At 9/26/17 08:15 PM, HerbieG wrote:
To make one thing clear: DJDarkDash was taken down by Hybrid-of-Souls who was running this list from its very beginning, so his experience in determining who is a cheater and who is not is obvious. With his amount of points for over a year now (or maybe even more?) he was out of his own list, so he had no personal interest in doing it. About this case: DJDarkDash earned some medals in an impossible order and made an impossible score in an impossible period of time and it has been confirmed by the author of the game, case closed.
That about impossible scores may be true, but I doubt there is an impossible order for any medals. Turns out NG connection is prone to a few failures. It happened to me so many times - the last one happened literally in the last hour. I didn't get a medal from "Concerned Joe" and only saw it after I completed 100% the game (the "impossible" medal that requires to die in the menu screen".
Honestly, I don't think a wonky system can provide reliable proof, 'sides, a true cheater would always cheat in the right order. I'd say the absence of any medal in the "wrong order" is more of a proof than the opposite.
I can confirm that if you lose connection during gameplay - for whatever reason - then earn a medal (#1) then regain connection and then earn medal (#2) the medal (#2) will unlock while medal (#1) will not. It happened to me while unlocking Test Subject on OCD+ (I lost connection multiple times during the weekend but was still able to unlock it afterwards)
Helping - yes. But there is also the fair play side. And I personally don't see anything wrong in a competition in the positive meaning of this word. As for the methods: we all got our techniques of playing certain games, in some of them we are good, in others we suck, at least I can admit that there are few games here from which I am unlikely to get any medals at all. There are also some well-known tricks, some people find even the exploits in games and spoil them in their comments, reviews etc. And that can still be considered as ok, because if one can use an exploit, then everybody can. Things are starting to get nasty when somebody tries to hack a game or use some other stuff like programs to hack the game.
Well, let us establish what hacking is. I don't consider exploiting (like pause scum, multiple tabs, right-clicks or even using a slow computer to run flash slower and get some time advantage - I do have onboard graphics on a shitty PC after all) the same as hacking. As long as the game code is left intact, anything is valid.
They should actually use cheating tools to "hack" their own stuff and learn how to block it from happening.