20 Traps That CAUGHT MILLIONS of Cheaters

[@joels5150]

I fully support devs punishing cheating by cleverly ruining the gaming experience for said cheaters. Not being able to see other players in an MMORPG or FPS is totally fair. I find it especially delicious when the anti-cheat measures get the cheaters to out themselves because they think the game itself is bugged, when it’s actually only messed up for them. Letting them submit tickets, or post complaints on forums and having the devs explain how the anti-cheating measures are working as intended 😂

[@cybercifrado]

That was actually the case for Batman: Arkham Asylum. Cheaters couldn't glide properly - and the amount of forum posts from people asking why they couldn't was just a thing of beauty to watch.

[@shoobzy3431]

That was honestly devious as hell, if I were the Devs and saw a slew of players complaining about "bugs" knowing they basically outed themselves. I'd have a laugh for days man.

[@Wicked061]

​@@cybercifradoits a single player game tho right?

[@vladimirmijatovic4171]

@@cybercifrado - Serious Sam 3 also had an invincible scorpion if it detected cheating xD

[@fpsgrind3512]

​@Wicked061 i think it was for pirated copies of the game, not cheating

[@ManofLowMoralFiber]

Proud to say I've never cheated in any multiplayer game, but the presence of cheaters has absolutely pushed me to primarily single player games. Trying to cheat other people just trying to have fun doesn't sit right with me. Very unfortunate.

[@The_Harsh_Truth]

I do cheat on Offline games, mostly open world games because its fun. But cheating in online game AND ruining others experience? That's a big NO NO.

[@erikwilliam1254]

That's how I do it. The ONLY online cheat/mods I partake in, is on game servers with that in mind. Take for example GTA V modded online RP servers where everyone has an equal advantage, but still admins on the server that'll step in if you're being unreasonable about it. But I mostly stick with single-player games for that, and typically will try to beat the game first unless it was boring.

[@leonIdas002]

CHEATING ONLY RUINS SOMEONE ELSES GAME WHEN YOU ARE ACTIVELY GREIFING THEM...I USED CHEATS IN SOLO LOBBIES IN GTA, HOW IS THAT RUINING ANYONE ELSES EXPERIENCE

[@erikwilliam1254]

@@leonIdas002 Did you forget to turn off All Caps? Your comment translates you shouting/yelling to others reading your comment. To me it reads as incomprehensible ranting.

[@blinkq_530]

@@leonIdas002 i mean i get you but it still kinder does

[@hfhjfx]

Cheating is for loser with no skills

[@MacVerick]

Online shooters are dead to me. Cheaters ruined it.

[@lukasz4282]

Real

[@jannovak5481]

Cheaters half by half with developers and their shitty copies.

[@postmodernmining]

Remember the good days of Unreal Tournament?

[@drifterdan1194]

There's a lot less cheaters on Xbox Live. It's a lot harder to cheat on there compared to a PC IMO. Not impossible, but still much harder and more technical.

[@ScopeOperaSam]

​@postmodernmining glad you mentioned it. I listen to the soundtrack still to this day. There's an hour long loop of Foregone Destruction here on KZbin. At least in that sense, the future isn't all *that* bad.

[@gfear24]

There are 3 reasons why I never play online multiplayer games. 1) I prefer to just play single player games 2) Online multiplayer generally means microtransactions galore 3) Cheaters are everywhere, regardless of the game.

[@Jartran72]

You are overstating massively. 1) That is fine, your preference is vaild 2) CS:GO, Overwatch.. They do only cosmetics atleast for the years that I played. 3) I play on european servers and in the thousands of hours I played I encountered maybe 10 cheaters. Though less competitive, more casual friendly games like COD or Tarkov have a lot more that is certainly true. But you can play normally for long times and cheaters are extremely rare occurances, atleast if you don't automatically accuse everyone better than you of cheating.

[@ConnorHammond]

@@Jartran72 How do you know who's cheating? My issue is, now you have to assume they're just better than you when they could be doing something dodgy. How does one know?

[@halo129830]

I like games with online co op that way if you cheat well your assisting the team in a sense pvp is of limits though

[@mickware5289]

I just find cheating so bewildering. You got a game to play, but you don't play it. Nobody cares about your video game playing skills. It's not an impressive skill set on its own.

[@ChristiaanHW]

@@ConnorHammond most cheaters are just bad at the game, so it's pretty easy to know when they cheat. i once (in a CoD game) ran in front of a building, no windows, at a distance that i wouldn't be heard and a guy steps into the hallway of that building and one shots me. seeing as he had no way of knowing me running past that building and only having a split second for that one shot it's pretty obvious he used an cheats to see through walls to know where other players were, and maybe even had an aimbot. cheaters don't have to put in the effort so they become even more lazy and often don't even try to hide that they are cheating.

[@RGBeanie]

Not only are the "messing with the cheaters" anti cheats amusing, the players, especially streamer cheaters happily out themselves. That is arguably the most glorious bit. I remember a big streamer getting dunked on for uploading a COD "bug" because his chute was deactivated. All the comments were "stop cheating then" 😂

[@jgkitarel]

Some even have a sense of humor about it when they get caught.

[@RGBeanie]

@@jgkitarel trying to save face more like haha

[@spectre-8]

hi Falcon, it’s me folks

[@shahadalwttar1386]

Never gets old

[@gameranxTV]

Hey

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Falcon responded.😂

[@ant1csGaming]

@@gameranxTV what song was in the intro?

