In previous DS games it was possible to just set your firewall settings so that peers from Russia can't connect to your game and fuck it up with their cheats. Is this still possible? I definitely want to buy this game at point of release, but I won't if I can't block 99% of the day-1 cheaters by just ruling out Russia. They made DS2... ugly.
Posted Apr 10, 2016, 9:16 AM UTC
I used to play a game called APB, and there was a blog post discussing cheats.
Statistically, Russian players were twice as likely to hack compared to any other country in the world. Crazy...
I wonder what makes them want to hack so badly?
What if the statistic was made by Russians...and they cheated to be at top.
I am more convinced the statistics are flawed.
Found the russian cheater.
Shit, they found me! Comrades! Attack!
could be the case.
The former is actually quite probable.
Is it really a thing that Russian = cheater??
To be fair most cheaters I've seen in DS had Russia as their country of origin in Steam. Not that all Russians are cheaters or all cheaters are Russian but the stereotype doesn't come from nowhere.
Not all Russians are cheaters but when I checked the steam profiles of cheat users on Dark Souls 2, easily 99% of them were Russian, and no contest even. The rampant cheating absolutely ruined multiplayer on DS2 because the hacks had the ability even to affect your character permanently.
Being able to quarantine those 99% of cheaters out of my game on DS3 release is make or break for me.
Only case where a hacker could permanently affect you in DS2 would be killing the herald at dragon's aerie. And even then, it's not that permanent because you're at NG+'s doorstep by then.
But... you're wrong.
They could invade your world at your soul memory but their soul level set to beyond maximum. Then kill themselves. This drops hundreds of millions of souls on you, shutting you out of multiplayer permanently because your soul memory is outside anyone's range. This happened to me.
They could imbue their weapons with an effect that zeroed your stats on-hit, a condition that is likewise irreversible. This happened to me.
Other on-hit effects caused people to get permanent save corruption on their files, now this didn't happen to me personally, but I'm not having a hard time believing it.
back up your saves often, you can always restore characters
The Soul memory hacking gets you softbanned almost immediately, and even then, an 838 will drop maybe 10-15 million souls, provided you're not wearing agape ring.
Stat reduction was only a thing for Dark Souls 1, and save corruption was from +14 weapons, and was also easily reversible with CE or the official patch.
Or killing the blacksmiths by scorpion backstabs early game and then locking you in straids cell and unequiping the darksign from your inventory.
They can't remove items from your inventory.
That shit isn't sent to them.
They can definitely lock you in one of the cells, but you always have a way out. And killing the blacksmiths isn't much of an issue unless you haven't gotten them to start smithing yet.
I'd like to see proof of this. I think you're talking bullshit about unequiping items from your inventory. They can only edit their own side.
I don't experience the same problem with Russians being cheaters, but every single one of them is horribly laggy when connecting to me from anywhere in North America so I understand why someone would want to block an entire nation.
It just has to do with Distance between you and Ping. You can set Regional or Worldwide coop, i guess, like in DS2.
PC DS2 it kinda didn't work even if you selected that. I think the only regions were Japan and Not Japan
Hopefully it might be split up a bit more this time...
...I don't think it will be, gut feeling.
yes, granted not all are cheaters but 90% of online cheaters are russians
It's not that all Russians are hackers but for some reason all the worst hackers across the series are Russian. It's crazy
Russian living in germany, am i cheater?
...prejudice rules...
I don't know if you are a cheater, it really depends on your own choices. I am not very fond of how this post generalizes a whole group as cheaters, but hey, it is OP's post, not mine
i hate cheaters, i mean if you want to fool around offline, what ever, but when you mess with other people you should be permabanned.
Especially the ones that corrupt your saves
such a spicy topic and it's only 11 am my time. I'm ready for this
Unless you want an ACL that has 19,000 ranges. For comparison, the US apparently has 55,000 listed ranges.
http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/ru.html
https://www.countryipblocks.net/country_selection.php
What you could do to narrow it down, is to look up what the popular Russian ISPs are, or just look at the largest ranges, and then block those specifically.
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You can set the region within the game's online settings to either Local or Worldwide.
In previous From games, Local meant Japan regardless of where you were though.
Damn....as a Russian this makes me sad.....i met many good Russians that spoke English and were good at the game and there's these Russians that don't want to "make a game harder for yourself".
I mean you could just set the online area to local rather than worldwide? Should be more than enough players to begin with.
I'm pretty sure the difference between worldwide and not is only Japan, like it was in ds2.
Oh shit, was that really the case?
I had no idea.
Yeah, there are only 2 regions. Japan and the rest of the world...
now that's what i would call egocentric
In Soviet Russia, game hack you!
I think you are in the wrong subreddit. I feel like this was meant to go to the CS:GO one.
or the dota 2 one