Ditto on the above

I was unbanned a few days ago.

Hey gang, I'm a UGC silver heavy (been a heavy main for over a year and a half) and will be streaming most of my scrims and matches during the upcoming season, and also lobbies and pubs and all that good stuff.

Sidebar name: Rondego
Country: USA

Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/alexak75
UGC: http://www.ugcleague.com/players_page.cfm?player_id=76561197979358751
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/alexrondego/

Not sure if he's trying to pull anything with that but he's impersonating me for some reason.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/rondegothebest/

http://i.imgur.com/3E4ot9h.png

I'd honestly love to say that I cheated just so I could get this whole thing over with because it's hell, but I can't, because I didn't. I have some ideas, and I'll be working hard over the next few weeks researching TF2's netcode and the demo recording system to prove definitively that my aim couldn't have been assisted, since demos and explanations haven't been working. In the mean time though, hope you guys are all enjoying the entertainment.

Thank you so much for posting that. I'm actually working on a video now detailing every single suspicious moment that people have brought up here, and I'll give that to the admins when it's done in case they don't want to talk to me in person for some reason.

Hacking is touchy because neither side can 100% prove their stuff, so it comes down to a game of who can convince people more. There's no "show me x and y to prove that you're not cheating," because if there was, I would have done it a long time ago. I just have to sit here spewing out what I think shows that I'm actually doing what I'm doing. Nobody's giving me anything to show, I assume because most people don't care enough to jump off the bandwagon of thinking I'm cheating and/or don't want to associate with an accused hacker because they don't want to look bad. It feels like a witch hunt. Hell, just the fact that it's me saying this and not someone else automatically removes any credibility of what I'm saying for a lot of those people.

And hey, the convenient thing for them is that if I'm hacking, they get rid of a cheater. If I'm not, they get rid of an annoying little brat who won't shut up about trying to defend himself. So why wouldn't they ban me? It's a win-win. Can't say I blame them.

I understand that. I meant show those frags from the demos in slow motion to show that the tracking isn't perfect.

Well sure. I'm happy that I'm able to make videos for youtube and help out newer heavies, since there's not a lot of content out there and good heavies are scarce because nobody really wants to play the class. I've only played heavy in comp for the past year and a half, mostly in steel, and it was a ton of fun.

I really hate doing all this on a forum because it seems like it's making me sound like a condescending dick. Podgy, maybe, but I've never tried to come across that way. I'm just frustrated because I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place and apparently all of the POVs and reasoning I've tried to give out have only made things worse.

Obviously the problem is that I don't know how to actually prove that what I'm doing is genuine. Guess I'd just be digging myself a deeper hole if I keep trying to show evidence? Here's a slow-mo video of some of the kills that people brought up recently. I can record more if this is helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ryxiV7p5w

Would it help shed some light on the suspicious parts of the demos if they were recorded at a very high frame rate like 240 or 300 (or higher)? Because I've actually never used aim assist, and I don't know exactly how they work. I assume they perfectly track the centers of targets, which would be recorded 1-to-1 on a POV demo, right? That's why I'm wondering if showing a super slow-mo might make things clearer. Maybe in wireframe. I'm not sure what would help at this point.

I could tell where the engy was there because you can see the tracers from his shotgun. It's not hard to spot.

I went back to watch this and I saw my spy kill at 42:52, and yeah, I can definitely see why you'd think that's an aimbot. I'd say that I was just able to track him, because I was, but I know I can't actually prove that, so I'll leave it for what it's worth.

That tracking was good too, but you can tell it's not perfect, especially if you watch it slowed down. If that was janky because I knew it was a spy, you can tell because he was a scout and you can tell because of his movement speed.

It's 2AM here so I need to get to sleep. If I can do anything else, you know where to find me.

I can say that after playing heavy in UGC for almost the past year and a half, my tracking has gotten pretty good. Unless I were to go through play-by-play and talk about every time I killed someone in that match, for right now I just know that steel and silver players are usually fairly predictable. Some more than others of course.

And just to clarify, yes, I've given out as many demos and POVs as I could and explained how I do things like flicking. I know that's not always enough, and I'm saying that I can replicate all of that because that's actually how I play and that's actually my skill level. If there's any way that I can record myself actually doing what I'm doing, I'll do it. Hell I'd even do my best to record a lobby with my mouse, keyboard, and monitor in the shot if that'd help. Please, please, call my bluff if you think I'm bullshitting. If there's any feasible way for me to prove I'm just playing TF2, tell me.

As much as I appreciate you helping me out here, I can speak for myself Podgy.

He wasn't called, but that was really funny at the time because I knew that spies sometimes liked to hang out there on offense so I began regularly spychecking that left side while holding stairs, and during that game I just caught him outright. You've had lucky plays too, I'm sure.

Can I ask where in the POV that happened? I highly doubt I tracked them perfectly.

I appreciate Podgy backing me up with this but he can be abrasive. I can speak for myself.

I've been saying that it was a fun thing I wanted to try and it turned out to work pretty well when I did, but it's not nearly viable enough for an actual game. I like to think it's interesting to be able to flick like that, and that's it. My video was like a proof of concept - we were messing around on our own in a server and I wanted to see if I could flickshot him with a 180. It turned out I could (sometimes), and I made a video out of it because again, I thought it was interesting to be able to do that.

I don't really understand why people are looking into the reasoning for all this. Again, this was for fun, experimenting with a crazy tactic. There's absolutely no reason you'd do what I did in the video in an actual game because that would be stupid and ineffective.

Can I just ask what people think I'm actually doing so that I can show that I'm not? Unless I missed something, all I've seen is that I'm "hacking" or that I'm "fishy," and that my logs during a match were "suspicious," but do people think I'm using aimbot? Some other cheat? I'd assume it's aimbot because we've just been talking about flicking, so I've shown how I was able to flick just with high sensitivity. If there's something else, I'd like to know what it is.