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Posted by: Rangelost.4857

Rangelost.4857

This is becoming an urgent problem.

I encounter more and more players in PvP (hotjoin and team arena alike) that lag like nobody’s business. Some of them are Brazilians, and since they don’t speak a word in English, it is impossible to communicate with them. Others, however, do it on purpose with the use of a lag switch.

Either way, exceeding a certain latency for an extended period of time in PvP should not be tolerated. The client synchronization issues it causes are devastating, and that gives the cheating team a monstrous yet absolutely unfair advantage.

The two most noticeable issues are:

  • Lagging players are nearly untouchable. All skills turn the character automatically in the target’s direction, which in this case, turns you in the wrong direction, or causes your character to spin around spastically. This not only causes skills to completely miss, but it can also waste important cooldowns. Melee skills are completely useless as they go right through the target and do nothing.

From experience, a single turret engineer can annihilate an entire team by simply lagging. With lag guaranteeing their survival, all they have to do is keep their non-moving turrets alive to defend a capture point.

A solution to this problem would be matchmaking players from the same continent together, and allow to report hackers more easily. It’s not like you can take a screenshot of someone lagging, and not everyone can record in-game footage.

  • When a player is downed, their coordinates are not sent with the packet. This causes lagging players to appear in a completely different position than they actually are, and causes them to be impossible to finish off. When pressing “FINISH THEM!!”, nothing happens, and when searching further away from the body to look for their actual position, the option to finish them becomes no longer available.

From experience, the distance between the rendered body and the actual position can be very long (around 1200 units). A ranger with a pet healing them back to life would require at least two dedicated ranged damage dealers to kill (you can’t melee something you don’t see).

I suggest sending the player’s position to other clients when downed so that they can all synchronize properly and see the players where they actually are.

That’s all for now.

PS: I ask my teammates every time I experience this to make sure it isn’t just on my side. We all do see the same thing.

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Posted by: Lettuce.2945

Lettuce.2945

It’s not lag. It’s movement hacking. I’ve seen it occur a lot more recently.

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Posted by: trueanimus.4085

trueanimus.4085

how is this topic not banned yet? every time i make a post with screen shots of people blatantly hacking.. its taken down in less than 24 h.

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Posted by: Daniel.9240

Daniel.9240

Funny fact… Getting downed while being launched, pushed, pulled or executing (1 time is probable, 2+ for sure) or executing a leap (rarely this one) will produce that offset behavior. Yeap, there is a synchronization issue.

PD: spotting that “some of them” is kinda useless argument and offensive at some point.

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Posted by: Devilman.1532

Devilman.1532

If you think people don’t lag switch and also movement hack/tamper with collision then I don’t know what to tell you. this game’s security is like swiss cheese.

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Posted by: Trevor Boyer.6524

Trevor Boyer.6524

I wondered what was going on recently. I had ran into 1 necromancer in particular, who every time you would attack him, he would suddenly begin bleeping around until he killed you or you gave up trying to kill him. You couldn’t target the guy and it only happened when someone was targeting him. This was not lag, flesh worm, spectral walk or shroud #2. No, this guy was clearly activating something whenever he was being attacked. Otherwise, he moved completely normally.

I use the name Barbie on all of my characters.

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Posted by: Juidodin.5829

Juidodin.5829

also “funny” you stay right next to them, trying to finish them, the cast bar runs down like 3-4 times but nothing happens, he still lays there healing him self up.

most of them i notice doing it on purpose are either from france or spain
no idea why..

but since this topic is already 2 years old, i dont think that anet gives a f.

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Posted by: sephiroth.4217

sephiroth.4217

how is this topic not banned yet? every time i make a post with screen shots of people blatantly hacking.. its taken down in less than 24 h.

Maybe because you necro a thread from 2 years ago?

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….. And Elementalist.

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