• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 03:52
CET 09:52
KST 17:52
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT28Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book19Clem wins HomeStory Cup 289HomeStory Cup 28 - Info & Preview13Rongyi Cup S3 - Preview & Info8
Community News
Weekly Cups (Feb 16-22): MaxPax doubles0Weekly Cups (Feb 9-15): herO doubles up2ACS replaced by "ASL Season Open" - Starts 21/0258LiuLi Cup: 2025 Grand Finals (Feb 10-16)46Weekly Cups (Feb 2-8): Classic, Solar, MaxPax win2
StarCraft 2
General
Terran AddOns placement How do you think the 5.0.15 balance patch (Oct 2025) for StarCraft II has affected the game? Nexon's StarCraft game could be FPS, led by UMS maker ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT Oliveira Would Have Returned If EWC Continued
Tourneys
PIG STY FESTIVAL 7.0! (19 Feb - 1 Mar) SEL Doubles (SC Evo Bimonthly) WardiTV Team League Season 10 RSL Season 4 announced for March-April The Dave Testa Open #11
Strategy
Custom Maps
Publishing has been re-enabled! [Feb 24th 2026] Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 514 Ulnar New Year The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 513 Attrition Warfare Mutation # 512 Overclocked
Brood War
General
TvZ is the most complete match up BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Soma Explains: JD's Unrelenting Aggro vs FlaSh ACS replaced by "ASL Season Open" - Starts 21/02 BW General Discussion
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [LIVE] [S:21] ASL Season Open Day 1 ASL Season 21 Qualifiers March 7-8 Small VOD Thread 2.0
Strategy
Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Zealot bombing is no longer popular?
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Path of Exile Beyond All Reason New broswer game : STG-World
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine UK Politics Mega-thread YouTube Thread Mexico's Drug War
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TL MMA Pick'em Pool 2013
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Laptop capable of using Photoshop Lightroom?
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
YOUTUBE VIDEO
XenOsky
Unintentional protectionism…
Uldridge
ASL S21 English Commentary…
namkraft
Inside the Communication of …
TrAiDoS
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2455 users

Maphack and the problems with protection from it - Page 17

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 15 16 17 18 19 22 Next All
mouzStarbuck
Profile Joined December 2012
Slovenia17 Posts
August 05 2013 14:15 GMT
#321
Hey again, all.

I've played imbatoss in a ladder today and went for the tactic that would expose him the most.
I will post the replay in my comment below.
So first look at the early game, how he wont scout my main with his probe because there are 2 lings standing up the ramp.
After he holds my nydus at about 18:00 min, a queen is running to the left side of the map, completley far away from his army and vision, and yet he moves his army to the left and snipes it.
He also did blind counter to my nydus swarm host build teching straight to colossus and cutting probes, some of you may think he was going for colossus allin, but that's why I did a fake roach attack before nydus/swarm host to force out immortal, but maphack owns

So here's the replay, very obvious maphack from him, that was my plan when i met him in ladder, to go the tactic that he would counter very obvious and we would have more proof.

So here's the replay. http://drop.sc/353103

P.S: Blizzard, please ban hackers like ImBaTosS and actually care about this game just A LITTLE BIT.
Special tactics zerg. @ www.mousesports.com
Cheerio
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Ukraine3178 Posts
August 05 2013 14:42 GMT
#322
I guess everyone should just find ImbaToss on the GM ladder and report him. One hundred reports will definately look suspicious to Blizzard. Does he ladder under the same name?
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
August 05 2013 14:44 GMT
#323
On August 05 2013 23:15 Starbuck- wrote:
Hey again, all.

I've played imbatoss in a ladder today and went for the tactic that would expose him the most.
I will post the replay in my comment below.
So first look at the early game, how he wont scout my main with his probe because there are 2 lings standing up the ramp.
After he holds my nydus at about 18:00 min, a queen is running to the left side of the map, completley far away from his army and vision, and yet he moves his army to the left and snipes it.
He also did blind counter to my nydus swarm host build teching straight to colossus and cutting probes, some of you may think he was going for colossus allin, but that's why I did a fake roach attack before nydus/swarm host to force out immortal, but maphack owns

So here's the replay, very obvious maphack from him, that was my plan when i met him in ladder, to go the tactic that he would counter very obvious and we would have more proof.

So here's the replay. http://drop.sc/353103

P.S: Blizzard, please ban hackers like ImBaTosS and actually care about this game just A LITTLE BIT.


The problem is the cycle always repeats itself and Blizzard doesn't want to put the resources into it. It's a band-aid approach and it's always been that way. It comes with the territory. So even if Blizzard does a little something it comes right back. :/ I hope there comes a day when we don't have online competition anymore and everything is done from a booth for the big time players anyway. You want to qualify for a league? You come out to qualifiers and let's see what you got in person.
Plagiator
Profile Joined August 2013
2 Posts
August 05 2013 15:38 GMT
#324

After he holds my nydus at about 18:00 min, a queen is running to the left side of the map, completley far away from his army and vision, and yet he moves his army to the left and snipes it.

