Cheating in StarCraft II

Cheating in StarCraft II

Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for StarCraft II. If a StarCraft II player is found to be cheating or using hacks or modifications in any form, then as outlined in our end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net to play StarCraft II with his or her account.

Playing StarCraft II legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.

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Homer #930
Homer
1/19/2012
Does anyone know how to get money or build faster?
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Homer #930
Homer
1/19/2012
Does anyone how to get more money faster
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Zachary #282
Zachary
11/26/2011
people put cheats up
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MerDeNoms #872
MerDeNoms
7/6/2011
hahahaha literally after posting this while watchin col.CatZ stream on teamliquid i saw CombatEX admit he was stream cheating and he'll still beat CatZ yet CatZ made a fool of him like the bronze player he is
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MerDeNoms #872
MerDeNoms
7/6/2011
Deezer and CombatEX both steam cheat i watch a lot of streams of professional players and when they play Deezer and CombatEX both snipe certain buildings or locations in which they would never have known it was there without stream cheating
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Blackheart #478
Blackheart
6/22/2011
with all the money blizzard has, you'd think they would pay people to shut down the hack sites and expose their names to the authorities right?
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Texas #727
Texas
2/18/2011
Plus, is there some kind of way to report hacks like talking to a GM in WoW? Plus for the Char levels in SC2 you can barely do anything besides talk to other characters. NO LOST VIKIIIING! NOOOOOOOO! (Also the Protoss storyline becomes unplayable, which really sucks)
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Texas #727
Texas
2/18/2011
I've never encountered cheats, but there should be some way to lower the amount of cheap strategies like building plasma cannons in front of your enemy's base. I hate that.
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Magma #226
Magma
7/2/2011
@Texas: you cannon rush it hax!
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Twist #946
Twist
2/4/2011
this game is getting ridiculously flooded with maphackers. and its easy to see why. a quick 10 seconds on google leads me to 3 or more "undetectable" maphacks available to the public. blizzard should maybe spend a little more time outside of the game and shut down some of these overtly obvious sites. in brood war at least you had to comb the internet for an hour or two to find a legit working hack that wasnt a virus. im half tempted to try these things out, luckily it goes against my better judgement. but gone are the days of me believing i lost because my opponent was actually better than me. he just stooped lower than some of us and turned his hacks on.
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thnikkaman #459
thnikkaman
4/20/2011
@Twist: heh I would advise against posting on the battle.net website that you are going to use a hack lol
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wDTherion #595
wDTherion
12/26/2010
does loading the game through Steam count as playing with an altered game client? .__.
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Mongo #357
Mongo
12/18/2010
yes im wondring about that to
(i usally do ultalisk rushes) :)
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RedRunner #811
RedRunner
12/15/2010
What about when a player somehow builds 15-25 battle cruisers in the first 12 minutes with only two starports and two bases? Their build order stops at 5 battle cruiser at the 12 min mark, yet they clearly had 2-3 times more than that at that point in the game. Plus his build order stopped at 12 min and mine ended at 13:32 (when I was forced to surrender to his huge fleet)
Did he REALLY cheat? Because on fair matches, where foul play doesn't appear to be present, we all have build orders till the time of surrender, our forces are at earned/ respectable sizes, and "all" units produced are shown!!!
I believe the replay and build order are one in the same, if something doesn't agree, then surely foul play is present.
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RedRunner #811
RedRunner
12/15/2010
@RedRunner: Well, one thing's for sure, the build order "does" stop randomly for some reason! So for anyone who suspected the same fallacy, know that you can't just base your opinions off suspicious build orders. Maybe watch the replays and actually "learn" strategies from other players... they actually might know what they're doing and not be cheating afterall.
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ChrisTheMad #272
ChrisTheMad
1/19/2011
@RedRunner: The Build order stops for everyone. It does not log every thing built for the whole game, my build order usually stops at 8 minutes because i build a lot in the early game.
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KentoBento #251
KentoBento
12/14/2010
what kind of hacks are there anyways? so far i havent seen any hacking so good job Blizz
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MosZen #865
MosZen
11/28/2010
just bought game, looks pretty good
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LostMarine #281
LostMarine
11/15/2010
what kind of cheeting is going? like map hacking i hear about... watch replays. what els?
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PizzaBox #964
PizzaBox
10/27/2010
wow totally meant 2025 sorry for the miscommunication (2025 because i figured that would be 10 years after void comes out.
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DOPESHOW #927
DOPESHOW
10/25/2010
I know of a few friends that are pretty much die hard StarCraft and now StarCraft II players but, It seems so many people are cheating and it is sick. It is such a good game but, after all these years they are getting so depressed as this game allows so many cheaters on it. We need "Cheaters" expelled at the first instance and never allowed back in with that key or even that address. I am no good I know that I am still learning but, they can't seem to win any game anymore. That leads me to believe they have far too many bugs to fix and not enough things or people watching things that are abnormal to the game. It is suppost to be fun, and match you with others in your level or something like that. Whats going on? Did we all pay for a game that is still in beta and is allowing these cheaters in. Either way it is destroying what the game is and was for all of us. Others please tell me what you think. Blizzard needs to fix this. NOW.
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CaptainAl #159
CaptainAl
10/19/2010
What if the guy you play against reports you for hacking when you didn't? I just played a game (2v2), we rushed one of the two guys (zerg player) and destroyed his base. Then we have the call ''the other player is being revealed'', and later on ''player is no longer being revealed''. We then start looking out the map (which we already started because its obvious the other guy is gonna send money for him to rebuild) and you finally find him. We destroy his base, he's dead ''no more units!''. Then both leave, we won. Then on the B.net menus the guys opens a chat with me and tells me he will report me for map hack (my friend receives his message too). We just won and denied his base by scouting efficiently, we didn't hack. Will we, somehow, really be banned? Does Blizzard will at least watch the replay? Scan our computers (heard they could, dunno if it's true)? If they don't, I will write to them because we didn't used map hacks. If I really get banned forever, does it means any frustrated looser can go and blame the other guy for map hacking just because they lost?
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Synack #914
Synack
11/20/2010
@Flash: Blizzard probably doesn't use replays as evidence. I could think of ways to spoof replays (unless they're logged server side in a way that cannot be edited).