[@stevenolea5834]

@@ant1csGamingidk but i transcended

[@Eldor-117]

Being called a cheater while youre not cheating is the highest form of gamer respect.

[@viktorgabriel2554]

that is also one of the oldest excuses cheaters use

[@mikitz]

Frankly, you're not great at anything if no-one calls you out for cheating at least once.

[@Ramund223]

@@mikitz still remember my first time playing overwatch 1 I got called a smirf.... I was just super lucky in my first match

[@N4CR]

It's the equivalent of being accused of steroid use in gym while being an actual natural. Unfortunately today, most fitness influencers are on gear and set unrealistic standards for people.

[@LCInfantry]

Cheaters using an mnk on console when everyone else is using a controller.

[@shelch]

Public shame of cheaters in games is literally the best way to handle cheaters in my opinion. Cheating is about getting an advantage over others for a false ego boost. A silent slap on the hand doesn't fix anything.

[@lukasz4282]

Not true. People cheat because it's fun while legit players cry and give some hilarious reactions. Shaming does absolutely nothing when you can just make a new account

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

@@lukasz4282 it depends on the game. Getting an unfair advantage online, kinda a dick move, but sure, some are just trolling rather than 'no one can beat me with these cheats'.

[@twilightparanormalresearch186]

@@lukasz4282depends, I just leave and block (makes sure I’m less likely to be paired) I then SS their name and post on discord and Reddit

[@MyFrogEatsPeople]

​@@lukasz4282 that's the oldest cope in the book.

[@boadams3207]

Not true. Some cultures say if they are available why are you not using them.

[@Durwood71]

Stopping cheats in multiplayer games is a noble but ultimately futile effort. But punishingly harsh consequences for cheating in single player games? Why? Who cares if you cheat in a single player game! It's not affecting anybody else.

[@ihavegymnastics]

Exactly. If I read a bunch of single-player game hints, is that not also, "cheating"? Stupid....

[@donk6765]

It's like the war on drugs

[@Redwan777]

​@@donk6765Drugs abuse affect everyone in the family. So, that's not a good analogy

[@TheYouTubeGame]

@@TenmasSchoolOfThought It still doesn't just affect them. It's not conducive for society as a whole.

[@TenmasSchoolOfThought]

@@TheKZbinGame What the society wants doesn't matter to me and it will not impede my freedom, and there shouldn't be laws that impede on my freedom like this. If I want to do something and there's a law against it, all that does is make me go extra mile to do it. And if someone is blocking my way from doing so, all it is an extra barrier for me to destroy to get what I want.

[@hermidon]

The ScriptKid trap was so iconic and hilarious to see back then, wish we could see even more on other games

[@NOTTIBOPPINtwitch]

yup we do have this on cod tho with the fall damage but i havent seen vids for it like scriptkid csgo

[@leonIdas002]

OH YEAH, YOU STILL GONNA FEEL THAT WAY WHEN IT COMES OUT THAT HE WAS DATAMINING TOO??? OR IS HIS CRIME OKAY BECAUSE YOU DONT LIKE CHEATERS??? HOW ABOUT WHEN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECITON IS CHEATED???

[@JoriDiculous]

Should be a game mode tbh. So much fun with your or others character freaking out, throwing the gun away, running around screaming😂

[@briondalion]

I like the music he played over the demo recordings. I don't know what it's called but it just made the exploits funnier. Like the one where they could never plant the c4, lol, or the non existent round that would make a firing sound

[@JohnsonJohnsonJohnson-j6r]

He did a couple vids on CS but I do want him to do more

[@bladedrummer3498]

I worked at a major studio. One of our anti cheat methods was able to very subtly change your UI if the game client was being tempered with. We caught soooo many streamers with it.

[@lucarius2810]

Can you tell what game it was?

[@halo129830]

If he still works there I think it would be better to remain quiet

[@ROCKYPLAYA]

Suuuuure, I'm going to believe a random user.

[@Taolan8472]

​@ROCKYPLAYA no reason to believe this user is what hr says he is; but that is an actual strat used in some games popular among streamers. It's usually something innoccuous, a single icon is a different shape or different color on the edge of the screen, and it is still done.

[@Kerostasis]

@@Taolan8472 It's not that you *couldn't* do this, but *why* would you do this? If the game client can detect the user cheating, it could just tell the server directly. Why go to the effort of sneaking visual cues into the UI and hoping a dev will see the results on a stream?

[@WhoodaHell]

Bad Egg doesn't hatch outside of Ruby/Sapphire. It just sits there mocking you and taking up space, unless you check it's summary (in the games that let you) then the game crashes sometimes. It's an error handler they implemented after learning from the Missingno glitch. Originally it wasn't specifically there just to stop cheaters, the game's hardware was prone to failure especially during things like trading over link cable or saving the game. Better to end up losing just that one glitched Pokemon than possibly bricking the entire save or even the cart itself.

[@brandonn161]

Cheaters are the reason why I am strictly a single player kind of gamer. I only play 1 multiplayer game and it's an MMO. Everything else I play is single player. Not worth my limited time after work to deal with these scums.

[@Lundeer-]

Just say you are bad af Bro 😂

[@MinibusRider]

Cheating isnt THAT ramped lmao might be a skill issue

[@bullzebub]

@@Lundeer- and here we have the other reason multiplayer games sucks.

[@BrianWelch-vc7xy]

@@MinibusRider All it takes is one bad experience to put someone off a game for good.

[@MaverickTheDemonWolf]

See, my take on cheating is like this: in a multiplayer title, it's a no-go. But in a single player game, it is fine. I have Fallout 4 and Starfield modded to hell and back, and one of my FO4 mods I use is legit called "Cheat Terminal". So ye, that's just my stance.

