- This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 1 week, 5 days ago by
.
-
Posts
-
There’s not a lot of traffic here at the site. If we create a competition how do we test without people challenging or reporting matches? In effect you’d need to create ghost accounts or have a group of friends testing along with you. I think at some point Global Warfighter League will have to create some kind of Official Game Competition where the members can actively challenge and report matches for a real competition or an official test competition where members can report ghost matches while testing the system.
This is a legitimate concern. Our internal conversations on Discord solved this problem months ago. Essentially there are a number of ghost accounts setup to make challenges and match reporting daily so the test competition admin will have interaction on their ladder and actually be able test all the functions of the solo ladders.
I like the idea of having an actual official test competition or actual “GWL Official” game competition for members to join. We’ll make that part of the discussion/agenda this weekend for our weekly GWL Staff meeting. I’ve actually had a couple people from the “Combat Arms” community reach out to me on Discord. So far Combat Arms has been the only community to reach out so that may be the place to start.
I like the idea of having an “Official GWL” game competition too but I’m not sure Combat Arms is the game to start with. When the competition is official for GWL, it’s GWL relying on the anti-cheat for the game. If I remember correctly there’s plenty of complaints about the Combat Arms anti-cheat. There’s also 2 Combat Arms games now. Combat Arms Classic and Combat Arms Reloaded. Which is better for competition and which has an anti-cheat that works?
Users can record their match if they wish to file a dispute. I don’t think that’s a solution though because you’re limiting disputes to people who are able to record and even then the recording may not show anything. Players are able to split their signal with one signal going through to a legit monitor being recorded and the other going through hardware allowing hacks and then to another monitor showing walls, esp or a gui. It’s why esports is done with live events.
This was a conversation when we were discussing bringing Global Warfighter League back. It’s one of the reasons we allow every warfighter here to create their own competition. Our reasoning was that individual communities would police their own competitions. We are all gamers here but we can’t be on top of every game and every available hack/cheat that is possible for every game.
Combat Arms was mentioned above but we don’t even know which version is more secure to play or why. I’ll bet you the Combat Arms community knows. I’ll wager there’s a bunch of people that knows if Combat Arms competition can work online and how. To be clear, they reached out to me and that in itself should be an indicator that they know the score when it comes to online esports with their community and game.
Our goal here is to create esports infrastructure for those people (or as mentioned in another conversation somewhere else, video game developer partners who don’t want to worry about the esports side). These people want to walk into an infrastructure already in place and into a proven online competitive method that would allow them to include esports into their gaming community or game structure.
Communities build trust within themselves and know how to keep that trust. Video game developers can develop methods of anti-cheat within their game or get third party anti-cheat companies. We can build an esports infrastructure because that’s what we know how to do.
There will always be cheaters and hackers. We’re trying to rebuild a competitive esports community here of gamers who know that to be the case and each game community/clan/group will develop their own set of ‘rules of engagement’ that takes cheaters and hackers into their calculus.
To bring us back on topic, TK-421 is part of the Red Team and he has a number of ghost accounts that he’s offered for testing. There’s an ongoing discussion in the Red Team’s forum concerning this. Those looking to test the system for Bug Bounties or to see how the system works should request to join the Red Team.
I think we should at least consider an “Official GWL Test” ladder. It’ll get people familiar with the GWL esports system while showcasing what we have to offer for interested communities and future esports partners.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.