There are goofs who try to post it regularly on the modding Discord, I assume fancying themselves as rebels or whatever, but the posts always get deleted straight away. I know it’s openly shared on some other Discords. But it’s also a pretty minor thing imo.
This “wall hack” mod is the most egregious mod I’ve seen, and it seems pretty close to the maximal cheat that can be done via mods, given that so much of the game is handled servers-side.
Aimbots apparently exist. Some people abuse voice line mods to the point of annoyance. But in truth, it’s practically impossible, outside of shirtless and vacuum capsule and colored chat texts, to detect if someone is using mods to achieve what is otherwise impossible. I wouldn’t be able to tell if someone was using spidey sense, or even this “wall hack” mod, and I’d bet no one else could either. Like how does one really differentiate between someone using an auspex cheat vs. someone getting a lucky roll? Even the phage tree is possible to hammer thru without mods…just mash the button and get lucky choosing a direction.
But I digress…
The modding community at large appropriately self-polices because it is largely populated by people who care. FS is involved and offers guidance. As someone who had sanctioned mods in VT2 and recognizes all the problems with that system, I very firmly believe we have the best setup possible.
By FS’s estimates, 1/3 to 1/2 of PC players mod. It would be crippling to disallow mods. I’d probably quit, for one. And I’d argue it’d be just as bad to move to a sanctioning system, because that just isn’t efficient. It doesn’t make business sense, and that means a poor experience for players.
If the idea that someone could be using mods to gain information they shouldn’t have irks anyone to the point that they feel it diminishes the their enjoyment of the game, they should take control of their experience. Play with friends. Play with like-minded players via the various Discords.
It’s possible to make the game harder — see telopots’s recent YT video playing with a squad of level 1 characters on A5 — or mod-free or smyker-free or nearly whatever a player might want. It’s just not the default experience. And the default experience, with a liberal modding policy, is simply great.