"you can beat cheaters with practice, cheaters suck at the game".People who complain about cheaters receive the following responses:
This is prolific in general chat and in /r/playrust subreddit. This makes it very difficult since the admin must spend valuable time watching the player and 'catching them in the act'. Admins have to very solid proof of cheating to ban players from official servers (after all, they bought the game, facepunch wants minimal false positives). So far, none of my reports have resulting in a ban on playrust, or rustafied. A player read all the items on my hotbar to me while I was in bandit camp. Groups of players beeline across a monument to the location where I am hiding, passing by crates. Players routinely pre-aim, or 'prefire', the top of ridges when I crest the ridge from >150m, despite having no knowledge that I was approaching. A player shot me from 150m in darkness through 7 layers of tree branches, while I have been stationary. Other times, I have experienced incredibly suspicious behavior. Sadly, these are often some of the most active groups on the server. While remaining stationary, and creating no noise or activity, it will take about 5-30 minutes for a group of players to appear and begin circling the hut. I spawn in at a random time and load my hotbar with C4, rockets, or HQM. I have tested ESP honeypots on a couple /r/playrust servers and was sad to see how quickly I could find an ESPer. It is difficult to detect and negates all stealth play, squad tactics and positioning. Scripting is easy to fix by the developers and can be theoretically overcome by aim training. Throughout the Rust community, cheats like ESP and aim scripts are no longer taboo like they used to be. Cheating is being 'normalized' and is spreading throughout official servers like wildfire as the OTV newbies are becoming seasoned. I also follow some of the top cheating discords and forums.Ĭheating is currently undergoing a renaissance in Rust. I have been conducting some honeypots and other tests in-game, to detect cheaters.
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