Grand Theft Auto Megathread - OP 3.0

[Juncoph]

thank loving god I finally got this game. Is getting banned online for no reason something I should be worried about or are the steam reviews full of stuff?

rockstar will ban you for no given reason, and they don't even respond to you if you appeal the ban

im talking from personal experience with a month long ban

they reset the money on my account too

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[Ceist]

thank loving god I finally got this game. Is getting banned online for no reason something I should be worried about or are the steam reviews full of stuff?

Steam reviews are full of people who lied in one way or another. Mod your game while you're connected to the ethernet and you risk running a ban because Rockstar anti-cheat is stingy as forget.

don't worry about it at all, but it is true people get randomly banned for no reason and it's happened to 2 of my friends

This isn't true, your friends did something they shouldn't have. They cheated online or forgot to keep their game from connecting to the internet while they mod their singleplayer. Modding achievements is a bannable offense too btw.

rockstar will ban you for no given reason, and they don't even respond to you if you appeal the ban

im talking from personal experience with a month long ban

they reset the money on my account too

They respond your your ban appeal, mostly just saying "No." because roosterstar don't give a flying forget. You got banned because like I said before, you did something you shouldn't have.

My personal experience is that I've been cheating since GTA 5 came to PC, me and all of my friends have too, and only one of my buddies have been banned thus far. I've even gone far enough to taunt Rockstar in public lobbies while I cheat in glorious amounts of cash.

[Rally]

they reset the money on my account too

they now reset your entire character on temp bans, so stay woke

really I just try to avoid huge public lobbies. the bigger the lobby, the bigger the chance someone is going to use a mod menu to ban you

[ahoy]

well good thing I don't mod :)

[The Subject]

well good thing I don't mod :)

its still a problem you have to be cautious of. even if you dont mod, like other people have said, pubs can use mods and get you banned if they give you stuff loads of money or unlock everything for you

[Maxwell.]

This isn't true, your friends did something they shouldn't have. They cheated online or forgot to keep their game from connecting to the internet while they mod their singleplayer. Modding achievements is a bannable offense too btw.

it's completely loving true are you handicapped? you don't need to mod just to get banned, modding just makes you a bigger target in a sense but neither of those two friends modded the game ever. don't just assume mods are the problem automatically just because you and all your friends got rightly banned for it.

really I just try to avoid huge public lobbies. the bigger the lobby, the bigger the chance someone is going to use a mod menu to ban you

this is what I do as well

[SteveJenkins]

You got banned because like I said before, you did something you shouldn't have.

I'm a little biased because I personally know juncoph, but it seems it is possible to get banned without even doing anything as he has been banned and as far as I and his friends know, hasn't modded his game at all including singleplayer.

I'd assume the ban was issued from false reports of other users, as that's the only guess I have so far

while I cheat in glorious amounts of cash.

also you're an starfish

[McJob]

I wrote a giant discussion post a while back about how GTA:O suffers from a very shoddy anti-cheat system, but I can't find that post.

Either way, the overarching issue is that Grand Theft Auto Online's anti-cheat protection is not perfect, and often flags behaviour it considers to be "suspicious", even if it is legitimate gameplay (anti-cheats are only ever as good as the rules by which they detect against). It's made worse by the fact that the game is running off an odd P2P model, and a lot of the game's variables are stored and controlled locally without any server verification, and so can be safely edited without Rockstar noticing any issues.

If your internet connection dips, lord help you; it seems like the anti-cheat isn't built to handle people with lower connections polling a lot less, as it thinks you're doing things faster than you really are.

Personally, I wasn't banned at all for the short stretch of time that I modified the Cash/RP modifiers for various types of mission completions (the reward you get at the end of missions/heists/competitive matches/races/etc are determined by multiplying a base value by a number of different multipliers), but a couple months later I was given a week-long ban for playing in the same heist setup as a modder. My money and rank weren't stripped and I kept all my other stuff.

[Blockzillahead]

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I don't think they ban on the spot. They ban in waves at random times. Notice how once in a while there's an influx of users posting "Why was I banned" or "Unban me" etc. They just flag users, throw them in a pool, then in a few weeks/months they all get suspended for however long. And maybe the system has different levels for flags depending on how many repeat offences you have. Maybe it ignores the first few flags to compensate for false detection. Only Rockstar knows what's going on.

[Rally]

It's sort of like the tree in the woods brown townogy. If you get banned from online for a reason, but nobody knows what the hell the reason is and Rockstar refuses to tell you, is there really a loving reason at all? They might as well just be banning random people to force them into buying shark cards.

[Ceist]

it's completely loving true are you handicapped? you don't need to mod just to get banned, modding just makes you a bigger target in a sense but neither of those two friends modded the game ever. don't just assume mods are the problem automatically just because you and all your friends got rightly banned for it.

Must be completely handicapped because only you dumbasses seem to get banned meanwhile whenever I cheat in public lobbies and lose internet connection constantly because of stuffty roosterstar servers, and still haven't been banned. This just doesn't go for me, it goes for like twenty people on my steam friends list.

I've never heard of or seen anyone being banned and not have some form of mod on their game, so your friends did something they shouldn't have.

also you're an starfish

How am I an starfish for cheating in cash? Seems fair to me, I'm not ruining anyone else's experience by doing this. Sounds like you're just jealous.

EDIT: I did some thinking and the only reason you've been banned for "no reason" is because your somehow associated with someone who did cheat, and cheated the wrong way. Rockstar's anti-cheat is shoddy and stingy, so if that person got banned and you appeared a blip on its radar, you'll be banned too. And the mod can be anything, from spawning cash to just being invincible.

[hillkill]

there's some guy on playstation that goes by "anthony[insert numbers here]" that's in the blf crew. find him in my public lobbies sometimes and can't figure out who it is.

[Maxwell.]

How am I an starfish for cheating in cash? Seems fair to me, I'm not ruining anyone else's experience by doing this. Sounds like you're just jealous.

you're cheating in so you can have an advantage over other players who didn't cheat, not only is that bad in itself it's also depriving rockstar of cash. people buy sharkcards and they play fairly then chuckleforgets like you come along

also jealous? lol he'd hate to be in your position of handicaply testing his luck against rockstars ban system all the loving time, it's simpler and more fun just to play fairly. to me, it sounds like rockstar needs to do another ban wave to get rid of cunts like yourself

also I'm not gonna respond to the rest of that post because it's clear you want to argue over something you weren't there for

[Clownfish]

>very openly talks about cheating
>"u musta done somthing rong to get banned buster smh"
how does the inside of your colon smell

[Toxicology]

don't be mad it's just a game
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