There seems to be a new fad where purchasing controllers/kits that turn your X360 wireless controller into a turbo-fire are going for insane prices on Ebay. These modifications make single-shot weapons on Call of Duty 4 fully automatic. They can even give faster firerate and better accuracy in Halo3. So the question is, do you consider it cheating when people use them online?
It is kind of cheating, if it enhances your chances of winning over anyone else, then yea, they deserve to be slaughtered. Sam
It's an unfair advantage, so i would consider it cheating. Not every single person can MODIFY their controller, and just by modifying it to make it better than what it normally is is an unfair advantage, so yes, cheating. The funny part is these "turbo" controllers are ever so popular on call of duty 4 for the ps3, yet my brother can still whoop them with a regular 6-axis remote... though he has already broken 2... the shoot buttons have become stuck, so we've decided to pick up a dual shock and see if thats any more durable than the last 2 6-axis remotes, we still have another 2 left though
Voted for Rapid-fire only servers, as I don't think they should be used against non rapid-fire players (plus it means all the noobs that do use them won't tie up the regular servers). However, I can certainly see the use of them for certain single player games (I'm looking directly at Blue Dragons "mash-the-A-button-as-fast-as-you-can-to-get-the-door-closed-before-the -robots-attack-you" achievement that is nigh on impossible without either an autofire button or without braking your controller).
I don't see how it's not cheating. It's exploiting a game mechanic to make it shoot faster. Makes gaming with people who use that highly annoying and ruins a good round.
This just seems like bad design on the games part. Surely they should have set a limit on how fast a weapon can fire, no matter how fast the button is pressed?
Not really, you're not modifying the hardware to create an exploit, you're just binding to a pre-existing key which has been assigned to something else by default. In this case, you're creating a mechanism to trigger a key faster than it's meant to be triggered. So you're physically adding to the controller. With the scroll wheel, it's already there. May not seem like much of a difference, but anyone can re-assign a key, but to add the rapidfire, you need to modify a controller.
I kick all ass on COD4, so either way it's a moot point, but I would consider it cheating. Spam-fire their G3 all they want, they can't aim, turn or shoot as well as me, so i'm fine
I dont have an X360 but this sounds right pathetic. I can fire fast enough with a mouse anyway, I can offload a G3 clip insanely fast!
People who play FPS on consoles need their heads checked anyway, so you get what you deserve Us pure gaming master race PC people have been putting up with peripherals improving performance for years. NB: read in jest.
How is it an unfair advantage exactly? Anyone can buy such a controller if they wish to. I'd consider it bad game design to allow a pistol to fire faster than a sub machine gun, frankly. Not that I think people should use 'glitches' to their advantage. Cheating? No. Taking the piss a little? Yes.
Who needs a rapid fire mod when they're a pure-bred PC gamer anyway? Trigger Mouse finger should be faster than fast anyway!