So here's the replay. http://drop.sc/353103


Another "lucky" scout by imbatoss when he moves his probe at 22:20 min :D
IndyStarCraft
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland2664 Posts
August 05 2013 15:45 GMT
#325
played some match vs imbatoss and got blind counter in pvp - but this is the way pvp sometimes works so i guess it's not the best "example"
gl hf 1a2a3a gg
FLORIDACOMPACT
Profile Joined May 2013
Germany108 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-05 18:34:10
August 05 2013 18:32 GMT
#326
On August 05 2013 23:15 Starbuck- wrote:
Hey again, all.

I've played imbatoss in a ladder today and went for the tactic that would expose him the most.
I will post the replay in my comment below.
So first look at the early game, how he wont scout my main with his probe because there are 2 lings standing up the ramp.
After he holds my nydus at about 18:00 min, a queen is running to the left side of the map, completley far away from his army and vision, and yet he moves his army to the left and snipes it.
He also did blind counter to my nydus swarm host build teching straight to colossus and cutting probes, some of you may think he was going for colossus allin, but that's why I did a fake roach attack before nydus/swarm host to force out immortal, but maphack owns

So here's the replay, very obvious maphack from him, that was my plan when i met him in ladder, to go the tactic that he would counter very obvious and we would have more proof.

So here's the replay. http://drop.sc/353103

P.S: Blizzard, please ban hackers like ImBaTosS and actually care about this game just A LITTLE BIT.


To be perfectly honest, I find that there's not a single proof for a maphack in that replay. I've watched it twice and your "key points" even more times.

EDIT: nevermind, I forgot that I'm new on the forums and from Germany, hence I'm probably Imbatoss himself.
kaup
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany22 Posts
August 05 2013 19:49 GMT
#327
now imbatoss and juicypeach created a team "EEP" "Elite European Players" sounds interesting !
Buzerio
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom135 Posts
August 05 2013 19:56 GMT
#328
Blizzard are always slow with everything that doesn't loose them money, Bans probably wont happen that often.
2vs2GaeMtOsS
Profile Joined October 2012
Germany2 Posts
August 06 2013 13:22 GMT
#329
that was yesterday http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/go4sc2/august2013_premium1/rankings/
#1 75€
pretty retarded that they didnt ban him yet..
iSHOKZ
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany138 Posts
August 06 2013 14:04 GMT
#330
On August 06 2013 04:49 kaup wrote:
now imbatoss and juicypeach created a team "EEP" "Elite European Players" sounds interesting !


Yep, look here for all: http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/go4sc2/august2013_premium1/rankings/

Interesting. Can we assume every other player that is in the team / joins the team hacks aswell, and they are just mass trolling blizzard?
J_EU
Profile Joined January 2011
47 Posts
August 06 2013 15:03 GMT
#331
Apparently he is in the general chat ingame and saying:

[EEP] ImBaTosS: if someone likes to get a better league in his profile then u can just write me and i play ur account in every league u want


[image loading]
sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
August 06 2013 15:28 GMT
#332
On August 02 2013 21:08 Everlong wrote:
Please, don't ban ImbaToss, his desperate endeavor to save his ass keeps me off coffee in work. I might lose my addiction in a week.

not sure if troll or serius lol.

on topic: i would like to see maby a system where people who are reported a X amount of time for maphacking an amount of replays would be released to see for further proof for events. maby that would solve some stuff.
The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
dr.fahrenheit
Profile Joined January 2013
Austria101 Posts
August 07 2013 08:49 GMT
#333
On August 06 2013 22:22 2vs2GaeMtOsS wrote:
that was yesterday http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/go4sc2/august2013_premium1/rankings/
#1 75€
pretty retarded that they didnt ban him yet..


If I were Imbatoss I would be laughing at the helplessness of this community, and rightfully so.

I even think threads like this might be counterproductive because the only thing that people might take away from it is that maphacking etc. has no (serious) consequences whatsoever and if you smart about it people will circlejerk forever if there is “definitive proof” followed by pages of philosophical discussion what “definitive proof” really is and if there actually can be something like that.
It’s ridiculous and would be very amusing (for a maphacker it certainly is) if it wasn’t so sad.

I honestly don’t know what to do, obviously neither making threads, nor reports to blizzard have any real impact at all. Demands for effective “anti-cheating” software have died away unheard for 3 years, so obviously these concerns are taken very seriously by blizzard…

So what's really left to do?
  • Stop playing and boycott Blizzard? If enough people do it maybe then something gets done (since the only language a company understands is money).