[@errorx_x1063]

Single player is just like lucid dreaming. More justified for P2W games. Money is just the acceptable cheating, so what do they expect?

[@privacyvalued4134]

This. The only problem with cheating in single player games is that rare Achievements tend to be easier to obtain. I always _try_ to play each game legitimately. Only if I decide a portion of a single player game is unnecessarily difficult do I fire up a cheat program. Even then, I limit my cheating to slowing down games to a playable level (as much as 90% slowdown). Multiplayer games, on the other hand, are supposed to put everyone on equal footing. In multiplayer, it's definitely more along the lines of "git gud scrub" and I never, ever cheat in multiplayer games. In nearly all cases of cheating, cheaters are still beatable by far more skilled non-cheating players.

[@lesterlacy8722]

What about cosmetics mods i see no problem der

[@kicksandswords]

You can't mod starfield there has to be a game first for mods to work 😂.

[@landonewts]

I heavily modified my first Fallput 4 playthrough, and after hundreds of hours the only negative was no achievements. It the 2024 update scrubbed all my mods, been interesting to see what disappeared. I only started modding it so Dogmeat wouldn’t get hurt, and once I did one mod…. Hard to stop.

[@jupiter--system]

One of my favorite stories is of indie tycoon game Software Inc which, if pirated, would let you play normally but when you release a piece of software, would make people get pirated copies instead of legitimate copies, making the game impossible to play.

[@alexpage4355]

I think you mean Game Dev Tycoon... and yeah, there were even forum posts with pirates asking how to research DRM. Irony truly _is_ lost on some people!

[@singleplayermoments]

The Fall Guys’ devs hoping to teach cheaters empathy is so wholesome and extremely endearing.

[@JohnBLZ]

That part might be wholesome, but the devs are really out of their depth. I played that game religiously for years and they kept shooting themselves in the foot by removing levels, features, sometimes outfits, and then when they added user levels, they'd either pick streamer levels that sucked, or little Timmy levels that were downright unplayable/unfinished. It's nice that they got rid of those who'd fly to the finish line, but... now we get to all slog through 2% of the game in a loop while the other 98% are "vaulted because the Nintendo Switch can't handle it". And of course if the cheater was popular on their Discord/Twitter/etc., devs and other community members would go "lol it's just lag, you got skill issue"

[@dwminiboss511]

Trying to teach cheaters empathy is like teaching rats to play violin.

[@HumanScourgeYT]

I love watching Camomo destroy cheaters in Rust. A true KZbin gem.

[@petem68]

AnarchyHD is a good one too, me's an admin on DayZ and has his own server, he records his cheaters and dishes out justice.

[@CrimsonNick171]

I remember Adventure Quest Worlds had a funny way to deal with Bots. When detected, the next time the player logged in, the character would be stripped down to their boxer shorts, their entire inventory removed except for a note giving you a warning to not do it again.

[@baldy117irl]

didnt they stop that? as like huge amount of the playerbase is using bots?

[@yallugly4317]

IIRC they added too much content that required a bunch of time to complete that they gave up punishing the bots​@@baldy117irl

[@cutsleeve117]

At this point I'm certain they encourage bots more than anything, considering the requirements to get the NSoD

[@RFC3514]

Of course, a detail you left out is that Eve's own GMs have been caught cheating (and helping specific in-game corps cheat) more than once. The last time I played Eve (years ago), I found a few marketplace bots, managed to bait them into making me a multi-billionaire, reverse-engineered one of them, sent CCP (the developers) all the data (where I specified that someone running one of those bots could basically pay for a fully upgraded account in about 6 days), and they thanked me for my report and said they "were going to look into it"... _twenty-seven _*_months_* later. And when I asked if they were joking their reply was "no, this shows we're taking action". So, either I reported bots operated by yet another GM (who deliberately hid them), or they really _are_ that incompetent.

[@littlebear274]

There was(?) a guild in Ark Survival Evolved that was notorious for being cheating scum employees of the publishing company. You couldn't do anything about it, you just had to avoid the hell out of them because there were never any consequences for them. No idea if they're still playing in Ascended, but I assume they are.

[@Cyrus_Milani]

0:23 Number 20 Valve's Dummy Code Trap 1:23 Number 19 Script Kid's Fake Cheats 2:30 Number 18 Call of Duty's Cheater Punishment 4:20 Number 17 GTA Online's Exploding Cars 5:25 Number 16 Titanfall's Cheater Lobby 6:44 Number 15 Eve Online's Bot Executions 8:56 Number 14 Hypixel's Invisible NPCs 10:15 Number 13 Call of Duty's Fake Enemies 11:31 Number 12 Pokémon Go's Shadow Bands 12:55 Number 11 Fall Guys' Cheaters Island 13:52 Number 10 Valkyrie Profile 2's System Infection 15:14 Number 9 Modern Warfare 2's Gun Disarming 16:08 Number 8 Bohemia Interactive's Russian Snitch 17:27 Number 7 Pokemon 18:15 Number 6 Escape from Tarkov's Bounty System 19:36 Number 5 War Zone parachute cut 20:35 Number 4 RuneScape's Botney Bay 21:41 Number 3 Guild Wars 2's Cheater Punishment 22:39 Number 2 World of Warcraft's Cleaner 23:36 Number 1 XBox1 changing your name To Cheater MC cheat

[@DrMicahLuv]

Thank you.

