This is way to long. Get some popcorn. I know cheating is a issue with D2 & is getting worse. I understand that they suggest, if we think someone is cheating turn them in. I'm running playlist strikes, Night Falls, Battle Grounds etc. I've done 2628 strikes in the 7 months playing D2. Yes i have no life. lol. I don't have time to stop & turn them in. I went on steam. I was told people don't cheat in Strikes. What do they have to gain. Bad weapons & gear. Stop complaining just turn them in. Or go play something else. Think about it. The cheaters go into those at the end of the season & the start of a new one to rank up. During the season to test there hacks. If there banned for cheating. They need to rank up as fast as they can. Strikes offer pinnacle now. Out of 2628 strikes, only about 700 of those are flawless. The other day, i was doing a strike. I was dancing. Flawless woohoo. It's about to show the stat screen, i hear this guy shot me & i die. The match was over, yet it says i died 1 time. Crazy part, i pay for a season pass to play with cheaters. They don't just take from Bungie, there taking from me. 1 guy i know didn't have more kills than me. I was using Hard Light. It's not possible, to not get a lot of assists. I ran the whole strike. He was behind me getting hammered by Cabal. Just stands there never dies. At the end of the strike instead of getting his loot. He's hiding in the corner. His kills said 211. Mine was 43 with 2 assists not possible with Hard Light. When i tried to click on his name. It said was send friends request. I clicked on the other guy to see if his was there. Yes his were. Then my name. Mine to. This just happened 3 days ago. I thought maybe he left that was why it wouldn't come up. He was in the next strike. I still wasn't able to get his to come up, only send friends request. It didn't say go to profile. Nothing. I've never seen that. Ever sense stasis shatter dive came into the game. Some of us were using it to get out of rooms players just throw in the door blocking me from coming in. I now have to stand there & shoot it to be able keep going. I can't shatter dive other peoples now. It's a joy when you have 2 players or IE cheaters doing it at the same time. I break 1 wall of ice to find another, then another. There's 2 guys, how does 3 walls get there so quickly. It took me a long time to get through the 2.. No they left, there was no time to get there stasis back that fast to do it again. Tell me how. 2 guys i'm running a strike with the day before yesterday. We're on the platform ready to go up to the boss. All of a sudden there gone. I'm saying, wait wait it's going up were are they, they were just here, i can't kill a boss & all the cabal myself. Then it blurs & says i'm joining my team. Starts to count down. I'm on the platform. There already up there with the boss & have killed him before it brings me there. No black screen btw. We were all standing on it. It was going up. I was getting ready. I didn't want to let my team mates down. Do my best until they join me. No, they killed him before i got there. I didn't understand what just happened. Until i get there. There standing there laughing at me. 1 question, is it possible that the cheaters & or hackers attacking the game from the minute it came back online. Messed it up. There altering the game. Would it if you have thousands, possible millions of people doing it at the same time. I'm curious if that was part of the problem. Millions of people buying cheats, that cost more than the game. Your losing a lot of money. Cheating is the worse it's ever been in the history of D2. The answer isn't to tell me, if i don't like the game. Go do something else. I like the game, that's why i'm here. If i didn't love playing the game, i wouldn't be here. I'd be playing my other games. One of the answers is, don't let free to play, players play with the paying ones. That doesn't mean that all free to play, players cheat. They don't. If your paying to play a online game. There's a good chance, your not going to risk your account to cheat. D2 does have some anti cheats. Not buying the game leaves the people enough money to buy cheats. They don't care. It's a throw away account. They'll get another & come into strikes to level up. They pay more for the cheats than the game. Is it possible to not let them into strikes, up the ladder to raids etc. Oh side note. I refuse to play PVP. Why some ask. Cheaters. Any quest, mission, match whatever. If it involves PVP. I delete it. I do the quests for the story. Most of the time i don't even know what weapon i'm getting when i finish it. I honestly don't care what i get. I just want to finish it. I refuse to if it means, being forced to do PVP. I don't want to be there. That's not fair to my team mates that do. I delete the quest. No matter if PVP is the last step in a 8 out 8 step. This seasons new quests that involve PVP. Already deleted or inline to be. I refuse to do them. I already play with enough cheaters. It's not fair, i don't want to do them. It limits my season pass because i refuse to be forced to do something i don't want to do. I tried to play them each. I'll never do it again. You got your own team mates shooting you cuss you don't know how to play or want to. I chose the strike playlist with the Exo Stranger. There's no way i can do a hero exo challenge solo. I have no one to play with. Why does it have to be on hero. Exo challenge isn't even a strike. It has nothing to do with a strike. Why am i being told to go do one, or i can't have the stasis mod?? I can do the normal exo solo. Not hero. It's a waste of my time. I tried 1 time. Left, turned off D2 & went to play another game. I guess i don't get the stasis mod. Oh well. Another part of my season pass down the drain. So what is the solution. Do i stop running & try to turn them in or keep going in the strike. It's not my job to turn them in. I want to play, not run around looking for cheaters. I don't want to have to think about them. I want to kill Cabal. lol. I still don't know how to do all the mods & stuff. I still want it though. Darn it. It's disheartening though, when i know i have more kills. I'm helping others during the game. For that cheater that i just helped. He took my kills with out a thought, laughed at me & left. My power level now after 5 days is 1279 his was 1160. I know when people sre cheating, there glitching themselves forward. We're both about to run through the hazy door. He goes. It stops me. That has happened so many times in 7 months. Now all the time. Last season at the end this guy i was running strikes with. He sent a friend request. I don't have any friends that play now, to many cheaters. I excepted, went to play a nigh fall, i knew we were playing with a cheater or he was a cheater. After the match, it said i got like 23 kills. He got over a 100 kills. He asked me what happened. I said a cheater took my numbers. He unfriended me. Before that he said he was trying to get up to 1275 before the end. He was 1271. I said i didn't care about the kills, i knew i was playing with a cheater. As i stated he unfriended me, oh about a minute later. How'd i know that was going to happen. lol. Have a great day.. :)