The truth is that it’s not what it appears to be. It’s not a game where you are playing against 99 other players who represent gamers from all around the world.
Maybe sometimes there are real people you’re playing against, but I think usually it’s bots.
I am NOT a great player but I got the feeling I was being cheated in just about every way possible and decided to try some ideas out to show it more clearly.
1st idea: when you sign in initially you are asked what level (as a player), you think you are. My first time in the game I checked ‘beginner’. I found that I couldn’t keep my guns sights still on an enemy, thus I was always getting killed without hitting the enemy very often.
So I became flustered and uninstalled.
I reinstalled and signed up as an ‘experienced’ player. The sighting problem went away.
2nd idea: I felt as if the team I was on weren’t real people, so I figured the same about enemy players. I would then message team members in the time before you’re in flight and tell them that I was non-violent and could not kill anyone in the game. They never answered back. I then would be in the game and would get on my stomach and crawl down the middle of any road I was on to attract fire. That did attract fire but a third party would suddenly enter the fray and kill my attacker, and then disappear.
3rd idea: I would attempt to kill myself in a variety of ways. Jumping off cliffs repeatedly wasn’t very effective. Drowning was more effective.
There are so many scenarios I played out that I concluded the game was a hoax in every way. Over the brief time I would play as a returning player with experience, I won several “Chicken Dinners”. I lost many more than I won and I wasn’t impressed by my ability to win such a game. I figured each ‘game’ had many winners.
I’m wondering how many of you think the same way about mobile games.
I’ve got more ideas about the whole industry and spent a ton of money playing IRON FORCE, and getting cheated in many ways , both subtle and in your face.
This idea that players are having problems with “bugs” and “hackers” is baloney!
This whole idea is so incriminating that it is too confusing to Google search that one can hardly find anything related to it online. Google keeps confusing it with “players cheating the games”, even to the point of causing some games to lose money. That is an example of the pure crap offered in attempts to misdirect, deny and otherwise lead people away from such thinking.
There’s so much much more direct evidence of this massive cheating, that even I (a wordy person) am loathe to put it into words.
I’m curious about anyone else’s experience with such thinking.
I think the big money being stolen through cheating, which is listed as revenue by Microsoft and Apple et al and then perhaps dispersed as gains to stockholders is likely one of the biggest money laundering scams of all times.
Any pro or con thoughts of others is welcome although the problem is absolutely rampant and totally denied by player support groups. They state very clearly that they are “not lying”.
I’m not familiar with this game myself, but it’s entirely possible you’re playing against bots without the developer being responsible. The podcast Reply-All had a recent episode on the phenomenon:
They are reporting on Team Fortress 2, but the same sort of thing could be going on in your game. Basically, a bunch of hackers enjoy running bots in games just to mess with people.
I haven’t heard the “bots inserted by hackers” angle before, but I have heard many times that problems with the way a game is supposedly supposed to work (yes I did say “supposedly supposed to work”), can be attributed to “bugs” or “lag” or the most common cause… “hackers”.
I played it a couple years ago and found it had so many problems for me that it didn’t appear other players had that made it an untenable constant mess for me. For instance, I couldn’t steer a car or other vehicle worth a shit. Steering left or right didn’t work for me so I ran everywhere or hitched a ride with a teammate because they could steer the vehicles. Boats were the worst.
I came to believe that the problems which I encountered at every turn were not bugs or due to lag or hackers because the only entity to benefit from the problems was the game. Since many of the problems involved paying real money for in game purchases, I decided that these problems were written into the games code even if what I just said isn’t the proper way to express what I’m trying to say. The game is/was rigged to take the players money… PERIOD! The ways I could manipulate my living or dying had obviously been considered when the game was made, but the age of any player unwilling to kill enemies in the game had not been given much time.
It was when I gave a fellow teammate a small amount of in-game currency that I realized I’d been had for sure. You purchase the in-game currency with real cash, then give some of it right back to the game believing it to have been a real person.
I was thinking trock for awhile, but as soon as I realized I didn’t know what it meant, I stopped. Now you tell me I might be onto something! I’m willing to catch up if I can because I’ve always felt that “might being onto something” is a far better state of mind than “not knowing if I’m onto anything”.
I prefer Fortnite as battlegrounds just seemed to be amateur hour cod …
I don’t know if epic still does it but Fortnite used to have bots in matches for new people until the first time they reached LVL 20 and although it was always rare they would use them to fill out any game where the LFP time was over 4 minutes
But u\yeah if anyone ever bitches about my lack of writing skills again I’m gonna send them to the op I mean yeesh…
I don’t know if it’s correct thinking but if…
“trock = troll + sock”
then could it be manipulated further thusly…? I mean you’ve defined the troll as using a single sock. Let’s take the guesswork out of the equation to enhance the lessening of mystery.
trock = troll + sock = troll rocking a sock?
Okay, I think it’s becoming more clear what “trock” means and I’m thinking it’s dirty for sure!!!