Comment Re:OMG FAG LOL (Score 1) 183
I'm not too worried about trolls, but I've seen plenty of abuse and accusations of cheating hurled at "skillers", in games like BF4.
Exactly. I get disappointed if I do not get at least one cheating accusation per few hours online play, it means I am having a bad day.
The problem is just the way I play FPS games where I generally charge round the map, taking slightly obscure routes and firing in very short bursts without reloading until I need to (I roughly count the number of shots I fire in my head). This only works because I generally have pretty quick reactions and am good at recognising where enemies are most likely to come from based on sounds, my own team spawn points, and other clues. I generally sidestep around alot too, especially if I hear gunshots close by.
I also take long range pot shots at people where if I see someone on the horizon they get a few rounds fired at them, then I immediately withdraw behind cover and look for a flanking route to that position (usually their team will be close by even if my pot shot killed them). All it takes is a few of those pot shots to actually get a kill halfway across the map and people cry hacker left right and centre.
On top of all this I play as nohax so I get accused a hell of a lot, but I have used this name online for about 10 years now so don't want to change it.
One way to counter this to some degree is to spot-check reports, and apply heavy penalties to players making false accusations.
Interesting idea. I used to be in a clan with a player (here's looking at you "reporter") who would literally fire off hundreds of cheat reports (I have submitted 2 or 3 in my life). Every time he lost a match badly he would end up reporting 2 or 3 players on the other team, and since he was a pathetic camper this happened a lot. The things is I reckon Valve must have just added him to some sort of ignore list or at least weighted his accusations to not mean anything based on the number he submitted. I tried talking to him about this but he really did believe that these players were cheating even though I could kill them just as much as they killed me (he probably thought I was a cheat too).
That is the only way this would work though, if you also included the persons rep as a factor in any up and down votes somehow and included some sort of meta system like slashdot use but I have no idea how this would work in terms of games where you have a ton of angst ridden angry teens playing.