Many hackers

[mod edited] We have all been new. We all went through the same struggle. Some accept it and improve [mod edited]. Like pls boys lets just accept we failed and move on?! Yeah there is hacks in every game, it's literally impossible to prevent that. But it's not that often that you'll see one. I spend months without seeing one [mod edited]

Every game has hackers in them. It may be 2019 but that just means the hacks are getting more sophisticated and harder to catch. You can say they should be over but that is WAYYY easier said than done. Running into a few hackers shouldn't be the reason you don't buy a game. If it was you wouldn't be able to buy any games.

Nothing personal, but I don't buy it. Been playing a week? There's a lot to learn in a week, and a lot of cheese that can be used on you in that time.

Games get better the hacks get better been this way from 1994.

You want a onlune game without hacks. Good luck sir

@woolliestlemon7 hackers will always find a way to hack a game even after being caught, but, that doesn't mean they wont get caught doing it.

Send in recordings of these people next time this happens to you to SoT home page on Twitter or something and they will track em down and ban them.

I've been playing the game since day 1 and I haven't seen any hackers at all. Maybe I'm blind if I've been cheated or it was just coincidence, totally not sure but, dont let these hackers ruin your fun on the seas.

Leave game and then try a different server, it might help, it might not, but give more time then just a week, I'm not sure you wont run into any more but if you do record what happened and send it in to the SoT teams.

I hope's yo see ya on the seas matey and good luck plundering.

@marrl Uhhhh not really sure what did I say that had to be moded O.o

@galactic-geek
To be fair, becoming PL is stupidly easy now. A buddy refers them as "Rent-a-Legends."

@galactic-geek said in Many hackers:

You reached PL in just 1 week? Forgive me if I don't believe you...

Meh, I think it's not too hard to believe, Rare did make the grind way easier for new players, and that coupled to the x2 rep weekend and buying lvls option, it's pretty doable. Not an impressive feat anymore, but doable :P. The more the merrier I say so it's all good.

Keep in mind that titles don't mean squat about game experience though... Seen many purple-clad fellows still not knowing which side of the sword to hit with, somehow.

@galactic-geek I feel you're confusion bro, it took me a whole more than 9 months to get PL, (Including a 3 month break from the game cuz I had stuff going on) but yea the grind has now been a lot easier since they've fixed the amount of xp and gold gained by voyages and skull forts and what not, which things are worth a good amount and how much they should be worth compared to how the game was previously when it took like a week to get to like 25/25/25 or around that. (Depending on your rate of grinding, how late you stay up at night, etc.)

PL almost doesn't mean anything anymore that much and yet at the same time tho, not many have even made it that far.

As far as cheaters go tho, those lazy beards dont have any exciting story's or tales to share about all the experiences they've encountered before becoming PL, all they have is "I got there, wasnt hard, blah blah blah."

Me myself haven't encountered any cheaters yet but if I do encounter any I'll report em to both Rare and xbox live.

@galactic-geek oh lol I was just talking about ones that get there like instantly without spending more than like 1 day but I know what you mean. :)

@xix-zeno-xix i wish i had seen a cheater. been playing this game since last year and not encountered any.

but i always see in the forums these 'been playing the game for a week' players that see heaps of them.

its real weird.

@freaktmonline dont read into it too much, without prove of evidence noone will really know for sure, but that's why if we do catch it happening, record and review it so we can make sure that it wasnt just coincidence.

Plus yes I haven't seen anythin either but, I would assume somebody's probably done it and probably the reason why there is so many "hackers" posts.

@woolliestlemon7 may I ask what the objective of this post is? Are you attempting to validate your experience, or did you just want to complain? If you can provide a good, logical reason for this post to exist, then I will treat it as a good, logical post. Right now it seems to me like it's just complaining.

@woolliestlemon7 said in Many hackers:

I know what i saw, I have encountered hackers in all games ive played except World of Warcraft, there for the 8 years i played it daily, not one hacker.

Ok I was reading this thread and then saw this.... Haha, you play WoW and yet you don't know a thing about lag, latency and the like?

As with WoW this game runs serverside for around 90%. All its calculations are done there so you can't hack things like damage position etc. People CAN'T teleport because people can't directly hack the server.
What people can do however is just plain trick you, have low latency, use bugs and glitches (I've had ships sail over me just to scoop me up in the hull and put me there safe and sound without fighting)

Also it depends on what you call cheating but all those people using bots in Wow to mine/ farm for gold and sell it, all those people dualboxing and all the exploits used to win PvE / PvP content is ludicrus in WoW. But don't trust me on that one, I've been only playing WoW since beta.

