r/tf2•
Impudenter

I encountered a hacker today. How do I even report him?

I was playing on a pub-server today, a regular Valve server, when a hacker joins the enemy team. He starts to use aimbot as a Sniper, and then proceeds to play Heavy, while compensating for the bullet spread (while still using aimbot), to allow him to snipe people from across the map with a minigun. He also has perfect bhopping as every class.

After a while he also starts to change name every ten seconds, and spam the chat with the usual "GET LMAOBOX" crap. But even before he started changing name, it was really difficult to do anything about it. There is no way to report people from in-game! In CS:GO for example, you can get to any player's profile from the scoreboard, and you can also report them directly on the scoreboard. TF2 has no similair functions.

Also, you can only start votes against players on your own team. Apparently, you can't even start votes as a spectator. And not everybody wants to kick a hacker on their own team.

And even though I had his name, it was difficult to find his profile on Steam. I found it after a while on the Steam client, by going to my profile, Friends, Players. (The similair "current players" function in TF2 is broken.)

But anyways, it is way too difficult to get to a player's profile in TF2, and reporting somebody is apparently very annoying. Am I missing something, or should Valve just really do something about this?

Posted Nov 29, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

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wowmom98•

Hit F7

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FerfyDerf•

Press F7 next time. It'll gather current game info and you can report it that way.

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ImpudenterOP•

I honestly forgot the F7 function exists. What exactly does it do?

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thesavagemonk•

Nothing. Valve states that they only use it for stats purposes. VAC will ban them eventually.

If you were on a community server, you can report them to the admins and they'll take care of it, but on a Valve server the best you can hope for is a votekick.

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runny6play•

its states VAC uses it for tracking and statistics. after 4 or 5 of them it might trigger a vac scan on the account. if VAC is sauron. Then we are the spies. Telling vac Hey! look over here

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thesavagemonk•

No such thing as a vac scan. VAC looks at all accounts all the time.

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TomKTW•

Nope, he'll come back to server after vote-kicking. I've seen such cheater about 2-3 months ago. We kicked him, he came back next second. Note that he also used name changer (changes name to some other player on server), causing false accusations (typical enough after like 4-5 name changes, when he changed to my name, some kid had a great timing to piss off and accused me on chat, nearly getting kicked).

Though, I'm not sure if you could try to annoy him... for example: As a medic with medi gun, team up with enemy spies. When on ubercharge, activate it and hopefully spy should be able to backstab him. Though, I couldn't have done it because no friends were online to try it out.

If this is the same cheater which I had... then we have a problem.

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Moon-Butt•

The reason he came back the next second was because there was a exploit to go past vote kicks. That is now patched and it correctly bans you for an hour after a votekick

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FerfyDerf•

I have no idea. It just "gathers game info." That means it may record a demo of the server, it might just gather console info, I have no idea. It basically is just a tool to speed up the VAC banning process.

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Moon-Butt•

Nothing. Steam support will not ban someone because of a screenshot.

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zaprogan•

I'm pretty sure F7 isn't screenshot....

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Moon-Butt•

F7 takes a screen shot then sends it in the report.

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Moon-Butt•

Sadly there is no over-watch system in TF2 as it stands now. Reporting will do nothing.

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Infu-P•

Hehe, overwatch.

Nice one.

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ImpudenterOP•

Really? So there actually isn't anything I can do about a hacker on the server?

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Moon-Butt•

Not as this moment. The only thing you can do is hope VAC gets off its slow ass and bans him. I think it will be different once the match making system (Like CS:GO's) comes out.

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ImpudenterOP•

I would really like some updates on things such as the scoreboard when they add match making. It could really improve the game, without even changing anything gameplay-wise.

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xlrambling•

Was it on Dustbowl? It seems that map specifically in Valve servers gets the aim-bottin heavies after update releases.

Kind of strange.

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ImpudenterOP•

Nope, it was Cactus Canyon.

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Twitchey93•

I think I ran into the same guy while I was getting gameplay footage.

His name was OBVIOUSHACKER or something.

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