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You have to provide some kind of evidence/proof (screenshots/replays etc.) if you are going to accuse somebody.

Additionally, a supporting comment of what people should be looking for and when will be necessary if you are posting replays/evidence.
Kaitokid
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Germany1327 Posts
June 11 2012 16:26 GMT
#1121
I think I know who he means. There is a player consistenly in top 16/20 EU GM this season who suddenly became a contender for the top GM spots since this season, its seems rather strange. I also checked his matchhistory and indeed, never a BO loss.. if anyone has an EU account and checks GM out+ a couple of matchhistories he will know who we are talking about.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
June 11 2012 16:32 GMT
#1122
On June 12 2012 01:26 Kaitokid wrote:
I think I know who he means. There is a player consistenly in top 16/20 EU GM this season who suddenly became a contender for the top GM spots since this season, its seems rather strange. I also checked his matchhistory and indeed, never a BO loss.. if anyone has an EU account and checks GM out+ a couple of matchhistories he will know who we are talking about.


Well, I hope you at least bring this person's name to the attention of the creator of this thread, and maybe try to find replays backing up what you are describing, and other evidence to make it easier on him to go through the evidence.

Because if all you're going to do is say that someone in top 16/20 hacks and stop there, then you're really being quite useless and kind of creates even more paranoia than having a specific name.
city42
Profile Joined October 2007
1656 Posts
June 11 2012 16:33 GMT
#1123
The video of that NMx guy is pretty alarming. If hackers go to such lengths to cover their tracks, it will be impossible to catch them all. I really hope the ladder doesn't go south like the BW ladder around 2001-2002.

On June 11 2012 13:00 IOvEggY wrote:
I had a a feeling NMx were hackers...

You think everyone hacks...you accused me of hacking after failing a terrible baneling all-in.
iamahydralisk
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States813 Posts
June 11 2012 16:33 GMT
#1124
On June 12 2012 01:32 EtherealDeath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2012 01:26 Kaitokid wrote:
I think I know who he means. There is a player consistenly in top 16/20 EU GM this season who suddenly became a contender for the top GM spots since this season, its seems rather strange. I also checked his matchhistory and indeed, never a BO loss.. if anyone has an EU account and checks GM out+ a couple of matchhistories he will know who we are talking about.


Well, I hope you at least bring this person's name to the attention of the creator of this thread, and maybe try to find replays backing up what you are describing, and other evidence to make it easier on him to go through the evidence.

Because if all you're going to do is say that someone in top 16/20 hacks and stop there, then you're really being quite useless and kind of creates even more paranoia than having a specific name.

pretty much this. even if you think this player's identity is obvious, still post it so we can get on it faster and expose them if they ARE cheating. by being super vague about it, you're almost protecting the player in some way, and I don't think any of us want to protect hackers.
"well if youre looking for long term, go safe, if you expect it to end either way, go risky. wow. just like sc2" - friend of mine when I asked him which girl to pick
nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
June 11 2012 16:37 GMT
#1125
You're only here for the juicy drama. If you start throwing peoples names around in public whenever they are suspected of cheating, you will end up ruining the names of innocent people. Until we have 3rd party antihack software, or blizzard bans them, I think it's better not to.
ESPORTS ILLUMINATI
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-11 16:40:20
June 11 2012 16:39 GMT
#1126
On June 12 2012 01:37 nkr wrote:
You're only here for the juicy drama. If you start throwing peoples names around in public whenever they are suspected of cheating, you will end up ruining the names of innocent people. Until we have 3rd party antihack software, or blizzard bans them, I think it's better not to.


That's why I said PM it to the guy who made this thread. I think he's proven himself to be pretty reasonable in his investigations before releasing any names. Seriously if you have enough evidence to see never having a BO loss ever, that alone raises many flags. So just PM the guy who made this thread. No one said you have to drag the guy's name in public.

edit - I don't know what other evidence you have and how thoroughly you've thought through it, but if you really feel suspicious enough about a guy to have looked at as many games as you've implied, and come out thinking he is a maphacker, and even posting on TL that someone in top 20 gm EU is a maphacker, you should pm their name to the OP.
Names
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada328 Posts
June 11 2012 16:43 GMT
#1127
I agree that throwing people's names around is not the right way to handle this, but you could at least PM the OP the name -.-, he'll know how to handle it. You also need to show proof. As many replays as possible.
iamahydralisk
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States813 Posts
June 11 2012 16:50 GMT
#1128
On June 12 2012 01:37 nkr wrote:
You're only here for the juicy drama. If you start throwing peoples names around in public whenever they are suspected of cheating, you will end up ruining the names of innocent people. Until we have 3rd party antihack software, or blizzard bans them, I think it's better not to.

