How I was banned / The State of the Staff Team

Sooo this is going to be long and before I say anything i'd firstly like to state that at no point was I cheating and also that i'm well aware posting this thread will probably get me banned from the forums cus the staff team will say that they "can't defend themselves publicly" or that 'im trying to paint the staff team in a bad light'. As such, i will say that i am NOT condoning anyone to disrespect staff members as a result of reading this.

This thread is intended to be educational so i'll try to be as factual as possible while talking about my appeal, but when i get to the staff team bit, i'm going to be putting opinions. Anyone who thought i was hacking up until my ban, i fully encourage you to read - but do not comment on this until you have done so- , and anyone else who thought my ban was false (you probably know most of this already, but) you can read and see how ridiculous my situation is.

I encourage everyone, not to take the word of the staff team that a player is hacking, but make your own judgements.

(I was going to make these two threads but i figured they'd both get taken down and they're somewhat linked anyway)

LeUniCow Appeal
Ok so, as many of you will know, I was banned for "Aim Assist"


From these two videos:
1)

2)

For anyone who has even a small amount of knowledge about specific hacks, they can see that no where in these videos is there a shred of aim assist. Yes there are some sus hits, of course there are, I play with high sensitivity and high ping. If you record any ninja, especially ones who are lagging for even just a month, you would find many 'sus' hits/moments. As I tried to make it clear in my appeal(s), what the videos would show -if you want to ignore the fact that im lagging / have decent awareness and aim- and if you HAD to label the hits as something, they would go under the term Force Field or Aimbot. Please note the huge difference between Aim Assist and Aimbot or Forcefield.

Aim Assist is a ghost hack. The whole point of it is to be undetectable or to look 'normal' -> if you turned it up to very high or even to full settings, it would NOT make you do a 180 instant flick onto someone, especially when there are closer players. On the other hand Aimbot / ForceField are blatant hacks - you should get banned pretty quickly for using these, they are very obvious to spot. Aimbot will make you instantly snap (usually to the head) on to any player who comes within the range set. Force Field will attack all players within the radius set without the player having to look at them or click (Note the difference to Kill Aura which is a combination of Aimbot, Triggerbot and often Reach).

What brawl defines as GC:


Oh look ForceField and Aimbot aren't on there! So if they're going to ban me for anything from those videos it would have to be blatant hacks AKA not permaban worthy. But as many of you should understand, it's quite clear im not blatantly cheating in these two "evidence" videos.

If anyone wants to know what ACTUAL aim assist looks like, i found this video

which represented quite well what it would look like with Low/Medium settings


^^ Again i'm not saying get a GC - In fact im trying to show that you can see this person is using Aim Assist quite clearly in this video even when on low settings. Notice how mouse follows the Y axis position of his enemy pretty much exactly when the enemy moves up and down after being hit and this is on LOW settings. There are many instances where the enemy goes behind the recorder and he does NOT snap on to them - even high settings wont do that. This example is from the most popular and well known GC there is.
Now, what you could do is then compare that with my PPM videos and you would find little to no correlation. My aim is not perfect, I often under/overshoot where i think they'll be, my tracking on the Y axis is pretty bad in comparison to low settings aim assist.

My appeal / Further explanations
1) https://docs.google.com/document/d/151yjSbEsD_uhp37JxqWtlpmAWC0bsnrsSC-4bMkY9n0/edit?usp=sharing
2) https://docs.google.com/document/d/131D4x4fGnHqxDoPgv6ZoN58wMoYhzWB7AgAStVEu8xo/edit?usp=sharing

---> Yes my appeal is split in to two because they asked for further explanations on specific clips after i posted my appeal. All of my PPM videos are in my APPEAL <3 subscribe and like for more content

The Events of My Ban
> Banned on 22/04/2020
> Miskey says this bull**** 22/04/2020:
"I already explained the aim assist ****. We have to provide a ban reason, and from what we had, aim assist was the combat hack that we believed to be the most likely present in the videos. Regardless, even if it isnt aim assist specifically, we're confident that there were combat hacks present"

> Asked for the evidence which was sent 3 DAYS later on 25/04/2020 (tbh i thought it was a joke when i first saw it)

> Reached out to MMC mods to ask their opinion on the evidence (all of whom said i was legit)
*At this point Miskey was still admin and in charge of my appeal*
>Submitted my appeal later on the 25th

>Miskey fed me statements saying my appeal would be done



>Miskey resigns and hands the appeal over to SoCool (someone known for not understanding hacked clients)
>SoCool does exactly what miskey does and delays further


>Finally sends clips for me to explain on 04/05
> I respond pretty much immediately with further explanations
> SoCool ignores me for almost two weeks while im waiting for a response on this ^

>18/05
TomToday at 20:03
"Your appeal has been resolved; I'm afraid it has been denied. As I said above, we're only supposed to speak with permbanned players when doing so is absolutely necessary to resolve their appeals. If community members are harassing you over the ban, please submit a report on the website and it will be resolved."
>>>>> SoCool BLOCKS me right after posting this so i cannot get further information. I am also unable to write on my appeal.


