Guild Wars 2

I just saw two “burrow bots” in Sparkfly Fen harvesting all the resource nodes, but they were far too fast to report and even too fast for me to screenshot.

For those that don’t know, a burrow bot is a player using an illegal hack to “burrow” underground and pop from node to node surfacing only long enough to harvest and then popping back underground to travel to the next one. To other players it looks like the player is just glitching and lag popping, so if you didn’t know, you’d thinkittentle of it.

The prices in the market for harvested resources has dived over the last week, so I’m assuming that these bots are doing very well.

Is there anything that can be done code-wise to detect these botters and stop them or do we have to just get lucky and screenshot the and report the player?

Get someone to spread the word on how to do it on other sites. The pressure will force the team to fix it.

Borrow bots, robots in the ground.

death layer just under map surface would fix these bots.

Well looking at the bot tools available, they all have TP with coordinate lists, so they don’t even need to use the noclip functions.

Has any MMO been able to fix this?

I ran into a group of bots who were “swimming” under the ground in WvW borderlands. Luckily, AOE could affect them as they briefly pop up to loot.

Butchered the lot of them….several times….but they just came back. Still, the recent bot purge seemed to get rid of them, but i was worried as to how they did the underground thing.

then it sounds like a good time to level some crafting =)

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then it sounds like a good time to level some crafting

^^

I’d be more enthused about anti-botting measures if loot rewards weren’t purposely so draconian.

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