while I agree that PMing the OP would be a better idea, it has nothing to do with wanting "juicy drama," and everything to do with wanting to get hackers (especially top GM hackers with the potential to ruin online events) exposed as quickly as possible. plus, if the evidence is as incontrovertible as you act, then posting the name shouldn't be an issue. either way, simply saying "I know of a top GM player who maphacks but I'm not going to tell anyone" doesn't really help anyone.
"well if youre looking for long term, go safe, if you expect it to end either way, go risky. wow. just like sc2" - friend of mine when I asked him which girl to pick
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13408 Posts
June 11 2012 16:55 GMT
#1129
On June 12 2012 01:50 iamahydralisk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2012 01:37 nkr wrote:
You're only here for the juicy drama. If you start throwing peoples names around in public whenever they are suspected of cheating, you will end up ruining the names of innocent people. Until we have 3rd party antihack software, or blizzard bans them, I think it's better not to.

while I agree that PMing the OP would be a better idea, it has nothing to do with wanting "juicy drama," and everything to do with wanting to get hackers (especially top GM hackers with the potential to ruin online events) exposed as quickly as possible. plus, if the evidence is as incontrovertible as you act, then posting the name shouldn't be an issue. either way, simply saying "I know of a top GM player who maphacks but I'm not going to tell anyone" doesn't really help anyone.


I think its extremely important to figure it out quick as well, I mean especially since the TSL4 EU qualifiers are coming up soon and they are all played online. We need to keep the integrity of the TSL in tact. Not to the point of a witch hunt but before everyone gets invited we need to do it.

If its figured out early enough people can be given another chance if they lose to a hacker for example.

The TSL has always been good at having integrity so I only hope we can keep this up.
StrategyRTS forever | @ZeromuS_plays | www.twitch.tv/Zeromus_
Exarl25
Profile Joined November 2010
1887 Posts
June 11 2012 17:18 GMT
#1130
On June 11 2012 22:44 Doodsmack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 11 2012 15:31 TylerThaCreator wrote:
On June 11 2012 13:30 Doodsmack wrote:
On June 11 2012 13:23 ZweiGaming wrote:
On June 11 2012 13:19 Doodsmack wrote:
Can somone actually do a proper test of whether you can place a building in an area where there was previously creep but the creep has completely receded. In the video, they did not actually simulate what happened in Valjean's game. In the video, they were trying to place the nexus while the creep was actually still there (even though of course they couldn't see it). In order to prove that what Valjean did isn't possible, you would need to attempt to place the Nexus after the creep has completely receded, even though you of course can't see that it's receded. In his game, Valjean waited long enough that the creep definitely would have receded by the time he attempted to place the nexus.

It seems odd to me that a maphack would allow you to place buildings in places you normally can't. In order to avoid detection by Warden the maphacks don't interact with SC2 directly, they are somehow reading your computers memory. In order to allow you to place buildings where others can't it seems the maphack would have to be manipulating SC2 directly, otherwise we would also have mineral hacks and stuff like that.

While I definitely support the process of outing hackers we should be careful to use only credible evidence that is properly verified. This is similar to the magic scan "evidence" that Catz and company harped on about over and over on a stream in front of 6k people, without actually testing for themselves whether you can get a scan to appear off the center of your screen by clicking in the top corner of your screen. As it turned out, anyone can do a "magic scan".


As a protoss player, I can tell you this is impossible wether or not there still is creep, but feel free to try and give us the feedback about it. The thing is that on the minimap, as long as you see the creep through fog, you won't be able to drop anything there unless you scout it back first. Same thing applies if you try dropping a pylon where a barrack is through fog of war (and the barrack lifted and is else where). As long as you don't scout wether or not the building/creep is still in
place, you won't be able to drop anything at that location.


You could very well be right. I unfortunately am on my laptop right now and wouldn't be able to test this until tomorrow night. I'm just pointing out that you didn't properly simulate Valjean's game in your video. As it stands your video provides only flimsy evidence that Valjean hacks. The move-away at the rocks on Ohana can be explained as random chance, when you've only provided one such instance of suspicious movement. I've played many people who seemed a little fishy but when I watched the replay I realized it could just be random chance/coincedence.

One thing that would lead me to believe Valjean doesn't hack is that he does proper scouting, and seems to react to enemy unit movements only once his observer sees them. For example on Antiga as soon as roaches came within vision of his obs near his nat, he moved his units back a bit to engage. Of course it could be an elaborate cover-up, but right now your evidence comes nowhere close to proof until you properly verify your theory about the nexus on creep.



Posts like this are representative of tl posters being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. If you don't know simple aspects of gameplay like not being able to put down buildings on creep in fog why are you making posts like these? Especially with presumptuous wording like that...give me a break.


Not really, accusations of hacking without proper evidence is a legitimate issue to be called out. If you knew about the magic scan "evidence" in the Spades replays then you would know that seemingly simple/obvious aspects of gameplay can be proven wrong.


