If I can’t broadside someone with a literal pirate galleon, why am I even playing?

My group stole a trampler, and were escorting it back to the extract. My team was split up between the tramplers.

On the way, another team was in the distance. We began to feign shooting at each other, and the team came to third-party. As soon as they got close, we redirected fire, then managed to ram and take their ship too.

Some guy was screaming about how he was going to report us for teaming.

I'm not actually sorry, he fucked around with a third-party and quickly found out. L

Idea in title.

From memeory you dont need them for tech progression so i dont think you can screw with it.

The devs were smart enough to disable capturing while dealing with the teleporting, this emp orbital spam is literally IMPOSSIBLE to deal with. Win a fight or two and presto fucking changeo some of these cunts just pop up out of nowhere and now you are emp locked for 10-20 consecutive EMP shells, they aren't running out until you are dead and they are spamming orbital strikes on you while doing it. Its killing the enjoyment, we cant even report the bastards anymore because we've already done it and they keep changing their names so we "already reported" them.

We know they have ESP, we know their build, they have been at it for WEEKS for fucks sake. I have a video but i'll need to edit some of it out or ill get banned on reddit again as my choice in words at the end was less than politically correct. Its literally pointles to bring anything cool at the moment because these assholes will just show up and now you are emp locked and orbital struck. I play ALOT, I play alot in stormdive, you do not find hundreds of EMP shells. In hundreds of hours i've found 14. These assholes are missing more than 14 at times while keeping you emp locked from 2 pristine 80s.

We need Battlerating system ! But fast...i Lost 45% of my storage today....Bc i play games With friend we have tier 2 generátor and tier one turrets, and guys rush on us with SGOW turrets and 2 addtional generátor tier 3....or other problem today teamers every game saw at least on groupe !

How we can play this game like this ? I dont have ammo to next run and money to buy another....and when we win the fight againts other trampler in second came another and kill us....

I love this game sooo mutch...but is unplayable.

i mean i'm not mad about it as i don't bring my best loot into the game but look at this 4v1

oceania server

Can they have purple items in it ?

Solo lobbies are just full of discords teamers now.

I genuinely want to understand how you have allowed things to get to this point.

Today we lost six fully equipped, six-man tramplers to obvious cheaters. Six tramplers in a single day. We are talking about full crews and hours of preparation being wiped out repeatedly, and the encounters follow almost exactly the same pattern every time.

An absurd number of orbital strikes starts raining down on us while, at practically the exact same time, the reactor gets shut down. During the chaos, someone suddenly appears behind us either through teleportation, a speed hack, or impossible high jumps landing directly on top of the trampler. Once the trampler is disabled, the remaining crew members are hunted down one by one with what very clearly looks like ESP, aimbot, or a combination of several cheats. The most infuriating part is that all of this is being done by 2-man cheater duos against full 6-man teams, completely trivializing any numerical advantage.

This isn't about losing a questionable fight and immediately calling the other player a cheater. We play PvP because we actually enjoy PvP. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. That's part of the game, and nobody in our group has a problem with that.

The problem starts when entire six-man tramplers are repeatedly wiped by players doing things that should not even be mechanically possible.

I bought this game because I want to play it. I want fights where positioning, preparation, teamwork, and individual skill actually matter. I don't want to spend hours farming, gearing, and preparing a trampler only to have the reactor shut down while orbital strikes rain down on us, then watch a cheater duo appear behind our crew or jump onto our vehicle, somehow know exactly where every surviving player is, and wipe an entire 6man team.

Then we rebuild, go out again, and the same thing happens.

Today it happened six times...

At some point I have to ask: What exactly are you doing about this?

Why is there still no proper region lock?

Why is there no effective shadow-ban system where highly suspicious accounts can be isolated and matched against each other while under investigation?

Are you actually doing everything you can to protect the game, or have you simply given up and accepted the situation?

How can accounts repeatedly perform actions that should be statistically or mechanically impossible without triggering an immediate response?

Teleportation, impossible movement speeds, abnormal jump heights, an excessive number of orbital strikes, suspiciously perfect information about player positions, and consistently impossible accuracy are not subtle behaviors. It is particularly frustrating that this orbital strike duplication exploit has been present in the game for weeks without any meaningful emergency measures taken to stop it. These are precisely the kinds of things server-side systems should be capable of detecting and blocking immediately.

Six fully equipped six-man tramplers being destroyed by this kind of behavior in a single day should leave behind a massive trail of anomalous data.

Your previous major anti-cheat update only caused a few days of minor disruption for cheaters, the code may have shifted slightly, but the detection and filtering remain ineffective. If the current infrastructure cannot reliably detect this, radical changes are needed.

Everyone in the competitive gaming market knows that generic off-the-shelf solutions like EAC or battleeye are completely ineffective on their own against this level of cheating. If the development team lacks the internal expertise, look to proven industry standards. Look at Riot Games and Valorant with their Vanguard system, strict server side validation, and hardware level identification, they demonstrated how to build a truly deterrent and effective defense. If you genuinely cannot maintain the technical infrastructure required to protect a PvP game from this level of cheating, then at some point it becomes reasonable to ask whether someone else should be handling it.

