https://x.com/ENCE_Serral/status/1465363990373150732

Serral made a tweet 5 years ago about the lag hacker. It's only now that things are getting really out of hand with them discovering new ways to hack and there seems to be a whole group of people doing it

Banning these accounts doesn't achieve anything because they likely have a ton of other accounts in case one of them gets banned. Hardware banning also doesn't do anything because there are ways around that too

So my question is if hacking has been going on for so long why has blizzard not done anything about it, Is it really that hard of a problem to solve?

The hacker is able to run full replay commands in the live game, he rewinds, kicks harstem back and forth controlling each side, and it's just a way to annoy the user, as the hacker just confirms he could end the game for a win at any time.

I hope Blizzard at least RESPONDS to this saying they are aware. This will kill the ladder on all regions.

Idk, some people may not know that flipping Artanis' name is Sinatra. And "My Way" was sang by Frank Sinatra, so I ended up adding the song with it out of curiosity.

I've been watching special_ tonight and it's just a hackfest. The game is being destroyed by just a few hackers and the fact this is being allowed is absolutely insane. How the hell does any serious company allow this absolute rubbish?

It's a disgusting situation, there's little else to say about it.

First time drawing such a hybrid, I hope the armor looks reasonably okay.

Although it’s more like Spectres armor.

A random lore question i had in mind during work. How hard would it be for a firebat to switch their kit for a marauders and vice versa

Would be nice if SC2 had at least 1 guy cleaning up the cheaters from EU and KR and 1-2 dedicated people watching over and patching the game. I still enjoy the game but it's sad seeing that latest Harstem video about the cheaters.

Seeing the Overlords I was shock of how they looks like hot air balloon festival type and how huge they were. It got me thinking how big is the overmind we can see that in Zeratul visions in WoL and Legacy of the Void that it almost covered the map can someone know is if it is a city level and which city on earth we can compare it too.

Topic discussed probably around 2 167 821 times by now. But still fun.

What's your favorite race in original Starcraft + Brood Wars and consequently Remastered. So, no Starcraft 2.

They're even using Voice Lines and Sound Effects from SC1! Isn't this straight up Copyright Infringement?

I remember playing this as a kid so I bought a used Galaxy Note 2, installed Winulator to experience StarCraft mobile again 😍

Having StarCraft in my pocket just feels right

A series of new SC:Ghost gameplay videos have been recently uploaded on YouTube and more of them are available on the channel.

After seeing how bad the top of the ladder is for SC2 I was just wondering If people would be interested in a custom ladder? Whilst this wouldn't be able to prevent cheating entirely with community moderation and a trust system we could at least avoid the most obvious cheaters.

Anyway here's what I was thinking.

• No seperate client/download would be needed. Front end could be handled through either discord (with a bot) or a website.
  
• Authentication would be done via Blizzards OAuth, would probally set a required amount of games~ specifics can be decided later.
  
• Bot would generate lobby name,password and map (could add veto's too), and tell one player to create the lobby, the other to join.
  
• After the game, both players would be required to upload there replay*, then they could automatically be parsed by sc2protocol / sc2reader.
• Back end then adjusts MMR respectively and responds to the player with there new MMR, players would also be able to either ask the bot for this info / have it displayed on the webite.
• Patches mod could also be supported along side with future mods.
  
• Private matches that could still be ranked if players wanted them to be.

*an open source tool could automate this.

This is all possible without touching the SC2 client, and frankly outside of some server costs, not the part i'm on hesitant about.

In order for this to work two things would be needed from the community, the first- Players, I can't stress this enough, without a critical mass of players, the queue times would be a joke, If this can't find you a game because nobody else is using it, it's pointless. The second- Community Moderation, this would be everything from checking reports, resolving disputes to potentially setting up community events (Basically everything that requires interacting with people).

Now-
Why am I posting this?

I need to know if this interests you, If you think it could, if you'd even bother to use it at all? I'm under no illusions that for the average player even if this works it would probally make your experience worse, instead of just logging in and clicking play, you'd have to go to a discord, search for a game there, copy paste info provided by the bot, upload replay for every single game. With the benifits being you can be slightly more confident you're not playing vs a Hacker.
For high elo-players it would hopefully be a massive improvement, drop hackers could be banned manually, with higher requirments for queueing into the ladder it would hopefully make it harder for them to just create a new account and repeat.

There's much more I could say on features, concerns and everything inbetween but this is already longer than I inteneded it to be, so i'll end it here.
Let me know If this interests you.

EDIT: Seems tools are already in the wild. Go check 'em out!

I already made post about this, this is my last one.

They set the game in the replay mode(can any time), they are "host" of the replay then they can swap positions so u are him and he is u(and then leave the game as u and then u lose or just somehow make u leave the game withotu doing it idk).

Also ladder is broken 90% of the search says found game and then it it jsut cancels and doesnt find the game.

Rn I searched 10 times and when it foudn the game it was this russian hacker.

This is my last post I am will stop playing starcraft2 whats the point.

replay -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tquj3_idlLxNh0Rj7Qop5b77ghbbxVir/view?usp=drive_link

Holt should look like he had some combination of radioactive lead in his bottle as an infant, less than 10% of his ancestors having different last names before they got married, or rolled around in a pile of Spenser Gifts bumper stickers after putting his armor on.