Server went down mid-game a little bit ago and I was accused of drop hacking. Kinda retarded some people don't realize the server will be going down in there area soon and must assume drop hacks. Btw, this was a diamond level game.

ZeromuS

Canada13407 Posts

July 05 2011 14:27 GMT

#1062

I have til about 5 pm :/ Hope the system is not down long and that this update fixes the drop hack issue or at least results in faster bans of hackers and no false positives. My fear is that I got reported for some random lag out and/or that one person who kept asking HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE IM MOVING!? HOW DO YOU HACK!? Over and over last night :/

onmach

United States1241 Posts

July 05 2011 14:28 GMT

#1063

God I hope this is to fix this exploit. I can deal with map hackers, but outright being dropped from the game when winning, I don't think I could take much of that.

Beardfish

United States525 Posts

July 05 2011 16:59 GMT

#1064

It's gonna suck if they lock the ladder according to schedule even though the drophackers completely screwed over the GM league.

SoraLimit

Canada747 Posts

July 05 2011 17:01 GMT

#1065

On July 05 2011 23:27 ZeromuS wrote:
I have til about 5 pm :/ Hope the system is not down long and that this update fixes the drop hack issue or at least results in faster bans of hackers and no false positives. My fear is that I got reported for some random lag out and/or that one person who kept asking HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE IM MOVING!? HOW DO YOU HACK!? Over and over last night :/

See, that's what I'm afraid of. If too many people hack, then hacking will become the new "boy who cried wolf" and just use that as an excuse to why they lost.

I'm just hoping that the new patch breaks the hacks before this happens... :/

InvalidID

United States1050 Posts

July 05 2011 17:36 GMT

#1066

It may be extremely difficult for blizzard to fix this. I am not sure how exactly SC2s client-server mechanic works, but for the WC3 ladder it was basically a triangle. You communicated directly with the server and with your opponent. Most of the drop hacks for wc3 really had little interaction with wc3, and were basically DOS programs, they would just spam a bunch of wc3-like packets to your opponent which would confuse the client and cause it to DC.

ReseT

United States273 Posts

July 05 2011 17:43 GMT

#1067

On July 06 2011 02:01 SoraLimit wrote:

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When your at top tier 1700 Masters + usually everyone knows everyone else so I'm sure that excuse wont be used often.

Carush

United States356 Posts

July 05 2011 17:46 GMT

#1068

this probably isn't the right place to post this

but holy fuuuuuck when is bnet going to be back up, it's been almost 4 hours

Stress

United States980 Posts

July 05 2011 17:58 GMT

#1069

I hope the problem is being hot fixed today but I have my doubts. Most likely Blizzard is currently working to figure out how the hack works/what they can do to completely stop it. That is why it doesn't appear anyone is being banned yet. There is no point in just banning each individual person when you can get to the root cause of the problem and then just ban en masse.

oZe

Sweden492 Posts

July 05 2011 18:07 GMT

#1070

Seems this problem has come to EU. Alot of people have been dropping even from the lobby of custom games. To me it looks like someone is DOSing their servers or that they've applied some ninja patch that has screewed things up. At one point I was timing out from a game and could still chat in the popup countdown box while it was counting me out also saw this happen to one of my opponents. May be a different issue but first noticed it maybe about a week ago.

Stop messing with my virtual drug supply or I'll come to somebody's house.

Beardfish

United States525 Posts

July 05 2011 20:49 GMT

#1071

NA is back up. Don't get too excited, guys. They only locked the leagues. The drophackers are still rampant.

Azide

Canada566 Posts

July 05 2011 20:53 GMT

#1072

ughhhhh

Desti

Germany138 Posts

July 05 2011 22:15 GMT

#1073

I guess we need to push it to main media, that Blizzard doesn't care about their customers.

101toss

3232 Posts

July 05 2011 22:27 GMT

#1074

On July 06 2011 07:15 Desti wrote:
I guess we need to push it to main media, that Blizzard doesn't care about their customers.

We already paid them $60. They're not getting any more money

FindMuck

63 Posts

July 05 2011 22:34 GMT

#1075

Should check out this thread?

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=240780

read most of it, Blizz maybe spent the 4 hours trolling too

sick_transit

United States195 Posts

July 05 2011 22:52 GMT

#1076

On July 06 2011 05:49 Beardfish wrote:
NA is back up. Don't get too excited, guys. They only locked the leagues. The drophackers are still rampant.

Can anyone else confirm the DHers are still active? I can't believe it took Blizzard four hours+ just to lock leagues and demote xxSteinxx and "RAPDAWG". Lols.

Caphe

Vietnam10817 Posts

July 06 2011 02:46 GMT

#1077

Untill they patch the client to stop the hack completely people now will still have suffer and maybe in a more painful way than before.
Before, drop hackers will just drop you out right, but now they will try to play the game, to the point where you are going to destroy them and drop you O_O. If anything, I prefer to be dropped right at the beginning so I can stop wasting my time.

Also, the Korea server had been infected with this hack as well. IntotheRainbow/ Hopetorture was dropped 3 out of his 4 games I watched just a few hours ago...

Kaelaris

United Kingdom788 Posts

July 06 2011 02:53 GMT

#1078

On July 06 2011 11:46 Caphe wrote:
Untill they patch the client to stop the hack completely people now will still have suffer and maybe in a more painful way than before.
Before, drop hackers will just drop you out right, but now they will try to play the game, to the point where you are going to destroy them and drop you O_O. If anything, I prefer to be dropped right at the beginning so I can stop wasting my time.

Also, the Korea server had been infected with this hack as well. IntotheRainbow/ Hopetorture was dropped 3 out of his 4 games I watched just a few hours ago...

Rainbow has been playing a LOT on NA recently so maybe he's still there?

Simberto

Germany11824 Posts

July 06 2011 12:33 GMT

#1079

On July 06 2011 07:27 101toss wrote:

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We already paid them $60. They're not getting any more money

Well, they have 2 more expansions on the line, so that is wrong.

turamn

United States1374 Posts

July 06 2011 12:46 GMT

#1080

On July 06 2011 21:33 Simberto wrote:

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Well, they have 2 more expansions on the line, so that is wrong.

Highly doubt that this will stop anyone from buying HoTS or LoTV. Regardless, it appears they have finally taken some action against these hackers, but we need confirmation that the hack no longer works. If they moved/banned them without fixing the hack, then it was all for naught.