Mk132

I have to agree with you on people's skill level dropping once BE got added. Seems like a lot of people got complacent and leaned a bit too much on cheese. Ping abuse is a huge thing currently however and a good portion of the major streamers are now playing with 350+ ping to gain a advantage. Hell I used to play on the polish servers since they were usually dead and I could get into solo raids, but now its packed with US and Canadian players abusing ping. That and the recent fiasco with people supposedly lag switching which in the grand scheme of things really does not work as well as people think. I tried out the auto emergency ping destroyer back when the EFT cheese was up (emergency teleport) and it did not help in 9 out of 10 encounters. As it stands now, I foresee the EFT community continuing to witch hunt average players who pull off BS shots and such until the game dies. The amount of people I've seen call out others for hacking somehow has increased over the last few months after BE got added (I've even gotten some fan mail myself yet I've been clean since the cheese went offline) so it seems like the general mindset of engagements is slowly becoming less "I was not skilled enough" to "that random guy wall peaking me with TTV in his name is from Australia with 980 ping / lag switching". Oh yeah and EVE Jita market runners seem to be thriving in EFT now too, last place I saw people playing a free in game market like this was back in the great hive of scum and villainy that was the market stations of Jita. Its both disgusting, yet a amazing example of people somehow becoming economists and squeezing the absolute max amount of profit out of items that are next to worthless in game. Lastly, I would avoid using most things with EFT's BE, seems like nakita and the battlestate team are getting a bit hyper aggressive with detection, possibly due to the recent influx of new players.

From what I've ended up seeing. Learn to be John Wick, and I don't mean a killing machine. Pistols are rather capable and usually dirt cheap as of late, not to mention with the expansion of rounds that can actually defeat some armor, they have become rather capable. If you can eventually get mechanic high enough, a basic glock with the fortis stock becomes a pistol with functionally no recoil for only about 14k, and given that people dont normally collect pistols that look generic even if they have a stock, they usually come back in insurance no matter the map. My only issue as of late is the fact that nearly every hideout item is tanking hard in price and as such many of them are not worth it to pick up aside from en-mass. RIP nails selling for 200K.

As a aside to this, will we possibly see the USBs coming back into stock once the cheese makes it's debut? I've been keen on grabbing one for a long while at this point given my movement between 2 computers at home and college, and a HWID USB would be exceptionally useful for my lifestyle.

As I've said in the past, use the cheese as a force multiplier, not a crutch. Play like you would normally, and use the cheese to make up for shortcomings in your playstyle, Eg, I dont have a good pair of headphones, so I use the ESP in my peripheral vision like a very accurate pair of headphones, I don't look at people through walls directly, I slip them into the side of my FOV. Same case with recoil reduction, I still mod the weapon out, but I may put a tiny bit of recoil compensation here and there to make the weapon even more comfortable, I don't take a unmodded gun out and just crank that thing up to 11. Thats how I've made it through 3 patches cheesing so far, I know others can get away with some more stuff, but this style has worked for me.

Fantastic as always. I will raise the question that you stated there are more options for people who wish to be "legit" I would ask what this entails, but given that I dont want actual important stuff to be divulged to the world just yet. I used ESP and thats pretty much it (recoil reduction here and there too), just for general quality of life, will we expect more quality of life improvements / options per say for those who wish to play legit and have just some assistance here and there? I recall people pointing out that boxes can have titles by type and I am very happy about this, so can we expect more improvements like this?

I mean, I played to the near end of the .10 wipe and you still got matches without dudes running cheese. You just need to play the maps that have low traffic, EG not Labs and Factory. Those two maps get so much traffic, labs in particular, they nearly always had at least one person at a point using cheese. (I will state though that I did make a friend on labs who also cheesed by wiggling through a wall at him, I've played with him ever since so who knows, you may make a impromptu buddy by playing the high traffic maps) Or you can just go rambo and see who can out cheese the other cheesers, its always fun to see who can beat who in a situation like this. Still, given that this is BE we are dealing with, expect to have a lower than .10 / .11 number of people cheesing, remember that there was functionally no automated AC before the end of .11 so there was a larger number of groups trying to make cheese for EFT.

After a bit of a hiatus I've returned to see the situation we are currently in, and it cannot be in better hands. You and your team have continued to produce a quality product that blows nearly everything that is comparable out of the water. I fear not BE's effect on your work, if anything I would not be surprised if your end product is even better than before. I've been here for almost a year and a half now and I will stay for many more. God speed, I await my chance to return to EFT with bated breath!