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    Cronus

    So this cronus thing bothers me on many levels. For one I don't like playing a game full of people potentially cheating while others play fair to have fun, its very annoying. Another reason is there is no way (I can tell anyway) if someone is using this pos device, or is there a way to spot these people? I don't like assuming people cheating just because they killed me but with all this cronus carp it's becoming hard to tell the difference between legit and illicit players. Why can't this stuff be stopped? Further more how is this thing able to do what it does? I heard it is because of keyboard/mouse accessibility i.e. ports like on a pc but idk
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    Sorry to say but they cannot stop the use of these devices and it's the same for other tools made for cheating. With Cronus you can setup scripts to control you movements and use of button actions. This makes it very easy to auto-aim at same spot, do rapid fire with single shot weapons, move left/right without having to do anything yourself. As for cheating in this game, whenever you are in DZ and see one player kill many others in very short time, they are most likely using cheats. There are plenty of them running around, I see them on daily basis when they are doing man hunts.
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    Taking shotguns away from Striker would solve 50% of the problem.

    The DZ now is just Showstopper Striker. I actually preferred it before when Pred and Nomad could compete with it.

    6 Piece nomad now means nothing if you are playing with your mates. Pred is still dangerous in the right hands. But striker is a joke. I get that there are good players out there. No denying that. But shotguns have been abused far too long now and Massive are either idiots or they dont care. Cronus can not be defeated. But you can definitely help the battle by taking away one of their main tools.
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    Cronus is not always easy to spot and in a lot of cases.... it is not cheating, it is just awful lag. My friend has this one guy he plays with, I avoid him, but he is awful in PvP yet vocal about everything.... You know they type i am sure. Well he is always yelling about someone using a glitch or using a cronus. It is so annoying listening to those types of people.

    Best thing I would suggest is to record what happened and watch it a few times. I did this and most times I could tell it was lag somewhere. you would basically see them shooting you and aiming somewhere else, not like a quick burst but like aimed in for a couple seconds. This is because on their screen you were running in place. then when the servers sync back up you seem like you just got hit non-stop and died from nothing or someone shooting through walls.... it is LAG. At least on console, not sure if PC cheaters have wall hacks.

    Another thing to try is looking up their profile. I know on Xbox I have done it a few times. Some people are good, others seem fishy as hell. If they have videos of them quick scoping a shotgun without missing a beat and never messing up a trigger pull, while killing a 4 man team, popping heals, and doing the super wiggle..... Yeah that is a fake gamer without a sack....

    I have gotten plenty of hate mail and been called a cheater and reported before.... I don't know what to say I play with a controller, one has a messed up left stick, another has a LB button held on by tape, and the new knock-off i just got has the worst deadzone response I have ever experienced. If I can get hate mail, I have to believe that the vast majority of players are also really bad. Plus they never listen to experienced players on their team and claim everyone is cheating because they tried to 1v4 every fight..... Stupid is stupid and there is no help for it.
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    Yeah the cronus is garbage and the game balancing don't help, just adds to the problem. What with the cronus doing the auto aim thing I figured you could just watch the way their character turns or something, like maybe their feet don't move or whatever I'm still experimenting. I really want to know the technical reason why this pos cronus has been able to infect consoles, to my knowledge it's fairly new (a few year's). Console used to be pretty cheat proof compared to pc now something has changed, I know it's not USB because cronus would of been out year's ago so I'm still going with that keyboard/mouse thing I read about...Sony should remove it
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    Cronus is not the same as cheats on PC. it is a programmable input device that enhances the normal human interface device. It will not, as far as i know auto aim or give magic bullets. It can be adjusted however to perfectly counter things like recoil on weapons and has been used to glitch RPM because of the speed of signal.... although i think they fixed that last one. So basically lets say you can fire a Cassidy and you get good enough that you can keep the second blast also on target. The cronus can be programmed to automatically pull the aim down in that split second to completely stop the gun jump. That can work for almost any gun.... It is a little harder for weapons like the AK because it is a more random recoil pattern. Easier for the M4 because it is almost straight up.

    Also it can be programmed to skip the consumable wheel and basically give you quick use grenades, or what have you. You can set it up to swap out gear sets, etc. It can also be combined with a M/K on console to further destroy any sense of normal balance..... it is a true scrub device.... basically imagine the oldschool mortal kombat games and those first gen programmable fighting sticks that let you do any combo with one button press.
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    I would also like to note that there are ways to detect the device and others like it (xim). It is just in the hands of the developers. Microsoft has said that they will not ban it because it can be used for legit reasons like disabled gamers.... although i doubt there are that many fingerless gamers on the division. They do allow the developers to address that on their own. With the Division and the complete lack of anti-cheat and poor engine design they went into a flea infestation dressed in a dog suit. I hope the new game actually allows them to run a proper online setup. D1 will never be fixed to any level that sufficiently fixes the issues. They basically knew that at launch and just tried to buy as much time as they could. I paid 90 bucks so they could practice making a game i guess. I do enjoy the game despite the problems.
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    Huh?

    Everything you just decribed that it does is cheating... if something other than the player is causing the effect that is a cheat...
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    I think one way to help balance playing field is to allow auto sprint to be toggled on like in titan fall. It would help out with aspect of unfair advantage. I dont think cronus is that bad but I do see once awhile to often players with above avg movement and aim accuracy typically seen with cronus scripts. Not that I myself have or occasionally use one of these devices. Im really lookin foward to TCD2 to see if they have fixed the movement abuse. Its looks like they have fixed spam healing now lets hope the strafe is gone.
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    Originally Posted by Lostent1 Go to original post
    Everything you just decribed that it does is cheating... if something other than the player is causing the effect that is a cheat...
    Yes it is cheating, it is just not the same as going into the code on PC and inserting scripts that allow you to enter god mode. It is still slimy and needs to be addressed but it is not what you see from the horrors on PC
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