[?] Spades hacking? - Page 21
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07:06 KST - method linked here has been disproved here 10:54 KST - Find a full timeline of pro comments (including Spades) in the topic here. 08:47 KST - Summary: Accusations of maphacking have the potential to destroy a player's career if left unaddressed. Because of the potential consequences, we should be careful about accepting unproven accusations. The principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' should be applied here. That does not mean that there has been a conclusion about this case, however, which is why this thread remains tentatively open. Please discuss with caution and use evidence to back up your claims. (also a summary post by an unnamed pro on reddit here) | ||
sjh
Canada136 Posts
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ROOTIllusion
United States1060 Posts
On June 05 2012 06:46 Spades wrote: QuanticIllusion wrote: Addition to the OP, looked through a little bit more and confirmed OP's statements and made notes where OP could be wrong. Either way it is really fishy play and he is either stream cheating or map hacking, more likely map hacking because he is reacting way too fast for it to be a stream cheat. + Show Spoiler + Game 1: Antiga All of OP's statements true 11:02 camera block - is that sharp jump after the block usual? seems really fast compared to normal screen save/basecam okay so apparently camera block is when i move my map fast or something because im looking at fog of war with some hack? i dont know how to explain this but i dont see anything weird. What's funny is people dont mention all the little mistakes i make, and missing drops that cost me games, If i was a hacker why would i purposely lose to things like this, wouldnt i see them? Game 2: ETBD Valley Not looking at the base after scouting it is really weird.. 7:47 push - doesn't even see bunker before pushing, no scans + perfect range just standard range for a bunker.. 13:42 - agreed, I would always send 5 marines or so right away or scan to make sure im not in danger. he kills marines, and scans, I hold middle watchtower, why wouldnt i prepare for an attack on the right? 16:40 - blind 3 medi drop, doesnt scan to see if there are turrets or anything, possibly just really bad play no scans were available, i made a move, 3 medivacs can get through a turret even if there was one. Game 3: Shak 3:55 common if you go CC first and you are being worker harrassed, interesting he didn't scout at all though.. 5:08 Rax 2 + 3rd CC is not in his map vision, only on minimap, most players look around with their camera.. not just their minimap when they scan I'll answer this and whats after together. I needed to immediately know if i need to 3 cc or tech whether he expands or not, my scv scout was late, so i scanned opposite base as well. on minimap its clear he went 3 cc, so it's never going to be a factory, so i immediately went back to my base and put 3 cc down. IMPORTANT:He scans the correct base without having scouted the other one Summary: He plays really blind rest of the game, really bad as well, moving armies into spots he doesnt have vision of + never scans after first one. TvT positional warfare requires scans or well placed units around the map, he does not have either. He never goes for any blind 3 medivac drops this game - there are turrets for lucifron he didn't scout. I played this game horribly positionally, and way behind, I wish i had magic vision to maneuver around instead of getting stomped. Game 4: Meta Everything true, really suspicous at 7:30 where he moves his army towards the hellions without seeing, despite the fact he was moving back and forth in same place 10 seconds ago. random chance Game 5: TDA 10:50 kind of suspicious but he saw it on the minimap and he already has his hellions hotkeyed - not too important 12:30 he's moving his army + setting rallys over there, not suspicious 17:00 absolutely no reason to keep your viking at your natural once you see medivac + bio going for a doom drop towards your main.. 18:20 zero useful map vision at the point, unsieges tanks randomly and then moves to 3rd to kill luci army 19:00: moves back to natural, leaves 0 units behind to defend 3rd even after he realized that he didnt kill the whole drop, then sieges to defend natural + 3rd 21:10 moves his viking before he sees the medivacs on the minimap, moves few tanks + all vikings - not too suspicious but the suspicious part is that he still has 0 map vision, and decides to not defend his natural - no units from luci in sight -- Stopped watching because it's getting too obvious, wasting my time Quick Notes: For most of the game he has 0 map vision from lucifron's path of attack to spade's bases. He has a rax on the left for drops + top xel naga but not the xel naga connecting both bases together. Also made 0 turrets to defend his main on the back side, just the top Everything here is just me randomly guessing, and guessing wrong most of the time, where his army would be. He constantly drops me out of position, moves on my 3rd with minimal army there, If I hack I am the worst hacker of all time in this game. GaME 6: Daybreak 4:30 this is a really dumb move or he is cheating- he would be dead in minutes if lucifron was doing any other build. I studied his games vs thorzain, he does 100% the same exact build. I took a risk 16:00 decides to kill rocks, then sees free medivacs at the lower base and goes down there instead i almost decided to kill rocks a few times, and stopped because i know he can see me attacking them, anything else is chance and standard tvt maneuvering 16:05 looks back at his main - camera block - I noticed this many times-- he always looks at his factorys + starport whenever