[@typhonplume9374]

Oh I got one for you Falcon. In EverQuest 2, they took all the problem people and locked them via IP to there "special server" which got no regular updates like the main servers. So they can still pay and play the game, but there accounts are locked so they can't interact with anyone else in the game, and miss out on special developer run events and such.

[@Rocketcow-dx1jd]

I'm the kind of legitimate player who would want to go to a server/POI full of cheaters to train and get stronger by fighting and annihilating every single cheater without any special powers like they have. Much like how Vegeta does pushups at high gravity to get stronger.

[@Zeiru]

I'm really loving these longer videos. Please keep it up! 20 minutes flies by when I'm listening to you talk about things I like.

[@henke37]

20: Real trap 19: 3rd party bait 18: Not a trap, just fun punishment 17: Not a trap, just fun punishment 16: Not a trap, just fun punishment 15: Not a trap, just fun punishment 14: Real trap 13: Real trap 12: Not a trap, just fun punishment 11: Not a trap, just fun punishment. It's also a repeated concept. 10: Not a trap, just fun punishment 09: Not a trap, just fun punishment 08: Real trap 07: Not even a punishment, just error handling 06: Not a trap, just fun punishment. It's not even out yet! 05: Not a trap, just fun punishment 04: Not a trap, just fun punishment 03: Not a trap, just fun punishment 02: Not a trap, just fun punishment 01: Not a trap, just fun punishment In conclusion: 4 / 20 real traps. You are the cheater here.

[@alexanderschneider9121]

Thanks! Almost every video today has a click-bait title-LIE

[@JScotty4Reel]

Admiral Ackbar would be proud

[@oldredsrise]

Admiral Hackbar is dissapoint.

[@Valkinsenn]

"It's a trap!"

[@Sion_Revan]

Ambushed by a plastic sheet It's a tarp!

[@FrobiWan]

Ambushed by a small piece It's a part!

[@flowahpawah5397]

It's actually amazing the amount of content you guys can put out, ontop of it being high quality!

[@TBZ_Rider]

It that time of the day that finished my shift at work Have rode my bike home And openned up youtube just to chill with gameranx I love you guys 🔥🔥

[@ichiniisan8534]

I mean, I can totally understand that you want to get rid of cheaters in PvP Games, but Singleplayer? Nobody gets harmed if I make my Pokémon into a god or something.

[@metae.4256]

Until you take said gawd into a battle against another player.

[@endlessstrata6988]

@@metae.4256 He specifically said "Single Player".

[@b3games146]

​@@endlessstrata6988 but then referred to a game where your progress in single player and multiplayer is the same. Pokemon was just a bad example.

[@b3games146]

You can. get a PC and use console cmds they exist in every game

[@cococock2418]

@@metae.4256 Learn to read. It's amazing how you got 4 likes.

[@smaakjeks]

Rust server owners hire admins to mess with cheaters, which is pretty fun to behold. Camomo has no chill when it comes to cheaters.

[@MoldyCinnamon]

This title had me duped for a second hoping for a "Traps that everyone fell for in games" before i read cheaters, i would absolutely love a video like that tho

[@Bloodspilla28]

I literally like b4 i watch the video lmao. Been watching for years. Y'all are consistent and I've purchased multiple games because you guys, and found a new genre thanks to Falcon. Love you guys!!

[@thatmexicanguy2989]

The PlayStation 2 games that had loads of cheats in were amazing! Writing down all the button inputs and getting cheat books with magazines made the game so fun after you had completed it legitimately:) … the issue is when it comes to modern games with cheating online

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

or with the ratchet and clank games you have the earn the cheats by collecting the gold bolts meaning all those new game pluses your doing you will be all powerful in

[@liamdooley863]

Batman Arkham Asylum punishing cheaters by not letting them glide was a great one. You could get 20 minutes into the game before you realised you couldn’t progress any further

[@Jacurutu]

I pretty sure it wasn't cheating, but stealing the game.

[@leonIdas002]

IT WAS NOT THAT LONG... IT WAS LIKE THE FIRST SECTION WHEN YOU HAVE TO GLIDE OVER TO SAVE THE INMATE FROM FALLING... I REMEMBER THAT BEING AN ISSUE WHEN THE FIRST CRACK WAS RELEASED, THEN I BOUGHT ARKHAM KNIGHT AND GOT ALL THE OTHERS FOR KEEPING IT...

[@DarkAnomaly]

@@leonIdas002 Stop typing in caps please. It looks like you're shouting or getting angry at people.

[@DarkAnomaly]

Last time I cheated in a Single Player game was during the Sega Mega Drive followed by the PS1 era. Haven't cheated in a game since then. Honestly though I don't care if people cheat in Single Player but online is obviously a big no no.

[@meatwagonx33]

@@DarkAnomalyShut up you whopper

[@joshuab4586]

Titanfall’s way of handling cheaters is my favorite method, put them in a dunce lobby, Sea of Thieves could really benefit from that when it comes to the PvP diving mode.

[@darkvisiongothacked]

Correction falcon on the "cheaters dont learn". you have two basic types of cheaters BOTH of which can be "taught" to leave a game alone and it really comes down to time/money invested per return. So for your cheaters that are after profit(botting, duping etc) they need to be undetected for a certain period of time before being banned before it becomes unprofitable. that is going to vary depending on how "valuable" that bot time is, cost of the game(if any), amount of copies that can be run on one system, etc. For the other type the "doing it for fun" its more of a "how much of a hassle is it" in both cases making a new account/buying one every say 6 months..well thats a lot of time to "enjoy" or "profit" from the cheat so they are probably doing it again. 3 months? you actually get a reasonable falloff in people that will "reinvest" into cheating into the game, 1 week? they are gone if you are consistently banning them in days or weeks. its too much hassle for MOST to cheat at that game. the reason cheating is so prolific is A almost no one bans quickly, and B even if they DO ...its f2p or absurdly cheap to do it again. hence why they are always infested with cheaters.

