![]() ![]() This quickly became one of the most high-profile cases of “he-said, he-said” when it comes to stream sniping. “I don’t see how they could of received reports and investigated the case in that amount of time.” ![]() “The only way people are saying I was stream sniping them was because the devs surely banned with evidence, but in reality they banned me within 1-20 minutes,” lotoe continued. Instead, he insisted that he “just got caught up in the crossfire and I was the one who got banned. “I don’t even watch Twitch,” he told us over Discord. But lotoe told Polygon that that was a false accusation. He was soon thereafter told by a community manager that he was suspended after being reported for stream sniping. (Warning: The clip below, where lotoe kills Shroud on stream, has some NSFW language.)Ī ban screen told lotoe that he had been suspended from play, but didn’t have a reason why. Lotoe was one of them - and when he killed Shroud not long after other alleged stream snipers took out Summit, lotoe ended up kicked out of the game. Streamers Summit1G and Shroud were playing together live, and were killed multiple times by other players. The precarious nature of suspending players for these hard-to-prove actions came to a head when lotoe, a well-known Battlegrounds community member, got hit with a weeklong ban for stream sniping one of the most popular Battlegrounds players on Twitch. But even though it’s a bannable offense, it’s tough to prove that someone really is stream sniping, especially if they’re not active in a live chat or actually streaming themselves. ![]() It’s against the rules to do that in Battlegrounds, according to the game’s official rules of conduct. Stream snipers are those who watch a Twitch stream of a game while playing it themselves to get a read on where another player is so that they can go take them down. Stream sniping is a contentious form of, essentially, cheating in multiplayer games with big livestream audiences. The team behind the multiplayer breakout hit Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds came under fire this week, as a player’s suspension for “stream sniping” split the game’s community on whether or not these types of bans are acceptable. ![]()
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