Guild Wars 2

Here’s a screenshot I took this afternoon while playing in EOTM…
We were trying to defend our keep (blue) and we had the “pleasure” to see the green zerg use a zoom unlocker…
They built ACs outside the keep, and shoot inside. On the screen you can see the entire AC target circle is inside the walls.
They used these ACs to clean every defense weapon, targeting precisely even those one couldn’t see from outside. And no, they didn’t just shoot where you can see by looking above the door.

I thought we were rid of these kinds of cheats… I’ve been away for a few months, and while anticipating the next WvW season, I see big servers use these cheap tricks…
Why do we still have to deal with cheaters like this?

How do you tell if someone is zoom hacking, or has a muilti-monitor setup, or is playing in windowed mode and has reduced the size of their window vertically, giving the impression of a multi-monitor on a single monitor?

Hence why you will never get rid of this.

Eclipsiste.3251:

Here’s a screenshot I took this afternoon while playing in EOTM…
We were trying to defend our keep (blue) and we had the “pleasure” to see the green zerg use a zoom unlocker…
They built ACs outside the keep, and shoot inside. On the screen you can see the entire AC target circle is inside the walls.
They used these ACs to clean every defense weapon, targeting precisely even those one couldn’t see from outside. And no, they didn’t just shoot where you can see by looking above the door.

I thought we were rid of these kinds of cheats… I’ve been away for a few months, and while anticipating the next WvW season, I see big servers use these cheap tricks…
Why do we still have to deal with cheaters like this?

Zoom hacks were never stopped, just some particular programs were affected for a short while. In fact, I remember on my server enemies started using them again the night/morning after they “cracked down” on them.

It was proven by a dev using an extremely high resolution and multiple monitors to grant him a high FoV that he was not even able to look over the wall of NWT, let alone target anything with an AC. The people doing this are zoom hackers. If they are ever called out on it, they will say that they’re just running windowed with a wide horizontal resolution/short vertical resolution or running multiple monitors or, as one guy once claimed, a single 4k 60" TV that allowed him to do things that no resolution in the game allows.

who cares to defend in EOTM

Conaywea.5062:

who cares to defend in EOTM

Green, very often..

I’m no EOTM player and not even sure what I am about to suggest is possible in that keep. But in WvW I know only too well that you do not need a zoomhack to hit the inside of a tower/keep.

A carefully placed AC near a gate can also hit within the tower/keep. You target in the gap above the gate, and is also a standard tactic in Gold Leagues for clearing some siege. The downside is the ac must be built close to the gate and within easy reach of the enemy to remove.

Just a thought because not every AC circle inside a tower is zoomhacked/aspect ratio changed….

How about just limiting ACs to line of sight (LoS calculation only done in horizontal plane). Like I can sometimes look around an object and place my blink there, but the blink doesn’t actually go there but stops at said corner. I use ACs rarely, so I don’t know if limiting to LoS would make them unusable.

TyPin.9860:

How about just limiting ACs to line of sight (LoS calculation only done in horizontal plane). Like I can sometimes look around an object and place my blink there, but the blink doesn’t actually go there but stops at said corner. I use ACs rarely, so I don’t know if limiting to LoS would make them unusable.

It would probably allow you to use an AC behind a door only when said door is open … which might be a tad late

Well it depends. If the center of the AC skills are limited to line of sight, half the AoE circle would lay outside the door and deal damage there. Also building ACs on the wall will still help ACing. I have no idea about the technical implementation of such a change, but I feel this could help solve the issue with zooming.

So basically they only need to limit the center of aim to LoS. It would allow you to shoot up walls, to shoot behind doors and such. But shooting inside a tower wouldn’t be possible any more. I know it is a bit weird, because why wouldn’t u be able to shoot over walls with arrows… but hey, why should it be limited to what you actually can see anyway?

Hacking of any kind is lame. But I’m still laughing at you for turtling in EOTM (: