In the MOBA DOTA 2, there’s currently a bizarre cheat circulating that allows a team to start with not 5 heroes, but significantly more. Twitch streamer “cancel”, who witnessed this in his ranked match, could only laugh, as it looked so absurd.
What is going on? Twitch streamer Mihai “canceL” Antonio was streaming ranked play in DOTA 2 when he found himself in a completely unexpected situation.
It quickly became clear that something was off, even as the match was forming in the lobby. As the website dexerto reports, there were already many disconnect and connect messages during the “pick-and-ban” phase.
When the game started, about 13 additional heroes appeared on the Twitch streamer’s side, all bearing the URL of a Russian website in their names, which apparently sells cheats for Dota 2.
The streamer exclaimed, “Dude, what the hell is happening here?” As the army of heroes moved out and headed to the mid lane, Twitch streamer canceL could only laugh.
As reported by dexerto, the streamer then played through the match while laughing. Simply giving up – like this Dota team did particularly foolishly, is normally not an option in ranked play. In the end, canceL reported the bots and queued for the next match in DOTA 2.
Cheaters likely use streamers for marketing
Is this only happening to him? No, at least it’s not an isolated case. Another streamer has also encountered this strange problem.
On reddit , people are discussing the incident and saying, “DOTA 2 seems to have a bit of a cheater problem right now.”
One user there states: But it’s not extraordinarily widespread. These cheaters specifically target streamers and only aim for matches with high matchmaking rankings.
Where does the cheat come from? It seems that these bots initiate a DDoS attack on the game before it starts, resulting in this bizarre situation.
