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Curious..Cheaters?

Slade-Atl

Visitor
Stratics Veteran
I've recently returned to UO and love this game. Probably always will. I've spent most of my time in gen chat, reading all the of the goings on. I've listened to you all jabber since renaissance. My question is mostly to all the PvP'ers out there. If you're absolutely convinced that 90% of the pvp'ers out there are cheating, using speeders and the like, why do you still try and fight? If in fact you are not as well cheating? It's very similar to the likes of COD when it was in it's glory days (world at war) and is absolutely overrun by cheaters and modders. To the point it is no longer playable. I'm just curious. Best of luck to all.

Slade
 

Enziet

Journeyman
lol I've made the same mistake you have. Read gen chat.

It's just PvP smack talk, don't pay any attention to it.

Oh and stay out of Help chat, unless your into drunk people drama. I call it Late night with..... I wont mention names here.
 

Cady

Journeyman
Stratics Veteran
It's a little bit more than 'PVP smack talk'. But Enziet is always shooting his mouth off, he doesn't seem to have anything useful to contribute on these forums ever. There are definitely cheaters out there, mostly people overclocking their CPUs and skipping across your screen like crazy. It's very irritating dealing with people with such low self-esteem that they need to cheat at a computer game. And I have no reservations about calling them out in gen chat when I see it.

It doesn't take much skill to play a ninja or archer if you're faster than most players. There are players out there with their speeders so jacked up they can chase me down with armor ignores and mortals if I'm running in a straight line, and then still catch up to me for the next shot. That really is messed up, I have a decent computer and connection. Dismount one of these guys and try chasing them down with magic arrows after you mount up? You're gonna have a heck of a time staying on screen with them, ridiculous.

That doesn't mean I'm going to give up and just stop PVPing. A lot of these players still suck, and if **** is too hairy it's often still possible to dipset on the fight if you use a little creativity and you're not in completely flat terrain. It hurts the max potential for fun, but doesn't take away from it completely.

The cheaters know who they are, everyone else knows who they are. It's openly discussed in the vents of every pvp guild, I've seen it demonstrated A/B style. It's always gone on, GMs are impotent to do anything about it, and usually will say they don't even detect it, but anyone who's been around the block knows.
 

Longtooths

Supreme Commander
Alumni
Stratics Veteran
Stratics Legend
UNLEASHED
I dont even pay attention to public chat. I have enough wheeling and dealing going on in ICQ and Discord than I can handle.
 
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