Maphackers on NA servers.

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On June 16 2012 21:44 ErAsc2 wrote:
Hi. I recently got my hands on an NA account for the TSL4 qualifiers. So I thougt I'd try some laddering on NA for a week just to get used to the latency and to try out the NA servers in general. And I'm being stunned by how many obvious maphackers there are. Why are they not getting banned? Players who doesn't scout at all and reacts to your movements thru the fog of war, players who doesnt scout at all on 4player maps and then goes straight to your base to attack. They're everywhere (GM mmr).

I've been playing on NA for the past 3 days. Each day, I report ~3-4 maphackers (I don't report anybody who isn't extremely obvious), then I add them to my friendlist to follow up. None of them has gotten banned so far. I know spades got caugh aswell, he got accepted into MLG and is still on free foot. Is maphacking accepted now or what is up?

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On June 16 2012 21:48 From Afar wrote:

3-4 a day seems lit a lot. I can't say from experience, but you're probably getting a lot of innocent people. Of course, you could be hitting a ton of map hackers. People weren't really worried about hacking just a few weeks ago, so it's hard to say how much of this is just hysteria, even if there were only a few hackers, it would still be a big problem.

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On June 16 2012 21:51 ErAsc2 wrote:


I'm hitting a lot of suspicious players aswell, but I only report the very obvious ones. I played ~25games/day the past 3 days and every 25 of those has 3-4 really obvious maphackers.

Here's a game from just a couple of minutes ago. Note how he reacts with his reaper to exactly what my stalker is doing and then goes straight cross position for my base.

http://drop.sc/198781

Anything less obvious than this, I would not report.

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Here's a game from just a couple of minutes ago. Note how he reacts with his reaper to exactly what my stalker is doing and then goes straight cross position for my base.

http://drop.sc/198781

Anything less obvious than this, I would not report.

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On June 16 2012 22:14 Aterons_toss wrote:
Is it just an NA thing ? I think map hacks are simply becoming more popular nowadays with all the cases pointed out on TL/blizzard forums and the fact that blizzard doesn't want to hand out bans for it, only demote or temp ban.
It might be nasty if high master/gm player start doing it a lot, but except for spades... has anyone ? I mean, if they did they should be top 10 GM by now and i don't really see a lot of non names there...
Also, its kinda fun to play against them tbh.
Managed to pull a game off a guy who went cc first into 3rd fast cc with a 3 gate expand and i didn't even move out of my base except for one 3 stalker push that did no damage, also had ( i believe 3 ) games vs zergs who are going 3 hatch in min 7-8 and have lolable amounts of unit when i push/are unable to punish a fast 3rd.
In the end you can beat any bellow gm map hacker by being better i would say.

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On June 16 2012 23:44 From Afar wrote:
If the hackers have used their hacks for enough games to have an accurate ladder ranking, theoretically, they shouldn't be harder than your normal opponents, because they'll be mechanically worse. Of course, if you happen to be doing a cheese build or something, then you're just fucked, and at the highest level of play, where people already have pretty solid macro and whatnot, this might not still be true.

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On June 16 2012 23:49 ErAsc2 wrote:

Yeye, most of the maphackers I've reported was a win for me. I don't care about ladder points lol. But knowing that spades played through showmatches and tournaments for money with maphack and could have still been doing so if he wasn't so damn obvious is really bugging me.

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