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Shadow and object visibility bugs aside (they're getting fixed next patch AFAIK) everyone I know is reporting great performance on UE4. Clan, IA raid group, BM raid group, everyone is praising it in that aspect. Noone "needs" to do tweaks to make it playable, even on a 7 year old computer specs. Koldrak - hard to disagree on that part.

Even destroyers can get parties for any piece of the pve content out there. If you can't, on a warden, rest assured the class you're playing isn't the issue here.

Not all classes have access to same means of party support, if any at all. As a warden with soulburn you should be aware of that fact. Reparation is fine, learn to use it.

SF is a poorly designed class, but without xml it's playable and working fine. You can't possibly say that they lose 30% of their potential dmg, because playing legitimately, the "potential" was never there to begin with. And I guarantee you that even if this game had a skill rebind system, it would not allow for disabling particular dragonfury hits (same for any other class basic attack chains). DF removal xml is a straightforward dps cheat. Nothing more, nothing less.

Same goes for XMLs - if you don't alter your rotation, people will say it's bad. I know of people who got refused raid spots just on the basis of their parse spread looking "not optimal". By that they meant "not hacked enough". This needs to stop. At all costs.

You should stop paying attention to what OP writes here. He's quite obviously an RMT farmer.

Yes, an active GM staff would be ideal. Yes, a good support team that actually considers proof against cheaters would be great. But the game is at the point where it doesn't need "great" or "ideal" solutions to the issue. It needs "Any" solutions to the issue.

Had you taken a breather from your selfrighteous anger and took a minute to search the forum, you'd find the top stickied post in Announcements section titled "Known bugs in UE4 client" where this issue is acknowledged. You don't need to send in a thousand tickets. They know.

This hurts even moreso because everyone was sure UE4 would come with heartbeat. We were SURE. This was a major disappointment, in an otherwise great update. @Hime Cheaters have ruined this game for far too long. Hear us.

@HimeXigncode was a hugely anticipated part of this update. For a large chunk of the community it was much more important than any graphic/performance upgrade. We are fed up with trailing in all possible rankings and getting left behind economically due to rampant cheats everywhere. We DESPERATELY want it to be turned on.

Hello, let me start with the most burning one. Will our version of the UE4 client come with any sort of protection against 3rd party client modification methods? UE3 ladders and economy have been dominated by the cheating community, is there any hope for the legitimate playerbase to compete in UE4?

While the second part is obviously true, a community manager should be responsible for communication. It's preposterous that they're silent about something of this magnitude that warps the perception of their product. We, as NCSoft's customers, need to know if they're willing to draw a line in the sand.

@Hime Multiple topics about such a crucial subject, not a single word of acknowledgement from CM team ? At least give us some corpo jargon about how you're not ignoring the issue.

Can I just ask why has a chunk of this topic been removed without a word of explanation or acknowledgement of the issue by the mod team? @NCstaff Can we expect any sort of repercussions towards "superjumpers"? This is one thing you CAN do, it's super easy to detect by a log filter. There can be no false-positives, no excuses and every day you guys let it slide it encourages people to use any new cheat that can/will eventually pop up with impunity.

1. AFAIK GG (or a similar system) does the job and isn't bypassed in other regions. 2. There's no xmls that "make the game playable". You can't xml yourself more fps in a raid. Xmls are either outright cheats or minor QOL changes everyone can easily live without.

Or any sort of anti-cheat measure, really. Things have spiraled out of control to the point where despite recent TOS changes people are more obnoxious about their cheats than ever; publicly requesting for cheat engine users in faction/zone chats with no repercussions. GCD edits / Rotation XMLs / autocasts / speedhacks run rampant in every possible aspect of the game. We all know that. We'll take the hit on game performance gladly if it means evening out the playing field.

Issue you people aren't seeing: the game is already "sort of" balanced, just by the KR developement standards - not by EU/NA trash community standards. It's impossible to balance the game out if people are cheating with rotation altering xmls and reduced GCD, which boost some classes significantly, and others, not so much.

It's actually funny that spineless XML Andys consider everyone who plays legitimately as a newbie who doesn't know how Koldrak works.

I think you, and people alike, forgot that this is a Computer Game. It should be Entertainment. Mildly competetive, but still ONLY Entertainment. Not an online equivalent of an IRL rat race. It's actually quite depressing when you think about it.

I don't think Ancient system is even close to being The most unhealthy upgrade mechanic in BNS. Remember, past half a year or so forced like 500 sacred oils for basic non-rng upgrades on us. Any reasonable human being should consider +11 as a cap, and if you have access to rank reward stones it's doable with time and no real P2W. That said... Yes, there should absolutely be a reliable non-6v6 related way to acquire them at a reasonable pace, that shouldn't even be a discussion.

100% ? For crying out loud 10-15% increase from an xml ( and this is the lower end of the spectrum some of them give ) is already HUGE. 100%. What a joker. Good arguments bro, flawless logic. If not 100% then not op.

Yeah seriously, it is only people with high ingame ping that benefit from GCD cheat, it doesn't give any advantage to people on normal stable connections at all, you're totally right! There is plenty of actual competetive e-sport games where cheating was/is possible, yet their communities reacted to it in a different manner than in BNS. You are a big part of the problem. Don't for a second think you're not.

Your concept of balance in this game is warped. BD 3rd spec itself isn't OP. It just happens to be strong AND greatly benefit from the Global Cooldown hack running rampant in the past weeks. The same idea works for other classes. Take away summoner awakened XML+GCD and they drop from S tier to bad. Take away soulfighter dragonfury XML and they go from great to mediocre. Same for infinite titan surge KFMs. List goes on. How can the balance team (if there is any) achieve any goals within this structure if the intended mechanics are being circuimvented? ps. the idea that PvE balance is irrelevant is preposterous on so many levels I can't even

Short answer to your question is: No, they can't ban them or they'd go out of business. Since users on this forum are mostly newbies oblivious to what's going on: There's a wide spectrum of cheats including Global Cooldown modifications and XML edits that allow for impossible skill rotations that are used by the vast majority of endgame players. This is not an "oh that guy's a cheater, that's uncommon" type of situation. It is widespread. There's not more than 1-2 (if that) legitimate players in top15 ranks per class on Mao. Legitimate playerbase on whole EU server, we would have an issue with filling out a roster for ONE clearing IA raid. People are streaming 6v6 with obvious XML skill edits every day. Not even kidding, this is factual. NC is perfectly aware of the situation, it has been going on for years now. Ban wave of this magnitude would clear out the majority of the playerbase, including all of the highest spenders, effectively killing off the game. They just can't do it.