The Cheating Situation In Rocket League

Hackers and cheaters in Rocket League are getting so common that it's actually a serious issue at this point. Pro players in the RLCS are talking about it every day now. Psyonix definitely needs to do something fast. There are 3 different kinds of hacks/cheats we're talking about today.

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I am so baffled and disappointed at the fact that Psyonix and Epic Games still haven't done anything about most of the cheating situations in Rocket League. They have been slowly getting worse and worse over time and this past month was the true tipping point for it all. The top 100 leaderboards are filled with cheaters of all sorts. Psyonix is banning some of them occasionally but missing others entirely. Rocket League used to be one of the only competitive games out there with no hackers or cheaters. Nowadays, Rocket League is filled with cheaters and hackers, particularly at the highest rank. It's even preventing pro RLCS players from practicing how they want. Psyonix and Epic Games, please do something about it and communicate with your community.

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[king_seeser]

I guess there is a benefit to me being stuck in diamond 1. No one's cheating to stay there. 😂😂😂

[Notriz.]

Remember when it was 2020? playing rocket league at home, looking for someone to trade, no cheaters and exploiters, Justin garrett squishy are still together, RLCS are booming... ahh good ol' days...

now screw today's rocket league

[slingodeluxe]

How psyonix and epic are gonna fix this:
1- Keep getting as much money out of this game as they can with 20 dollar cars
2- funnel out as much of RL as they can into fortnite
3- let rocket league die
4- start over with a new game and repeat

[eastbayrider]

For some clarity coming from a cybersecurity perspective, DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. This is an attack style that usually incorporates potentially hundreds of servers, IoT devices, etc to overload the bandwidth and processing of any victim node. 

If the attacker is not "distributing" the connections via other methods, then the more standard Denial of Service (DOS) attack makes more sense.

I know most gamers use Ddos to refer to server crashes, but just want people to be aware of what these terms actually mean. Ddos's have been common in video games but it seems unlikely to be used here. If bad actors want to take a whole system offline I can see a Ddos being used, which should immediately pop up on Epic's radar. 

My expertise is in a field adjacent to cyber, but from the looks of it these bad actors are using a more subtle disruption method.

[arminbilalic]

It’s truly sad what happened to Rocket league. Took away trading, cheaters every where, no new content for years but hey, at least I now can see the boost from my teammates… so sad what this beautiful game has become ever since Epic bought it

[ELITE-PIZZA]

Imagine being so bad at a game that you need to hack/cheat

[Sodacuhmeeks]

Take it off free to play and see how many people still cheat. That was the biggest mistake.

[eclipsethesun]

Cheaters are in rocket league now because they stopped rewarding players who found exploits/bugs with White Hats (good hackers are known as white hats), which were super rare and extremely coveted. Now they’ve got nothing to do with what they find so they just do it in ranked

[rsgagliano]

This version is already old, the new version is already on my channel

[Protos]

It really breaks my heart. Rocket League was my favorite game of all, I've started playing in 2017, spent 3, 400 hours in it (that's A LOT for me) and was in the top 2% in 3vs3. I stopped playing in season 1 after epic games took over the game. Long before the nexto bots. I see that epic games left this game to die, they don't have enough profit from it to fix such an extensive cheating problem. What a shame

[IBNZW]

Lol, Epic Games giving a shit about Rocket League? LOL. They have been spending too much time making Fortnite “great again”

[supercyberdigi]

I'm an old TF2 player with experience of the devs abandoning us. The joke over there is that it's a single janitor working on the game. Guess it's starting to apply to RL as well.

[spencersuckow]

bro... getting airdribble cringed while invisible is absolutely hilarious xD

[hotbeerjosh]

I have played since day 1 and this is the 1 game I can say that was light years better before "improvements".

1. Hitboxes used to be specific to the car, now they make no sense.
2. Crates were an awesome part of the game.
3. MAPS had octagons, valleys and ramps
4. Trading between friends
5. No cheaters
6. Rare items that could only be rolled and not purchased

Game is ruined and I quit about 10 months ago. I still keep up with these videos because I played for about 8 years, but really don't understand what devs were thinking.

[Zylenxx]

Heres the reason why cheating is even a thing: psyonix gave this game to epic games

[Lanz]

I honestly quit rocket league 3 months ago, and with this im even MORE glad I quit. Rocket League just keeps going down, it's sad because it was a great game at one point.

Edit: Thank you for all the likes and replies!

[somerandomdudefes]

After 4, 000 hours, I quit a few months ago and have no regrets.

[JT-sjxe]

Direct correlation with the game going F2P unfortunately. Now people have throwaway accounts, so cheating and toxicity have skyrocketed. If you aren't spending money, then no big deal to start over again when you get banned. I realize they aren't going to remove F2P at this point, but that's a shame.

[evanater]

And I i thought smurfing was out of control when I quit last year. What a save.

[NotPhoenic]

there werent as many cheaters before because RL still had a purchase price, now they can just remake an epic/steam account and keep going