People are hacking ranked match making. They are playing with obvious map revealed, boosts in eco or etc. just slightly to come out with nearly double the units your eco. can muster even while defending perfectly.
it is so obvious to watch their troop movements directly to the fog of war.
i am aware how fast good players can micro/manage eco, but this is something different.
Do you have recorded games?
idk that is just hacking, do not need the soft pretext.
the map reveal hack is there like a year if not more.
dev arent doing shit about it, even if you reported the abuser and the promotion in public room.
game is dead anyway, so live with its dead body i guess
The game is so beautifully made - balance changes I can tolerate, but when the other player suddenly has 10-20 extra cavalry or whatever unit he needs and its not cards theyāre playing you really have to question why even play anymore
Unfortunately without proof its hard to rally behind rumor. Ive seen hacks but ive seen far more often people mistake luck or game mechanics and so without recs to demonstrate hard to put it in peoples faces the severity of it.
Id highly encourage anyone with recs of unit spawns to show it so people can start to identify what the hacks are, and how often its occuring.
Or come up with a place/way to discretely āSuggestā any players specifically, such that their games might be found live. Then you would have at least a few of us keeping an eye out here & there for them.
But of course direct personal evidence is/would be best.
Iāve personally never seen anyone do anything on the ladder I would consider cheating, but Iāve seen people accuse myself and others of cheating when they are just salty and it āfeelsā like we pulled troops out of nowhere. Some people donāt even know that instant training is possible with enough cards or native techs.
As for the troop movements, an attack move to a random point near an opponentās base has a pretty high chance of bumping into something, especially when you can make educated guesses on where the resources are.
The times Iāve been accused of cheating (with one hilarious, salty exception) was me simply checking mines and hunts with cav because thatāsā¦ thatās where vills go
I got accused of cheating beacuse and I was playing India - a pretty mediocre civ. If it was usa or mexico, it could at least be understandable, but india? Not saying it is the case, but OP needs to post recs and study them before accusing anyone of cheat or hacks. They might be just be better than you.
This.
āAny sufficiently advanced [game sense] is indistinguishable from [map hacks]ā
Iāve had games where dumb luck and a little game sense got me accused of cheating. Iāve also had a game where sending Blood Brothers (which sends your score to the moon) got me accused of cheating. With the complexity of the game, itās super easy to do something that some players just donāt understand.
My favourite cheat used to be stealthed spies. Too bad it got nerfed.
the real map hacks is ofcourse seeing the hunts in the fog of war being herded/killed