u/Why-Lee-Kai-O-Tee

For a while in years 1 and 2 of SE5 it seemed like this was a daily occurrence, someone reporting being blown up at the spawn point, rematching, same thing. This went on for many months, with the main protagonists lapping up the attention [and exhibiting much concerning behaviour]. Then all of a sudden... gone. Hardly ever mentioned again. I haven't come across a spawn trapper for over a year or more.

This makes me wonder, was it really only two or three players doing this? I've been playing WarDogs and there's some unreal weirdos deliberately being very cunty towards pretty much everyone. Griefing seems to be getting worse. Why?

TLDR: Can't trust that "trustworthy" PlayStation icon no more, he's actually a PC cheater...

https://www.reddit.com/r/sniperelite/comments/1szjwbl/please_someone_explain_this/

A while back I posted this video of Fahad_M_K8 doing some really weird shit. PlayStation player, Authentic difficulty. I snuck up and knifed him, gave him a proper surprise. Since then, I've come up against him twice more doing the same thing, but on Rubble & Ruin, firing at nothing holed up in the church bell tower. He uses the phone immediately you spawn, if you're in direct line of sight, you're dead because he's insanely fast on the shot. Blink of glint, dead. Too fast for a console/controller surely? Hmmm.... No video this time sorry because I closed the game, and the PS deletes the recorded video from memory. Really wish I hadn't quit!

This time it was Occupied Residence, every weirdo's favourite mission for a lame ass setup on the top floor. Authentic again, so he couldn't see that I had snuck up top and laid 2x Tellers and 1x TNT hidden in the corner by the attic door. I then retreated back down the top floor passageway on the west side where the NPC in the white shirt patrols.

From the top floor balcony overlooking the courtyard I watched him crouch walk along the southern uncovered part of the top floor towards the attic door, and walk straight through the traps. BOOM! Completely unaffected, no bandages or medkits applied, he then walked down the passage towards me, melee killed the white shirt guy and turned to go back to the attic door. I was right behind him, undetected, and emptied a clip of MP44 into his back from close range. Seeing he was still on his feet and turning to shoot back, I just quit on the spot. I googled emulation / spoofing and discovered that it is remarkably easy for cheaters to con their opponents into thinking they are on a PS, when actually they're on a PC, complete with mod trainer.

Sometimes I wonder if its a good idea posting this kind of thing, because some fool will think, ah ok, I'm gonna give that a go. If you do, well, fuck you. But there's still way more good buggers playing than there are fuckwits, and I figure the good guys need to know this shit exists. This match explained so many weird incidents that in my mind, I've blamed on the actual game code and Rebellion's shonky QC. Surviving "un-survivable" explosions mostly, but also crystal clear perfect headshots or multiple torso shots. It does seem, however, that the mod trainer cannot deal with a melee kill, as evidenced by the first time I got him on Liberation.

So there you have it. I didn't know about PS icon emulation (aka spoofing I believe) until a co-op mate mentioned it on the weekend. You can look up how they do it yourself if you're interested, but it seems incredibly easy to achieve from where I'm standing. The PlayStation icon next to the gamer tag used to be a kind of insurance, like, this guy is not going to be able to do all the questionable shit we see with so many PC players, so I'm free from cheater concern. Let's go! But now that illusion has been shattered and I'm left ruing the fact that we truly are surrounded by an ocean full of cheating scumbags preying on the good guys. What a bunch of sad cretins.

The more I read about all this, the less interested in competitive online gaming long-term I become. I'm good at it, and really really enjoy it, and its helped me greatly in difficult times. But all the fuckwitted gamesmanship we're seeing with murder maps, 4000 hour panzerfaust wielding co-op fools on easy difficulty generating "content", cleared map invader hunters in perma-focus... the blatant don't even bother hiding it cheaters... If its this bad now, where is it headed?

There's a finite lifespan to this chapter of my gaming career because I've got other things I want to go do semi-permanently soon, with real guns. But the young fellas coming through are facing a real dilemma. You'd think they have so much to look forward to, the next gen games are mind-blowing and beyond that? Jeez, the mind boggles. But do you really want to spend so much of your precious time battling this shit? The gaming industry's talented developers provide us with incredible experiences, they're so creative. The tech is amazing. Scary really, now that AI is here. I started gaming properly with two ethernet connected i486 PCs over Christmas 1993, playing the original Doom with my best mate, laughing so hard we couldn't see for the tears. We couldn't believe fun could be that much fun. And yet here we are today.

Human behaviour, hey? We get dragged down to the lowest common denominator time after time. Seems like a lot of kids adopt a "if you can't beat them, join them" mentality, which is frightening for lots of reasons. I'm not feeling particularly optimistic this is going to get better, it just seems to get worse every year.

So remember the name. Fahad_M_K8. Is he one of many? Is PS icon spoofing common? Not really sure I want to know the answer to that. Thanks for reading.

u/Burtonizer, this one is for you my dear.

Heads up for all you dedicated snipers operating on the North American servers. When you come up against these two, know that they are ultra focus users and will be able to identify your approximate position pretty much before you've even spawned.

But wait, there's more...

