GM / Master map hacker and general hacking and cheating th…

On February 18 2014 22:30 NFxJehuty wrote:
Not sure if maphacker or not, because my off-race is bad, but is someone supposed to go Robo straight after Council in PvP? if not (After I placed DARK SHRINE):

L: Masters
N Phoenix
C bod

You can also notice he moves his army back to his main the second I place it, as if he knew I threw down that proxy/an attack was coming.

On February 20 2014 06:55 Nido.Movida wrote:
Hacker name : KaLLLeu
Server EU
League Diamond
Description went proxy two gate on a 4 player map without scouting

Replay link
http://drop.sc/374460

On February 20 2014 08:34 Adrenalinn wrote:



you dont think he just got lucky? haha seems fishy yeah.

On February 20 2014 09:01 Tossim111 wrote:
Suspicious of Hack: Rain
Server: AM
League: Plat (8-0) now playing Masters (I am Masters)

Description:
00:00: Weak but, he does scout me at the first try. <- Do not even address this, please.

31:08 : After an engagement with both of our major armies, I attempt to drop his base @ 6-7 ' clock, his 5th. Usually when players lose the majority of their units in an engagement they would warp in to reinforce, but as soon as my drop nears his base, the 2nd action he does is warp in templar.
TLDR: he warp ins 2 templar as soon as I am about to arrive with 3 medivacs at his 5th.

32:56 - 33:36 : Concentrates his army where I am pushing without any vision. I am able to walk around the xel'naga towers.

35:16: Again, he concentrates his army where I am pushing without any vision. What was suspicious is he takes control of the xel'naga tower for a moment when my army is near it, and as I advance out of sight, he moves in and engages.

There was a bm player by the name of [Ciels] Rain who was diamond; I tried finding him on nios.kr but the many Rains in ladder would not fit him as he had plenty of games played; possibly a banned player whom got another account.

Here is the replay: http://drop.sc/374465

"What was suspicious is he takes control of the xel'naga tower for a moment when my army is near it, and as I advance out of sight, he moves in and engages."

On February 20 2014 09:16 Advantageous wrote:


Templars could just be lucky, when i use to be in masters i did warp in templars anticipating drops after losing my main army.

Army positioning, this could just be luck; but is suspicious.

this isn't that suspicious, he's taking xel naga and as soon as ur army moves out of sight it is likely that he's trying to catch u out of position. however, him taking xelnaga while u're near it (im assuming multiple times) is fairly suspicious.

On February 23 2014 04:48 mainerd wrote:
Hacker name: NWABroseidon
Server: NA
League: GM
Description: I probably wouldn't have thought much of this game if not for the reaper movement at the start when my zealot was moving towards his nat. He didn't hop the reaper into my main to scout, instead went to watch tower, which did not reveal my zealot, but brought back his reaper to his natural anyway. There are times it seems he's not maphacking, like 9:00 when he scouts my army with a marine and pulls back into his main, but the fact he didn't scout my base at all and had great timing on scouting my army + his removal of proxy pylons and an intercept on my prism makes me suspicious.

Replay

On February 23 2014 05:23 Shanyo wrote:


He's a confirmed hacker. Search his name on SC2 reddit.

On February 23 2014 08:00 NFxJehuty wrote:
Player: SoulS
Clan : [Sæxy]
Race: Protoss
League: Diamond(Masters MMR/ ex-15 time masters player)

Patrols third base without any knowledge on spawn position or sighting of overlords on Alterzim Stronghold (4 Player map).

On February 23 2014 14:37 TheMaXiM wrote:
It's pretty ridiculous that there are an unknown amount of these people out there and I hope Blizzard can get something done about this soon. It seems like we see more of these threads as time goes on.

On February 23 2014 18:59 Grippe87 wrote:



So, while it seems likely that this guy had some hack going on, this isn't exactly 'proof'. It could be a total coincidence, especially with stuff like moving his army in what seems like a reaction to yours even if he has no scouting. Watch any of your own games with this same critical eye and you'll notice that sometimes this kind of positioning takes place. The reality of SC2 is that there are optimal locations and positions to try and defend and attack, like behind choke points or up ramps, or even before chokes in the case of zvx. Burrowing roaches at drop locations is also suspicious but unfortunately not proof, because again, there are good places to drop and good places to defend potential drops. I remember back in WoL when mass drop play was popular vs zerg, and one of the ways to defend it was to burrow banes at the most obvious drop locations. I grant that this is a little different in that it's not banes, but ppl do weird shit in diamond league lol. What is proof is stuff like in-base proxies on 4 player maps with no scouts for example, or mirroring army movements without vision (notice, not merely re-positioning armies at optimal locations).


Blizzard's strategy on banning people unfortunately allows for a lot of suspicious activity to fall through the cracks, but I think it's one of those "innocent until proven guilty" ideals that guides their thinking here. Altogether I don't think that's a bad thing. I do, however, think that they need to update the technology they use to identify cheating. But I'm not holding my breath since Blizzard has never been particularly with the times when it comes to technology.