Lag hack on NA ladder - Page 52

On July 05 2011 08:42 kedinik wrote:
In Blizzard's defense, it is not necessarily trivially easy to accurately identify who is or is not using this hack. They need to develop an accurate and easily mass-reproducible hack checking system in order to make sure they don't ban a bunch of innocent people.

On July 05 2011 01:03 desrow wrote:
I played a NA guy named Kiro he dropped hack me my first drop hack loss ive been playing on EU since that drophack thing started but trying to burn my bonus pool before wednesday = (

On July 05 2011 09:18 101toss wrote:
Is this solely affecting NA, or is EU/KR experiencing the same thing?

On July 05 2011 11:03 Asday wrote:
OK SO STORY TIME.

I am an EVE player. It's awesome go check it out. You have all spaceships 'n' shit, and you can do cool shit like pretend you're a Ghost, and cloak them, but without the emasculating lycra suit. There's no "detection" in EVE, either, 'cause ninjas should be fucking ninjas, god damnit. Why would you be invisible if people can see you?

Same goes for your client, too. If there's a spiky cloaked Nightmare next to you, (and there is a spiky ship called the Nightmare), you are not meant to know, no matter how much packet sniffing, RAM reading, or rune divining you do. When they decloak, then you know. Used to make a cool sound too.

This came with a problem. There's latency. Like, everywhere. On a normal day, I turn on my guns, and about a second later, they proceed to ruin someone's day. Another problem is that people bring ships to a fight until the server sweats bullets, so it's not uncommon to see, like, 1500 dudes turning up to a fight, in big-as-shit ships, with bigger guns, and less underwear.

When you mix cloaked ships into this cesspool, things get hairy. You can bump another ship with yours, which is both cool, and equal to mv1+mv2. When a cloaked ship gets bumped, it decloaks.

What of the game client, though? It's got a course set for "right the hell over there", and space is open, so dem thrusters be MAX. SUDDENLY. DECLOAKING SHIP. The server knew it was there, but the physics calculations are done client-side as well, so the ship bounces on the server, then some time later the client gets told "there's a bloody mass of metal and pilot ahead of you bro", and bumps off somewhere utterly different to where the server expects.

Back in the day, this wasn't really corrected, and straaaaange shit happened with your targeting systems being able to target 100km in one direction, and -75km in the other, and all sorts of other strange looking calculations client-side.

Now this is all from my memory, and I don't remember what exactly they did to fix it, but for fuck's sake why can't units (in the map editor use of the word) in FoW be "cloaked" in the EVE sense?

If anyone wants to figure it out, which'd be cool, there's a devblog up somewhere on http://eveonline.com

On July 05 2011 11:16 koonst wrote:
there needs to be a unified catch phrase put out by the entire sc2 community in unison !~ friends dont let friends hack ! or something to that effect!
think about it if state of the game mlg gsl TL reddit all put out anti hacker slogans and maybe a song or two bashing the hackni way of life i know u guys can get really creative .. GO NUTS
fight fire with fire i say they think they are winning well time to fight back!

On July 05 2011 11:11 Badfatpanda wrote:


Wrong thread? I'm really tired so I might be missing something but regardless this made me laugh ><

On July 04 2011 01:00 cHaNg-sTa wrote:
this is the dumbest thing ever, I just lag hacked by anGryBiRD. What is the fun in this. I don't understand at all.