Cheating is definitely possible. Now if you're saying that most people that claim cheating are just overreacting to losing in pvp, that's totally possible. Quite often they don't understand the reasons they lost.

However, suggesting that cheating isn't possible at all is just naive.

Don't bother, they record for us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltC4relESCY

Cheat controllers on console. People who have them set for a rotation. Bug reason I wish the would get rid of animation canceling.

Most of the naysayers have given up at this point with all the point blank videos that have come out you look like an idiot denying it can happen. But there are different degrees of cheating. Blatant Hacks of the game that we have seen videos of recently are on a whole other level than macros. Macros are doing what is possible in the game and using third party software to make it reoccur with consistency. Hacks are doing impossible things in the game and manipulating the game code.

The big issues comes in when the latter is used to a minor degree that is hard to detect without video evidence. I am a big supporter of recording your gameplay or having some type of video rewind available. Having recount up on your screen will help to also detect these instances.

Yes it sucks that we have to be the ones to make Zos aware of these issues because they are doing a poor job self policing it. If you want to get there attention put it on YouTube like you suggested or post it on redit.

Perhaps it makes bash and block cancelling much easier to accomplish since you dont have to focus on the weaving anymore.

Bad design either way.

Crash427 wrote: »

Rungar wrote: »

The simple macros are the most destructive and insidious. For each button program a light attack then use a different variable millisecond wait timer and program each skill.
to individually to cancel it.
It can not be easily proven your macroing which is why i think either the weaving mechanic should be abandoned or that simple macro added to the game.

Why would anyone bother? It's not hard to press 1 button and 1 mouse click in 1 second.

It's all about maximizing dps. With simple macro, you can make light attack or heavy attack land at exactly the same time (within eg .01 seconds) as ability , every time, and not be affected by combat chaos. This increases burst damage. If there is, in contrast, a 0.2 or 0.3 second (or higher) delay between the light/heavy and the ability landing, players can actually react.

If eg you have a stealth build that wants to land a heavy attack/surprise attack combo on some poor slob, you want it to hit exactly the same time, stun them, then finish them off with a second HA combo. You need minimum time with maximum burst.

It's easy to see, if you have a target dummy and combat metrics. Humans have variability in getting the light attack/heavy attack to land at same time as ability. The computer has no variability, it always executes the same instructions (both human and computer variability are equally affected by lag).

I think the best players who have practiced 100,000 times on their target dummies/ in game can frequently successfully weave and land their LA/HA nearly the same time as their abilities, even in combat. But they still will not be as consistent as the computers. I have seen some players, repeatedly, "always" land their abilities within .01 seconds in a whole series of attacks. All they need is a programmable mouse. You could watch a video of them playing and not be able to tell at all that it is programmed. You could only tell by analyzing the mean + S.E.M. of their combat logs. So they can never really be detected, only suspected.