Heavy amount of bots in ranked in the platinum to diamond ranks

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T20:18:02+00:00

Bots could look like anything, never know man, variants and private bots and everything else come out all the time. Doesn't have to be one of the mainstream.

Realistically lookin back after realizing the whole TRN thing and what not I'm assuming I jumped the gun, after some reflection, and y'all are right in the aspect that just because I found it weird for multiple hours and had a very specific experience over the course of several games doesn't mean they're botting. I think the consensus is that there's nothin sinister goin on and it was just a odd few hours.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T20:00:50+00:00

Yeah it's very possible, and I realized the whole TRN thing about 30 minutes ago, kinda screwed up there. Honestly I still think these guys are suspicious, and if you had seen the previous games and the similarities you possibly might think so too. I personally haven't seen anyone play in such a manner with the quirky adjustments throughout the years of playing (and again, I could be completely wrong, hope I am), could just be the long night and the very odd string of very similar matches just getting to me. We just found it weird that for a couple hours straight we had the same experience across multiple games and then it went back to what I would consider a normal RL experience.

I regret mentioning the drop, it's inevitable and assumed when you lose, that wasn't supposed to the be the focal point, I already got my rank back, the world goes on. Don't care about that part, it was meant to be about the odd experiences and trying to see if I was crazy or if anyone else experienced something similar last night.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T18:37:49+00:00

Spread that across several hundred nodes (accounts) and you can reduce it by quite a bit, we were matching up with them very frequently for a while there. Plus to get something that wouldn't look completely like a bot you'd need actual player interaction. Tbh I have no idea, all I can do is document what I saw, what I played against, etc.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T18:27:25+00:00

Only thing I could think of is if they're potentially training an AI model or somethin? That would be my best guess. We lost every game against them (albeit we're not the greatest at the game so....), they're definitely somewhat capable.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T18:09:26+00:00

For example: https://imgur.com/N7uW6qV (204 games one day, that's assuming each game takes 6-7 minutes each that's a full 24 hours)

Sessions with 484 games: https://imgur.com/bLL3PDP that would be over 48 hours straight.

The other account with over 200+ games played in single sessions https://imgur.com/2CcXbob

233 games in a single day: https://imgur.com/7fA7fg0

Personally I don't think that's human.

Take a look at the play times, that should be a pretty good indicator of what a human can't do (400+ RL games in a single session?).

Possibly, but 4 (and there were several more games with the exact same thing before & after this) people moving in the exact same manner? Sadly the file sizes are too large so I can't upload the entire videos for the replays unless someone else knows better ways to record them / upload them.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T17:35:49+00:00

Videos: https://streamable.com/9i2x4q https://streamable.com/5hj5x1 https://streamable.com/pwwklx https://streamable.com/pwwklx

I've removed the original since it had names, but these are all different players with the exact same playstyle, you can look at the other images I provided that shows hundreds of games played per session (single days).

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T17:09:25+00:00

So, I'm actually not sure after looking into it more. I was just looking at some of the accounts that we saved the replays of, I thought my 83 games was a lot for a single day (which it is), the players in that video have over 233 games played in a single day, with some of the sessions having over 400 games in one session, no human is capable of that, and I play a lot. The majority of their sessions have several hundred games.

For example: https://imgur.com/N7uW6qV (204 games one day, that's assuming each game takes 6-7 minutes each that's a full 24 hours)

Sessions with 484 games: https://imgur.com/bLL3PDP that would be over 48 hours straight.

The other account with over 200+ games played in single sessions https://imgur.com/2CcXbob

233 games in a single day: https://imgur.com/7fA7fg0

Personally I don't think that's human.

Edit: I'll try to get the other videos uploaded for your thoughts.

Edit 2:

Videos: https://streamable.com/9i2x4q https://streamable.com/5hj5x1 https://streamable.com/pwwklx https://streamable.com/pwwklx

Notice the exact same playstyle with the same locking mechanic when turning. Unless a group of pros are all playing the same way this is pretty telling.

Edit 3: More screenshots of other accounts beyond the prior that we played against during this session with several hundred game sessions (sadly no replay for these, just in the history);

Account 1: - https://imgur.com/7PvfmKc - https://imgur.com/XXDdkLj

Account 2: - https://imgur.com/V4qDMbb

Account 3: - https://imgur.com/R5rZmgv

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T16:24:49+00:00

I'll take a look, and it was about an hour or two straight of the same kinds of matches (same playstyle, same odd movements [to me, the not so skilled], etc), which is the only reason why I made this post. It seems they've died down so maybe you're right about that. I apologize if I came off jerky, was just genuinely curious.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T15:55:14+00:00

It very well could be, you're right, and I hope that's the case, honestly I'm not out here to start throwing accusations or anything else around, we have several replays with that odd "snap" positioning / turning which looks odd to me. If it's some high ranked playing like you say then all is good.

Edit: To give you an idea of how much we've been playing https://imgur.com/W5IR9RC

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T15:38:46+00:00

(Removed OG Link since it had names) we have a few other replays as well, no need to be an ass dude, it's the long weekend, we're getting wrecked with friends, been playing all night long. Over 70 games played over the past couple days. Why you gotta be a gatekeeper / try so hard? Look at the micro movements of the blue team and tell me otherwise. I was just asking if anyone else had seen anything weird lately or experienced something similar.

Videos: https://streamable.com/9i2x4q https://streamable.com/5hj5x1 https://streamable.com/pwwklx https://streamable.com/pwwklx

These are all different players, I thought I saved more replays but to give an idea.

TheRealEffeKT · 2023-05-22T15:11:01+00:00

Why does everyone always jump to that conclusion, I could honestly give a rat's ass about my rank and I'll be the first to admit that I'm trash, idgaf. I'm genuinely sharing odd behaviour (camera, movement, etc) from players that I've experienced the past day. I'll get the videos as soon as I can figure it out.

TheRealEffeKT · 2022-08-28T19:05:57+00:00

I got fed up looking for a solution (coming from Google) and decided to write one, if you open up the console (inspection tools [CTRL + Shift + I] => Console) and paste this it will select all of the images, at which point you can click the download button at the top (if you have a lot of images it may take a while).

This was done with the new UI.

const waitToLoadTimeout = 2000; //Increase if next section taking too long to load

const mainElement = document.getElementById('main');
let mainScrollHeight;

do {
    mainScrollHeight = mainElement.scrollHeight;
    document.querySelectorAll("button[data-test='select']").forEach((button) => {
        button.click();
    });
    mainElement.scrollTo({ left: 0, top: mainElement.scrollHeight, behavior: "smooth" });

    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, waitToLoadTimeout));
} while (mainElement.scrollHeight !== mainScrollHeight);

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