But they should at least receive a jail punishment. It affects gameplay just as badly as cheating. It’s not something you can do by accident; to do it you have to press the keys in a specific order and timing. It’s extremely unlikely that innocent players would get punished by mistake. A few days of jail time would make the situation clear.
Keep in mind that you have around 20 ping while he has about 200. Your hitbox matches your visible skin, but his hitbox appears far behind his actual skin. This makes it much harder for you to hit him, while it is easier for him to hit you.
Your chance of landing a headshot is around 80 percent, or 40 percent if he has armor. His chance is also 80/40 percent as long as his ping does not go above 199. If it goes slightly higher, his chance becomes 66.7/33.35 percent. Even with ping above 300 he still would have 35/17.5 percent chance to land a headshot. Ping over 400 has 0% chance.
During these 15 years I asked asturel many times to change these chances or to modify the headshot system entirely, but he always refused. About ten years ago, when we disabled headshots for a few days, everyone came to IRC to complain. So the meta here is basically to have around 190 ping, because you still keep the 80/40 chance while your hitbox becomes completely broken.
In fact, I noticed that lag related to ping becomes a real problem around 60 ms. That is the point where, if you shoot at your opponent’s head (center) while he is running sideways, you will not hit his actual hitbox. The center of your sawed off crosshair needs to be at the back of his skull. At 100 ping, the crosshair has to be fully behind his head, and at 200 ping it needs to be around one and a half meters behind him.
Here is an old video demonstrating it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y02WozvXpJo
The guy in the video had around 300 to 305 ms.
Because of these lag issues, fighting high ping players is completely unfair and unbalanced. They still manage to complain that their chance drops to 66.7/33.35 above 200 ping, while they are the ones with the advantage. They even claim that low ping players have the upper hand, when the reality is the complete opposite. They only need to aim directly at the visible head of our skin, while we have to estimate a different distance for every single shot.
I would also believe this looks like aimbotting. The account was banned, but we had to unban it because asturel wants us to only ban one account. He expects us to catch cheaters on all of their accounts.
When you suspect aimbotting there is nothing you or we can really do. Videos like this do not help because we cannot see where the shots actually went, and more importantly we cannot see his perspective. Even if we spectated him he would not use the cheat because he would know he is being watched. And even if he did use it, it would not change much because in spectator mode you cannot see where he aims. The only thing you might barely notice is no recoil or no spread, and that is only visible with UZI or TEC9 either.
@DEAD_GHOST its a serial ban, not ip ban
https://forum.gtasa.eu/topic/659/if-your-serial-gets-banned-by-others
can't unban it anymore even if i wanted to.
The best you can try is to ask Dutchman101 for a new serial, altough I think you have only 1% chance to even get in contact with him. And even if you manage somehow, he would probably blame you for sharing your accounts on gto with others & getting yourself banned to get your serial exposed. He might also say that we shouldn't show serials in public but the reason for that is answered in the link I gave