@woolliestlemon7 great. You just wanted to "notify the community," which is a fine reason in my book. Just checking.

SoT is extremely different from other games. Experience elsewhere doesn't necessarily translate exactly. So if you have a week under your belt and come to one conclusion, and more than a dozen old salts with more than a year played come to a near-unanimous different conclusion, that should at least be cause for you to stop and reconsider. You may still be right, but it's weird to me that you're not even faintly concerned by the fact that no one believes they were hackers. To the extent that you try to call all of us noobs, on the basis that no one who knows anything about games could possibly ever disagree with you.

It is nothing to become a Pirate Legend now as it is still nothing to do. Rare has watered and dumbed the game done to much to pacify players for having new content and drawn new players in. The constant skull forts, hih rewards from the Devils’s Roar, and months of guilded voyages and double XP handouts has devalued and cheapened the entire game.

Finding a captain’s chest use to mean something. Turned in dozens of them them by digging nothing but them up this past week. Except for making up of stories not much matters anymore.

There are cheaters in this game. There are websites that look like a storefront that sell hacks for this game and have ads for why cheating if good for this game. We have encountered them early in the game and over the course of the last year. Not going to go into anymore details. Cheaters exist and thinking they do not exist, especially in this game is very naive.

Sorry others tried to discredit you because you have not sailed as long as they have. I can tell you cheating goes on in this game because of experience. Too many people in the forums who are big fan boys and girls are very condescending. Many think the rule the forums and even seem to enjoy belittling and shaming others not like them.

@woolliestlemon7

To those that think it was 30min here and there to get PL, you are very wrong.

Someone here said that I was rushing trough and got no fun bla bla..

Well that is your opinion on how to play a game. Normaly I have around 300hours a month in a game. thats two months of ordinary job in one month, just playing games.

Yeah, sure but you also had signifcantly an easier time compared to the rest of us at launch. Allow me to make a list of the advantages you had compared to the rest of us.

1. Double Experience Weekend
2. Alliance System (+50% Loot with zero effort)
3. Alliance servers
4. Constantly spawning Forts mostly uncontested
5. Bone Dust Item
6. Devil's Roar (Double Exp/Gold)
7. Increased value of Merchant items
8. Fixed Loot spawn rates - This needs a bit of explanation, back in the day you could be doing a lvl 50 Gold hoarders, rather then dig maurauder/ Captains chest, as you do now, it was the same spawn rate for all chests. So essentially we would get seafarers and castaways at the same rate of the other two.
9. Increased random loot on beaches
10. Forts not locked behind Skeleton ship cloud.

By all means pat yourself on the back, but it is blantantly a lie to say that you hadn't had it easier compared to everyone else.

And from the official numbers that came in August 2018, they sold 5million copies of the game then, I assume the number is higher now. But no, 5million people does not play the game. Anyway as you see on your own xbox(app), you see that only 1,13% of all players achived this. And that of 5million is not more than 56500 players that have achived PL (if they reached 6million now, the numbers are not more than 67800people that have achived PL) And for me that sounds low...

Meanwhile people from the game pass try the game and don't stick with it, artificially inflating those numbers. Look at it this way, only 67.5% have the Set Sail achievement. That implies 32.5% of people tried the game but didn't even leave the dock. While the PL percent number is low, it isn't really that low.

@x-crowheart-x really? You're the first long-term sailor I've heard to encounter numerous hackers, that's interesting. Have you noticed the number going up or down? I know there was a veritable flood near release, but I had been led to believe, both by my experience and others' testimonials, that they were practically gone at this point.

Not challenging your statement, honestly querying :)

@nabberwar

Rare’s stats on so convoluted. Millions sold is a super fuzzy stat. All the numbers are jumbled up and highly overinflated to be factually significant. The Pirate Legend stat is an odd one. We run into Pirate Legends all the time. That 1% must be playing way more than others.

@woolliestlemon7
No one has argued this game has zero cheaters, they are just rare. I've had this game since launch and have yet to run into one. Most of the "Suspicious activity" can be explained through lag and poor hitbox registration, of which this game has a lot of. As well as a distinct lack of understanding when it comes to game mechanics. Did you know bullets can travel through the floor boards? That's just one example of something no one really knows is a feature. As you said yourself, you've only played for a week, that's an extremely short time to learn the ins and outs of this game.

if you are saying that you have become a PL within a week of playing then I think the only hacker here is you xD