^ Side note to this, I was banned right before the tourney started, so I was in the dark for every single match as to whether my appeal would be accepted - Not knowing if i would be able to play matches^

Basically having submitted my appeal of 6-7k words, they respond with 1 sentence, which doesn't even attempt to explain why my appeal is denied.

In an attempt to find out more about what I was actually banned for, i asked other mods who i will not name for their sake. They said:
"socool doesnt want any more info to be made public, the evidence and explanation you were provided was informative enough"
"it was mentioned that it might make the staff team look bad if there was or wasnt info that was withheld"

Let me just say that I was banned from the CTF discord for attempting to "paint the staff team in a bad light" and yet I don't even need to do that. As you can see they're perfectly capable of that themselves.

I know for a fact that not all of the staff members read/saw the WHOLE of my appeal. I can see from my YT page that the videos i submitted there only have 4 views, 3 of which i'm pretty sure are me


They won't tell me what i'm really banned for - there seems to be an implication that it's not aim assist - but they wont tell me because it will make them look dumb, which means the reason IS dumb. And if the reason is dumb perhaps they're too stubborn to admit they're wrong.

very cool that you ban a player off of 2 months of evidence (about 2mins of footage) when they've played on the server for 8 years. Great job. Really competent staff team.


Anyways on to
The State of The Staff Team
Again I want to state that i'm not encouraging anyone to go and be toxic to the staff team, i'm merely putting forth my views on the staff team at the minute.

Even before I was banned, I was fully in favour of a staff reshuffle. To me, it was quite clear that there were multiple issues with the staff team.

The first issue is staff bias. I'm not in any way suggesting that staff should be completely unbias. However it's very clear that certain staff members have certain allegiances, whether it be to players or to teams. There are quotes of (unnamed for the sake of this post to avoid personally attacking people) staff members saying that so and so won't ever get unbanned while they are on the staff team. There are other examples of staff members befriending and then ignoring the actions of known paedophiles. Brawl will never have a fair system while there are these types of staff members. They should be prepared to put the community as a whole ahead of their own allegiances, but not necessarily to the extend of mistreating members.

The second issue is staff competence. Now, a lot of people keep complaining about all the 'closet cheaters' there are in this community. I'm one of the people who doesn't really think that way - From what i've seen i know when someone's better than me and when they may or may not be cheating. In my opinion many of the staff team (some of whom I know this to be fact for) are of the belief that a lot of the community is cheating rather than that they are good. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem if after research the staff could accurately decide whether those players are cheating. As it is, they can not. If you want to ignore the fact that my ban is false, I can think of at least two other instances where a player has been false banned for literally the dumbest reasons. The staff team DO NOT KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HACKED CLIENTS TO DETECT THEM. This is a fact.
What's worrying about this is the amount of potential false bans they could cause in the future for their ignorance. They do not know what specific hacks do (as you can see from my ban), and they refuse to educate themselves on it for what i can only assume is ego.

What needs to happen is there needs to be a section of the staff team which is dedicated to detecting clients (of course this would be much easier with ScreenSharing). Instead of what we have now, which is a bunch of staff members with "no training" who all make their own assumptions on what hacks are, some of whom are only on the staff team for creative input. There needs to be a consolidated effort by the staff team to discover GCs and educate staff members on them. Either this or don't ban for GCs that you clearly know nothing about, because you will keep making the mistake you made with me.


Thanks for reading if you made it this far. Feel free to let me know what you think about this before it gets taken down

 

Just as a side, i'm not saying ALL staff members are incompetent. There are a few who I think deserve to be staff or at the very least strive to do the right thing for the community

 

Not to be a snitch or anything but can't you get banned for admission of using hacks no matter what server it's on JK

My bad. Sorry i don't actually own a client so i couldn't test it, but from what i saw online it never happened. So in that case that aim assist does do full 180s, how do you explain the fact that i don't flick on to nearby players as seen in every single piece of "evidence" they have where im flicking.

These are in my appeal:

^ videos of me snapping on to air.

I am assuming in those videos you have the settings on Aim Assist fully turned up?
Even there the flicks look really slow, nothing like what im being accused of

So as someone who knows clients completely, would you care to go through my ppm videos and explain to me where the aim assist is?

 

The staff team aren't interested in changing their minds once they've made a decision, hence why socool blocked me and i can no longer talk on my appeal. Posting a complaint as such had the intention of showing the community im not cheating, but also showing that they can't trust the staff team fully. Talking to Ritzy won't resolve my ban. I'm afraid nothing will and as I said in my appeal, i aint gonna admit to something I didnt do, but if that means im banned forever, so be it