his army is moving to a good place, in this situation- lucifrons medivacs no? dont know what else to say, there obviously has to be some way of proving this camera block, but because im 100% not doing anything like that. 16:45 he does it again, same spot One could say he is doing it to make tanks, viking, medivacs etc. notice how he never goes back to his barracks to make units, always looking somewhere else. There is also no reason to look back at your factories and starport, both factories have tech labs and he only has one reactor starport. This occurs many times later but I stopped writing times here. From here on, he has whole map control so nothing really matters, even though there are a few more camera blocks here and there. Game 7: Shattered Temple 6:00 Remember game 2 and 4? Spades went for a viking to prevent uncloacked banshees or drop. This time, however, he makes raven-viking without having scanned and thus, not (supposedly) knowing LucifroN is going cloack banshee. In most his games vs thorzain he opens cloak banshee. however raven wasnt "anti cloak" in this game. I decided to do a 1 base tank marine autoturret allin, but he went fast vikings so i couldnt. 7:20 He moves his marines and his raven to the location where LucifroN's banshee is going (He doesn't even know LucifroN is going banshees). + rallys starport over there this is common play? i leave units at front and send units to back of base as well. I know you are smart enough to understand this concept. 14:30 Sieges tank on high ground out of other tank range + good position to defend, moves marines in main away from range of siege tank (it was in range before he moved it) He goes to his natural entry with almost all his army to get a good position to fight against LucifroN forces (which he hasn't seen yet). you dont want to be caught in your base by someone trying to do tank pushes, common play 16:55 Instead of leaving some tanks on his main, fearing another attack from LucifroN on that spot he sends all of his army next to the golden, right where LucifroN is going, and suddently unsieges to reposition his tanks to the right, where LucifroN is moving. Note: 0 map vision random game flow, he also catches me out of position quite a few times I wish there were more different spawns, antiga is 2 - shattered he got close air, entombed he got close vertical etc. Only games where it was suspicious was Tal darim - he got first scout and Shakuras he scanned the main before even seeing where he spawned. I looked through the replays in depth, not super closely but close enough to look at all the times stated in the OP Most of my openings and builds were based on his games vs Thorzain in scan invitational. If you watch those you will see he does same exact builds on same exact maps which worked out to my favor as well. I know LucifroN is a better player than me, and I cut alot of corners playing him hoping to gain advantage. It worked sometimes, other times i lost for blatant errors in judgement. I wasn't hacking, nor have I hacked in SC2, and I trouble someone to find definitite proof because it isn't out there. The majority of scans in my play, I scan minimap, then a second later click to location, which can account for off center views which you claim is camera lock. Other times i actually view fog of war then scan. this is all evident if you watch my stream vods. My posts were an addition to the OP, some of my comments wont make sense unless you have the OP side by side with it. That being said, your risky build orders can be credited to the fact you actually studied him, so I won't nag on that. Much of your defense is credited to "I played bad, so I took risks" or "I got lucky" I don't want to debate every comment you made even though I don't agree with it, so I will just point out things that I think are really suspicious. One thing that I will stand on is that on Game 3 Shakuras, Your scan on his base was perfect + your scv wasnt even at the other base yet so there is no way anyone good would blindly scan the way you did, watch the replay (others) the scv wasnt even at the natural ramp of the horizontal base but you decided to scan the main/natural of the cross base. Game 4: Random chance, I can see this happening because it happens to every pro once in a while. Game 5: Can't really say much bout your comments, really vague comments against a lot of good points provided by the OP atleast. Game 6: Your comments can be valid but I still don't understand why a player of your caliber(in theory) would be looking back at their base to make tanks and viking for ~10+ seconds --Your comments weren't very helpful in defending you but I also can't prove your points wrong because they are so vague. I'm going to say that I am undecided but leaning more towards the cheating side because of a lot of luck in a bo7. If there are other replays people should really post their analysis and the replay itself, I have a bo3 series between you and another terran player but the replays have some chat I don't think the public should know, so I will keep these + analysis until I find a way to clear the chat logs. | ||
EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:02 Zaphid wrote: Hmm, I would have to check whether Lucifron really played the same, but I think Spades is innocent, that said, his games should be watched closely in the future. Actually something similar to this would be curious. I wonder how much "evidence for hacking" one would find if one were to look at the games from Lucifron's PoV, with the objective being to find evidence for hacking. Wonder what the rate of false positives would be. | ||
NeonFox
2373 Posts
Watch his future games very closely if you believe he is hacking. If he really is hacking he won't be able to get away with it anymore, and if he isn't then you won't blow up somebody's career for no reason. | ||
