I am going to try to write this cheating admission as brief as possible. The reason for that is because I found out that I can literally write pages and pages about almost any aspect of my life. Writing down everything that I want to would require me to invest more time on grammar rules, paragraph structure, and so on.
I am going to admit to having cheated over the years. The intensity of which varies from petty .tbl cheats which include rapid fire, no screenshake, colorbotting, and a blue rail scanner. I also used some huds. When it came to huds the intent with most of those wasn't cheating, but just having something different. I do acknowledge the full screen scanners are cheating. Remember, I've been playing rf since I was a kid and taste can change a bit. As I got older, I became more of a minimalist. I prefer stock the most.
Cheating is always low, but I feel the most guilt about colorbotting. I was not a very good colorbotter. I did it differently than most rf players. It was actually more of a pain to colorbot than not. I wasn't the type that used a rail gun and hit every shot. I actually used an assault rifle. So yes, I cheated in a match against fuV'. Regardless of whether or not they cheated in the past, my intuition actually tells me they played entirely fair the 1st match which I believe was Warlords. I won't go in depth about how I know they played fair, but I am 100% sure. I can't remember the other matches. Most of the colorbotting was done around 2006 to 2007.
There is a psychology behind me and cheating. I could write on and on about it, but again it would take forever. I was weird when it came to cheating though. Did I cheat in every single game? I have cheated in almost every single rf match I have ever played if we include the fact that I use screenshake removal. Infact, screenshake removal is my favorite cheat to use. In match servers, on a day to day basis I play with the worst hardware. I tried to rationalize screenshake removal because bad frames per second seems to heavily penalize players when using the assault rifle. Another way I tried to rationalize it was the fact that sometimes I get dizzy from screenshake. After analyzing myself, the real reason I wanted to use it was for better aim. It hardly improves aim honestly.
Psychologically, psychiatrically, and biologically I am the most unusual specimen you will ever meet. As mentioned earlier there is a psychology behind me cheating and its not always (but frequently) driven by jealousy, anger, envy or any other negative stereotypical trait. For example, I have a psychological fear of giving up control. I had a bad experience growing up where I was forced into a position of being powerless. In part, that contributes to my gravitation toward cheating. To
some degree I have a fear of losing and noticed that I do not like losing to people who rail a lot. I could go on and on about the psychology of cheating not just online games, but real life too (academics). One thing I am super concerned about is that if player A sees player B cheating, overtime player B may be tired of losing to player A. So player B will either quit the game or start cheating themselves.
I actually would've played better in every single game except a few of the rail matches (so yes I cheated against shadymike in a rail map and MuD too). I wasn't too excited about ESL honestly. Part of the reason I played RF was just to burn time.
Incase anyone is wondering, I only wallhacked twice. One was just to test it. Second time, I left it in my multi folder on accident and it was in a 1v1. This was around 2005 if I recall correctly.
For the most part, lost to all the same people I would have lost to and won against the same people I would have won against. My accuracy is actually higher with screenshake on with simply a cheap qck mousepad and a usable mouse than it is with cheating. I actually didn't use a mousepad for a large portion of my rf career so I always tried to play sneaky and go for flags.
I would like for everyone to forgive me for my self righteousness and being an idiot.
Why am I admitting to cheating in 2016? I did some long in-depth self analysis upon my life. I think there are psychological benefits to posting this. For example, I may not want to cheat again. Why didn't I post earlier? Apathy is the biggest reason. I am happy about admitting this actually. It took me this long to do in-depth self analysis because I would be scared of what I have to look at.
I'm thankful for all the matches I was given.
I do not see anything in this post that wouldn't belong in this forum. I would like the topic to be open for a few days and than closed. If the admins believe it should be closed, I trust nick and digi's judgement.
In case anyone is wondering between April 27th 2016 and May 3rd 2016 I played some matches. I did not cheat in any of those. I was testing another mouse. I've only ever bought 2 gaming mice and I probably would've been better off with a plain Microsoft mouse and just adjusting the sensitivity in pf settings. I think having a simple qck mousepad is more important than what mouse. In case anyone is wondering, I worked hard to get reasonable at the game. Sadly though, did cheat.
I'm actually sorry for anyone I trolled too.
Edit:
The reason I do not play much is because I do not find the game fun anymore and do not feel comfortable getting any wins against people that I cheated against.
Edited by HeaT at May 5, 2016, 16:15