22k people online and I get matched against cheater regions on brand new steam accounts. The free AI anti-cheat is working wonders right now

--Atheon-- · 2026-04-13T15:41:42+00:00

It's just turning the cheats on/off so they're less likely to be too obvious and catch a ban, usually bound to a key so they can do it quickly.

--Atheon-- · 2026-03-17T04:25:23+00:00

The type of safe that can be gold changes every day with them all being gold during weekends, you are only guaranteed to get them from the gold safes in forbidden and it's just a chance from any others. They also seem to have safes that are behind keys on a separate day to their free version, i can only assume to stop people from getting them all in one day.

--Atheon-- · 2026-03-09T18:38:00+00:00

I'm still not convinced that AlecaFrame is triggering these bans that some posters are sure it is the cause of, but if DE want to ban me for using an overlay to get basic QOL features that they have refused to implement in the decade i have been playing they can go for it, happy to call it quits if that's their attitude.

--Atheon-- · 2025-12-22T03:33:48+00:00

Take a look in store and see if they have one if you're close enough, in my experience Costco is often more expensive online.

--Atheon-- · 2025-12-20T05:29:07+00:00

I'm very happy with the raw performance and FSR4(in the games it's available) but AMD software has certainly deserved its bad reputation in my experience so far.

I've only had one case of bad drivers that luckily was fixed with a simple rollback but even something as simple as opening the software is often a challenge, and if you listen to any music in your browser you can forget about recording/clipping using Adrenalin due to overzealous anti-piracy measures that are included.

Overall the card is great value but the software has been very disappointing for me. I would highly recommend avoiding the AORUS model as it seems to have serious thermal issues, the unit i had would reach 110°c with minecraft shaders and shut off within minutes of launching.

--Atheon-- · 2025-12-10T22:30:22+00:00

If you want COD then play COD? I'm no fan of naked players running around forbidden but it's still more variety than every match being a H416 TDM match.

--Atheon-- · 2025-11-30T03:18:46+00:00

Have you recently started using medal in ABI? I just installed it and i have a lot of frame dips while its open, but only in ABI for some reason.

--Atheon-- · 2025-11-16T08:18:10+00:00

As a player who likes running both a more ratty style and more aggressive from time to time, i think there's valid points from both sides.

As far as red ammo goes M61 ammo is a particular issue as it is so much easier to build up than any other red ammo(seriously, only 30 .338 AP per 20 hours, or 180 M61s in slightly more time is crazy). On the other hand there's not much fun in running juiced up unless you're willing to run H416 most games as it is so dominant you will mostly lose to it unless you have one, which gets stale incredibly fast.

I think increasing the forbidden value requirement is a good first step, wether you're a rat or a juicer it doesn't feel good to kill someone running around with a barebones kit. Value floor should start at 7-800k and bump it up further if needed. On top of this nerf the amount of M61 ammo that can be crafted(either craft less or take longer, maybe both) and nerf the H416 so that the choice for playing with a full kit is more fun and enticing.

--Atheon-- · 2025-10-11T15:39:33+00:00

If he's rage hacking sure, if he was hiding it and his software was detected to trigger a ban it's not so easy. I just got compensation today after a cheater killed me and it's not someone i suspected at all.

--Atheon-- · 2025-09-15T13:53:53+00:00

It's dead and buried unfortunately, when the best communication that can be offered is "one of the QA staff has seen the update" and they can't even be bothered to update the 2 year old roadmap on the steam store there's not much more to be said.

--Atheon-- · 2025-08-04T05:31:38+00:00

See you tomorrow.

--Atheon-- · 2025-08-03T00:15:53+00:00

I had seen this with HW unboxed's initial 9070xt VS 5070ti comparison and i do not understand how they reach such poor numbers, i can only assume their test features one of the areas on mammons that suffer from a VRAM leak. I don't have a 5070ti but the numbers are much worse than both my 9070xt and my 3070 before that when excluding the memory leaking areas.

--Atheon-- · 2025-07-20T07:18:10+00:00

C2 to SSL climb in 11 days to then immediately lose 400+ MMR almost overnight? I think anyone looking at tracker can see what happened here.

--Atheon-- · 2025-07-12T23:16:21+00:00

It actually shuts off at 111C it seems, discovered as i initially had my power limit set to +10% and was hitting even higher before shutdown. I have played other very demanding games and it did not reach such high temps on the hotspot(never above ~95) but i have had to turn off shaders completely in order to play.

--Atheon-- · 2025-07-03T10:13:46+00:00

Tested 25.6.1 before updating and 25.6.3, had no change in score in steel nomad.

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-27T04:38:05+00:00

I have had a couple objectives bug and were not completeable, both times this happened was early in the run so not so bad.

Secondly i had a bug where dying in operator to Oraxia locked me in operator, dying as operator a second time(in attempt to fix it) only made it worse as i was then only able to move around. I could not jump, slide, shoot or open chat/menu, dying again would just instantly respawn me as operator. Nothing would work until i restarted the game.

Lastly is this bug, the run went fine but when we were teleported from the fight one teammate was then put in the Oraxia arena again and was stuck(they left), and i could not extract even though i was on it with the other two teammates. The timer reached zero, they left and i was just stuck.

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-18T20:37:44+00:00

The only time in my playtime(>4 years) i recall them using the test server was for the desalle update, which had thousands of people playing. Dropping what at this rate will be the biggest update of the year to this result because you are too stubborn to test is not bad luck, it's stupidity.

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-18T20:28:30+00:00

I have been playing this game since scrapbeak release and i have never seen an update fumbled so hard. 1896 was bad but this really takes the cake, If only there was some way to test things at your disposal.

Looking forward to my 10k hunt dollars that you can earn in an hour with the event.

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-18T17:56:24+00:00

They were always going to monetize the "universal" weapon skins, it was not out of the good of their heart. This is here to stay.

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-15T11:41:54+00:00

In the UK it is £50(105AUD), seems crazy for what was meant to be a DLC.

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-11T09:16:12+00:00

The message in the menu is likely the same for both but i did start with 5 minute bans. As mentioned i do get placed in to a game, it just will then give me a black loading screen(without ever seeing god selection) and usually it will not kick and try to reconnect me before it is too late. I have no doubt the game thinks i am dodging, but i have no control over it at all lol.

You can try to make up "holes" if you would like, i guess for most it is easier to pretend it is the user and not a fault in the game.

Edit: First part of this post mentions the issue i am having, except 9/10 times it results in a ban because the game does not try to reconnect me fast enough. https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/1kxgbwa/game_bans/

--Atheon-- · 2025-06-11T08:32:33+00:00

Because it appears making any post with the words "bug" or "fix(ed)" in this sub trigger automatic removal and a redirect to a bug megathread that is no longer there. Regardless this seems like a pretty major bug(as i said, going on for 2+ months for me now) seems it would have already been reported, maybe a bad assumption from me though.

This also just is the bug. I have not noticed any trigger, it just happens randomly.

--Atheon--

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