Blizzard won't allow SC2 hacking to become a witch hunt.
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ColKlink #864
ColKlink
10/11/2010
I lose a lot,im not complaining about ever game just one.Its just not as fun if your opponent is cheating.Personally i think people that use cheats to play have some serious problems.If you have to cheat to win a game on the internet you have got to get a life.
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idouglas #724
idouglas
10/11/2010
It seems as though people are using the comment section to complain that they lost, and blaming it on cheating. I'm no expert, but people that are more invested in having fun and less invested in winning wouldn't cry "Maphacker" over and over again.
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Stevelisk #962
Stevelisk
10/11/2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSOior_mm4s
Now map hacks allow you to lock your camera so the replay doesn't make it obvious you're looking. This video amuses me. The commentator is so clueless about actually playing SC2 skillfully he doesn't even know what the double extractor trick is.
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CFMumbles #605
CFMumbles
10/12/2010
@Stevelisk: th guys souns like a hick too.
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MarauderKris #987
MarauderKris
10/11/2010
what happen if they have free cd key? they could always change accont????And HACK!
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BlackEclipse #282
BlackEclipse
10/11/2010
Can this include banning people like idrA who cannot control their temper.
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Jade #181
Jade
1/8/2011
@BlackEclipse: no it shouldn't...don't wanna hear it? mute'm
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warlord #327
warlord
10/11/2010
yea i hate cheaters
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Conundream #992
Conundream
10/11/2010
My ongoing fantasy is that Blizzard will actually discover a way to gain control of their games, and enforce MUCH stiffer penalties against people who cheat. Anyone who cheats is knowingly violating the Terms of Service and should have all access to all Blizzard services revoked forever: IP address not able to connect to the battle.net server _EVAR_. All these brilliant programmers can't find a way to spot hacks and eliminate/prevent them?
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WhipeeDip #310
WhipeeDip
10/10/2010
How do you find out if someone is hacking?
I think my friend is....
He was sending a Viking to his base, then randomly turned and destroyed my expo.
Saw in a replay...
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FallingWolf #401
FallingWolf
10/10/2010
@Pixelated: easy way to tell.

Watch replay. If he is staring into the fog of war as if he sees your units, he's maphacking.

now he is your "friend" so i dunno if ratting him out and costing him $50 is a great idea... but if he's being a @!#@ then tell him...
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FLUKE #216
FLUKE
10/10/2010
ok what about people just joining games then leaving any fix for that
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Whaleye #773
Whaleye
10/10/2010
@FLUKE: yes thats so annoying
blizzard should make them lose extra points for doing that.
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Arona #866
Arona
10/11/2010
@Whaleye:
Maybe they should take away 30points if you leave the game.
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GhandiEAGLE #122
GhandiEAGLE
10/10/2010
dude Psy did this video of a huge maphacker
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IplayTOown #282
IplayTOown
10/10/2010
Robo. I saw this guy map hacking. At 8 minutes into our 2v2 game he had an outcast overlord in our base. My teammate sent 3 or 4 marines over to kill it, but Robo moved his overlord off the cliff out of range exactly before they got there with no vision of these marines. I watched the replay 3 or 4 times and could see no possible way had had vision. It was very obvious. Is there a way to get him banned?
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jizzmypants #671
jizzmypants
3/25/2011
@IplayTOown: i think is called thinking ahead of time what makes you think ill leave my overlord to linger so it could die cmon now