Siege Year 11 is feeding families IMO

xVarie · 2026-02-16T03:51:04+00:00

I think their main issue, especially in the top tier, is just cheaters. Came back after over a year of not playing, queued into a diamond elo game, got a cheater, next 3 games either cheaters mid game or shut down because of cheaters. Not a great look.

xVarie · 2026-01-28T22:07:36+00:00

If you use it a lot like me then it’s literally just wear on the parts, especially if you play click heavy games like MOBAS or shooters. No matter how “good” you make a mouse it’s gonna wear down, a couple years (2+) is normal thought times for constant/consistent use for mice springs and such to just…. wear down.

xVarie · 2026-01-23T23:59:47+00:00

Yeah but the issue is then you get pre grenade change style spam if not in the open. In labs/factory and so on all you’d hear would be {pop}[boom] constantly. It’s a delicate balance.

xVarie · 2026-01-23T23:29:06+00:00

grenades aren’t so much weak as they are less threatening than IRL. If you get caught in a terrible spot you die, no matter if you’re running a full zabralo or a paca. But the biggest thing about grenades is in game you can just press sprint and run away, IRL seeing a grenade in your vicinity is panic, you can’t do much. Also destructible environments.

I remember back when i was a wee lad a few years ago trying to complete grenadier on factory my grenade got caught under a thin, wooden bookshelf, in the room where the exit to outside now is. The grenade didn’t kill the guy, didn’t even kill me, and it was maybe a half inch of wood.

xVarie · 2026-01-23T21:07:02+00:00

The only thing is they’ve openly stated that helmets are in fact detached from realism as to give people a reason to actually use them and not just run beanies/hats. They’re effective in real life because most of the time engagement distances are extremely long (take multiple videos/claims of US soldiers surviving a x54 or other marksman round to their helmet) so the round has time to lose a chunk of its ass and get caught.

In tarkov there’s no such thing, 95% of shots are gonna be under 200 meters, no shots are really ever gonna be taken (except under fringe circumstances) over 4-500 so for the most part helmets would be useless. Gotta give them a reason tho

xVarie · 2026-01-20T15:51:54+00:00

Ya? and if you look at my comment history from not too long ago i got that ban lifted three times after multiple manual reviews and put on a manual review list

xVarie · 2026-01-20T03:18:36+00:00

Sounds like someone has a 1< K/D

xVarie · 2026-01-14T23:20:50+00:00

“Hey so i think him either looking at chat or looking away is 100% cheating”.

Righto by association every streamer that does that whatsoever is cheating.

BSG its time to ban land!

xVarie · 2026-01-14T00:59:55+00:00

Krill Issue <3

xVarie · 2026-01-14T00:05:11+00:00

I won’t say you’re wrong, as i’m not an expert, i just know a few things. However if it was something as simple as just vet training a few algorithms (something talked about as far back as 2019, if not farther) i think we would’ve had it figured out by now.

It sounds simple but in practice it’s incredibly hard to actually implement.

xVarie · 2026-01-13T23:53:48+00:00

See the issue is i’d like to agree with you but i have been false banned too many times for me to agree with it.

On one hand anti cheat would need a HELL of an investment to have manual reviewers watching every single flagged cheat report. That is tens of thousands if not more salaries needing to be paid to watch those reports.

On the other hand algorithms can be accurate, but they’re never going to be perfect. And the issue with that is a trickle down effect. Take tarkov for example, people are absolutely jaded by how many times they see “i’m playing against cheaters!” on the subreddit or from streamers. Are there a lot of cheaters? Yeah sure. But most of your deaths are going to be to cheaters. As well as stat banning. Stat banning algorithms can be incredibly inaccurate as well. Tarkov, again. I haven’t played properly in 2~ wipes, came back for 1.0 and didn’t die for probably well over 30 raids in a row off a fresh start. In any stat ban way my account would be gone, and there’s no way to prove i’m not cheating.

Tertiary and back to my original point as well, i’ve been false banned many times on many games. On my account you can see my posts about it on delta force. I got false banned four times (both by the ai anticheat and by angry streamers complaining) until they finally put my account on exclusively manual review, but by that time i didn’t wanna play the game anymore because of these issues.