[@nickfrank7807]

There are things that I had no idea about, but I'm loving finding out about this. Gameranx knocks this outta the park with Falcon at the bat! 🤘

[@Shjankee]

ScriptKid’s were amazing lmao. The montage of cheaters just jumping off the map 😂

[@randybernhard8437]

One cool thing Tarkov did was put high value loot in high up shelves or other spots that are impossible to reach, but in plain view, so that cheaters who have vacuum loot, looting through walls or extended looting reach will pick up the item, and be flagged, where as any normal player will not be able to reach it(and probably be mad about that lol)

[@Zrrtsy]

love these creative ideas on how to break cheaters.

[@gameranxTV]

Glad you like them!

[@LordofIsleofTritone]

I've always been fond of the general player response to a cheater or hacker in the Dark Souls community. Trick the cheater into dying to gravity. Doesn't matter if you hacked infinite health, poise, and stamina, gravity always wins

[@theqaz1828]

Stopping players from cheating in an off-line single player game is a big no-no for me

[@Zeelian]

Indeed. I sometimes use cheats on single player games just for fun, or to test the limits of the game, or simply to skip a boring part and get to the fun parts faster.

[@ConnorHammond]

These days, I just refer to single player cheats as mods. They should be encouraged, IMO. Just not competitively.

[@AetherStreamer]

@@ConnorHammond This, exactly, agree 200%. Is just the moment when I know that the statistics the game will generate will be uploaded to a server, or I will be directly playing with/against other people, then I play the vanilla version of the game. I really don't understand cheaters, extremely disrespectful, antisocial people. Just imagine them in real life.... this is a creepy world so full of them.

[@denigster]

last words are pure gold - normal people learn, it seems like cheaters are always the type of person who dont learn

[@PlazDreamweaver]

Pokémon Sapphire was my first Pokémon game. I received a bad egg from an NPC in the sunken ship. Never cheated in the game. I imagine something in my save file corrupted and that was the result. The bad egg didn't spread nor ruin anything, thankfully.

[@Thatonedude917]

I've dealt with bad egg mess in an emulator while looking at the memory viewer, it's gross Sometimes they overflow and fill a little of the next pokemon box slot (data-wise, I mean; you can't see it), and that's just bad news for whatever pokemon you had there or maybe even one that you put there in the future

[@LexTheCat]

Thank you for never calling them "hackers"

[@jig2757]

Crazy to think theres MILLIONS of cheaters in gaming in the first place. What a sad life lol

[@daniels9226]

For real might as well not play. Your just doing work at that point

[@KingOldSchool]

Nadia, Swagg, Bams, Faze, Zlance etc😂😂😂 cheaters

[@abyssalink8393]

​@daniels9226 Honestly it depends I like cheating in single player games after beating them, it's more fun to find what makes the game tick than the actual game sometimes

[@lukasz4282]

The real sad life is grinding out videogames like a full time job, only to get stomped on by a cheater who makes people like you cry 😂

[@johntempleton3560]

the cheaters in multiplayer really ruin the experience

[@goth9224]

Personally, I don't care if people cheat in games, as long as its a single player or campian, who cares how they play. But I'm defiantly against cheating on compation/multiplayer-online games. Like why? Either get good or get gone

[@GJPGAMESvideos]

I hear Falcon, I watch. At least you don't owe all of us pizza 🤣

[@ShadowProject01]

Haha Nice Baldino burn😂

[@joeshmoe9233]

@@ShadowProject01 Jake...man what a deadbeat! Years of watching him and I still haven't gotten even one slice!

[@zmiguelr]

Impressive how u guys found 20 different ways that devs dealt with cheaters, very interesting video!

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

Not only do cheaters never learn their lesson, but more than a few get really angry that someone had the gall to catch and punish them! How dare you punish me for cheating!

[@younglinkmusic]

I’m so glad y’all are making longer videos❤️

[@ricks5756]

SecondLife use to send players to "The Cornfield" map, and RuneScape use to send players into the Void ( were the 'disc of returning' came from ) .

[@UnaMoscaEnLaPared]

5:20 "it's like the Cyber truck"... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@littlebear274]

I literally stopped the video and laughed out loud for about ten seconds at that. Mostly because of how unexpected it was.

[@BoringDadd]

Good Morning Falcon! Thanks for the awesome video!

[@gameranxTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ZaricaLP]

fun note about the cod anticheat - it affected hundred and hundreds of innocent people too, because it would detect hardware like specific GPUs as cheats.

[@Drenix]

Making "Take a shot every time Falcon says cheater" a drinking game was a bad idea....

[@prizegotti]

I've never cheated online, and have been victim to online cheaters, but I hate Anti-Cheat just as much, if not more. As a developer myself, I know how difficult it is to determine if a player is legitimate or not. Sure there are foolproof ways to catch someone, ie; modifications to the games code or memory, consistent click speed etc. But a lot of methods used to determine if a player is a cheater or not often are a result of a false flags. A prime and very well known example of this is DICE's "Easy Anti-Cheat" that couldn't tell the difference between a good player and a cheater. This failure saw thousands falsely banned for being good at the game.

