Cheaters: kthula666, Ardenwolfe and !!!!!!

[steven120566]

https://twitter.com/gaz5021_/status/...402737665?s=21

In your face, cheaters. Double bonus - maybe they’ll post another fake score. Here you go, Zen. See what happens.

If I were a betting man.....

[gaz5021]

Very keen to hear any news or updates about this issue.

[Tech101]

I second that!

[Gill]

One Suggestion to address this is to implement a Replay feature so the whole game is recorded. When posting to leaderboards the replay file is mandatory.
This way every score can be reviewed and you will have no doubt if it's a correct score or a cheater.
Shmups used them for a long time, can't see why Pinball games can't have it.

[cantankerous--]

One Suggestion to address this is to implement a Replay feature so the whole game is recorded. When posting to leaderboards the replay file is mandatory.
This way every score can be reviewed and you will have no doubt if it's a correct score or a cheater.
Shmups used them for a long time, can't see why Pinball games can't have it.

They could of/should of just recognized that the scores with all ending in 000,000 near impossible to achieve and then remove them. If indeed the bogus scores were somehow, against all odds legitimately achieved, leave it up to those who posted them to contact Zen with reasonable explenations. This is what should have occurred. Implementing a complex recording system wherein many of the elite players post scores that took 10's of hours to achieve seems costly, especially given all that would need to be done to satisfy most is to just remove the fn scores, that are clearly bogus.

[LeanderL]

Unfortunately, cheats are possible in almost all games. It's sad that today some people just want to feel good by annoying others and ruining their gaming experience.
In EA's FIFA there are cheats that let you enter any number of goals and make you win automatically. How? The result of a game is on your computer first, then sent to servers. In order to avoid that everything must be server-based...and you shouldn't be able to hack scores on your computer. I stopped spending money on FIFA because of cheaters in every second of third game.

The same cheats might be possible for FX3. I searched a bit and there are some search results and Youtube videos.

http://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?t=7329

I don't know if such cheats work though...but they are there.
Maybe Zen should search a bit and find out how they cheat.

[cantankerous--]

Unfortunately, cheats are possible in almost all games. It's sad that today some people just want to feel good by annoying others and ruining their gaming experience.
In EA's FIFA there are cheats that let you enter any number of goals and make you win automatically. How? The result of a game is on your computer first, then sent to servers. In order to avoid that everything must be server-based...and you shouldn't be able to hack scores on your computer. I stopped spending money on FIFA because of cheaters in every second of third game.

The same cheats might be possible for FX3. I searched a bit and there are some search results and Youtube videos.

http://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?t=7329

I don't know if such cheats work though...but they are there.
Maybe Zen should search a bit and find out how they cheat.

I'm not even concerned if they are cheating or not. The scores are obviously not legit and need to be removed.

[ericph77]

does this happen also on consoles,can someone fake a score on one of the ps3/4/360/xone tables? or is this only a pc steam thing?

[shogun00]

does this happen also on consoles,can someone fake a score on one of the ps3/4/360/xone tables? or is this only a pc steam thing?

It's possible on all versions. The screen shots posted above are from the Switch and PS4 versions of the game.

[cantankerous--]

It's possible on all versions. The screen shots posted above are from the Switch and PS4 versions of the game.

Actually, the servers that store the data for the leaderboards is not on any system and the scores posted here have, to my knowledge all been people on computer using steam. As far as posting bogus scores from, "The Systems" I have no knowledge of that occurring, but suspect since the switch has been cracked it is more susceptible than others.

[MuddyWolf_Beta]

Ah, come on Zen
At least remove the recognized losers…

[Blinky]

This thread was started 4 months ago. I think everyone, Zen included, agrees these scores are not legitimate. Why haven't they been removed yet? I get that Zen wanted to 'monitor' these players, but isn't 4 months enough time? Sad.

[Boulderdash]

I can't agree more. MuddyWolf.

[Tech101]

This thread was started 4 months ago. I think everyone, Zen included, agrees these scores are not legitimate. Why haven't they been removed yet? I get that Zen wanted to 'monitor' these players, but isn't 4 months enough time? Sad.

What's even worse is these scores have been there for closer to a year.

[cantankerous--]

What's even worse is these scores have been there for closer to a year.

Kind of makes me wonder having posted a bogus score now myself on the mimban table if something similar with different circumstances obviously because of the all 000,000's occured with them considering that if you take the time to look, at least !!!!!! and Kthula666 both have seemingly legitimate scores posted as well and each is surprisingly good.