But the evidence provided is 100% proof. They didn't do the best job of explaining exactly what was going on but it was all there and the conclusion that was drawn was absolutely right. Placing the shadow of the Nexus there is impossible in a legit game. If you see creep somewhere, whether it has actually receded or not, you can't issue a build command on that location. It's common knowledge to anyone who plays and I just tested it myself to confirm it for certain.
HeeroFX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2704 Posts
June 11 2012 17:24 GMT
#1131
Blizzard usually bans in giant waves. So I would imagine at the end of every season they will ban a ton of hackers. Everytime you report someone for hacking, I am sure it goes to blizzard. If enough people report it they will do something.
Phanekim
Profile Joined April 2003
United States777 Posts
June 11 2012 17:57 GMT
#1132
This is pessimistic, but i sincerely do not think this will get better. being in the community in what seems like forever, it just won't get better.
i like cheese
jj33
Profile Joined April 2011
802 Posts
June 11 2012 17:58 GMT
#1133
been playing sc since bw and had to deal with hackers then and hackers in wc3 and now hackers in sc2.

hackers are scum. I didn't even know there was a blink micro hack till I read this thread. Can you possibly get even more pathetic? Why bother even playing the game then, just have some ai automation play for you.

Then some hackers accuse a person beating them of hacking, wow talk about the lowest of the low.
StarcraftWonders
Profile Joined June 2012
United States59 Posts
June 11 2012 18:51 GMT
#1134
On June 11 2012 11:40 ZweiGaming wrote:
This maphacker is one of the top 100 GM on NA. His maphacking isn't as obvious as the previous ones posted. His account name is : NMxJValjean
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1226473/1/NMxJValjean/
The youtube video will clarify what is weird weird about the replays:


Please let me know what you think of this one.


100% Map Hacks. Crazy find. Good job guys!
Stacraft Wonders
Belha
Profile Joined December 2010
Italy2850 Posts
June 11 2012 18:59 GMT
#1135
Thx for doing this. Keep 'em coming ^^
Chicken gank op
Wolvmatt.
Profile Joined April 2011
205 Posts
June 11 2012 19:16 GMT
#1136
On June 11 2012 12:44 Heraklitus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 11 2012 11:40 ZweiGaming wrote:
This maphacker is one of the top 100 GM on NA. His maphacking isn't as obvious as the previous ones posted. His account name is : NMxJValjean
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1226473/1/NMxJValjean/
The youtube video will clarify what is weird weird about the replays: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Rcbc_mmpk&feature=plcp

Please let me know what you think of this one.


Nicely done.

This is such bullshit. . . I just don't understand the maphack mentality. They really need to "win" that badly? It doesn't even matter. . .


If if doesn't even matter, why are you getting so mad?
MantiZzl
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany52 Posts
June 11 2012 19:27 GMT
#1137
I know this thread is about gm players hacking but don´t u guys think it is worse for the lower leagues?
GM players obvoiously know how to play and therefor are more likely to recognize when they meet a hacker.
I think thats way more easy to deal with than beeing in a lower league and just assume u got cheated on.
How am i suppose to improve myself if i´m not even sure my opponent just cheated?
So annoying, i hope blizzard comes up with a good solution (let hackers pay a penalty if they are cought XD).
-FoX
Profile Joined November 2010
United States479 Posts
June 11 2012 19:43 GMT
#1138
Blizzard needs to do something like this but with Starcraft 2 instead.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6317359/Cheating_in_Diablo®_III-6_11_2012

It's interesting how Blizzard posted that yet maphacking is still incredibly prominent in Starcraft 2.
Shin_Gouki
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States313 Posts
June 11 2012 19:48 GMT
#1139
On June 12 2012 02:58 jj33 wrote:
been playing sc since bw and had to deal with hackers then and hackers in wc3 and now hackers in sc2.

hackers are scum. I didn't even know there was a blink micro hack till I read this thread. Can you possibly get even more pathetic? Why bother even playing the game then, just have some ai automation play for you.

Then some hackers accuse a person beating them of hacking, wow talk about the lowest of the low.


Sad part is, we don't have any plug-ins like chaos launcher yet to potentially deal with this. I hope blizz acts swiftly on this matter T.T
Death comes in many forms
babysimba
Profile Joined November 2010
10466 Posts
June 11 2012 20:23 GMT
#1140
http://sc2ranks.com/la/281892/LATcaNNon
http://drop.sc/195591
I don't have definite proof, maybe someone more experienced could check it for me. Almost no scouting, never care whether i go mutas or not. Move army into main to counter doom drop twice without seeing overlords. Split tanks and hellions when my roaches were about to attack his gold. Siege up at the very last second when he was at my third. No pre-scouting with hellions or scans when he move his entire tank army. Started thor and turret production when my mutas pop.
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