[@jelyse14]

I want to see more of them do something like Runescape, that's hilarious and pulls legitimate players into it in a fun way, makes a sort of event out of it. I can see how that would also help foster a community of legit players who don't take botters lightly. Where they wouldn't be only vaguely annoyed at their presence, depending on how many you see 24/7 and how commonplace it is, but actively reporting those they find so that they have more opportunities to throw tomatoes.

[@McKingski]

YESS, LONGER GAMERANX VIDEOS 🙌

[@strixfiremind]

The Pokémon Go shadow ban struck me. I barely play the game, and don't cheat - I did go cross country twice, but that was legitimate travel!

[@defeatignorance8681]

Activision will sue modders that want to make the game better or bring old games back to life and make them safe to play, but they won't sue cheat makers that explicitly advertise their cheats for CoD. Make that one make sense.

[@BreakingSigns]

Always look forward to videos with Falcon's wonderful bird voice narrating

[@espressoshot21]

This video was so satisfying to watch. I’m so sick and tired of cheaters in games

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

22:28 The happy wave before taking a digger off the bridge is laugh out loud funny.

[@davidhelka8929]

Great video man 👍

[@MrBeetsGaming]

Anyone else happen to play Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast? The cheating on there was insane, if you joined a game with someone they could literally turn your character into different NPCs and there was nothing you could do about it. They could reset your Dreamcast, bsod you all kinds of stuff.

[@EddieSpaghetti69]

That, and by plugging a PS1-adaptor keyboard (The old school ones, with the circular plug!) you could type more symbols then was originally intended for in PSO; you could send mail that contained an *illegal symbol* which crashed the game on their end. I will admit it was an amazing game, but it's a showcase in how *not* to do security for a game. If your mail system allows people to reprogram the game from the inside out you can be absolutely certain that people will do it.

[@doublepinger]

NUL, level 5 . My brother was super into it, including being a victim and doing other stuff. Of course when it came out on PC they went right back into it - I remember a trick that messed over the anti-cheat was just clicking hook/unhook exe repeatedly in Cheat Engine, and it wouldn't get caught lol

[@EddieSpaghetti69]

@@doublepinger That's due to a major dev oversight for PSO1 particularly; when it thinks there might be something listening in (A port sniffer, or a range finder) it'll throw up something to try to make it lag while it "feels" if it's being watched. This fails because it's called exactly *ONCE* and never used again. By hitting hook/unhook, it meets the criteria for "I Think I am being Watched" but can't get the criteria for "I caught you!" and ends up looking like a conspiracy theory lunatic. "I Think i am being watched, but can't prove it, so I'm gonna act out." An easy fix is obfuscation; or using a float to provide a custom key for the current dataset. Harder to hack then making your programming behave like it smokes rocks.

[@kenn5287]

Played PSO1 &v2 for awhile only to log in one day to a perma ban. Turned out that "friendly" player who gave me a new gun gave me a HACKED item, and that was that.

[@garcemac]

"Randomly get flash-banged in the face..." Guess I'll be cleaning the coffee of my monitor now. Thanks, Falcon.

[@keeklawless9248]

Scriptkid. That’s a genius move.

[@AndrewFetters]

Loved this content! Vulcan’s Creed is a fantastic game if you enjoy epic battles!

[@JokeDeity2]

As someone who has cheated in a game in the past (Combat Arms), I can say I didn't start out cheating, I noticed cheaters more and more in the game and all my complaints and evidence was falling on deaf ears, until one day a friend said "I found out where they're getting the hacks". It wasn't that good of a feeling though because for all the hackers you get revenge on with your own hacks, you're ruining the fun for tons of other normal players by doing so, and in all likelihood I'm not the only one that found their way into hacking by wanting revenge on other hackers, so it's a vicious cycle. Bottom line, the devs need to care about stopping hackers as much as they care about BS like micro-transactions or whatever games in question they're working on will suffer the same fate as... well frankly most online games.

[@MrWadicus]

Combat arms was the only game I ever cheated in it was hard not too 😅

[@Jmasdoni]

I respect that and believe that’s how many get into it, in fact I’m the same, and since everyone on bo4 cheats I do too, it’s fun and a small community of just cheaters and a lot of them lol, but I won’t take it to another game. I’ve decided cheating is something I just won’t encourage, especially in today’s era. However I will jump back on an old game full of cheaters and cheat the shit out of them sometimes 😂

[@AleanoraLevidia]

Am I the only one that mouths falcons exit because we've heard it so many times?😂 lol good work as always guys love the content!

[@CeaTeeReviewz]

Is it just me, or has Gameranx done this exact same video topic before? Still love the content, though!

[@muzie5783]

its starting to seem like they just rename videos but the content is the exact same. same concept for the video just different games talked about...also just did a search and they do at least 1 of these "how companies punish cheaters" videos every year so yeah, rehashing ideas with different list. hate to see it.

[@danielflanard8274]

Only so many unique videos a gaming channel can make before it comes to scraping the bottom of the barrel and it happens fast, Gameranx is getting to be an old channel. I think this is the highest number of entries they have done for this type of video but yeah it is not the first.

[@errorx_x1063]

Honestly the gaming industry is just bone dry compared to 20 years ago

[@ManicMedia90]

Capitalism is an irrational system that demands we all generate ever increasing amounts of money, so there are times where people producing anything (KZbin videos, games, food, housing) have to do seemingly strange/irrational things to keep up with the ridiculous growth demands of the system

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

that was years ago, i for one will never go back n scroll their old videos... so this is nice...

