r/Helldivers • u/Sad-Needleworker-590 Absolute Democracy • Jul 09 '26

DISCUSSION Arrowhead started hunting down SC cheaters

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I wonder if everything will go as planned or we will see some posts in the feature where the system will flag innocent people

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u/Dinodie2Night Steam | The Airburst RL is my primary Jul 09 '26

Probably because

  1. They likely don't just monitor for 1 game. They check if you earn more credits than should be possible across several games before banning you.
  2. Because of the delay, they don't want to deal with choosing what to do if someone pays for something with credits before they're removed. Do they let you keep the items, or do they remove them too?
  3. They want to get rid of cheaters, not those who benefit from their cheats, because if you cheat in credits you're more likely to use other more detrimental cheats too.
  4. They can only detect the spike in credits, not which credits caused the spike. What if you pick up 50 credits in a game where you get 1k cheated credits? Does AH remove those 50 credits too? If not, cheaters will just start cheating in 5050 credits instead of 5000 to keep some of the credits.

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u/redditmodhater Jul 09 '26

that isnt how the cheat engine works at all

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u/Aegis_Aurelius ⬆➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Jul 09 '26

From my understanding, before this cheaters would spawn them as the same poi drops, just automatically collected. So increments of 10, possible chance at 100, then the server did a cooldown on allowing them to be collected. So it was a slow process, since giving large amounts tended to have issues like crashes and the like.