Meccha Chameleon has been an indie hit unlike almost anything we've seen before, attracting 15 million players in its first month. Sadly, with that much success, it was only a matter of time before the game got its first cheaters, trying to ruin everyone's fun.
As the team behind Meccha Chameleon confirmed the game has sold 15 million copies, clips of people attempting to cheat have been going viral. The cheaters appear to be using mods and hacks so that the environment around them is scanned, and then a tool of some sort proceeds to, very accurately, do the painting for them, giving them the edge over other hiders.
An in-game clip shared on TikTok by mechclix shows a fellow player hiding in some incredibly detailed artwork, but they're not intricately doing the painting themselves. You can see that their character is being painted line by line, similar to how a webpage might load circa 1998, or a detailed picture might be printed using an incredibly old printer.
Maybe you need to be over 35 to understand those early internet references.
Another clip shared by Automaton shows a similar situation, but the process has been sped up. Again, the...