Spades
United States249 Posts
So how do i recover something like this? I would know to know how. | ||
LGSaxon
United States32 Posts
On June 05 2012 04:22 drolets wrote: I understand there can be hackers on low levels, but we must stop at any cost people from maphacking at pro/semi-pro levels. We must stop map hackers on all levels of the ladder. Even in the lower leagues. Map hacks hurt players who are just starting out trying to learn the basics of sc2. | ||
Blackfish
Austria309 Posts
In the end Spades will get flamed everywhere after every win and every loss for hacking/hacking and still losing. | ||
luciusvlm
Spain134 Posts
i think that the english stream was in glhf.tv | ||
TommyP
United States6231 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:06 NeWeNiyaLord wrote: Instead of "hacking". Couldn't this just be a simple case of "Stream cheating"? Just wanted to throw that idea out. But this is getting out of line. Incontrol coming in just to bash because he played "Fishy"? What the fuck is up with that? bad manner! hate to see a sc2 pro getting his career destroyed just because he played fishy.. :/ Coming from a fan of Jaedong, Flash, Bisu and Stork? everything you say has no validity to it because you like all 4 of them which is crazy and equivalent to liking manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, and Chelsea at the same time. User was warned for this post | ||
Artok
Netherlands2219 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:06 NeWeNiyaLord wrote: Instead of "hacking". Couldn't this just be a simple case of "Stream cheating"? Just wanted to throw that idea out. But this is getting out of line. Incontrol coming in just to bash because he played "Fishy"? What the fuck is up with that? bad manner! hate to see a sc2 pro getting his career destroyed just because he played fishy.. :/ careers dont get destroyed by few people throwing baseless stuff without any decent proof, which is pretty impossible to get, unless someone secretly filmed him from behind while he was hacking. | ||
.gypsy
Canada689 Posts
I watched the tal'darim game, allegedly the most suspicious one, and there's no doubt in my mind that spades isn't hacking. Anyone with a brain watching spades' view could say this; long story short, he plays mech on 3 base tal'darim, but loses the game to counters, drops, multitask plays? He also keeps getting dropped despite his infinity viking. No one playing well during that game would've gotten out multitasked that hard considering the state of the game, much less with hacks. The onlys scenario I can see spades hacking in is one where he just hacks to lose 3-4 in a random showmatch with 2 relatively equally skilled players, or one where spades is absolutely awful at star2 and loses in spite of hacking, OR he hacked 50% of the games, and tried winning the last one legitimately......lol. TL:DR : Not hacking, unless he's beyond terrible at the game. | ||
TumNarDok
Germany854 Posts
Should be nuked immediatley. - throwaway account - misleading title stating accusations as facts - onesided analysis in the OP Close it , and deal with it in a mature fashion, Team Liquid. If the accusations cannot be proven true, I would love to see the OP's real ID revealed and him held accountable. | ||
Nerchio
Poland2633 Posts
http://drop.sc/191488 Here you got a replay of mine in TvT that i played just a few minutes ago to act a little bit like Spades (pretty much 0 looks at the fog of war , etc.) and some weird action as well with army movement. I could make the scan at some point look even more weird but i didn't have the time to play another TvT(basicly you scan via minimap and after that you look there). To say a few more words about the Lucifron vs Spades itself. I rather concentrate on the game itself than the camera locks which are really hard to judge for me. Things to note from most of the replays: Spades like a variety of tank/viking/marine openings either 1 or 2 base. Shattered Temple This game is not suspicious for me at all, Spades goes double gas before factory which definitely indicates a heavy gas play(in this case a raven) which partially countered cloak banshee of Lucifron. Antiga Shipyard I feel like Spades didn't see too much so he decides to play safer and goes for the engineering bay and the 9:30 move with vikings is not weird at all for me since he sent them in the place where the drops usually take place or tank/medivac lift. The rest of the game is standard TvT(remember than to move units around you don't actually need to look into fog of war, you can move them 'screen by screen' or by mini map). Entombed Valley OP Suggests that it's the exact same build than antiga, in fact it's not because antiga was a fast expand build and on this map Spades goes for much later expansion which means he has faster viking and doesn't need to go for engineering bay(it's risky i agree but not needed as well) sinc he is on 1 base. The only thing that is suspicious in this game is that he stops Lucifron's push on the right through the small valley. He had marine there before but he moved his army to defend that stop after few seconds which was weird to me but it's not really that big of a deal. Shakuras Plateau The 4 scv move was almost the same second as the marine appread which is kinda fast, but we also have to accept that his scv building CC was dieing so taking 4 scv could be a little bit exaggarated play from him. Moving his tanks in the mid game could be just bad play, everybody does such moves from time to time, you can't actually control every single move in the game and be sure that it's safe. 16:20 i don't really think it's watching Lucifron's army