I've been waging a war against the use of scripts in pvp for a long time. I've asserted that I could tell when players were using them, and I've asserted at times that I thought it was one of the most serious cheating issues in the game - I would say duping and scripted resource gathering and quests are probably the most serious, but in pvp the use of all kinds of scripts is the most serious issue.
While I've been waging this little war I've been told numerous times that I don't know what I'm talking about, and that no one who is any good uses scripts in pvp, so much so that I had begun to doubt myself and wonder if maybe I was wrong. Well, I just had my suspicions confirmed quite emphatically - someone who I was certain was using health scripts, someone who was extremely "skilled" and extremely hard to kill, has openly admitted to me in a context that removes all doubt, that he used them, just exactly as I thought he did.
I'm not sure that health scripts specifically are being used as much as they were three or four years ago, but I am once again going to be sharply on the lookout for the evidence that they are being used. The most common cheat used in pvp is probably the infamous "speed hack" but they still don't allow anyone to break the capped movement rates which are set server side. If you use the enhanced client as I do, this is pretty obvious. In my opinion the use of scripts in pvp is still the issue of competitive fairness that has the most impact.
While I've been waging this little war I've been told numerous times that I don't know what I'm talking about, and that no one who is any good uses scripts in pvp, so much so that I had begun to doubt myself and wonder if maybe I was wrong. Well, I just had my suspicions confirmed quite emphatically - someone who I was certain was using health scripts, someone who was extremely "skilled" and extremely hard to kill, has openly admitted to me in a context that removes all doubt, that he used them, just exactly as I thought he did.
I'm not sure that health scripts specifically are being used as much as they were three or four years ago, but I am once again going to be sharply on the lookout for the evidence that they are being used. The most common cheat used in pvp is probably the infamous "speed hack" but they still don't allow anyone to break the capped movement rates which are set server side. If you use the enhanced client as I do, this is pretty obvious. In my opinion the use of scripts in pvp is still the issue of competitive fairness that has the most impact.