GB is in its death throes

[Emperor]

80% of players for GIS had lots of crashing today.

I can't lvl up dis way.
aww.. bummer.

[mezzaninex]

good: hackers who hack for fun
i played a guy who called himself ecko or something similar, and he had made a lightning hack. it was hysterical! he could put as many of the slot item lightning over your head as he felt like clicking for! the first time i played him, i won by moving a few mobile lengths out of the way of the big group of "4"s over my head. eventually he just made a huge unaviodable wall of them.
that was fun.

bad: hackers who make available the hacks
easily available hacks can get into the hands of many people, that is where it goes from a fun and rare sighting of someone who is proud of thier ability, to chaos.

ugly: script kiddies
script kiddies are generally idiots, and abusers. they cant hack, they are dumb. and they only use the hack to win, not to see if they can bypass softnyx's erm... interesting... antihacking codes.

[404Error]

Heh, I remember playing with Ecko. The game was hilarious. A friend and I played with a blue wand with a 90% winrate the other day. He was a mobile-length beside me, and took 10-15 seconds to shoot at an 89 degree angle. Each turn. So I said, "Maybe you should stop botting and learn to actually play the game." since he was a poweruser with phoenix, and other cash-only shit. He said something like "leave me alone". Next turn, I move slightly, and wind goes to 2 (from 0). He LOWERS ANGLE, and shoots WAY past me. I found it humorous.

[Monkey Fat]

Hack with them, only play friends, quit the game or find a different game.

[opalcard92]

aimbots are also kinda screwed cuz they miss quite often.

How do you know this, exactly?

I know because i have a friend that uses aimbots.
He was banned like 2 weeks ago.

dont suspect me for hacking cause I DONT HACK

[Quik]

Go me, I haven't played in months now.

Has it really gone that far downhill?

[JediKitsune]

Go me, I haven't played in months now.

Has it really gone that far downhill?

If you hadn't noticed...For one thing, Dovo has quit his reign as GM, which leaves us with nobody as GM from the best of my knowledge.

[opalcard92]

No gm No fun

[Denori]

I witnessed one 1 hit ko hacker and he had grub...He bounced off of a pixel hit himself and me, but i still won bwahahahaha

[creedo]

My experience recently:

True aimbots don't miss hardly at all, I played with an aimbotter for a dozen games or more and he only missed 1 time by a few pixels, and that was apparently because he mis-dragged.  He also consistently hit full power shots beyond 1 screen in 20+ wind, shooting past one screen is meaningless at least for the particular aimbot he used.

I have seen true, obvious aimbotting maybe 2 other times since then, so I don't think it's widespread and I know for a fact that the one aimbot the guy I mentioned earlier used was successfully blocked/patched. I played with him again months later and he was just a regular player. He said something like "haha remember when I used to be 'good' ? "
I've heard that you need windows XP with service patch 2 in order to bypass Nprotect and use some bots, and this may be the reason that you don't see a lot of aimbotting even though the program has gotten out to several people.

I have seen delay hack about 6 times in thousands of games, but most of those times were clustered together recently (like past 5 months) so it's really 6 times in... I dunno, 800 games? So delay hack isn't common but is more common than the other stuff. I have yet to see one hit KO which is the cause of all the absurdly high average hit stats you see.

Unless I'm just very lucky, I'd say serious cheat hacks aren't very widespread. I can say for sure that 99/100 of my recent games had no real cheating. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be stopped by softnyx ASAP.

I'd also like to say that I hardly think gunbound is dying because of these problems. When zone 11 and 12 stop being red/full all the time and I never have to refresh the server list to go where I want, then maybe I could believe gunbound is 'dying'. But it seems just as popular as ever to me.

[sober]

Its still some good fun to play, but the crashing out is starting to get annoying.

[LordMerqury]

I wish that Gunbound and its people focused on fun more than getting rid of botters hackers, etc. But its only human nature to strive to be the best, which includes taking shortcuts. Its inevitable. Its how we are. We are doomed to our own demise due to one huge vice... Greed and the striving for power.

[lVlithra]

Every game I've played and seen has its share of hackers and botters. I've gotten too used to it to worry about it. Just the "Oh. Another hacker." and keep playing like he isn't in the room. If it's one hit ko, I leave after that game. No use in leaving during a game when one's in there when you might have a chance of killing them if they accidentally leave it on. :^_^:  

[genty]

same...i dont encounter many hackers maybe once or twice a month.  as for maple, that game is way too ghetto for me to play.  2d slashing with alt and jumpin wit ctrl is like WAY too ghetto.  but as for GB, i still think it went down hill.  Gb days is over for me now, i rarely play.  but im in to WoW now.