move, it rather looks like a bad move with his mouse(he had some problems when he played). Metalopolis As i said, Spades like a lot of tank/viking openings so nothing weird happend here, except the moves of his army around 7:30 when Lucifron is dropping hellions into his main. I have to say thought that it's very little to read from to say that he's hacking or anything, could be just indecisive where to put his army. The OP is saying something about scv at the start of the game, he can just fall it back from Lucifrons base by using a hotkey. Daybreak Not much to say but standard marine/tank TvT. I'd argument his build from the fact that Daybreak is not a map you see a lot of pushes because coming through your side to another one takes a lot of time so taking risks paysoff. Tal'darim There is a lot of points that OP suggests but a lot of them are simply false. I don't understand what he was trying to say because i see Spades making hellions all game long. Also most of the time you don't really want to rush in with your blue flame hellions against 2 base terran(can't harass anyway with their army there). Also why would he go around the map with his hellions if there is nothing to do and drops against mech are very popular? He just kept his army in the main, that's all and there is nothing more to it, controlling the xel'naga would give him time to react. I'd say that the weird moves of his army come from the fact that not many people move into your natural but rather your 3rd. Tell me who would rush in against mech into sieged natural? That's too big risk that's why you'd rather put some tanks in ur 3rd spread in a line. | ||
swinkles
131 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:07 Spades wrote: I have a team, I have sponsors. My career is basically crippled now, even if completely absolved. The OP was out for my blood, and this is how easy it is to destroy someones career. It's impossible for someone to find proof i hacked, because I didn't. It's all circumstantial nonsense, that can't be proven either way. So how do i recover something like this? I would know to know how. kick ass at online events, keep practicing and playing the game you're passionate about? | ||
jax1492
United States1632 Posts
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mcleod
Canada350 Posts
On June 05 2012 06:08 babylon wrote: I don't understand the point you are making. You say that "the only way this is possible is if he was already looking at this area and placed the scan manually not using the mini map and did not click the center of the screen." Which ... is possible without having a camera lock, isn't it? Just as you say, he could just be staring at the fog and manually placing a scan that ended up off-centered. For the record, Illusion's analysis does sound pretty damning though. if you watch the replay, he isnt looking into the fog when he scans, hes using the minimap or is hacking ive briefly looked over 3 of the replays and illusions notes, some stuff is very weird, but idk if its enough. | ||
TommyP
United States6231 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:07 Spades wrote: I have a team, I have sponsors. My career is basically crippled now, even if completely absolved. The OP was out for my blood, and this is how easy it is to destroy someones career. It's impossible for someone to find proof i hacked, because I didn't. It's all circumstantial nonsense, that can't be proven either way. If you want to find suspicious actions, just turn on first person view for anyone in any game and you will find some. I'm being screwed over by this fact, and I hope someone finds an actual foolproof method to detect hacks so this is avoided for others in the future. So how do i recover something like this? I would know to know how. Well youve done it before, it can be done again, but you are in a better position this time because it wasnt proven =] | ||
mewbert
United States291 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:07 Spades wrote: I have a team, I have sponsors. My career is basically crippled now, even if completely absolved. The OP was out for my blood, and this is how easy it is to destroy someones career. It's impossible for someone to find proof i hacked, because I didn't. It's all circumstantial nonsense, that can't be proven either way. If you want to find suspicious actions, just turn on first person view for anyone in any game and you will find some. I'm being screwed over by this fact, and I hope someone finds an actual foolproof method to detect hacks so this is avoided for others in the future. So how do i recover something like this? I would know to know how. again, stop crying, youve cheated before and you should accept that this is reasonable based on your past combined with extremely fishy play, if you were 100% clean I would agree with you. | ||
Snowbear
Korea (South)1925 Posts
On June 05 2012 07:07 Spades wrote: I have a team, I have sponsors. My career is basically crippled now, even if completely absolved. The OP was out for my blood, and this is how easy it is to destroy someones career. It's impossible for someone to find proof i hacked, because I didn't. It's all circumstantial nonsense, that can't be proven either way. If you want to find suspicious actions, just turn on first person view for anyone in any game and you will find some. I'm being screwed over by this fact, and I hope someone finds an actual foolproof method to detect hacks so this is avoided for others in the future. So how do i recover something like this? I would know to know how. If I was in your position, I would go to my replay map, put all my replays in a rar file, and upload it immediately. | ||
neek
Netherlands51 Posts
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