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I usually have fun versing Hoff on maps but occasionally it becomes unpleasant and irritating, and not because he has some amazing skills that no other player has (most Simple regulars are very good). So today I decided to just shadow him on a map, in scout mode, and see how he plays and if anything looked suspicious compared with other players' gameplay. Turns out something is very wrong.

Firstly the way players move. I understand some bots will move weirdly but when I saw Hoff's movements, they were very strange, extremely fast, and almost impossible for him to die immediately, he took damage even with direct zook or sniper shots. This was alarming.

Secondly, the accuracy. I've seen some players shoot others with a Thomson across the map, inexplicably. Yes it happens on the odd fluke, but regular long-distance kills with a bazooker or automatic weapon begins to smack of mapping and aimbot. I find it strange that someone can simultaneously take very little damage when directly shot, but also kill with one shot across long distances regularly, just like bots.

Finally map awareness. We know other players can report to you where an enemy unit is, but Hoff seems to be able to detect you even if you're coming from behind to blow up a V2 rocket launchpad or ambush him in a sniper's nest. Of course other players can sound the alarm, but not every time, and not with insanely quick response time. It's as if he can see me coming on the mini map.

In any case, food for thought. I don't suggest a ban or anything, I just want admins to watch closely. Observe anything unusual. Banning people for mild language and such is lame and amateur. Focus on cheaters and aimbot users.

Best wishes,

Varda

Not sure who player oTTo is but after I warned him to stop abusive language and using aimbot on other players I was randomly banned along with Toni Hammadi. Totally random and arbitrary. Please restore my playing rights, it is unfair and not nice to randomly ban players. Also admins, please check the aim of certain players, firing a Sten across the map constantly hitting targets is an absolute red flag and those players should be kicked immediately.

- VardaTruffs.

I noticed many of the maps from the SW+RTR are no longer available this year? in 2020 and 2021 I frequently played Santa Croce, Salerno, etc. but these seem to have disappeared. Can we fix this please, I and many others enjoyed those other options. As it stands, we only have this selection of maps:

Essen
Husky
Mimoycques
Cassino
Peenemude
Hellendorn
Telemark
Eagle's Nest
Kbely Airfield

[Raid on Agheilia (only occasionally)]

We are missing four others:

Santa Croce
Salerno
Gothic Line
Baytown

If we could get some idea why these were deleted and if we can have them back on the server that would be great!

-VardaTruffs?

I have never seen this player on the SW+RTR server before. He was playing Cassino and literally killed with one shot each player and used some sort of mapping cheat, moving between one end of the map and the other in a few seconds. He disruped gameplay and made the experience extremely unenjoyable. Other players saw this behaviour too.

Please check this username and ban Nulan from the server.

-VardaTruffs

I was banned instantly for firing my tank after we won and our team was celebrating waiting for the timer to finish. I killed MoistArmpits by accident but it wasn't intentional.

Please revoke this ban.

Thank you.
VardaTruffs.

Ye olde issue that plagues the BF SW+RTR server is the player known variously as BLKI/RaketenHorst/Whatever else. I suspect a reason he cycles through so many names is because of the sheer amount of complaints he has received. I've seen at least four players complain of aimbot/weird accuracy etc. in the last few months. Bazookas that seem to follow planes, bullets through walls (no it isn't delay).

The problem isn't so much the inordinate amount of kills compared to literally any other player on BF servers (as a magnitude above the 2nd ranked player) but it's how unfun and stupid the gameplay experience becomes.

I've played on these servers since the 2000s, I know exactly how most players behave, even the very experienced ones. There are misfires, bullets don't always hit their targets, and walls are not penetrated mysteriously. It is revealing that the only "players" that kill him are the bots with aimbot enabled, lol.

I know other admins will cry foul and defend this type of behaviour as just "a legend" of the game, but this is utter nonsense and I'm not buying it. I've seen this since 2020 and it's just insane. Ruins the maps and the gameplay.

