I’ve been playing War Thunder I 'spose for about 6 years. One of the things I liked about the game was it seemed to not have a heap of hacking. It felt as if the game had a low enough profile that it slipped under the radar. And then about a year ago, maybe a little more, something changed andvit feltthere was an exponential rise in the use of hacking. Six months ago, it felt like hacking was very, very prevalent, to the point i was not enjoying the game and playing much less. It got better with a wave of anti-hacking bans, but it seems it’s an ongoing issue. Obviously, it’s got a lot of attention in recent days with whole new exploits.
What has changed over the last year or two? Why does the game seem to have gained the attention of hackers after a long time of being largely ignored? I’m aware of other games, especially older games, that have essentially died to hacking and I’m worried this the future of War Thunder. That it’s just going to become an unplayable mess of exploits.
The reason that hacking is somewhat prevalent and anticheat feels useless is that a great majority of hacks used just exploit the dev state of the game. The dev state of the game is a state in the live client where every feature is available to you for the purposes of bug catching. However, that runs you the risk of being able to run a file or a program that allows you to open the dev state so you can have:
aimbot by exploiting the vehicle lock on feature
CCIP/CCRP for planes that don’t have it
stabilizers on tanks that don’t have it
you can also check the crew and vehicle health status on every player in the game
wallhacks by exploiting server location information
and the newest: activate sensor mode in a live match
The hack that popped up around yesterday or the other day, as me and my friends seem to understand, is some sort of packet manipulation where the guy will intercept players packets, manipulate, them and cause them to disconnect.
Understandably, since the former hacks are features in the game, EAC couldn’t tell you’re cheating because they think you’re just using features in the game (which is why third party applications like WTRTI work in-game) and EAC couldn’t tell the latter because the client isn’t being hacked per se.
EAC is decent if you want to filter out generic hack attempts like scripts, injectors (which is why no matter how hard players try there are no insta-reload/infinite ammo/RP/SL/GE hacks). But when the program starts executing functions that are allowed by the game, EAC can’t specifically tell whether for that specific vehicle that feature exists so it leaves it up to the game to decide.
The game engine got open sourced in Nov. 2023, I have no clue how available it was prior, but I can’t imagine that it’s helped the rampant hacker situation.
Just make a dedicated Chinese server, rarely do I see anyone other than them cheating…and it’s blatantly obvious, not to mention in Chinese culture cheating isn’t only accepted but encouraged, so their morals and ethics won’t come up to code anytime soon…
Maybe I’m blind or maybe I just suck soo bad I think it’s a legit kill what what are the hackers doing? I play mostly grb and alittle bit bit a decent ammount of aab and alittle arb. I dont think I’ve ever seen someone blantly cheat before.
I have seen much more, what appears to be, coordinated manipulation . Group of players login to battle at exact same time but are group communicating. Whichever side most go to stay and fight as true team, not cheating, but others on other team do not engage or attack or help "their " team in any way. Battle is over really quick.
If someone wants to cheat, you can only stop the casual cheaters.
There are cards to read the memory and use that info on another computer/microcomputer to have autoaim, etc. as layers.
You can do similar hacks through MIM attacks exploiting bogus certs.
These two are impossible to automate the detection.
And there are a ton more attacks, with different difficulty of detection
On October 17th 2022, the chinese war thunder servers were shut down. That’s why you see chinese players every second match or so. Those chinese players brought a wave of hacking into all the other servers. (Just to clarify, not all chinese players are hackers or bots. There are nice people too.)
The game has gotten a lot of traction in the last few years. I remember getting a profile picture (or was it a title? Not 100% sure) for a “record” of players online at the same time. 137k or something along those lines. Nowadays it’s not uncommon to see 250k+ people online.
I don’t know if there’s more or it’s more prevalent at higher BRs. Yesterday some guy shot my through his own smoke grenade, killcam showed he wasn’t even near the edge, so it should have been impossible to detect me, let alone target me accurately.
el problema son los Chinos, ya ni disimulan que usan hacks es insoportables no poder jugar una partida sin que aparezca un jugador chino que sabe tu ubicación en todo momento, te dispara a través de humo, o a través de todo el mapa, bosques, edificios, ect.
It’s out of control right now, I play in morning and at night and it’s nothing but people with chineese names and they somehow shoot you through solid objects and hits against them don’t count, it’s easy to tell as they usually finish the match with 10-0 kills/deaths. Got shot through a wrecked tank and a solid bus today by one
I’m so fucking tired of the hackers. I shit you not, every other game has either a Chinese bot or someone using wallhacks. This game is going to shit. I’ve put close to 2,000 hours into this game and I can’t even count on both hands how many times I’ve encountered someone hacking. And guess what, Gaijin won’t do shit about it because every time they ban the hacker, they just make a new account and possibly spend more money on the game. Gaijin is profiting off of these hackers and it’s why I’m seriously considering never playing this joke of a game again.
Every single game I play has at least 1 hacker in it. Sometimes I get 2 depending on the day. The weekends are horrible. Basically unplayable. I have close to 2000 hours on pc and console. I can never grind on the weekends because hacking or admin cheats. I’m ready to delete WT at this point. The devs only care about money.
Never really felt that hacking was that common, even recently, but it mostly boils down to the fact that the game has gotten exponentially more popular recently. Relatively to other games, people really don‘t hack that much tho imo.
There really isn’t much cheating. Every time I feel cheated I watch the server replay and sure enough I’m the one that had my ass to the wind. Get over it, get better. China isn’t the problem especially with the ping, I know this because I’m here in china.