[@KTSpeedruns]

So many great ideas, and I think maybe the ultimate solution is to do multiple of these but in a cycle, and you keep adding more methods so cheaters trying to circumvent the anti-cheat will probably find it easier to just play the game.

[@distant2soul]

Hot damm love this bird, I remember the days playing modern warfare 2 and being accused of having a lag switch, but was just having really bad internet living in ireland 😂

[@XVKeen]

THANK YOU GAMERANX for still using HUMAN narrators 😇🔥🔥🔥

[@boostio_music]

Back when i was a kid, I had pokemon emerald on the gameboy. I got a bad egg, and it broke the entire game lol. There's no way to delete the save file, and the game itself crashes. I was so sad. I was young so I never realized it was because I used a gameshark. I'm 28 now and never cheat in singleplayer games anymore, jsut because I think it's boring. But I think it was f'd up to do that to kids just playing a game boy game.

[@dreamfire6]

I used a gameshark back then too. i lost my save file on saphire

[@skafabafa]

But you still do in multiplayer? :o

[@grumblycurmudgeon]

There is a certain kind of content creator that believes - truly and deeply, in their heart of hearts - that if they are not talking CONSTANTLY through literally every second of their video, they're somehow doing it wrong. It's almost impressive. Almost.

[@HeatherBrooks-v2i]

Getting sent to "Cheater Island" is like being sent to Australia back in the day. Edit: I love Australia and would love to visit.

[@hart-of-gold]

The first fleet sent to Australia was bound for Botany Bay. Runescape's program was a direct reference to the transportation of convicts.

[@intoHeck1964]

While these methods might not be the most effective, they are great for morale for players. Hearing about bans but still seeing hackers feels like nothing is happening. But when you get to see hackers get executed (in game) or humiliated or stuck with other hackers, it warms my soul

[@myplane150]

Is there a reason why they can't ban an IP address or even a MAC address to eliminate the cheater from ever using the same PC in the a game like COD?

[@RedFighterNL]

Generally your IP address isn't static, it can change. As for MAC address, this can be spoofed fairly easily

[@jonw8694]

@@RedFighterNL Agreed. Often your IP is assigned from a pool available through your service providers, and rotates every so often...so banning an IP would just screw over others that use the same ISP.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Best they could do is deploy an update specifically for said cheater that crashes the PC, but that's unethical.

[@jnawk83]

​@davidmcgill1000 they could crash the game, not the PC. Unless you're talking about exploiting unlatched OS vulnerabilities, which would make the game straight up malware.

[@alliekat85]

First time viewer...i enjoyed this

[@lbgrammer]

The "invisible" NPCs that minecraft servers used were so horrifying. You'd be mining in a cave at 3am and you see a random mf running around behind you.

[@harry4502]

Not at all what watchdog does

[@lbgrammer]

@@harry4502 i'm not very familiar with watchdog or any Minecraft anticheat. But I can tell you with 100% certainty that Brawl used some anticheat that would show random players flying around you. Visibly. Their anticheat was ass, and consistently false auto-banned legit players. Their anticheat system was an ongoing problem the entire time I played on that server.

[@RonHarrisMe]

I have cheated, in a game, ONCE. It was in 1985 on the Commodore 64, a game called “The Bard's Tale”. This games was SO GOOD. There were “traps” spread throughout the game, you never knew when you were going to run into one. Once in the trap, if you did not get out, in time, you would be setback to your last save. So it was an actual ticking clock, and failure REALLY hurt. After I beat the game, I tossed the game into a “HEX” decoder? I can't remember the name. You could take a file from the game, compare the two files and adjust what was changed. By doing this you could adjust your Gold, Items, whatever you wanted as long as you knew the location of the code. It was the first time I had figured out how to “CHANGE” a game. After that, I never did it again because A) It was BORING B) I had already proved I could do it, so the thrill was gone.

[@scubaad64]

One of my favorite anit-cheats was, back in the very early days of online first person shooting (we're talking Battlefield 1942 days), every once in a while someone would throw into chat that if you hit alt+F4, you could shoot through wall, or get unlimited ammo without having to reload, or be invisible, etc. Than, about 1/4 of the players would just "inexplicably" drop from the game. It's pretty well know today what alt+F4 does, but back then, there was much more ignorance about what it did. I miss those days.

[@DeLePlays]

That's literally not anti-cheating. That's being an asshole. Funny all the same though.

[@scubaad64]

@@DeLePlays It literally is anti cheating. Sure, it's not a program specifically designed to combat cheating, but if someone believes it's going to let them cheat, and they do it, that would-be cheater is out of the game. Anti-cheating.

[@VTdarkangel]

In my opinion, the best way to deal with cheaters is to keep a hardware record of them. For the first few times, deal with them in the normal way: ban their account. However, if the same hardware shows up several times in the cheaters list, then ban the hardware so they can never play the game again. I know this is an extreme method, but that is why I would limit it to people who've demonstrated absolute disregard for the other players.

[@DerMarkus1982]

0:12 "(inaudible)" in the manual subtitles. It's RUSES.

[@dimetryp369]

Are we sure they're not auto-generated? Genuinely don't know lol

[@DarinRWagner]

Finally... you actually mention World of WarCraft in a video...

[@e.b.farmer4]

I never understood why anyone would want to cheat… Like why even play the game at that point?

[@Dan-hx4lc]

Rarely is it about the actual game. Some people get a rush from it. Others get off on making people miserable or ruining their experience. Some crave the attention - you start cheating in a multiplayer game & everyone else in that match begins talking about you. And others just have very little control about anything in their life, but they find one thing they can control, the outcome of a video game match. There’s a lot of reasons. I’ve seen many cheaters in the Division franchise over the years, they aren’t doing it for the rewards, you don’t get much honestly anyways. It’s definitely some external factor.