If other admins can be objective and honest about this issue we might be able to resolve it properly and in a way that isn't punitive but just fair on other players. It's not funny to joke "oh he's so good", this simply is not true.

Thanks and remember to have fun.

-Varda.

I was banned on Peenemunde for no reason. The only rationale I can think of is I was shooting Axis infantry as they crossed over a bridge into the area near our flag. This was not in the base area of the map however (which ends on the bridge) so it cannot be seen as base attack. And even if it WAS a base attack, admins are required to provide a first warning to a player so they know where the base boundary is.

Please lift this ban. I hope it wasn't Raketenhorst who insta-banned for no reason, he has a tendency to do that.

-VardaTruffs

Every time Raketenhorst is admin players are randomly kicked. I've seen this happen last week and when I asked "why was he kicked?" the admin (Raketenhorst) replied: "I'm not talking to you about it".

Today this happened to me twice, for no reason. I was not tk'ing at all and was not disrupting gameplay. It was a competitive game. When you kick a player, they lose all their stats and kill counts. I then rejoined and was re-allocated to the other team, which lost.

This makes playing multiplayer games very frustrating. I've played for years with all kinds of admins and this one is by far the worst and least pleasant to enjoy a map with. It's a shame, because I've seen it happen to other players too.

IF you are admin, please be fair and do not kick people unless there is a valid reason. It disrupts the game and makes it unenjoyable. Let's not forget this is game after all, it's there to be enjoyed.

Just a few quick points. I don't want to name the individual, but from my last posts you probably can guess who I have an issue with on the SW+R2R server (specifically when he is admin). But I thought I'd make some comments about my recent experiences with this admin and post some gripes I have:

1) banning someone should be an absolute last resort if they teamkill deliberately and repeatedly. Tonight I saw this admin boot and ban a player after the player accused him of using aimbot. I asked why this was done so quickly, he came up with a story that the player switched teams and began TKing him. This is false since there were literally a few seconds between the aimbot accusation and the ban. It seems the ban was done out of spite.

2) this exact same scenario happened to me a few weeks ago when I accused the same admin of using some sort of aim enhancing download (even other players were suggesting it). He banned me and accused me on this forum of switching teams and deliberately team killing. This was false, I accidentally naded a bot when I attacked an enemy flag. Very different.

3) The point of these experiences is that, in order to enjoy the game, we have to have some faith in the admins. If players are generally coming to the same conclusion about an admin using aimbot, then that is a huge problem. If players then start getting not only kicked but banned without warning or anything, then that makes the game extremely unenjoyable to play.

In summary, a) fair warning is needed before a kick or a ban is imposed in a knee-jerk fashion. I definitely support banning players who TK deliberately and repeatedly (the second part is critical. A one-off should *not* result in a ban as this is very disruptive to gameplay). b) Different players at different times who start noticing abnormal aiming in an admin player, verging on cheating, should NOT be banned just for pointing it out. This is despotic. Sure, the admin may be experienced and played many years, but many people have and none aim like that (one-shot kills every time, blowing up a moving plane high in the air with a zook, kills behind walls, etc.) This really bothers me and makes gameplay suspect.

This is certainly not a reflection on all admins at all, it is my honest experience and makes nights when he admins maps very unenjoyable. I hope you can take some of this into consideration. I don't expect any changes or anything, judging from last time I was swooped upon by other admins immediately defending this problematic admin and dismissing what I said entirely (which itself was disturbing).

Best wishes
Varda

Please reverse this immediately. Everyone who knows me knows I play by the rules. I accused Ratekenhorst of using aimbot, which I am fairly certain he does. I was kicked randomly, rejoined and put with the axis, which I didn't want to be with as Ratekenhorst was on that team. I tk'd 1 person and then got banned. Please reverse this, it's not fair and it is not enjoyable playing with Ratekenhorst.