I'm not a cheater, I swear!

so i was playing some COD4 today (yea the real old one its still the best no matter what you say) It was on the pc, and it was Hardcore search and destroy on Strike, now i just got back into COD and i wasn't doing well in this particular server. until i got about 4 kills in a row, now even from my perspective i could understand how it looked like i was wall hacking, but i wasn't i have never cheated in a game ever, it just ruins the fun. i simply used my ears and my very good headset to hear them creeping around the corner in front of me. in any case i hid in a corner and typed, "I'm not cheating honest i just heard them don't ban me!"  alas it was too late, normally i consider being banned for hacking when you are not hacking is just about the greatest thing ever in a video game its kinda like the ultimate compliment, you are too good to be true. But in this case I'm bitter as not many COD 4 servers are running and i doubt i will be able to find another search and destroy server, my question is giantbomb has this happened to you?

nope.  Whenever I rip fools up nobody doubts that it was real.

Thr only multiplayer shooter i sunk real hours into was Battlefield 2 v1.0, and i established myself as a first place player for almost 3 years so nobody doubted my kills or skills on the servers i frequented 
 
anyway, sorry about your ban, hopefully you'll find another good server to play on

Online gaming sucks.

" Online gaming sucks. "

Some people are just assholes.

Play on servers that aren't complete shit

I never play good enough for people to think I am hacking. 

" Some people are just assholes. "

" @amir90 said:

" Some people are just assholes. "

True that. "

This used to happen to me all the time in the first COD game. There was no way to turn the killcam off during that time but I still got banned anyway. Some server admins are just assholes so just take it as a compliment.

I got banned from many Raven Shield servers for hacking, when I wasn't. 

My favorite hackusation was in Quake Live. Mind you, I'm terrible at Quake. But that day, I was on fire. Anyway, I had picked somebody off in midair with the railgun, and after that, I was hounded for the rest of the match about how I was clearly botting.  
 
To give perspective to this, my K/D in that match was a joke. Something like 15/30 at that point. Now, call me crazy, but what kind of botter is going to let their K/D get that bad? And if they're doing it on purpose to make themselves look legit, why would they use a bot in the first place? I respond to his accusations with this logic, but sure enough, he counters with a foolproof argument: "nuh uh u bott lrn 2play".  
 
This brings me to another concern. I've already used more skill, shot harder, and didn't die. The grand trifecta of gaming. Now I have to "learn to play"? Jesus. Maybe gaming isn't for me...

I also noticed that you are more likely to be banned while playing well if you have a stupid name like "^Twinkles^".

i did not cheat it's not true it's bullshit! i did not cheat i did naaaught. oh hi mark

I remember playing Medal of Honor Airborne multiplayer and got kicked for icing fools. They thought I was cheating so they rage kicked me.

I've been kick out of games for this reason. If you're good then you must be a cheater, I never understood this. 
PC gamers, always be mad!

" i did not cheat it's not true it's bullshit! i did not cheat i did naaaught. oh hi mark "

I've once been banned for supposed hacking for being ridiculously bad at a game-does that count?

One time a guy implied that I was cheating because of how well I was avoiding grenades in SOCOM 3. He didn't outright call me a cheater, but he said something like "that's some hollywood shit with you dodging grenades like that." I said "yup", because I was just that good at getting the fuck outta the killzone. 
 
I've been kicked from some SWBFII servers for supposed "cheating" on Mos Eisley. Clearly, though, I was actually exploiting.

Stories like this make me sad. When I used to admin CS servers for an ISP here in Australia, we needed to take a minimum of three conclusive demos, which were reviewed by another admin, and could be challenged. Hell, becoming an admin involved an extensive vetting process and trial period.

I never accuse anyone without being 100% sure and I sorta expect the same back.

Never get it though

" Stories like this make me sad. When I used to admin CS servers for an ISP here in Australia, we needed to take a minimum of three conclusive demos, which were reviewed by another admin, and could be challenged. Hell, becoming an admin involved an extensive vetting process and trial period. I never accuse anyone without being 100% sure and I sorta expect the same back. Never get it though "

How did you get banned when PunkBuster is no more effective at detecting cheating than a steaming pile of dung? I only play PunkBuster free servers so that I can use Steam overlay and don't need to be wasting processor and RAM resources running a useless program and service.
 
Or was it an admin ban? If it is, he's just an ass and you should probably leave the server. I've noticed that zeroAlpha servers have some pretty flippant admins.

" i did not cheat it's not true it's bullshit! i did not cheat i did naaaught. oh hi mark "

I got kicked out of games where a player or two thought I was hacking, yes. Halo PC, sniper games, had players calling me out many times.
Don't think I can replicate it anymore, though, I've lost much interest in the FPS genre. I just play for kicks with friends. =/

I've never been explicitly banned for hacking, but I do get accused quite a lot in Bad Company 2. One time I was kicked after playing solo against two admins and winning though.

If you bring someone else into a Left 4 Dead match they can't kick you.

Even a hacker denies he's a hacker. I doubt they would've listened to you even if they'd heard you. 
And it's COD4. To the bulk of that community, hacking translates to being better than them. 
Stick to the local co-op mode. 
 
I'm too crap at games to ever be accused at hacking. But I was once banned from a L4D2 server for not healing the woman playing when she asked for it. She didn't need my kit either, she had her own but wanted to save it for later. 
Called the admin sweetie & I was out on my ass.

I rarely play online.

Some people are just jealous wankers. Sorry to hear about your ban. Hope you can find yourself another server. 

I play only LAN and don't bother with cheating dilemmas in online multi.

" Online gaming sucks. "

I have heard quite a few other tales of people that had "HaX" unfairly called on them, although then again it's hard to know sometimes how much it's a result of their play skill and how much it's a result of there just being a lot of not very smart people around. I've never been banned from anything for cheating, although I have had players call me a cheater before and I'm not even that good at most video games.

Back when I played Renegade regularly I was constantly being kicked from games because people said I was cheating even though I wasn't. I had just played the game for like 5-6+ hours a day for over a year. Then I went a week of playing with this big heads hack just for shits and giggles, and the entire time I used it  I was never once kicked for cheating. 
 
But ya, I just don't play games online much any more. 99% of the games are filled with the most vile people in the world, so I just stick to mostly single player stuff. I make an exception for Bad Company 2; which I play a few hours every other day or two.

The amount of cheating accusations you recieve online is directly proportional to how well you are playing.
Mathematical fact.

I bet you were cheating,  Do you have autism?

I once got kicked from a server due to sniping.  Sniping is prob my best skill, but apparently in World War 2 the opposite side didn't snipe each other.  Was  Day of Defeat server I got booted from.  Really pissed me off since I was relocating and not just lying prone in the one spot.

Definitely, currently I rank fairly high on the Monday Night Combat leader boards. Every match where I don't get accused of cheating or being a gay, basement-dwelling, virgin is a small victory.