  • Try to get the attention of some people who actually have some influence in the community and connections to blizzard. (/summon Totalbiscuit) Maybe it would already help if the topic is brought up in interviews or streams once in a while.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Alex1Sun
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
494 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-07 09:42:15
August 07 2013 09:38 GMT
#334
On July 29 2013 01:51 [F_]aths wrote:
Online tournaments could require to run a program which takes screenshots in a random pattern and sends them to the admins. There is no need to run a program which scans the tasklist for suspicious programs. Screenshots, automatically taken and sent to the admins, should be enough.

Sounds like a PERFECT solution to me!

Somebody please explain why not use it?
This is not Warcraft in space!
Rassy
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands2308 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-07 10:13:58
August 07 2013 09:50 GMT
#335
They will just run the maphack on a 2nd monitor then?
They should just run a punkbuster like program looking for the background activities.
Its complete bs that this is not possible for privacy reasons, they can just make everyone who joins a tourney give permission to do so and if they dont want give permission then they cant play in the tourney.

Or else remove the fog completely lol, it would be a different game then but still a verry interesting one, lots more about strategic decissions and army control instead of depending on "luck" by getting an unscouted killing blow or techswitch.
Scouting itself already depends so much on luck, like terran scan doesnt see all and probe looking across the map but never able to check every spot.

Map vission is verry unfair distributed amongst the races btw.
Zerg seeing a quarter to halve+ of the map with their cloaked tumors and overlords, while toss and specially terran play completely in the dark in the early midgame, but i guess that rant is more suited for another thread
Art_of_Kill
Profile Joined September 2003
Zaire1232 Posts
August 07 2013 12:55 GMT
#336
On August 07 2013 17:49 dr.fahrenheit wrote:
[*]Try to get the attention of some people who actually have some influence in the community and connections to blizzard. (/summon Totalbiscuit) Maybe it would already help if the topic is brought up in interviews or streams once in a while.
[/list]
thats the way to go, constant talk about hackers on ladder in each interview of each tournament, will force blizzard to do something


btw hackertoss now top 5 gm !!! :D
TLT07 ===> *winner* <===TLT08
Durmaz21
Profile Joined September 2012
Sweden52 Posts
August 07 2013 12:58 GMT
#337
Check imbatoss match history. he got a lot of free wins .seems legit :D
beg
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
991 Posts
August 07 2013 13:02 GMT
#338
On August 07 2013 18:38 Alex1Sun wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 29 2013 01:51 [F_]aths wrote:
Online tournaments could require to run a program which takes screenshots in a random pattern and sends them to the admins. There is no need to run a program which scans the tasklist for suspicious programs. Screenshots, automatically taken and sent to the admins, should be enough.

Sounds like a PERFECT solution to me!

Somebody please explain why not use it?

coders will rewrite the hack so it turns itself off for a moment when the screenshot is taken. this has been done in counterstrike already. it's a nice idea, but can be worked around.
a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
August 07 2013 19:34 GMT
#339
Oh hey another map hack thread?

Whats the point?

Not like Blizzard will do anything about it.
starleague forever
Specialist
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States803 Posts
August 07 2013 19:40 GMT
#340
just quit sc2 while you can... faster the better
blizzard is simply hopeless
Prev 1 15 16 17 18 19 22 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 8m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
PiGStarcraft487
SortOf 184
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 22531
firebathero 3970
GuemChi 1742
Pusan 307
Larva 291
ggaemo 284
ToSsGirL 45
Backho 24
JulyZerg 17
Dota 2
NeuroSwarm133
League of Legends
JimRising 487
Counter-Strike
Stewie2K1448
m0e_tv668
Super Smash Bros
Westballz12
Other Games
Mew2King121
RuFF_SC234
Organizations
Counter-Strike
PGL263
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 13 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 87
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos1342
• Lourlo1021
Upcoming Events
PiG Sty Festival
8m
Maru vs ShoWTimE
Clem vs Serral
3DClanTV 0
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1h 8m
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
6h 8m
Replay Cast
1d
Wardi Open
1d 3h
Monday Night Weeklies
1d 8h
Replay Cast
1d 15h
Replay Cast
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
The PondCast
4 days
[ Show More ]
KCM Race Survival
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
CranKy Ducklings
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

[S:21] ASL SEASON OPEN 2nd Round
LiuLi Cup: 2025 Grand Finals
Underdog Cup #3

Ongoing

KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Acropolis #4 - TS5
Jeongseon Sooper Cup
Spring Cup 2026
WardiTV Winter 2026
PiG Sty Festival 7.0
Nations Cup 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025

Upcoming

ASL Season 21: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 21: Qualifier #2
ASL Season 21
Acropolis #4 - TS6
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
CSLAN 4
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
RSL Revival: Season 4
NationLESS Cup
IEM Atlanta 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
CCT Season 3 Global Finals
FISSURE Playground #3
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.