[@domhuckle]

I'd love a deep dive into the psychology of cheating

[@imanevilpairofsocks]

cheating is so dumb. You are paying extra money to get bored of a game faster and have your skills get worse. Any temporary positivity you earn from your gameplay pails in comparison to the negativity you receive when discovered. The fact that their are players capable of stomping aim botting and wall hacking clowns should be enough for everyone to understand cheating will never actually meet the level of greatness the cheat makers claim. We know that low effort instant gratification can lead to serious mental health problems. Ain't nothing cheats offer that isn't harmful to the user and everyone that interacts with them. Its like someone going woohoo I stuck a piece of uranium up my ass now I can run faster than everyone, just sucks I and anyone near me is gonna get cancer... We just need more psa type commercials explaining all the downsides to cheating, if their is no desire to cheat then they will disappear

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

For world records, there's a reason. The prestiege and sometimes money from it (direct payouts or indirect, like being invited to paid events). It's absolutely gross and pathetic.

[@BigChiefActual1]

you're using logic to try and understand the lowest IQ demographic. People who want the game to be as easy as possible are often the kids who barely scraped by in school. I'd bet most cheater IQ falls under 100. Why would u wan the game easier? Because you don't have the brain capacity to play it regularly, because the easiest setting is too difficult for them

[@ruok-l5t]

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Those who do that will get found out eventually. When you have eyes and ears on you, you will never get away with it. But most online cheaters are actually frustrated basement dwellers with no skills.

[@KingOldSchool]

Nadia, Swagg, Bams, Faze, Zlance etc cheaters😂😂😂

[@lukasz4282]

Dude you're acting like getting skills in a videogame is something to be desired 😂 A cheater cheats to have fun, not waste hours and hours like a full time job grinding for pixels

[@alexk2440]

Can’t believe Valkyrie profile 2 made this list lol such a niche game but my fave game of all time. So happy to see it get some attention

[@nanyubusnis9397]

0:09 This weird question is answered within the question itself.

[@celestialkitsune]

What question? 😂

[@chojin6136]

Thank you. Recently, I've been looking up the release date for Titanfall 2 and it keeps saying that it was released on all platforms in 2016, and specifically lists Xbox. Anyone that played it on Xbox from the start knows this is false, because it started as an Xbox exclusive. The revision is really annoying because leaving exclusivity was an important part of it's history

[@satevo462]

I get cheating in single player games, but if you have to cheat in multiplayer you are a full blown addict and should have your game taken away from you and go through full blown withdrawal. A week or two and you will realize just how pathetic your obsession was. And lets be honest, it's streamers that cheat because there income depends on it.

[@arkhaan7066]

I’d say it’s the other way around. I kinda get cheating in multiplayer. If you’re a casual who only has time to put a couple hours in a week and you are just spending your time getting absolutely farmed by sweaty tryhards who have more time in game in the past week than you have overall then I understand trying to get something to even the playing field. It’s still shitty and you deserve the ban, but I understand it. Single player though? Games literally have a difficulty slider, crank it to easy and wander around doing your thing. If you need to install cheat software for a single player game, just unplug and go outside for a while.

[@ThatstaticEKHatch]

😂

[@abyssalink8393]

​@arkhaan7066 I'd have to disagree with your take on single player games, finding what makes a game tick and developing a cheat for it is fun (after beating it of course), and sometimes the game mechanics suck and the story is good, so you want to finish it, and sometimes games just want to waste your time farming stuff Those are my usual scenarios

[@lukasz4282]

Fun fact, the real addicts are the ones spending hours and hours grinding for ingame pixels, while cheaters party it out and have real fun at the cost of these losers

[@Tuck-Shop]

Using spellcheck is cheating too. *their

[@BigChungus378]

The entire thing about CoD, they are doing a decent job, but not mac address banning cheating is the problem.

[@skirmisher912]

I remember the bot tomato throwing in runescape. Man the memories.

[@Dargonhuman]

The last time I logged into RS, which was about a year ago, they still had the cages and the NPCs, but since the devs had moved onto other more effective anti-cheat measures years ago, those were more of a memento.

[@lux0rd01]

​@@Dargonhuman I remember you could put yourself in them too via a wizard in one of the members areas iirc

[@Eric-tg9ss]

Just found you today, good stuff! What do you think of Bungies cheating problem in Destiny 2? Supposedly Battleye is taking care of it but i still run into wall hackers and instant teleport

[@fdsfggr]

how can max payne 3 ban cheaters isnt it a sp game only

[@carlsoll]

9:00 Oh mannn 😮 No. 14 was so goood

[@damedusa5107]

3:18 wow, get on with it

[@nicememes7570]

You only care about the amount he talks about this one? Get over yourself

[@damedusa5107]

@@nicememes7570 no, that was the point I realised he was filling time with waffle. Get over yourself?? What

[@nicememes7570]

@@damedusa5107 dog he was talking for like 20 seconds omg such a time waster ?????? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 okay buddy

[@nicememes7570]

@@damedusa5107 make your own videos?

[@damedusa5107]

@@nicememes7570 now you are affected by my comment as much as I was by his waffle. So??…….

[@mydiastardream]

I wish Gaijin did learn from this and banned all the chinese cheaters flooding War Thunder and Enlisted

[@yourdonefor4454]

Yea absolutely