How can i be sure in Wows nobody arent cheating ?

[verx89]

If  i put a smoke and moving in smoke , but some players know really good where i am in smoke or i am to paranoia :) 

[159Hunter]

As most stuff is run server side, they'd need to have access to server processes to cheat.

Then again, show us a replay of the event and we can explain what happened.

[Prophecy82]

Havent heard of such a Cheat. 

 

Its all about prediction and it gets a lot easier for the opponent if he has a spotter Plane.

So watch out for those!

[Zuihou_Kai]

6 minutes ago, verx89 said:

If  i put a smoke and moving in smoke , but some players know really good where i am in smoke or i am to paranoia :) 

When you get more battles and better at the game you will understand how they do it. 

[ColonelPete]

7 minutes ago, verx89 said:

If  i put a smoke and moving in smoke , but some players know really good where i am in smoke or i am to paranoia :) 

• there is no cheat for that
• when you shoot from smoke or were visible before you smoked up, some people can guess your location quite well

[DFens_666]

10 minutes ago, verx89 said:

If  i put a smoke and moving in smoke , but some players know really good where i am in smoke or i am to paranoia :) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dutchy_2019]

49 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

• there is no cheat for that
• when you shoot from smoke or were visible before you smoked up, some people can guess your location quite well

True, you can practice shooting smoked up targets. The first time I was able to nail someone by more than just dumb luck felt glorious. I have not tried it (yet) myself, but some people use spotter plane to help them with that.

 

OP might also have forgotten the smoke firing penalty.

[Verblonde]

1 hour ago, verx89 said:

some players know really good where i am in smoke

It comes with practice; it's not that they *know* where you are, but rather that they can make good educated guesses, based on things like which ship you have and what you were doing before you vanished (speed/course etc.).

 

Also, as mentioned earlier, when you fire, the distance you can be 'hard' spotted from increases (dramatically, in some cases; basically, the bigger your guns, the greater the increase), plus it's possible to guess a ship's approximate location when it fires from its tracers.

 

The other thing, of course, is radar/hydro, although you get the very obvious 'detected' icons on your screen in those cases.

[lafeel]

1 hour ago, verx89 said:

If  i put a smoke and moving in smoke , but some players know really good where i am in smoke or i am to paranoia :) 

Repeat after me "just because we can't see them, doesn't mean we can't hit them"

[Karasu_Hidesuke]

59 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

• there is no cheat for that
• when you shoot from smoke or were visible before you smoked up, some people can guess your location quite well

 

IIRC the 'fire' in smoke is randomized (except for AA), so it's not reliable per se, however as most people either stop in smoke or start to back up remembering their last position helps you to guess where they might be at least for a few seconds right after they go in smoke.

 

I love sending torps into smoke, sadly too many people have picked up on the dangers of sitting in smoke these days.

[Estaca_de_Bares]

50 minutes ago, verx89 said:

If  i put a smoke and moving in smoke , but some players know really good where i am in smoke or i am to paranoia :) 

Aim at the origin of tracers coming from the smoke or where a shell (or torpedo) has previously hit, use spotter plane for better angle of vision and have last known position active on minimap while guess-aiming using the minimap as the videos @DFens_666 posted show. Minimap aim is also useful against ships outside your visual range during a cyclone, so better have it with a reasonably big size.

 

Salute.

 

P.S.: The matter of the minimap reminded me of a Youtube video I can't find right now. Long story short, the streamer guy was asked to play with opaque minimap scaled up to the maximum, hiding everything and only aiming using the circle. He ended up within the top 3 of his team IIRC.

[Dutchy_2019]

1 minute ago, Karasu_Hidesuke said:

 

IIRC the 'fire' in smoke is randomized (except for AA), so it's not reliable per se, however as most people either stop in smoke or start to back up remembering their last position helps you to guess where they might be at least for a few seconds right after they go in smoke.

 

I love sending torps into smoke, sadly too many people have picked up on the dangers of sitting in smoke these days.

Depends. IIRC if people ‘ripple’ fire, the randomized bit is minimized, and it more or less allows you to guess where the middle of the ship is. Not sure which fire mode has this effect, could be one of the others.

[Nibenay78]

15 minutes ago, Dutchy_2019 said:

True, you can practice shooting smoked up targets.

If you have a spamming ship, and nothing better to do, its not that hard to slowly rain fire on the last postition and eventually have shells start to hit. Works well in mino vs mino..

 

[lafeel]

2 minutes ago, Nibenay78 said:

If you have a spamming ship, and nothing better to do, its not that hard to slowly rain fire on the last postition and eventually have shells start to hit. Works well in mino vs mino..