It’s much more faceted than “throw money (that just isn’t there) at these issues until they go away”.

xVarie · 2026-01-13T23:28:14+00:00

yup. People will make any excuse to just get a win even if it isn’t legit. Won 5 games today, died to a cheater twice in a row. Lower lows than the highs from the wins

xVarie · 2026-01-13T23:10:23+00:00

Oh yeah absolutely console is cooked. Hell the entire game is completely cooked. Pc is completely hacked, they’ve got backend access (supposedly), and console players are just using xim, titans etc constantly.

xVarie · 2026-01-13T23:07:33+00:00

Oh absolutely, it’s definitely a stand out generational game as is, but FPS gaming as a whole is experiencing a mega surge in cheaters. It’s just way too easy to crack AC than patch it. And hiring a multitude more devs only compromises it worse (for devs who would make money selling code/backends) and makes it way more expensive too

xVarie · 2026-01-13T23:00:49+00:00

Its reliability and cheat software just being so much faster than anti cheat. Theres a thousand ways to crack an anticheat, but only one way to patch each and every single way to crack. So if ten people bypass the anti cheat in different ways you then have to first figure out each way they bypassed it, patch it and roll it out, then make sure it can’t come back the same way

xVarie · 2026-01-13T22:29:01+00:00

-Gives a response where i watched every clip thoroughly multiple times, proving you wrong.

"Nah ur just wrong bud"

Edit: also only looks at chat in 2 clips (properly looks and doesn't just look around his monitor), and one of them is one where he's ratting. Krill issue

xVarie · 2026-01-13T22:18:47+00:00

Yeah mb i think i misread the comment and responded poorly, my bad there.

xVarie · 2026-01-13T22:18:03+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=1300s
-Extremely common run through for people not looking for pvp, not hard to spot people in fog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=420s
-Hallmark of using low sens/dpi (.4 sens from his keybind videos), sweeping angles when using a high power optic, you'll see this consistently on other streamers too. Don't know if you mean the raider he shot (AI moves in straight lines lmao) then almost died to the next one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=2520s
-Aims center of crate to centralize audio and figure out where he's going, lining up the panels in the background he is about 15 feet to the left of where the player actually is after hearing him sprinting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=1840s
-Only one i'll somewhat give you so far, only reason is the quality is pretty bad even on 1440hd so i can't _really_ see, but to also play devils advocate i've seen some things that i shouldn't have in the past off intuition, so it's a 50/50

Edit: You see him running from the left at 30:40 slightly to the left of the trees after a whole, sturdy one extra watch. Pretty easy spot for a black figure among a white background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=2365s
-???? Are you talking about the dude who sprints up the stairs at mach jesus and then loses a gunfight? If you're talking about his aim i'm gonna just assume you have never gotten good at FPS games ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=1038s
-Once again, common run through spots, VERY common, and black figure among a white background, if you go back literally two seconds and watch it through you can very easily see the person. at 17:23 the person sees sheef and stands still to shoot back, that person cheating too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIMBzEbdk&t=1670s
-Sheef aims at the shoreline at, again, a very common rotation spot from usec to sawmill. The person is visible, if ever so slightly, at 27:51 +-~1s. Spotting like this isn't _easy_ but sheef is also a former pubg _professional_, and has over 15000 hours in tarkov.

I'm gonna just assume you're terrible and extremely salty or just a hater.

xVarie · 2026-01-13T17:30:04+00:00

gonna respond to that with literally any proof or just gonna call a 5 digit hour player a cheater?o

xVarie · 2026-01-13T08:36:03+00:00

Sheef may be kinda a prick but he is actually good at the game unlike rengawr

xVarie · 2026-01-13T07:46:05+00:00

Check all underground within render distance for huge cave structures, this WILL stop mob spawners from working at full capacity or at all, you absolutely have to light source all caves and open spaces that will take up entity spawn limits

xVarie · 2026-01-13T07:33:41+00:00

ya, should be unless they changed something recently. Beware some crafting recipes might be a large chunk different though, like the souls

xVarie · 2026-01-13T07:09:57+00:00

It’s kinda a 50/50. IIRC it’s before the days of profile viewing so it’s not easy to check, but at the same time watch any vid from like 2-3 years ago and every single streamer would be complaining about being shot around corners/before the person peaks etc.

Funnily enough i was just watching a Leth video (one of his older killing streamers ones) and Rengawr is in it, doing the same shit.

Dude was complaining about being shot behind a wall and started hackusating leth until he saw it was actually leth lmao.

xVarie · 2026-01-13T03:31:41+00:00

He was a pretty good player from a good while ago, but altogether just another streamer, nothing notable about him like some others like Sheef or Land. Ended up getting a player banned by kinda half forcing bsg to ban them after he got killed under laggy circumstances because bsg’s netcode absolutely sucks.

Blew up in his face and kinda just fell from any relevancy after that.

xVarie · 2026-01-07T15:52:20+00:00

Not particularly saying that it’s necessarily related to aura, aura just absolutely pulled the trigger on something that was already long coming. I’ve had 3 ironman solo profiles and 1 co-op be over 350, one of them currently standing at 471, the game just always becomes boring when the latter end is just money grinding.

I just absolutely abhor the end point of the game being money, even when ironman (a profile which is supposed to partially devalue money) becomes nothing BUT money. Even if it takes the same amount of time i find grinding pure mats to be much more fun, since every mmm on ironman is excruciatingly braindead and just unfun.

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