Cheaters Seem To Prosper
If you have played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe online the likelihood that you’ve encountered cheaters are pretty good. My experience has been that anyone with a VR over 20K has manipulated the game. I have over 200 hours in Mario Kart and I’m sitting at almost 8,700 VR. When I don’t place top three I usually lose a significant number of points and when I win the reward is becoming less and less. I understand that it’s based on the metric of the others players scores, but those with much higher VR than mine are usually less affected when they lose. When they win they end up gaining more points than I do.
As you can see from the photos the amount of points earned doesn’t match up. Why would someone with almost ten times the points gain more than me? This isn’t an isolated incident I see this happen all the time. I’ve also run into item manipulation which gives players an obvious advantage. With the recent updates to Mario Kart, I really hope Nintendo will be addressing the cheating and begin banning these accounts. Mario Kart isn’t the only game effected Splatoon 2 has people cheating to reach rank X and I’ve heard reports of Fortnite having issues also.
Cheaters in the ink
Splatoon 2 was recently called out by a hacker calling for anti-cheat to be added to the game. Players are modifying weapons to shoot through walls, making themselves invisible and appearing as disconnected so they cannot be splatted.
Here’s one example:
Please ban this person in #Splatoon2 pic.twitter.com/6hw0YgnvEv
— JD (Squidiot) (@Water_011209) May 25, 2018
Fortnite Too…
Fortnite isn’t excluded from people cheating, unfortunately. My son ran into a duo’s team that was invisible the only thing he could see was the gun they were carrying.
#NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/ECx0hP1wlQ
— Gavin S (@xgavitronx454) July 24, 2018
All that was visible was the shotgun and hammer and if you look closely you will see that both players were invisible.
Nintendo needs to address this ASAP! The cheating is giving me flashbacks of Halo 2 and the cheating that was out of control on the original Xbox. What are your thoughts on all the cheating? Let me know in the comments.
