Here's a pilot with over 3400 wins and a hangar full of premium items wiping the Gold League opposition out singlehandedly in the first minute of a battle.





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Fellow Pilots,I haven't posted in a long time, for two reasons. First, it's summer, and my human children are not institutionalized daily, as they would normally be. Second, the topic of this post is discouraging. That's a place I don't like to go.The U normally spends all or most of its energy helping players learn to play a more tactically sound and enjoyable game of War Robots. This will remain true if/when we get going again in the fall. But the game, as you know, has changed. And the changes have been dramatic. We've enumerated them before, but they can be summed up pretty neatly again here. The matchmaking system was changed to ignore strength of hangar, and new content for the last year has been both overpowering and expensive. The predictable result? RAMPANT cheating, and a diminished game experience for all players.Before I define cheating, I'll describe "rampant." It's pervasive and persistent - cheaters appear in nearly 100% of battles (see our previous post about the frequency ). They may not be cheating at that moment, but their profiles often display tell-tale evidence and their behaviour raises red flags. Long (20 or more) win streaks, for example, areimprobable in a fair game with twelve evenly matched players. In War Robots, they happen only when groups of players exploit absurd mismatches for long periods of time. It's more than unsportsmanlike - it's cheating. The opponents have - literally - no chance to win.Cheating also includes, but is not limited to:Fraud - some players spend exorbitant amounts of money obtaining premium gear, and then they have the expenditure refunded by Apple or Google by claiming their children made unauthorized purchases or that their accounts were stolen. While this is certainly the riskiest cheat, as it is criminal fraud, I've never heard of a punishment longer than a temporary suspension. In fact, no player known to me has even had items removed from an account or an account banned from the game.Hacks - some players utilize add-on programs or inserted code to obtain advantages like weapons that never need reloading or unlimited resources. Hacks are rare, but they occur in all online games.Exploits - like the unlimited stealth we saw with Spectres recently, players manipulate their internet connection and other loopholes in the game's mechanics to obtain an advantage.Tanking - deliberate losing OR deliberately remaining in leagues far lower than ones in which the competition is fair. Have you seen what a Spectre does to Leos and Gepards? Skilled players (like the Reverend of Death and Forum moderator Dark Vagabond) reach Champion league with level 9/10 gear in as few as 500 wins. But Gold, Diamond, and Expert leagues remain packed with players who have thousands of wins AND premium gear at very high levels.Time Drops - players open voice communications in Discord, Line, or WhatsApp, get two full squads together, and they drop into battle at the same time. If they land on the same field, they take turns destroying the other team in its entirety. The yields are huge silver rewards, easy gold, inflated damage totals and averages, and sometimes, event prizes.Account buying and sharing - some players have accounts that are being played around the clock by groups of people to build huge sums of resources. Similarly, these and other high-level accounts are sold on a secondary market to players who thus obtain an unfair advantage in gear.There's more, but you get the picture. While some will argue that my definition of cheating is overly broad (I mean any behaviour, not just rule breaking, that leads to an advantage not obtained by normal play), the pernicious effect on the game is obvious to virtually everyone. Sometimes we shrug our collective shoulders, sometimes we blame individuals, groups, or Pixonic.Saga here plays in Expert, finding his way into battles against Diamond and Gold pilots, despite the MK2 hangar and almost 10,000 wins.Clans are doing this together. Here's two pilots from STAHLREITER, which translates roughly to "We Suck, So We Cheat." Believe it or not, I ran into them in separate battles. I think I beat both, definitely wiping out Nini-Linz with his/her 13,000+ wins and whale hangar in Silver league. If I was using that hangar in Silver league, my win rate would be 100%. For the record, it was an easy encirclement on Springfield.I'm conducting a simple experiment to see what I can do in terms of rating and win rate using a F2P, non-component, level six hangar. It's simple, but effective:Nini, on the other hand, rocks three stealth jumpers and a pair of HeyCheese, much of it maxed out. He/she has been in champion league (the 978 trophies are obtained by finishing a season rated over 5000) but currently resides in ... Silver 1!The problem, of course, is the system. With that said, these folks are ridiculous, cheaters, and a stain on video gamers everywhere. The only entity with the power to fix the issue is, of course, the company that designed the game in the first place. Pixonic needs to acknowledge the cheating, and they need to address it. There are simple fixes available (see our previous post about a few of the solutions ). I'm aware that Pixonic needs to make money; I'm aware that there is a parent company with financial goals and oversight. In case Pix didn't realize it, there are a couple MASSIVE mobile hits out there (Fortnite and PUBG, among others) that make money AND place a high degree of emphasis on equal opportunity.Dear Pixonic, FIX THE GAME. Please.I hope to resume blogging about War Robots some time after September 10th. Until then, I remain your humble servant,Dr. Yat