Escape from Tarkov player wants to ban his friends – has good reasons

An Escape from Tarkov player wants his friends banned in the hardcore shooter and has good reasons for doing so.

Who is the person you are talking about? In the Escape from Tarkov subreddit, reddit user ContributionAsleep69 asked the Tarkov community. The reason: he wants his friends to be banned in Escape from Tarkov.

What are his reasons? ContributionAsleep69 wants his friends banned for cheating in the hardcore shooter. As the reddit user wrote, all his friends are cheating in Escape from Tarkov.

Below we embed a screenshot of the reddit post:

What is the background?

• Escape from Tarkov is an extraction shooter or EFT-like with hardcore elements.
• The hardcore elements make weapons very challenging to control. In addition, camouflage plays an important role in Tarkov.
• Cheaters have a huge advantage in games like Escape from Tarkov due to the sophisticated weapon behavior and importance of stealth.

If you want to get an impression of the Escape from Tarkov gameplay, we include the Battle of Concordia here:

Players share tips on how to ban your friends

What do other players say about this? Many players gave the tip that he should report his friends directly in the game or via the launcher (via reddit). In general, however, it is important that he has evidence that they cheat (via reddit).

Reddit user Shawn_NYC also floated the idea that ContributionAsleep69 could get his friends to stream the cheats to him via Discord. He could record this and send it to developer Battlestate Games as proof of his report and cheating on his friends.

However, another reddit user replied that he tried this trick on his brother and the dev studio didn’t ban him for over a year.

Not the only one: As can be seen from the comments on the post, ContributionAsleep69 doesn’t seem to be the only player wanting to get their cheating friends banned.

Another player reports under the post that he tried something similar and emailed Battlestate Games. However, the answers there were that he should report cheaters ingame if they shoot him.

What do you think about the player wanting to ban his friends? Do you think it’s right that he stands up against video game cheating or do you think he should stand behind his friends? Write it to us here on MeinMMO in the comments!

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