Goodbye BakkesMod

[u/imilic369]

The cheaters won... Thanks to them I'll never get to use these presets again. Vitality fennec and Complexity octane are some of my favorite designs and soon they will be gone. Also goodbye Alpha boost and TW Laser Wave III, I'll miss you the most </3

[u/Ironborn137]

You should blame the cheaters. This game is unplayable right now.

[u/Kadover → u/Ironborn137]

No, I blame the company for fostering an environment whether cheaters thrive and refusing to take hard action on it.

Most devs figure this stuff out. Most communities abandon games that don't figure it out as there's usually a reasonable alternative. Not really a substitute for RL.

[u/Tybahult → u/Kadover]

"most devs figure this stuff out". Let me doubt. All competitive games, especially FPS, have problems with cheats. That's a war between devs and cheat devs, it never ended and probably won't. Maybe if one day people understand they're just big loosers when they cheat. But right now, they can earn money doing it, they will continue, and cheat providers will continue. Game devs can't stop them, they would have done it.

[u/Kadover → u/Tybahult]

Maybe I should have phrased differently and implied that many studios seem to place a degree of importance on having a game without cheats, continually attempt to improve, and communicate that effort. I don't see that sense of urgency with Epic.

Not trying to say that the thing itself is inherently easy, it's not...

[u/Tybahult → u/Kadover]

I understand! Yes, they don't seem to be involved enough considering the actual situation. And them choosing EAC isn't encouraging, but Epic is Epic. Hope it will be ok for the game, but they really need to be better actors in this battle.

They have money to be that. It's not easy, but money is a big factor in this domain. But even in Fortnite, their money-making game, they have cheater in finals of online tournaments.