When they realise you're a smart player and unlikely to walk straight into their focus range and traps, THEY WILL KICK YOU. No matter how much effort you've taken to avoid their focus and attain some kind of tactical advantage, they will sit there waiting to see you in Focus. If you don't just walk right up to them within a few minutes, they will just fucking kick you. For an experienced invader like me or anyone else this is the ultimate insult. I listened to half an hour of absolute drivel from the two of them this evening as they sat in their safe wee focus & mine protected spots and debated whether or not to continue with their mission or kick me because they could see I had the high ground advantage (Spy Academy).

​​The unintended PlayStation audio bug is a beautiful thing. But it's flipside is ugly as fuck. You would think it would give you every advantage possible to win the match but in the end all it achieves is to demonstrate how woefully rubbish so many of these focus spamming fuckwits truly are.

Everything you need to know is right in front of you Rebellion!

Fix it!

Grow a pair u/Burtonizer, time to put some man pants on.

2022 model with M20A-FKS 2.0L petrol engine and K120 CVT.

Just wanted to share the achievement today when this vehicle ticked over 300,000km. It's used as a medical courier around the North Island and is driven pretty much all day every day, mostly open road 70-90km/h.

Oil change every 7,500km with 0w20. CVT drain and refill and engine coolant every 100,000km. Just had its third CVT service which prompted this post. Brakes done twice due again soon.

Zero major problems. Rattles and creaks a bit. Needs new suspension strut assemblies. 4x tyres rotated every oil service last ~40-45,000km. Use Dunlop mid-range, replace at 3mm.

Average fuel consumption from new, 5.5L/100km.

I've followed Lewis Hamilton since his Formula Renault days when ​we watched him win at Thruxton. I've always said to my boys, who were babies when Hamilton ​won his first championship at Interlagos, Boys, that man is destined to live a life that you couldn't make up in a movie script.

Even in 2008 his story was too remarkable to feel true. Just take a moment to think about everything that's happened since then. (Don't even bother trying to convince me they would have come up with the KK storyline. They wouldn't have.)

I've come here to say this. Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is about to write the most remarkable chapter yet, a story of redemption and glory ​that will make even the hardest of cynics weep. It's his destiny. It's always been his destiny.

As a sports fan you can just feel it, you can sense he's back. Wolff can sense it. Antonelli can sense it. Russell can taste it. Le Clerc certainly ​knows it. The rest can see it clearly. Lewis Hamilton is coming to claim what's his and there's nothing they're gonna be able to do about it. The man is a superpower, irrepressible.

6th December.

Abu Dhabi 2026.

#8

TLDR: Invasion is turning into a joke game of invader vs assholes

Sat down for a session of Invasion. Selected East and West Europe servers. Games 1 & 2, noob 3:1s, Atlantic Wall, both killed in first exchange of fire with NPCs, games were over in less than a minute. OK, whatever, that's normal.

Game 3. Against two long-time players, high Prestige MPs, I know them both and what they’re like. Atlantic Wall, SE Hard. The host stays put while his mate leaves and rejoins 5 times. I know what he’s doing, he’s bringing in extra traps. Yup, I see them building a minefield around the mansion with the officer & safe, near the church. I refuse to play ball, so the one starts spamming the phone while the other hunts me with Focus, following me around the map, laying traps as he goes. We do a full circle and I find more kill traps on paths I’ve already cleared. I reset some and he hits them twice, but survives both and runs back to get more health. Then he hits another trap combo and still doesn't fucking die, he's incapacitated and the twat does the quit and rejoin thing again. Fuck that. I quit.

Game 4. Another Atlantic Wall noob, or maybe not, he might have been a veteran who’s reset back to 3:1. This dickweed camps inside the top level of the radar array for 25 minutes. Minefield in the tunnel, a couple laid in the corners so the defuse option doesn't work. And more around the opposite entrance near the alarm. There’s enough room in the array to walk off camping alerts without taking the zipline. He never shows himself. I'm already cheesed off from the previous idiots. Fuck that. I quit.

Game 5. What the hell, another co-op on Atlantic Wall. Getting sick of this. Sharpshooter Medium, a 40:20 and 40:18. They immediately use the phone, they’re under the radar array or in the battery. I scoot around the south of the map and through town tagging the NPCs and set a 2x Teller, 1xTNT and 1x phone grenade in the AA Gun nearest the church, then go to the Marcel house. I can tell from the way the NPCs are alerting and being killed they’re using the Focus direction indicator to zero in on my position, one from the North the other from the East. I scoot through the town all the way back to the radar. And…. They follow me using the Focus direction indicator. I go back through the trenches and sprint to the centre of the map. I’m tagged twice. I lay low in the church and the one player uses the phone in the AA gun. All those traps explode click click click and somehow he survives…………… what the actual fuck. He’s incapacitated so I sprint to the area bayonet fixed and see him running off towards the East, and I pull off a miracle shot on the run and kill him. Whereupon his mate instantly quits the game.

At this point I turned off the console. 1 hour 40 minutes of assholes. Just couldn’t be bothered. Cracked a cold one, put on some tunes and skinned up.

SE5/R PvP has been fun but this is where the game is at now. There are days when I will try and defeat these pricks playing such lame as setup games, today wasn’t one of them.

u/Rebellion_Games, you guys really need to work out how to stop experienced players gaming the system like this, its gonna kill SE6 real quick if you leave it the way it is now. As invader, unless he’s on authentic, I’m not competing against the Allied Sniper’s skill, map knowledge, wits and tactics, I’m competing against the mechanics. And FFS you need to fix this business of leaving and rejoining with more goodies, that’s pathetic.