I have finally played a game with a legitamite cheater who could control everyone's units.

[Radian]

It was a typical 4v4 Giants of War game. Mid-game, a few players started chatting: "WTF", "my game is messed up", one player immediately called out the cheating because his carryalls wouldn't land (I didn't know if he was for-real at first). I first noticed it when my own infantry scouts were going in the opposite directions that I sent them, at first I thought, maybe this new player in the back built some weird walls. 

Then my subs would take off on their own and start attacking my allies. Then my units, and the other 3 of my allies were all attacking another ally all at once. They were all selected and force firing on my ally. Pink, red, sky blue, and green troops force firing on structures in unison. 

There was no Shared Control, it wasn't on. No messages about a player giving control to another. Everyone in the game was like WTF is happening!

The player name was MindFCK (from the Netherlands, playing as dark blue). He is able to take control of everyone else's units. I don't know if he had a map hack, but it seemed like he couldn't control any of my stealthed units. 

One player who was there said he was previously warned about this player for cheating.

I genuinely couldn't believe what I was seeing. Any of the players who were there can confirm this report. Here is a snippet of the player's info in the lobby and the game it happened in:

 

[Radian]

[p1mod]

Honestly the CnCNet does a poor work for community support so you might wanna try use #privateconcerns under Discord: https://discord.com/channels/188156159620939776/1255190374029459558

[tracy22]

Hi Radian, 

First of all, i owe you and the other players in last nights match my apologies, for ruiining that single match.

To be honest , it was exactly my intend.

Let me explain : For months i've been asking the devs, to take the cheating situation serious. Time after Time, see my other posts please. i get the answer Nah, player <...blablabla...> is not a cheater. or no there are no cheats etc. 

My objective in the game we played : was to show all, what can and is possible if you have the know-how. The game is bugged. 

I've come accross some players (who where my inspiration, of creating the same) , but they are keen on hiding there extra capabilities. So well infact that unless you've been playing this game for years and on, you wouldnt even notice that you're being cheated. There so good at it that it hardly shows, while there having a huge benefit.

As an example. I was extreme in showing the controll over nearly every unit on the map (thanks to the buggy shared control interface that was introduced). However the players i talk about use it in a more sophisticated way.

For example : every communication packet between your and there machine, has a frame number. Some of the players i met, stopped my harvester every 10 frames, for 1 or 2 frames resulting in a slower economy for me of about 10-20% !!!! .. hardly even noticable, unless you have a very good understanding of the game mechanics... 

This has been going on for years. And i have a list of offenders i suspect. Currently im working on a detection method, that is actually based on the frames exchanged by the computers. Once completed i will share that with the community (since the devs are doing a poor job)... Then we can finally post a wall of shame. You'll be suprised at the names that will show up there.

 

So once again, my apologies. 

But the reason i did this was to be a whistleblower. Im a white hat hacker, so i will not be displaying anymore of these capabilities online (unless requested). If you still think thats reason enough to get me banned. Thats up-to-you, but please know 2 things: 

A : i made these because i was inspired by the other cheaters online.

B : Im trying to blow the lid in order to address these serious bugs.

 

Best Regards,

 

MindFCK aka... 2 many names to list here...

 

[Hottwire]

2 hours ago, tracy22 said:

Hi Radian, 

First of all, i owe you and the other players in last nights match my apologies, for ruiining that single match.

To be honest , it was exactly my intend.

Let me explain : For months i've been asking the devs, to take the cheating situation serious. Time after Time, see my other posts please. i get the answer Nah, player <...blablabla...> is not a cheater. or no there are no cheats etc. 

My objective in the game we played : was to show all, what can and is possible if you have the know-how. The game is bugged. 

I've come accross some players (who where my inspiration, of creating the same) , but they are keen on hiding there extra capabilities. So well infact that unless you've been playing this game for years and on, you wouldnt even notice that you're being cheated. There so good at it that it hardly shows, while there having a huge benefit.

As an example. I was extreme in showing the controll over nearly every unit on the map (thanks to the buggy shared control interface that was introduced). However the players i talk about use it in a more sophisticated way.

For example : every communication packet between your and there machine, has a frame number. Some of the players i met, stopped my harvester every 10 frames, for 1 or 2 frames resulting in a slower economy for me of about 10-20% !!!! .. hardly even noticable, unless you have a very good understanding of the game mechanics... 

This has been going on for years. And i have a list of offenders i suspect. Currently im working on a detection method, that is actually based on the frames exchanged by the computers. Once completed i will share that with the community (since the devs are doing a poor job)... Then we can finally post a wall of shame. You'll be suprised at the names that will show up there.

 

So once again, my apologies. 

But the reason i did this was to be a whistleblower. Im a white hat hacker, so i will not be displaying anymore of these capabilities online (unless requested). If you still think thats reason enough to get me banned. Thats up-to-you, but please know 2 things: 

A : i made these because i was inspired by the other cheaters online.

B : Im trying to blow the lid in order to address these serious bugs.

 

Best Regards,

 

MindFCK aka... 2 many names to list here...

 

If you know and managed to reverse engineer it why not fix it on our github repo or suggest how to fix it on the repo?