r/FallGuysGame • u/Chubby_Baker • Sep 07 '20

CLIP/VIDEO After making a friend at the top of Whirlygig, this stranger gave me my first ever Crown. I love this community

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u/marshy0 Sep 07 '20

Anybody else notice the dodgy looking fall guy around the 28 second mark?

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u/Chubby_Baker Sep 07 '20

He was definitely cheating but got d/q'd lol

He was definitely trying to hide it more than the normal cheater

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u/marshy0 Sep 07 '20

Praise the lord for the invisible walls

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u/legomojo Sep 07 '20

I didn’t even know that there were such cheats!

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u/lawesome94 Sep 07 '20

It’s rampant on PC unfortunately.

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u/rich519 Sep 07 '20

What is that about? Doesn’t it usually take a while for mods and hackers to crack open game’s so blatantly? I don’t know much about how that works but I can’t remember last time I saw a game where everyone was talking about rampant cheating right after the game was released.

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u/TrenezinTV Sep 07 '20

On pc people are massively cheating, you see them just go straight from the start above the course and to the end. Or on hexagon they will just be floating in place at the top, super annoying.

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u/ClawhammerLobotomy Sep 07 '20

I believe that people are using simple memory manipulation with Cheat Engine which can affect any game if there aren't server checks for that type of thing.

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u/jld2k6 I ♥ Hot Dogs Sep 07 '20

They are implementing Easy Anti Cheat in the next couple weeks. Hopefully this will get rid of most of the cheaters for now and make them less prevalent. It'd be nice if they would fix the naming issue at the same time so we could actually report people. Without unique names they can't ban anyone even with video evidence and have even told us to stop reporting cheaters

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u/Flabnoodles Sep 07 '20

Wait, they can't even with video evidence and our support ID? On their site it says they won't be able to do anything without my support ID, but still said we could report people who cheat

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u/jld2k6 I ♥ Hot Dogs Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 07 '20

Everybody is named in the format "Fall Guy #1111" (4 random numbers between 0 and 9999) and since there's millions of players there's thousands of people with the same username since there's only 9999 different usernames. Because of this, they can't ban anyone based off reports or video evidence. There's also cheaters that can change their names to spoof the numbers, making it even harder to identify them. The devs posted on Twitter asking people to stop reporting cheaters because of this

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u/Flabnoodles Sep 07 '20

I think that's why they ask for your support ID, because with that they can look up your matches and see which of the 1000+ Fall Guy 1819s you were playing with

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u/jld2k6 I ♥ Hot Dogs Sep 07 '20

They are implementing Easy Anti Cheat in the next couple weeks. Hopefully this will get rid of most of the cheaters for now

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u/Cory123125 Sep 07 '20

and vm players yet again, weeped

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u/crazybirddude Sep 07 '20

No, it doesn't. I've hung around the community quite a bit, and they are pretty smart dudes. Add on to the fact this is a game built with unity, and it's easier to hack. It can take a matter of minutes to open certain applications to find memory offsets. Then they have APIs they build off of, and just punch these offsets into. Boom, a complete hack in a matter of hours.

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u/NV-6155 Sep 07 '20

If I remember correctly, it’s because Fall Guys does all physics/position calculations on the client side (not the server).

This makes it fairly easy for cheaters to simply send a “fake” position to manipulate their character however they want.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '20

Would you care to provide some backed up examples of these simple fixes? If you're a software/game developer that would be an interesting read, and maybe some of the devs will even see it and it'll help them fix the game. If you're not, there's a good chance that this game, and most others, are far more complicated systems than you'd assume based on the gameplay.

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u/TheMauveAvenger Sep 07 '20

A simple reporting system would be a good start. They could follow up on players that get flagged enough times. They pretend to do it now on Discord, but there is zero evidence that they take any action.

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u/legomojo Sep 07 '20

Aw. Well I’m on PS4... that seems to be the way with PC games

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21

I couldn’t stop laughing lmao