 

Atlanta/Flint vs each other as well..

[DariusJacek]

16 minutes ago, Karasu_Hidesuke said:

IIRC the 'fire' in smoke is randomized (except for AA),

If you mean tracers then it's opposite-aa tracers are randomised, gun tracers are not, but if you mean shooting into smoke is randomised, it's true, dispersion is bigger but it can help sometimes, and you can cheat by locking on some target behind and adjusting aim.

[Humorpalanta]

As I have stated when it was first added as a mod. The little circle on map should be illegal. It is not healthy for the game. If they can (and many people can, including sometimes me) shoot the ship based on the tracers than it is skill and congrats. But adjusting your icon on a paper doesn't require skill but dumbs down the game itself. Smoke fire penalty is already punishing for many ships, combined with the number of radar and this... I think this is not healthy for the game therefore should be eliminated and banned.

[Karasu_Hidesuke]

34 minutes ago, DariusJacek said:

If you mean tracers then it's opposite-aa tracers are randomised, gun tracers are not, but if you mean shooting into smoke is randomised, it's true, dispersion is bigger but it can help sometimes, and you can cheat by locking on some target behind and adjusting aim.

 

Okay, thanks for the correction.

[Cirno9999]

yes you are in smoke , but people can see where your shells leave your barrels , if you pop smoke and stay still , its an easy area for people to predict where you are or where you move

[FatherTorque]

If you turn on your smoke while undetected it's very hard for an opponent to hit you. On the other hand if you were detected when turning on smoke and went undetected later you're in trouble because it's very easy to aim on your last seen position on the minimap while zoomed in. You can't believe how precisely you can aim that way. That's why you should always move away from your last seen position and never be a sitting duck inside smoke.

[tocqueville8]

They can go by your muzzle flashes, or just guess, but the tiny circle on the minimap helps as well, especially with the vertical aiming.

 

Shooting a target you don't see, or one you see but on which you don't have target lock (the 'X' key), will make your dispersion worse, but with a lot of shells you can still get some hits, and sometimes that's all you need.

 

The same thing can be done in cyclone: the other day, in the Ibuki, I set 2-3 fires on targets I was too far away from, but which my teammates could see. I used that minimap trick. It didn't really help us winning the game, but it was pretty funny, and something I'd never tried before.

Still, even if you aim really well (it takes some practice) you're still only about 10-20% as effective as you would be with regular spotting.

[Dutchy_2019]

1 hour ago, Nibenay78 said:

If you have a spamming ship, and nothing better to do, its not that hard to slowly rain fire on the last postition and eventually have shells start to hit. Works well in mino vs mino..

 

True, though that has yet to happen to me as I have yet to learn the trick of playing Atlanta properly. I have had ‘smoke’ kills with Mainz in Co-op, and with BB’s on DD’s and cruisers in randoms. 
 

To some extent it feels a bit similar to learning to (semi-)blind fire over islands.

[piet11111]

When your smoking up its very obvious its a ship doing that since smoke doesn't just happen.

Also if your firing and your broadside to the enemy he can see the shells appear once they exit the barrel (its a dumb mechanic) and depending on where they appear you can very accurately determine the exact location of where the ship is and how high you need to aim to hit it dead on.

 

And of course dropping smoke tends to draw in other ships to gain that stealth bonus so if your in a DD and its happening in torpedo range its very easy to catch some easy hits.

[Nibenay78]

2 hours ago, Dutchy_2019 said:

True, though that has yet to happen to me as I have yet to learn the trick of playing Atlanta properly. I have had ‘smoke’ kills with Mainz in Co-op, and with BB’s on DD’s and cruisers in randoms. 
 

To some extent it feels a bit similar to learning to (semi-)blind fire over islands.

I had it happen playing mino just yesterday, and another mino and me rammed into each others vision range and both smoked up asap at about 9km. He started spamming somone else while i started spamming at his shells. My aim was really off but in this ship - shells are cheap... so after holding down the button some 10 seconds, i startee scoring hits. The guy backed out of his own smoke and promptly got nuked by something big.

[piet11111]

2 minutes ago, Nibenay78 said:

I had it happen playing mino just yesterday, and another mino and me rammed into each others vision range and both smoked up asap at about 9km. He started spamming somone else while i started spamming at his shells. My aim was really off but in this ship - shells are cheap... so after holding down the button some 10 seconds, i startee scoring hits. The guy backed out of his own smoke and promptly got nuked by something big.

 

That is how you do it   (well not exactly but close enough )

[batch1]

When your loading up your shitty useless fighter plane on your new ship be it T10 or lower.....remember citadels on smoked up ships are easier in 3d (spotter plane) than 2d :)