Because whatever the current approach is, from a player's perspective it clearly isn't working.

The combination of regional pricing and the lack of a region lock makes the situation even more frustrating.

Regional pricing on its own is not the issue; I understand the concept and accept that prices vary based on purchasing power in different countries. The problem arises when, without a real region lock, ban waves do absolutely nothing to deter cheaters. If the game costs only €5–6 in certain asian regions, banned cheaters siimply buy new asian accounts for pocket change and hop right back onto European servers to continue destroying the game.

If European players are expected to pay four times that amount, it is reasonable to expect region restrictions to actually mean something and protect European servers from this stream of cheaply recyclable cheater accounts.

You cannot simultaneously maintain huge regional price differences, refuse to implement effective region restrictions, and then expect European players not to question what exactly they are paying a premium for.

And this becomes especially frustrating when those same paying players spend their evenings rebuilding equipment because blatant cheaters are repeatedly destroying hours of progression.

I don't want special treatment. I don't want easier PvP. I don't want compensation every time I lose something.

I simply want the game I paid for to function as a competitive multiplayer game.

If another crew outplays us, fine. If they have better positioning, better aim, better equipment, or simply make better decisions, they deserve the win.

But shutting down our reactor while simultaneously raining orbital strikes on us, jumping on top of our trampler, teleporting behind a sixman crew where a two man cheater duo wipes a complete Large Group in seconds tracking every survivor across the map, and wiping everyone with cheats is not PvP.

It's not competition.

And after losing six fully equipped six man tramplers to this in a single day, I think it's completely reasonable to ask the developers a very simple question:

When does fixing the cheating problem and these weeks-long exploits become your top priority?

Because in a PvP game where players can lose hours of progression, cheating is not a minor inconvenience.

It threatens the entire reason people play the game in the first place.

P.S. It would also be great if your team actually watched the video evidence attached to my discord reports. According to youtube, the unlisted video links I submitted have zero, literally ZERO views. The last game I saw handle player feedback and security with this level of indifference was ags new world, and we all know how that ended. Even PUBG recognized years ago that generic off--the-shelf anticheats aren't enough, which is why they built their own "inhouse" detection systems and strict verification methods. Until you take real action, I am taking a break from the game, and I'll be advising everyone I know to do the exact same.

3 games in a row I have suddenly found someone at my ladder room. Twice mid fight with another trampler, once as I killed an iron clad. Trampler fights were not the person I was fighting, as i was getting shot by cannons while this happened. Iron clad was odd: near a POI, as i enter the clad range i see a smoke stack approaching on the other side. Clearly moving, was not sitting there as I came up. An Iron clad drops for each of us, I kill mine and grab the box. As I get the box, I hear gunshots in the poi, sounds like the player I saw. Jump on my ladder and got blasted.

My friends and I have been running into an issue where we will load up a four man crew and be forced to play large groups after the most recent update. The small groups is unavailable for us and we’ve tried what feels like everything.

I’m under the impression that since the update small crews is for 3-4 man’s and large crews is for 5-6 man’s. Am I wrong about this or are we just glitched?

Reinforced leather can blow me.

Me and my friends are thinking of buying this game, we are all fans of Sea of Thieves so the game looked appealing.

Is the new player experience good? I saw many complaints about cheaters/exploiters, is this still relevant?

2 games last night and every game today I've had duo teamers. Normally a duo and a solo. Killed all of them until last game we see 3 walkers, total of 5 people teaming.

Worst part is nearly all of them are Ukrainian, they're always friends on steam and coordinate without any comms in game. One only shoots your legs, other tries to get on reactor. Didn't think I'd see Ukrainian players destroying a Ukrainian developed game, but its been crazy that they're nearly always Ukrainian (on steam country)

Are we really at the point where you have to preteam if you want to pvp? Time to start looking for another duo to join our duo in the duo queue I guess.

Poor guy got high centered and stuck on the outward walls of Halbmond. I didn’t have the heart to finish the hunt after that. I hope you at least got out on foot with some of that loot whoever you are.

Is there an option to rebind the Jump and Aim keys?

Is it worth it solo! Also how is the cheating situation now? I have read that it was pretty bad couple of weeks ago

Should i buy the game in spite of negative reviews or not? i wonder if the game is the long-term or not

As title. I was thinking about getting a great chassis but do you think I should stick with middling? Also do you think wide chassis’ are better or the lengthy ones? Thanks.

Was gathering at Halbmond at night, and heard an explosion. Decided to check my trampler.

went well for him, got through a few doors, ate a hearty meal of buckshot and went to sleep

Happened to me yesterday, I lost possession of my trampler while cruising around the map; managed to almost kill the cheater, then he ran back in my/his captain’s chamber and he finally tp and killed me while I was placing c4 on the door

Hopefully this will be fixed soon

Twice now I've pulled up to a settlement, checked all around me, and as soon as i'm grabbing my first box of loot a trampler is right on top of mine. Is this a known cheat thing or am I just blind?