- Barighm
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- Exalted Heroic Member
If there is any power to be found, it's within yourself, not your weapon.
This is a bit late, but it's an important point:
Hockeyweasel asks,
In a BTB Team Slayer, one fellow got 38 kills, mostly with the covenant sniper, with a hit % close to 55% and 35 head shots. I realize that the skill of some players is uncanny, but I was suspicious that he could snipe so well, so consistently, from clear across the map, seemingly never running out of ammo even when we controlled the respawn spot (but maybe he rushed it whenever he ran out). I reported him for cheating, but what's your advice when it's nothing so blatantly obvious? Is it so likely that you will detect it that we don't need to inform on allegedly dishonest players or are those the sort of things that we ought to be asking you to check out? If they are cleared of cheating is their slate clean or does it leave a flag on their "permanent record"?
The example you quoted is a perfect example of why you shouldn't report folks for cheating unless you're certain. We get a lot of reports about cheaters that are basically just skilled players owning people. Unless you see something weird, or they admit it, assume they're good. If they are getting 100% accuracy and firing Warthogs at you, then go report. If they just kind of own you with the noob combo, they're probably not cheating.
Remember this entry in the last update? I think the guy above is talking about a game on Coagulation. There is a glitch there with the sniper rifle. For some reason, if you hold onto it long enough once its out of ammo, it will reload. It will reload with more bullets than its capable of holding too. This will happen every once in awhile. Happened to me a few times now. I'm quick to get rid of the sniper rifle on Coagulation once I'm out of bullets because I won't cheat, but I'm sure other players, like the guy above, has no quelms about taking advantage of this glitch.