Roughly five years ago Enemy Territory got released, and boy was it a promising game. It had the best engine for 2003 standards, a revolutionary gameplay and the unconditional hate from the RTCW-Community. In early 2004 the source code for the game logic got released in order to give the modding community more freedom. This resulted in Bani’s ETPRO which most will agree is a gift from heaven.
But more freedom also meant that hackers could make more sophisticated cheats and they obviously did. Our beloved game has always been taunted by cheaters and it’s gotten a lot worse lately. The first busted cheater on a decent level which my mind allows me to remember was
JLn a.k.a. Unisol. After him more and more cheaters started getting caught and a massive paranoia was born, the witch hunt was on. There have been numerous victims of this paranoia such as 
Maus, 
Perfo, 
Torspo and last but not least even Mystic. All of them underwent accusations coming from every corner only to prove us wrong in the end. While our herd mentality made us look like fools there it did us good in other cases such as the busts of 
Senti, 
Gnajda and 
Kenta.
Right now another questionable player is getting a very hard time from the scene. It’s true that Jo0f has played on lans before but a sudden skillboost raised eyebrows and right now it looks like it’s the world against 
Friends In Force. An objective view on this matter is what most people lack and although I'll try to make one in this column, feel free to discuss with me since pure objectivity doesn't exist.
But more freedom also meant that hackers could make more sophisticated cheats and they obviously did. Our beloved game has always been taunted by cheaters and it’s gotten a lot worse lately. The first busted cheater on a decent level which my mind allows me to remember was
JLn a.k.a. Unisol. After him more and more cheaters started getting caught and a massive paranoia was born, the witch hunt was on. There have been numerous victims of this paranoia such as Maus, Perfo, Torspo and last but not least even Mystic. All of them underwent accusations coming from every corner only to prove us wrong in the end. While our herd mentality made us look like fools there it did us good in other cases such as the busts of Senti, Gnajda and Kenta. Right now another questionable player is getting a very hard time from the scene. It’s true that
Jo0f has played on lans before but a sudden skillboost raised eyebrows and right now it looks like it’s the world against Friends In Force. An objective view on this matter is what most people lack and although I'll try to make one in this column, feel free to discuss with me since pure objectivity doesn't exist.
Sooo in short: anyone who becomes good in this game is a cheater.
LEERT VLAAMS TURK
and I also think (not sure again) that joof and vanquish got to know each other due to me because I brought vanquish to fif, where as joof was already a long time in fif (one year?)
btw: I brought vanquish to fif because mentiz stopped because of cdc4 cheaterrules, and because i knew vanquish wasnt hacking anymore and he was quite skille, i took him to fif (vanquish did really confirm at cdc4 and joof did also imo)
EDIT: oh yes, now i remember that joof played in mentiz. When mentiz needed one last member for cdc4, they tested joof a few times. He played 10 pracs max and then mentiz folded. So lets say he was a trial there, but he wasn't a real player there and right after mentiz foled me vanq and joof went to FiF for playing cdc qualys (which we won both) and went to cdc4
(sorry for not noting the link between mentiz and joof at first, but I rememberd now :p)
& if killerboy tries to bust you, I'll come to your place and record live (!) a game from you :D
And about the Mentiz error, I only checked his clanbase and crossfire profiles and from there I learned he atleast had a connection with them, didn't know he was only a trial.
grtz
well conclusion about joof's 'cheat-links here':
* link joof<=>mentiz: he was trial for one week or someting, but never added to clanbase (if so, give link, I dont think he was added on cb, only on crossfire) he only played some pracs, no offis or something and I dont think joof feels or felt very related to most guys playing there
*link joof<=>vanquish: while joof trialed, I think vanquish played also at that time, not sure though, but they werent really close friends or something. FiF and me are the link between the 2 I think. Jo0f also only knew vanquish after vanq already stopped cheating.
*links joof<=>skeiz/slajdan/Randori/Fanta: none of them ever played one prac/war with joof I think, so no link at all
could be wrong somewhere, but mainly this is true
btw: I want to thank you for trying to be objective (altough this is very difficult) and I appreciate your effort. History wasn't your best page, but yeah, everyone makes mistakes.
he should be monitored? that won't do anything, he will simply stop knowing where opponents are, at least that is not hard
and he won't get a massive skilldrop also since he's not crap, he has a somewhat decent aim
if he doesn't get banned now he won't get banned (i doubt he is so stupid to make the same "mistakes" again)
The only one where the cheat is obvious is the nr. 5 superslow there is no explanation for me on that one.
