Alright well, took some time off twitter after the insane shit I was getting but tl:dr I did not cheat the quest, no datamining or cheating tool or whatever.
At this point, we’ve all seen the clips of the decoy step getting leaked by different people so I won’t go into full detail here on that. What I do want to say is, right after I posted my completion, a lot of people began claiming I cheated, resulting in a wave of outrageous messages being sent my way. At that point I just put twitter down for the weekend but I want to explain how this quest went from my POV.
Early Saturday, I was talking with a friend who was following the hunt, and he mentioned to me a rumour of a step which had apparently gotten around significantly in discord servers, and was mentioned in youtube/twitch chats. This step was alluded to the day prior on Dalek and GeekyPastimes’ stream and (as mentioned by Freckleston) plenty of streamers, including himself, were aware of this info. This rumour of a step being about decoys and windows was the only thing I "had" for this quest, and the rest of the quest was solved purely blind with no outside or unfair info in any way.
Out of the many youtubers that had this info, none of them felt the need to be honest with the community and share this, instead choosing to keep their unfair advantage to themselves to either solve the quest first or stall the hunt, presumably for more engagement. On top of this, they felt no need to disqualify themselves from the hunt in any way. I, as a regular community member with no more information than any of them, therefore had no reason to disqualify myself from the hunt either. To be fair, I actually think that is the right decision, as this has always been the case in past quests where people have leaked quest info, it sucks but we continue hunting anyway.
There's more I want to say on this, and the huge amount of lies people are making up, and I am sitting down to talk to a zombies youtuber about this later this week where I hope to make it clear what has and hasn't happened. On top of all of this, I also wanted to address the tweet from Treyarch.
Treyarch should absolutely be going after the people datamining and ruining these hunts, however their tweet was incredibly unprofessional and directly contributed to the amount of insane comments and death threats I've gotten, which is a crazy thing to say. I'm genuinely disgusted that Treyarch would tweet out something knowing it would be interpreted as an attack on me, a random community member who didn't even cheat. I've been a huge zombies fan since 2008, would easily say I am more passionate about main quests specifically than anyone (hence the world firsts I've got despite not being a content creator), and I'm blown away that they would decide to tweet that out. Whoever made that tweet should be ashamed genuinely.
It's insane to me that as a community we've welcomed in these people who datamine and ruin the game for others, from main quests to side quests and cursed, yet the act of me simply seeing a rumour about a leak they've had and finding the step in game means I need hundreds of hateful comments? As a community we should discourage cheating, but that’s got nothing to do with me, it starts with the people who actually datamine, get leaked steps from outside sources, and use these cheating tools. And it needs to come from the youtubers who, as evidenced by this most recent quest, are by and large silent and complicit instead of using their platforms to make it clear that this type of cheating isn't okay.
Also finally TGR has nothing to do with the hunt. He's a lovely guy but we aren't close and the only real time we talk is when I send him footage with brief explanations. He is uninvolved with me playing the game yet has received significant hate which isn’t right.
I don’t understand why everyone hates him for doing the right thing? Might as well call him Batman at this point. Bro didn’t have to do what he did and then yall be bitching about season 5’s map btw
It's been a few hours & I still don't really understand the death threats tbh. (Long tweet)
Someone claimed worlds 1st, posted the boss, posted the cutscene and said that a guide is incoming.
Due to that, me & Freck got into the game & did the Easter egg...
Should we have waited for the cheated run to be uploaded 1st?
Were we supposed to ask someone's permission?
The hunt was over, that team finished it and showed everything there is to show.
Everyone was already outraged, we just hopped on and showed everyone what to do before they did, and that's what were getting dragged for?
I'm getting 1 million messages about how me & freck ruined the hunt?
How was it us & not the team that literally cheated it LMAO?
I also see a lot of people upset that I sounded the alarm about the directed scripts.
I think you're just shooting the messenger.
My original tweet had no details, just mentioning that a major fuck up happened. This caught the attention of a dev who reached out and I told them everything I knew.
A few hours passed & I see it, I see teams attempting (in the wrong places) EXACTLY what the strings say. I see people in zombie discords discussing the strings, it was out there & those who wanted to find it could've and likely did. So I warned everyone with the 2nd tweet.
If I don't make that 2nd tweet, you would all accuse me of gatekeeping & keeping it secret from everyone else or even better, I just look like someone crying because "someone else got world's 1st! They have to be cheating!" (lose, lose)
So really, what you all wanted me to do was just be silent about it & let everyone read these files & silently cheat in the background like has happened many times over the years in the community, but if I go public about it and tell everyone, you all switch up on me LMAO.
It's been a few hours & I still don't really understand the death threats tbh. (Long tweet)
Someone claimed worlds 1st, posted the boss, posted the cutscene and said that a guide is incoming.
Due to that, me & Freck got into the game & did the Easter egg...
Should we have waited for the cheated run to be uploaded 1st?
Were we supposed to ask someone's permission?
The hunt was over, that team finished it and showed everything there is to show.
Everyone was already outraged, we just hopped on and showed everyone what to do before they did, and that's what were getting dragged for?
I'm getting 1 million messages about how me & freck ruined the hunt?
How was it us & not the team that literally cheated it LMAO?
I also see a lot of people upset that I sounded the alarm about the directed scripts.
I think you're just shooting the messenger.
My original tweet had no details, just mentioning that a major fuck up happened. This caught the attention of a dev who reached out and I told them everything I knew.
A few hours passed & I see it, I see teams attempting (in the wrong places) EXACTLY what the strings say. I see people in zombie discords discussing the strings, it was out there & those who wanted to find it could've and likely did. So I warned everyone with the 2nd tweet.
If I don't make that 2nd tweet, you would all accuse me of gatekeeping & keeping it secret from everyone else or even better, I just look like someone crying because "someone else got world's 1st! They have to be cheating!" (lose, lose)
So really, what you all wanted me to do was just be silent about it & let everyone read these files & silently cheat in the background like has happened many times over the years in the community, but if I go public about it and tell everyone, you all switch up on me LMAO.
It's been amazing to see the community rally around Kowakujō and its Main Quest over the past few days. The team is incredibly proud of this map, and proud of the members of this community who participate in every hunt with passion and integrity.
After a race that lasted nearly 60 hours, we were beyond disappointed to see a significant portion of the quest spoiled by bad actors and the people who amplified them.
There are still more secrets to discover, and we'll do everything possible to protect the experience for next season's finale. Try to stay spoiler-free out there. ♥️
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