
How I feel right now towards BattlEye;
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When you’re allowing software kernel-level access, I think people have a right to know EVERYTHING to keep themselves safe!
Being forced to “trust me bro” re new software or not be able to play a game people have sunk much money and time into doesn’t sit right with a lot of us!
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“abusive sound mods”?
Well, if the stock engine sounds didn’t sound like garbage, then we wouldn’t want to. I just want the vehicle sounds to match what they actually sound like irl, same with guns and explosions.
The most abusive thing is the ULQ mode which lets you just turn off some foliage and AO, not sound mods!
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Because of BattleEye, I don’t have tank sound anymore. The engines are muffled and can’t be heard.
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Because of BattleEye, I no longer have any sound in the tank. The engines are muffled and can’t be heard.
Sorry but u really believe 4-8% players are cheaters? I doubt that very very very harshly.
With estimated 14 million player (source linked 3 times now in previous posts) per Month, that would mean between 560.000 and 1.120.000 Player do cheat on a monthly base and only 1190 get detected?
As stated, if out of 14.000.000 monthly players cheat 4200 (last month it was just 1190), its only 0,03% of the players, meaning in a match with 20 players u will encounter one in every 166th match. not very often i will say.
Even if the statistics of 14,000.000 is wrong and its only 10.000.000 million players and they have only banned half of all cheaters… its still super super low of a number. By far less then 0.1% of the playerbase.
Never ever!
Dont get me wrong, i believe there are cheaters… but i also bet my left nut that 95% of the “thats a cheater” claims are bullcrap.
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Ah so battle eye is the government
Lmao I would gladly show you my top tier ground battles.
I had to rewatch a game, because a PUMA (10.3) was watching me through 7 building 0.6 miles roughly away, had a laser beam on me, waiting and watching my every move. Then I got killed from a bs angle her pierced.
I went back and my team over whelmed him, and I ended up killing him.
Then he was looking through building again, I retreated to a spot he wouldn’t see. Turned my engine off as well. I was behind a bunch of bushes. And whack I’m dead. Shot me through a pixel through bushes, and buildings, have no squad mate, no drones etc. then he killed a driving t-72 in his radkampfwagon on the move through a few trees and a bunch of bushes a good distance away.
Top tier ground is by far the worst offender for cheaters. / getting “gaijined” since magically some tanks won’t take damage when hit on good angles. (I have a video of an abrams doing just that).
Considering it seems to be 1 every other match or so, it’s fairly common. You may see one in lower ranks every 4-5 matches.
During events is when it’s the worst by far.
Also a (certain regions of the world seem to cheat more than others) I can’t be specific because apparently that honestly is against ToS
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May i ask u to gimme a timestamp of the cheater and a timestanp of when you played your match? with that info i can go into the replay tool and see it for myself (if its on the same patch), even though this sounds like a oneoff, feel free to send me every time you think theres a cheater and i will see myself and judge myself if that was an cheater.
Always looking forward to help others understand and also learn myself.
btw toptier is likely the very last br people use cheats, first it takes forever to get there and second i dont think people will buy a vehicle for 60 bucks to use cheats… just my guts feeling that if we would make a heatmap of cheaters its like accounts lvl 1-10 with the most of them.
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In fairness this is accessible to all players, unlike sound mods, and it is a necessary feature for lower-end computers. Hell - one of the reasons I like WT so much is because of that acessibility, as I could run it off my laptop. (This was like a 10th gen i3 with no graphics card, so ULQ was actually necessary.)
Thankfully I do now have a proper computer, but there is no way in hell that I would want to screw over anyone with similar issues by removing ULQ.
what stops you using sound mods? Could do the same argument with custom sights couldnt i? The one i use isnt smt u can recreate inside the game tool. (and therefore not on console)
But i remember there was a famous sound mod back then, that the sound mod dev had to cut down due to restrictions, so yea, “illegal” sound mods can excist, but how much of an impact is that?
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We are already seeing some issues - some people are unable to install it, and apparently it is causing issues with tank sounds (?)*
I might go over it with a fine comb on my old laptop tomorrow with my old acct and see if it causes issues.
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