That is a blatant wh or a fucking biggest lucky tracking i have ever seen and even if it is that he cant know when the allies behind the wall will come inside but he moves his xhair in a perfect timing.
grrr after 5 time watching that there is something at the old cp entrance i dont know if thats a not gibed axis or not but that is the only explanation i could come up with.
He could not know that some1 is coming true the passage if it is not a axis giving him the call.
"It does however indicate that he has no problem playing with busted and very obvious players, his tolerance towards cheaters is very big and it only makes one wonder why."
You're totally wrong there, I never played with known (ex)cheaters accept for vanquish. But he joined FiF in the weeks before cdc and I was convinced he was clean then, which he proofed on lan.
And my history goes way more back then that.. I've been playing since the ET demo came out, played like a year in a funclan then took a break and came back sept 2005 to play actively (even played rtcw before all this). I then joined renegade's (&rayman's) clan #lork.et which evolved into FiF later on. I guess I'm not much of a clanhopper :p... except for some 2 week side-clans.
Only thing I will say about cheats: I never had them (who can say that in this community :D) or will have them on my pc. I hate hackers and It's just sad the ET community got this far with being paranoid about every player that can aim and isn't to known in the skilled et scene.
trying to convince us with some shit arguments
fact is that the avis are suspicious
fact is that u played with cheaters
everything else is bullshit
and btw i played u before cdc4 and i played u like 1 month ago
u come from a lowskiller to a mAus comparable player
SURE THIS IS PURE SKILL
Are you lanproved btw? I made some avi's aswell, I'll post them later today!
i want to laugh
nah I'm just like "sigh" about this whole joof story .. it's a bit overhyped those last days, can't handle that !
just spec him... his nades are terrible, almost always mistimed or thrown incorrectly, his movement is so bad i think i can move better with one hand, and he is constantly bumping into walls which he shouldn't
he is far from an intelligent player, which is what makes him so suspicious :E
well written though, the majority of arguments in the joof case seem to be 'LOL HAHAHA NOOBS' coming from pretty much both sides of the fence, so it's a breath of fresh air
I just got annoyed by everyone joining in with the herd which would have another witch hunt as consequence.
K N1CE WALLHACK MAN, BUSTED
i love it how people can actually remember the month they started playing.
i started playing like june 5th 2006 at approximately 6:45pm ohh yeah i'm da bestest
I don't think any sane person accused
Same for overboost, he was accused in the past as well for cheating by some high names in the scene
and he has just to0 much of those actions in one match, you can make 30 joof.avi's from 1 FiF match. Maybe it's just betetr to watch the demo :P
every cheater said that, but they still cheated :D
btw, try playing more clanwars or spec someone at ettv cos your gamesense is a bit low :(
Know him for quite a long time in ET,
the boy has reached his skills at last :)
though there's nothing mAus'like in him imo .
ban him (many coincidences)
never played vs him or watched him though so no real judgement.
There are just too many "coincidences" in those short clips which makes him very very suspicious
And ban
bibuy!
he seems to have pretty decent aim (far from botactions). About wallhack... ppl calling his playing style non-intelligent. well, imo that says enough.. usually ppl gets advantage ingame while using wallhack ( like mize back in the old days ). So kinda weird if he uses wallhack and still out like a snowman? he's clean.
but about these "too many new mAus' born" blaa blaa... players who has played more than 8,5days of ET are cheaters in your eyes...
case closed noobs
nice column btw
The thing that makes him suspicious is because the community thinks his skill came suddenly outta nowhere. He is for 2 years now in fif and improved together with fif.
1 year ago everybody was laughing with the skill from fif although now half of the players are still the same as we have now.
Its just hilarious to see that half of the community is like fanboying inactive highskilled players like mAus and when they shoot hs's its like'WTF HE IS GOOD omg !' And when an active player, who improves in an active team, does the same its ' hi cheater' .
but if I get all your demo's from last half year , I would also be able to find some actions where you have your crosshair on the enemy through the wall with r_shownormals 1
on the other hand, the one overdrive posted in the forum says enough, manji.avi or something. obvious wallhacker atleast.